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