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

Dr Peter Heintzman
UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Stockholm University)
Using genetics to map the impacts of prehistoric climate change

Dr Derek Lundberg
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

Dr Sanja Vickovic
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA (Uppsala University)
New technique set to improve understanding of colorectal cancer

Professor Hannes Thiel
University of Kiel, Germany (Chalmers University of Technology)

Dr Magdalena Zych
University of Queensland, Australia (Stockholm University)
Using time to link the quantum world with Einstein’s gravitational theory

Dr Simon Stael
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Medicine




Dr Linda Johansson
University of Gothenburg
The link between type 2 diabetes and sleep hormone at cell level


Dr Paulina Wanrooij
Umeå University
Understanding damage to mitochondrial DNA can pave the way for new drugs

Dr Sebastien Talbot
UdeM, Université de Montréal, Canada (Karolinska Institutet)
Cancer cells fooling neurons into weakening the immune system
Engineering and Technology


Dr Niki Vazou
IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (Chalmers University of Technology)
Research in brief: New method for software verification


Dr Yasmine Sassa
Chalmers University of Technology
Humanities


Dr Hannah Strømmen
University of Chichester, Great Britain (Lund University)
Social Sciences


Dr Björn Lindström
VU Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (Karolinska Institutet)