Josefin Larsson

I am a Professor of Astrophysics and Deputy Head of the Physics Department at KTH. I am also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a Wallenberg Scholar. Prior to my position at KTH, I did my MSc at Lund University, a PhD at the University of Cambridge and a postdoc at Stockholm University.

My main research interests are supernovae and their remnants, gamma-ray bursts, and compact objects. My group is using multiwavelength observations to tackle unsolved problems regarding these phenomena, such as the explosion mechanism and properties of compact objects created in the explosions.

One of my favorite astronomical objects is the nearby Supernova 1987A.  Some exciting results about this supernova from JWST observations are available here and here.