Photo contest

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Winner of the 2022 contest: "Colloidal nebula" by Smaragda-Maria Argyri.
Winner of the 2019 contest: "Materials at the Horizon" by Marcus Johansen.
Winner of the 2018 contest: "The eye of the rotary storm" by Petri Murto.Winner of the 2018 contest: "The eye of the rotary storm" by Petri Murto.
One of the five finalists 2018: Blue dream: Dwelling cells. Photo: Sheng Guo.
 "Falling in love with materials science" by Shanghong Dong
One of the five finalists 2022: "Gold coral reefs" by Pankaj Gupta.
 One of the photos in the 2019 contest: "The cellulose spider´s web" by Pierre Carmona.
Competition contribution 2022 "Fabulous failure" by Marcus Johansen
One of the five finalists 2018: "Docking in nano-space". By Ludvig de Knoop.
Ruben Tavano. Winner of 2023 Photo contest
One of the five finalists 2023. Metals folks.
One of the five finalists in 2023 photo contest. Nano Cactus
One of the five finalists in 2023 photo contest: "Cristal Cats Eye" by Joost Kimpel.
One of the five finalists in 2023 photo contest: "Roads of Nano particles" by Jordi Piella Bagaria.
Winner of the 2022 contest: "Colloidal nebula" by Smaragda-Maria Argyri.

Materials Science Photo Competition
In concurrence with the conference Materials for Tomorrow the Area of Advance Materials Science organize a materials science photo competition. The idea is to bring forth the beauty that can be found in materials science.

Five finalist images will be chosen by a jury and displayed at the Materials for Tomorrow conference where attendees cast their vote to select the winner. Apart from fame and glory, the top three images will receive grand prizes!
The photo competition is open for PhD students and Postdocs at Chalmers and the Department of Biomaterials at University of Gothenburg.

To participate:

  • Send maximum three (3) high resolution images to materials@chalmers.se no later than OCT 22.
  • Describe your images in a few sentences, and the technique that was used to capture them.
  • Give your images a creative (short) name.


Terms: Editing may be used to enhance features or removing artefacts in your image, but not to add content. The use of AI to generate images is not allowed. By entering the competition the contestant give their permission to The Area of Advance Material Science to edit, alter and use the images for communications in digital and printed media.

The jury's decision cannot be revoked.