Mats Larsson is a professor and experimentalist in the physics department at Stockholm University. He obtained his PhD in physics in the Research Institute of Physics and Stockholm University. His research interests include primary chemical reactions, interstellar chemistry and molecular spectroscopy. He was a member of the Physics and Mathematics Committee of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council from 1989 to 1995. He was made chair of the Research Committee of the Swedish National Space Board in 2001 and was also chair of the Evaluation Committee for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Fusi...