Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grants 2018

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 2018

Associate professor Martin Andersson
Chalmers University of Technology

Protein structure at atomic level

Professor Emil Johansson Bergholtz
Stockholm University

Opening the door to a new field of theoretical physics

 

Dr Charlie Cornwallis
Lund University 

He wants to understand how complex life evolves

Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg
Stockholm School of Economics

Researching to make research more reliable

Associate Professor Christian Göritz
Karolinska Institutet 

Research into scarring – paving the way for new treatments of spinal cord injuries

Associate Professor Lisa Hultman
Uppsala University

How to protect civilians in war and conflicts

Professor Mattias Jakobsson
Uppsala University 

Moving the cradle of humankind

Associate Professor Markus Janson
Stockholm University

Searching for Earth-like planets

Associate Professor Henrik Johansson
Chalmers University of Technology

Sharpening Einstein’s theories for a better understanding of the universe

Professor Lynn Kamerlin
Uppsala University

Using chemical design to recreate ancient enzymes

Professor Christoph Langhammer
Chalmers University of Technology 

Nanoscale knowledge of grains – one route to green energy

Dr François Lallemend
Karolinska Institutet 

Looking for plastic neurons in the inner ear

Associate Professor Ola Larsson
Karolinska Institutet 

Controlling immune cells to fight cancer

Professor Staffan I. Lindberg
University of Gothenburg

Swedish democracy research making waves around the world

Associate Professor Johan Lundström
Karolinska Institutet

New findings on smell can help Parkinson’s and Covid-19 patients

Professor Jenny Mjösberg
Karolinska Institutet 

A better understanding of inflammatory bowel disease

Professor Andreas Olsson
Karolinska Institutet

How we learn fears and values 

Professor Panagiotis Papadimitratos
KTH Royal Institute of Technology 

Better security solutions in our interconnected world

Professor Mikael Roll
Lund University

Thickness of cerebral cortex may aid linguistic aptitude

Professor Johanna Rosén
Linköping University

Spotlight on the environment as new materials take shape

Associate Professor Philipp Schlatter
KTH Royal Institute of Technology 

Putting a wind tunnel in the computer

Associate Professor Jonas Strandberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Seeking two interacting Higgs particles

Associate Professor Sara Strandberg
Stockholm University 

Measuring the Higgs Boson 

Professor Camilla Svensson
Karolinska Institutet

Turning the spotlight on chronic pain

Professor Joakim Westerlund
Lund University

Refining the theory of data combination

Professor Henrik Zetterberg
University of Gothenburg 

Blood tests helping in the hunt for anti-dementia drugs