Where the nominating university is not the researcher’s current university, the nominating university’s name is in brackets
Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2021
Natural Sciences
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Dr Peter Heintzman
UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Stockholm University)
Using genetics to map the impacts of prehistoric climate change
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Dr Derek Lundberg
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
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Dr Sanja Vickovic
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA (Uppsala University)
New technique set to improve understanding of colorectal cancer
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Professor Hannes Thiel
University of Kiel, Germany (Chalmers University of Technology)
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Dr Magdalena Zych
University of Queensland, Australia (Stockholm University)
Using time to link the quantum world with Einstein’s gravitational theory
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Dr Simon Stael
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Medicine
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Dr Linda Johansson
University of Gothenburg
The link between type 2 diabetes and sleep hormone at cell level
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Dr Paulina Wanrooij
Umeå University
Understanding damage to mitochondrial DNA can pave the way for new drugs
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Dr Sebastien Talbot
UdeM, Université de Montréal, Canada (Karolinska Institutet)
Cancer cells fooling neurons into weakening the immune system
Engineering and Technology
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Dr Niki Vazou
IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (Chalmers University of Technology)
Research in brief: New method for software verification
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Dr Yasmine Sassa
Chalmers University of Technology
Humanities
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Dr Hannah Strømmen
University of Chichester, Great Britain (Lund University)
Social Sciences
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Dr Björn Lindström
VU Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (Karolinska Institutet)