Thanks to scholarships from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, eight young Swedish researchers will have the opportunity to make a post-doctoral visit to Stanford University. Another two are receiving scholarships for a post-doc visit to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL). The researchers are also guaranteed a two-year position when they return to a Swedish university.
“Research is international by nature. It is incredibly important for the development of Swedish research that our young research talents have the opportunity to work in internationally leading settings. This is also the background of the Foundation’s scholarship program,” says Peter Wallenberg Jr, Vice Chairman of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation announced scholarships in two programs at the end of 2013: “The MAX IV synchrotron radiation facility program” and “The Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship Program at Stanford”.
Stanford University in California is one of the world’s most well-reputed universities and has 22 Nobel laureates on its rosters. Since the 1950s, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) has been among the world’s foremost synchrotron radiation lightsources. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has cooperated with Stanford University for many years and has its own contact center, Wallenberg Hall, in one of the centrally located buildings on the Stanford campus.
In total, ten researchers from eight different universities in Sweden are now being granted two-year post-doc scholarships in these prominent research environments.
“It is particularly pleasing that there is such a broad distribution both in terms of the universities and the research areas. They extend from Luleå in the north to Lund in the south, and from theoretical chemistry to digital humanities,” notes Göran Sandberg, Executive Director of the Foundation.
The 2013 Stanford Scholars:
Ying Wang, Theoretical Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Host at Stanford University: Professor Jens K. Nørskov, Chemical Engineering
Laurynas Riliskis, Computer Science, Luleå University of Technology
Host at Stanford University: Associate Professor Philip Levis, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical Engineering
Salomé Calado Botelho, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University
Host at Stanford University: Professor Thomas C. Südhof, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Niclas Olsson, Immunotechnology, Lund University/Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,
Host at Stanford University: Professor Ronald Levy, M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Oncology
Martin Enge, Cellular and Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institutet
Host at Stanford University: Professor Stephen Quake, Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Roger Johansson, Cognitive Science, Lund University
Host at Stanford University: Professor Anthony D. Wagner, Stanford Memory Laboratory at the Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Program
Matias Nordin, Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University of Technology/German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg.
Host at Stanford University: Professor Rosemary Knight, Department of Geophysics
Thomas Nygren, Digital Humanities, HUMlab, Umeå University
Host at Stanford University: Associate Professor Zephyr Frank, Department of History, Stanford University
Post-doc scholarships to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
Chaofan Zhang, MAX-lab, Lund University
Host at SSRL: Professor Zhi-xun Shen, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Ulf Lundström, Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Host at SSRL: Professor Soichi Wakatsuki, Photon Science SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Contacts:
Peter Wallenberg Jr, Vice Chairman, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation,
+46-8-545 017 80
Göran Sandberg, Executive Director, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation,
+46-8-545 017 80