Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2025

Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career program for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in cooperation with the Swedish Royal Academies in 2012, provides long-term funding for young, promising Swedish and foreign researchers from all academic fields. This year 31 new researchers are appointed to the program.

The universities nominate researchers to the program, the academies evaluate the candidates and present the most promising researchers to the Foundation, who then make the final selection.

Including this year’s cohort, 288 young researchers have been appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows.

Natural sciences

Dr Haim Treves
RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

Nominated by Uppsala University

Research in brief: More efficient photosynthesis could provide more food for the world

Dr Andreas Kohler
Umeå University 

 

Research in brief: How is the quality of cells’ power plants controlled?

Dr Elisabeth Gruber
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Nominated by Stockholm University

 Research in brief: Will recreate the interstellar chemistry in the laboratory

Dr Aron Wennman 
KU Leuven, Belgium

Nominated by  KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Research in brief: Why do very different random systems follow the same pattern?

Dr Markus Ludwig
University of Luxembourg , Luxembourg

Nominated by Umeå University 

Research in brief: Challenging the limits of electronics using nano flashes

Dr Shantanu Mishra
IBM Research Europe, Zurich, Switzerland

Nominated by Chalmers University of Technology

Research in brief: Molecular simulator will aid the understanding of quantum magnetism

Dr Simon Leo Rydin Myerson
University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Nominated by Chalmers University of Technology

Research in brief: Will explore mathematical models of waves

Maliheh Mehrshad
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

 

Research in brief: Can natural viruses prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance?

Dr Nils Engelsen
Chalmers University of Technology

 

Research in brief: Light and atoms will work together in future sensors

Medicine

Dr Axel Hyrenius Wittsten
Lund University 

 

Research in brief: Will develop more effective immunotherapies for cancer

Dr Max Renner
Umeå University

 

Research in brief: How do virus factories in infected cells function?

Dr Camilla Engblom
Karolinska Institutet

 

Research in brief: How are antibody-making cells controlled

Professor Charlotte Thålin
Karolinska Institutet

 

Research in brief: Will design antibodies against respiratory infections

Dr Enric Llorens Bobadilla
Karolinska Institutet

 

Research in brief: How do African spiny mice repair their nerve cells?

Dr Amanda Andersson Rolf
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Nominated by Karolinska Institutet

Research in brief: Can pancreatic tissue be regenerated?

Engineering and Technology

Dr Helena Lundberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

 

Research in brief: Will drive chemical reactions with electricity

Dr Zheng Chen
Linköping University 

 

Research in brief: Will enable intelligent machines to interact wirelessly

Dr Jendrik Seipp
Linköping University 

 

Research in brief: Artificial intelligence will get better at planning

Dr Ilaria Torre
Chalmers University of Technology 

 

Research in brief: Will hone robot communication skills

Dr Alexandra Stubelius
Chalmers University of Technology

 

Research in brief: Will learn to interpret the immune system’s sugar signals

Humanities

Dr Mandy Tröger
University of Tübingen, Germany

Nominated by Södertörn University

Research in brief: How has NATO impacted national communication systems?

Dr James Nguyen
Stockholm University 

 

Research in brief: Will investigate a philosophical basis for interdisciplinarity

Martin Andersson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

 

Research in brief: Will examine historical grain flows in Sweden

Social Sciences

Dr Kristen Kao
University of Gothenburg 

 

Research in brief: How can a country heal after civil war?

Dr Pol Campos-Mercade
Lund University 

 

Research in brief: Which measures are most effective for improving public health?

Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Nominated by Uppsala University 

Research in brief: How do societal norms influence our private opinions?

Dr Rafael Ahlskog
Uppsala University 

 

Research in brief: How does the interaction between genes and the environment shape our lives?