Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grants 2017

Wallenberg Academy Fellows is a long-term program that addresses young researchers in medicine, natural sciences, engineering and technology, humanities and social sciences.

The program is set up in close cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Swedish Academy.

In the end of the first five year period the Wallenberg Academy Fellows can be nominated for another five years of funding.

Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grants 2017

Robert Berman, Professor
Chalmers University of Technology

Mathematics for extremes of the universe

Marie Carlén, Professor
Karolinska Institutet

Learning more about the brain

Kimberly Dick Thelander, Professor
Lund University

Studying new materials while they build themselves

David Drew, Associate Professor
Stockholm University

Revealing how the cell uptakes sugar

Johan Elf, Professor
Uppsala University

How life works – down to the last detail

David Engblom, Associate Professor
Linköping University

Why diseases make us feel depressed

Helen Frowe, Professor
Stockholm University

Heading a Swedish center for research on the ethics of war

Gustaf Gredebäck, Professor
Uppsala University

Following human intelligence from the cradle to adulthood

Matthew Hayes, Associate Professor
Stockholm University

How the universe was reionized

Björn Högberg, Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet

DNA origami offers potential for new drugs

Martin Högbom, Professor
Stockholm University

Basic chemical research on metals and enzymes

Anders Johansen, Professor
Lund University

Challenging models of the birth of the solar system

Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen, Associate Professor
Chalmers University of Technology

Seeking the origins of galaxies at the far end of the Universe

Michael Malkoch, Professor
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Bone adhesive offers gentler treatment of fractures

Johan Malmström, Associate Professor
Lund University

Precision medicine – a potential lifeline for sepsis patients

Mia Phillipson,  Professor
Uppsala University

Unknown functions of the immune system

Gilad Silberberg, Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet

The brain’s own switchboard