(In cases where the nominating university differs from the researcher’s current university, the nominating university is named in parentheses).
Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2015
Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career programme for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in 2012, provides long-term funding for young, promising Swedish and foreign researchers from all academic fields. This year twenty-nine new researchers are appointed to the programme.
Humanities
Associate Professor Fataneh Farahani
Stockholm University
Dr. Graham Emil Leigh
Vienna University of Technology (University of Gothenburg)
Dr. Mia Liinason
University of Gothenburg
Dr. Ana María Mora-Márquez
University of Gothenburg
Medicine
Dr. Pontus Gourdon
Lund University
Dr. Göran Karlsson
Lund University
Associate Professor Erik Larsson Lekholm
University of Gothenburg
Ultraviolet light in the lab yields new findings on skin cancer
Dr. Andrea Puhar
Umeå University
Dr. Nasim Sabouri
Umeå University
Dr. Petter S. Woll
University of Oxford (Karolinska Institutet)
Dr. Anita Öst
Linköping University
Dads eating sugar makes their kids fat – fruit flies helping to solve the riddle of obesity
Natural Sciences
Dr. Emil Johansson Bergholtz
Freie Universität Berlin (Stockholm University)
Associate Professor Andreas Dahlin
Chalmers University of Technology
Dr. Aleksandra Foltynowicz-Matyba
Umeå University
Dr. Monica Guica
Uppsala University
Dr. Frank Johannes
Technische Universität München (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Dr. Peter Kasson
University of Virginia (Uppsala University)
Associate Professor Josefin Larsson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Associate Professor Ilona Riipinen
Stockholm University
Improving climate models by learning more about aerosol particles
Dr. David Seekell
University of Virginia (Umeå University)
Associate Professor Jonas Strandberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Looking for new Higgs particles to explain the dark mysteries of the universe