Maria Strømme

Maria Strømme (born 7 April 1970 in Svolvær) is a Norwegian physicist who lives and works in Sweden.

Career She became a professor in nanotechnology at Uppsala University in 2004. She became Sweden's youngest professor in a technical subject. Strømme holds a master of science degree in engineering physics, and completed her doctoral thesis in solid state physics in 1997 at Uppsala University. She became a scientist at Naturvetenskapliga forskningsrådet. Between 2002 and 2007, she worked as an academy physicist and she was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Retracted AIP Advances article In 2025, Strømme published the paper "Universal consciousness as foundational field: A theoretical bridge between quantum physics and non-dual philosophy" in AIP Advances. The paper was retracted in 2026 by AIP Publishing and the editors due to concerns about its scientific validity, noting that a central operator in the theory had no associated measurable quantity and that the theory's predictions could not be empirically verified or falsified.