Hans Martin Hertz, born 22 August 1955, is a Swedish physicist and professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
In 1997 Hertz was appointed professor in biomedical physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Between December 2013 and June 2018 he was Chair of the Board of MAX IV, the first 4th generation synchrotron in the world.
[6] In 2016, he was nominated to the prestigious Polhem Prize together with his former doctoral student Oscar Hemberg for their invention of Liquid-metal-jet sources.
The last research topic evolved into the Liquid-metal-jet source which is an order of magnitude brighter than conventional X-ray tubes.