Program for mathematics 2025

In order for Sweden to regain an international, cutting edge position in Mathematics, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, will support prominent researchers in Mathematics during 2014-2030. The funding amounts to a total of SEK 650 million.

The aim is for Sweden to recover its position at the international cutting edge by giving the best young researchers international experience and by recruiting young as well as more experienced mathematicians to Sweden.

Including this year’s grants, 168 researchers have received funding since 2014.

The program includes several parts:Eight researchers receive international postdoctoral positions and funding for two years after they return to Sweden:

  • Postdoctoral Scholarship Program in Mathematics for researchers with a Swedish doctors degree
  • Postdoctoral Scholarship Program in Mathematics for researchers from outside Sweden
  • Nomination of guest professors

Eight researchers receive international postdoctoral positions and funding for two years after they return to Sweden:

Dr Lukas Nakamura, Uppsala University (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)

Geometry and physics in an intimate union

Doctoral student Axel Ljungström, Stockholm University (University of Nottingham, UK)

New theories for computer verification

Dr Simon Cooper, Stockholm University (King's College London, UK)

New insights into the geometry of highly symmetric spaces

Doctoral student Joakim Cronvall, Lund University (KU Leuven, Belgium)     

Charged particles solve mathematical problems

Doctoral student Federica Milinanni, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Northwestern University, USA)

Understanding rare events for efficient algorithms

Doctoral student Mateusz Stroinski, Uppsala University (University of Hamburg, Germany) 

Mathematics at a higher level of abstraction

Doctoral student Sven Sandfeldt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (University of Chicago, USA)

Mathematical models of chaotic phenomena

Doctoral student Danai Deligeorgaki, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)

Tricky relationships uncovered through combinatorics

Five researchers receive grants to recruit a foreign researcher for a postdoctoral position in Sweden:

Associate Professor Daniel Ahlberg
Stockholm University  

Randomness that drives growth fronts

Dr Simon Larson
University of Gothenburg     

Quantitative methods in semiclassical spectral theory

Associate Professor Magnus Goffeng
Lund University     

A new look at dynamical systems

Professor David Witt Nyström
University of Gothenburg      

A great challenge in complex geometry

Dr Simon L. Rydin Myerson
Chalmers University of Technology

Equations for integers in a new light

Three established researchers from outside Sweden will be visiting professors at Swedish universities (in brackets)

Professor Stefano De Marchi
University of Padua, Italy (Uppsala University)

Bringing computer simulations closer to reality

Professor Adrianna Gillman
University of Colorado Boulder, USA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

Calculating larger systems in less time

Professor Johannes Rau
 University of the Andes, Colombia (University of Gävle)

Searching for the fundamentals of tropical geometry

Earlier years