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Chinese award to Awapatent consultant

Ulf Håkanson, associate at Awapatent’s office in Lund, Sweden, has received the CAS International Cooperation Award for Young Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).CAS was founded in 1949 and is the leading research institute in China. Today, CAS is divided into 117 institutes with more than 50 000 employees.

The prize is awarded yearly since 2011 to young international scientists and their co-operating partners at CAS to reward work that has resulted in substantial development within research or new innovations. This year the prize was awarded to six different research fields.

Before joining Awapatent, Ulf Håkanson was Associate Professor in solid state physics, Lund Inst. of Technology, Lund University.