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supply, electrical motors, optics, information technology, or similar. Lately it has become more interesting with applications within life sciences, where an interdisciplinary approach is crucial to achieve the research goals. It could be collaboration between electro-technology, biotechnology, clinical medicine, pharmacology, etc,” explains Dalarsson. Throughout her career and studies, Mariana has received numerous awards, for example Teaching Assistant of the Year, an honorary scholarship for best student graduating from KTH, and several Young Scientist Awards at the international conference URSI (Union Radio Scientific International). She has supervised several students, is commissioned regularly to review scientific articles and has herself published a great number of scientific articles. In parallel with her civil engineering education at KTH she was recruited as teaching assistant at the Institution for Mathematics. She took her PhD in electromagnetic theory in 2016 and continued as postdoc at the Linné University, where she was promoted to Docent. ariana Dalarsson was born in Ludvika, Sweden, in 1989, and she has still many years of research ahead of her. She says her future dreams are twofold. “Partly I want to contribute with solutions cancer cells without affecting the surrounding healthy tissue (normal cells usually recover faster than cancer cells when exposed to heat or a combination of radiation and heat). However, this can only be achieved if the GNP solution has specific characteristics. he goal with Dalarsson’s research is now to evaluate the optimal heating effects, both when it comes to temperature and the time of the heat exposure. She performs advanced mapping of the GNPs characteristics and develops a model to be able to predict which frequency that works the best and minimizes heating of surrounding healthy cells. Her research may both improve the field of nanotechnology and improve cancer treatments. It also spans over several different research fields and collaborations with other universities in Sweden, the UK and the Czech Republic are planned. “The electromagnetic field equations are the basis for the description of many different practical applications in today’s society. Traditionally the focus 72 NORDICLIFESCIENCE.ORG to certain societal problems, like for example develop safe and effective cancer treatment methods by using radio waves/microwaves. Partly I want to become the world’s best teacher within my field so that more youths in general, and more young women especially, can learn and discover the fantastic subject that electromagnetism certainly is.” Dalarsson says that the best part of having a career as a scientist is that you get the possibility to perform advanced and creative work that can contribute to increased understanding of different phenomenons in nature and human society. “Thereby, possibilities to solve different societal problems, like environmental, health, security, IT problems etc., are created.” She cannot name any disadvantages to being a scientist, except possibly one. “From time to time I have found it difficult to combine a research career with family life. In addition, you have to be prepared for drawbacks and failures in your research work, i.e. you have to scrap everything you have done for a long time and start all over. There is no signposted road forward when you want to explore new things,” Dalarsson says. NLS