Scholarship Programs 2013/2014

From time to time the Foundation issues calls for applications for fellowships in areas of importance to Swedish research

The Foundation announced scholarships in two programs at the end of 2013: “The MAX IV synchrotron radiation facility program” and “The Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship Program at Stanford”.

Stanford Scholars

Ying Wang, Theoretical Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Host at Stanford University: Professor Jens K. Nørskov, Chemical Engineering

Laurynas Riliskis, Computer Science, Luleå University of Technology
Host at Stanford University: Associate Professor Philip Levis, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical Engineering

Salomé Calado Botelho, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University
Host at Stanford University: Professor Thomas C. Südhof, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology

Niclas Olsson, Immunotechnology, Lund University/Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,
Host at Stanford University: Professor Ronald Levy, M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Oncology

Martin Enge, Cellular and Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institutet
Host at Stanford University: Professor Stephen Quake, Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University

Roger Johansson, Cognitive Science, Lund University
Host at Stanford University: Professor Anthony D. Wagner, Stanford Memory Laboratory at the Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Program

Matias Nordin, Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University of Technology/German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg.
Host at Stanford University: Professor Rosemary Knight, Department of Geophysics

Thomas Nygren, Digital Humanities, HUMlab, Umeå University
Host at Stanford University: Associate Professor Zephyr Frank, Department of History, Stanford University

Post-doc scholarships to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

Chaofan Zhang, MAX-lab, Lund University
Host at SSRL: Professor Zhi-xun Shen, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University

Ulf Lundström, Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Host at SSRL: Professor Soichi Wakatsuki, Photon Science SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory