Contact Elizabeth Yang when you first arrive at Nordita to get your key. The key will go to all offices in the Nordita building, except the rooms of the director and the administrators.
Many doors in AlbaNova (including the entrances to the Nordita building and the Main building as well as doors to corridors in the Main building) are locked and require a key card (swipe card) to open.
The cards work with the black card readers next to the doors. Swipe the card with the magnetic strip facing right. If the green lamp is blinking, you need to enter a 4-digit code (see below).
If the green lamp is turned on already, the door is unlocked. This is for instance the case for the entrance to the main AlbaNova building and the door to the library during office hours.
You should get your access card together with your key from Elizabeth Yang when you arrive. You will also be asked to choose a personal 4-digit code that will be registered for your card (this might take one day).
There are different access levels for cards within AlbaNova. As staff member at Nordita, your card will work at least for all entrance doors, doors in the main building to the library, to seminar rooms, to the administrative corridor (behind the reception) and to the corridors of the SU and KTH theory departments. If you need access to other parts of AlbaNova, please contact the AlbaNova reception (see below).
Short-term visitors and program participants get cards that are valid only for duration of their stay at Nordita. Cards for visitors to programs and other events are handled by Anastasios Mentesidis, and cards for other visitors by Elizabeth Yang.
During office hours you need only your key card.
After office hours or on weekends you will also have to type in your personal 4-digit code in the keypad on the black card reader outside the door.
If you have no card there are doorbells on all Nordita entrance doors.
To arrange entrance after office hours, please contact the AlbaNova reception (see below).
Keys and cards are administrated centrally for all of AlbaNova. If your card seems to have stopped working, if you have general questions or special requests, please contact:
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