Welcome to the MAX IV Laboratory

The MAX IV Laboratory is a national laboratory operated jointly by the Swedish Research Council and Lund University.

The laboratory supports three distinct research areas: Accelerator physics, research based on the use of synchrotron radiation and nuclear physics using energetic electrons.
About the lab >>

Colour of 50 Million Years Old Animal Revealed

New research at MAX-lab shows that the pigments in extinct animals can be maintained for over 50 million years. The pigment molecules of a fossil fish exhibit much consistency with the corresponding colour in modern animals.
Read the article in Nature>>
Read press release in Swedish >>

Registration for UM2012 Opened

Now the registration for this year's user meeting, MAX-lab UM2012, has opened. This year is special, since it is the 25th anniversary user meeting.
To the User Meeting page >>

Report for Acitivity Report 2011

For our activity report of 2011, we want to collect your contributions of project reports from experiments performed at MAX-lab. We will make some improvements of the Activity Report this year, so please read further information here.
How to contribute to the activity report of 2011 >>

Swedish-Danish Meeting at
MAX IV Construction Site

The Swedish Minister of Education and Research, Jan Björklund, and his Danish colleague Morten Østergaard met Tuesday 27 March for a guided tour of the MAX IV construction site. Members of the Danish parliament as well as Swedish and Danish researchers participated in the meeting.