Where the nominating university is not the researcher’s current university, the nominating university’s name is in brackets
Dr Peter Heintzman
UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Stockholm University)
Research in brief: What happens to plants and animals when the climate heats rapidly?
Dr Derek Lundberg
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Dr Sanja Vickovic
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA (Uppsala University)
Research in brief: What drives the development of colorectal cancer?
Professor Hannes Thiel
University of Kiel, Germany (Chalmers University of Technology)
Research in brief: Will contribute to classifying mathematical objects
Dr Magdalena Zych
University of Queensland, Australia (Stockholm University)
Research in brief: How does time flow in the quantum world
Dr Simon Stael
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Dr Davide Angeletti
University of Gothenburg
Research in brief: Will develop influenza vaccines that provide more lasting protection
Dr Linda Johansson
University of Gothenburg
Research in brief: Will study new targets for pharmaceuticals for type 2 diabetes
Dr Paulina Wanrooij
Umeå University
Research in brief: How is the cell affected by damage to its power plant?
Dr Sebastien Talbot
UdeM, Université de Montréal, Canada (Karolinska Institutet)
Research in brief: Aims to block tumors’ ability to disarm our immune system
Dr Elena Bykova
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany (Linköping University)
Research in brief: Extreme pressure will provide new, as yet unknown material
Dr Klas Tybrandt
Linköping University
Research in brief: Will develop new elastic microelectronics for the brain
Dr Niki Vazou
IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (Chalmers University of Technology)
Research in brief: New method for software verification
Dr Simone Fabiano
Linköping University
Research in brief: Will develop stable organic conductors for the electronics of the future
Dr Yasmine Sassa
Chalmers University of Technology
Research in brief: Exploring exotic materials for the computers and energy technologies of the future
Professor Anne Kaun
Södertörn University
Research in brief: How do automated decisions by public authorities affect our view of democracy?
Dr Hannah Strømmen
University of Chichester, Great Britain (Lund University)
Research in brief: What role has the Bible played in the development of our secular society?
Dr Armita Golkar
Stockholm University
Research in brief: How do the teen years shape the risk of anxiety?
Dr Björn Lindström
VU Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (Karolinska Institutet)
Research in brief: What makes us learn from others and form a culture?