Where the nominating university is not the researcher’s current university, the nominating university’s name is in brackets.
Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2017
Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career program 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-four new researchers are appointed to the program.
Natural Sciences

Dr. Maria Hermanns
University of Cologne, Germany (Stockholm University)

Associate Professor Dan Petersen
University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Stockholm University)

Professor Karim Adiprasito
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Better societal planning by solving centuries-old mathematical riddles

Dr. Rike Stelkens
Stockholm University

Associated Professor Claudia Mohr
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (Stockholm University)

Associate Professor Johannes Rousk
Lund University

Dr. Karl Börjesson
University of Gothenburg
More light from converted dye molecules and quantum mechanics

Associate Professor Steffi Burchardt
Uppsala University

Dr. Stefano Bonetti
Stockholm University
Social Sciences

Professor Pontus Strimling
Institute for Futures Studies (Södertörn University)

Associate Professor Johanna Rickne
Stockholm University
Gender equality and discrimination in the labor market, and the growth of the Sweden Democrats

Professor Elin Naurin
University of Gothenburg

Associate Professor Hanne Fjelde
Uppsala University
Engineering and Technology

Associate Professor Jiayin Yuan
Clarkson University, New York State, USA (Stockholm University)

Associate Professor Ergang Wang
Chalmers University of Technology

Dr. Erik J. Berg
Paul Scherrer Institute, Zurich, Switzerland (Uppsala University)

Associate Professor Hanna Isaksson
Lund University

Associate Professor Feng Gao
Linköping University
Medicine

Dr. Emanuela Santini
Columbia University, New York, USA (Karolinska Institutet)

Dr. Joanna Rorbach
Karolinska Institutet

Professor Stefano Romeo
University of Gothenburg

Dr. Carmen Gerlach
Harvard Medical School, USA (Karolinska Institutet)
Better vaccines and cancer therapies inspired by the body’s immune system

Dr. Katarzyna Koltowska
University of Queensland, Australia (Uppsala University)
Exploring the unknown mechanisms building the lymphatic vessels
Humanities
