Seeing a bachelor’s thesis published in a scientific journal is relatively uncommon. For three theses linked to the same research group to result in scientific publications within just three months is downright rare. Yet that is exactly what has happened in Elsebeth Schröder’s research group at the Division of Quantum Device Physics.

To celebrate the milestone, Schröder invited all three student teams to a cake party at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience.

“It feels fantastic, of course. I certainly wasn’t expecting this,” says Alva Limbäck, whose article “A density functional theory study of amino acids on pristine Mg(0001) and with sparse alloying elements” was published in Applied Surface Science in August, together with fellow students Olof Hildeberg, John Bolin and Amanda Goold.