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

Professor Ville Kaila
Technical University of Munich (Stockholm University)

Dr Witlef Wieczorek
Chalmers University of Technology

Associate Professor Wushi Goldring
Stockholm University

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


Associate Professor Klas Modin
Chalmers University of Technology

Associate Professor Sara Zahedi
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Associate Professor Jan Marcus Dahlström
Lund University
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 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
Living cell biochemistry yields new insights into cell memory
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

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


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?

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