"We will discover things we didn't even know we were looking for"

 

For over hundred years Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has given long term support for basic research in Sweden. For recent years, every year, more than two billion Swedish crowns – for building new knowledge for a brighter future.

Photo Magnus Bergström
Feminist activists in countries with high levels of violence in Latin America are increasingly facing backlash. Researcher Julia Zulver is studying the resistance to this backlash.
Photo Johan Gunséus
Wallenberg Scholar Felipe Cava is researching to reveal the secrets of cell walls and develop new ways of outwitting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Photo Magnus Bergström
Wallenberg Academy Fellow Rike Stelkens studies the role of wild yeats in the ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a unique model for studying climate change.
Photo Åsa Wallin
Researchers at Lund University are developing new ways to study a quantum phenomenon called entanglement. With innovative use of ultrafast light pulses, their research may yield a better understanding of fundamental properties of materials, which can for instance be the building blocks of quantum computers.