Where the nominating university is not the researcher’s current university, the nominating university’s name is in brackets
Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2019
Natural Sciences

Associate Professor Carina Schlebusch
Uppsala University
Research in brief: How did agriculture spread across Africa?

Professor Ville Kaila
Technical University of Munich (Stockholm University)
Research in brief: Mapping the energy technology of life at the atomic leve

Dr Witlef Wieczorek
Chalmers University of Technology

Associate Professor Wushi Goldring
Stockholm University
Research in brief: How much geometry can be generated by mathematical groups?

Dr Anne Bjorkman
Senckenberg Institute (University of Gothenburg)
Research in brief: How is Arctic vegetation being affected by climate change?

Dr Karin Lind
Max Planck Institute (Stockholm University)
Research in brief: Galactic archaeology reveals the history of the Milky Way

Associate Professor Klas Modin
Chalmers University of Technology

Associate Professor Sara Zahedi
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Research in brief: Will improve tools for computer simulations

Associate Professor Jan Marcus Dahlström
Lund University
Research in brief: How to measure an attosecond?
Social Sciences

Professor Terje Falck-Ytter
Uppsala University
Research in brief: Can autism be diagnosed in babies?

Dr Johannes Haushofer
Princeton University (Stockholm University)
Research in brief: Can an unconditional cash transfer combat poverty?

Associate Professor Vladislava Stoyanova
Lund University
Medicine and medical technology

Associate Professor Petter Brodin
Karolinska Institutet
Research in brief: How does the environment influence infants’ immune systems?

Dr Pia Dosenovic
Rockefeller University (Karolinska Institutet)
Research in brief: Studies B cells for the development of new vaccines

Dr Marcin Szczot
National Institutes of Health (Linköping University)
Research in brief: How do the gut’s nerve cells function?

Dr Ellen Bushell
Umeå University
Research in brief: Will find targets for a malaria vaccine and drugs

Dr Qiaolin Deng
Karolinska Institutet
Research in brief: Why do things go wrong when germ cells are formed?

Dr Hiroki Shibuya
University of Gothenburg
Research in brief: How do chromosome abnormalities occur in gametes?

Dr Itziar Martinez-Gonzalez
University of Amsterdam (Karolinska Institutet)
Research in brief: Does the same immune cell cause both eczema and asthma?

Dr Simon Elsässer
Karolinska Institutet
Research in brief: How are genetic switches inherited?
Engineering and Technology

Dr Katja Petzold
Karolinska Institutet
Research in brief: A technique for studying biomolecules in living cells

Associate Professor Emil Björnson
Linköping University
Research in brief: Will develop algorithms for the connected society

Associate Professor Haining Tian
Uppsala University
Converting solar energy into fuels using nanoparticles, water and CO2

Associate Professor Magnus Jonsson
Linköping University

Associate Professor Thorsten Berger
University of Gothenburg
Research in brief: A modern version control system for continuous software development

Associate Professor Elin Esbjörner
Chalmers University of Technology
Research in brief: Can damage to the nerve cells’ transport system cause brain disease?

Associate Professor Marina Petrova
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Research in brief: Using millimeter waves to send information in the future
Humanities

Associate Professor Per Anders Rudling
National University of Singapore (Lund University)
Research in brief: Migration and exile have affected the image of Ukraine

Dr Linda Andersson Burnett
Linnaeus University
Research in brief: How did Linnaeus inspire citizen science?