Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grants 2019

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 2019

Annica Black-Schaffer, Professor in Physics
Uppsala University

Understanding the theory of superconductivity

Yenan Bryceson, professor of Translational Immunology
Karolinska Institutet

New findings about mutant immune cells helping patients

Petter Brändén, Professor of Mathematics
KTH Royal Institute of Technology 

New mathematical theory solves longstanding problems

Sebastian Deindl, Associate Professor in Biochemistry
Uppsala University

Mechanisms for packaging DNA into the cell nucleus

Kerstin Enflo, Associate Professor of Economic History
Lund University

Migration patterns in the Early Modern period offer clues to modern-day regional growth

Axel Englund, Associate Professor in literature
Stockholm University

The corporeality of music in the modern novel

Rachel A. Foster, Associate Professor in Microbial Oceanography
Stockholm University

Vital symbiosis yields new insights on climate

Olle Lundh, Associate Professor of Physics
Lund University

Mini-accelerator benefiting medicine and astronomy

Martin Ott, Professor of Biochemistry
Stockholm University

What controls the powerhouses of the cells?

Janine Splettstößer, Associate Professor of Microtechnology, Nanoscience and Applied Quantum Physics
Chalmers University of Technology

Using surplus heat in nanoelectronics

Johanna Wallenius, Associate Professor of Economics
Stockholm School of Economics

Is education the key to a healthier life for all?

Sjoerd Wanrooij, Dr in Medical Chemistry and Biophysics
Umeå University

A protein to alleviate Parkinson’s

Eduardo Villablanca, Associate Professor in Immunology
Karolinska Institutet

Searching for causes of gut flora imbalance

Joan Yuan, Associate Professor in Immunology
Lund University

Monitoring the developing immune system