Added to this is also increasing research funding from the EU Framework Programmes. Funding Photo credit Anna NilsenOur great expansion in research has been possible thanks to generous grants from external funding agencies such as the Swedish Research Council (VR), Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), VINNOVA, Formas and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). IFM also offers over 200 undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate courses each year. The yearly budget exceeds 500 million SEK, the majority of which related to research projects.

In addition to this, the department receives guest researchers from all over the globe. Each year, about 20 doctoral students receive their doctorates at IFM.

Today the department has more than 400 staff, including 50 professors and 150 doctoral students. Since then a lot has changed and IFM is now one of the biggest departments at LiU. In the beginning there were thirty employees including three professors at the department. Photo credit Thor BalkhedThe Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, or IFM, is one of the original departments of Linköping University and was founded in 1969 as the Department of physics and measurement technology.

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