Where the nominating university is not the researcher’s current university, the nominating university’s name is in brackets.
Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2017
Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career program for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in 2012, provides long-term funding for young, promising Swedish and foreign researchers from all academic fields. This year twenty-four new researchers are appointed to the program.
Natural Sciences
Dr. Maria Hermanns
University of Cologne, Germany (Stockholm University)
Associate Professor Dan Petersen
University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Stockholm University)
Professor Karim Adiprasito
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Better societal planning by solving centuries-old mathematical riddles
Dr. Rike Stelkens
Stockholm University
Associated Professor Claudia Mohr
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (Stockholm University)
Associate Professor Johannes Rousk
Lund University
Dr. Karl Börjesson
University of Gothenburg
More light from converted dye molecules and quantum mechanics
Associate Professor Steffi Burchardt
Uppsala University
Dr. Stefano Bonetti
Stockholm University
Social Sciences
Associate Professor Pontus Strimling
Institute for Futures Studies (Södertörn University)
Associate Professor Johanna Rickne
Stockholm University
Gender equality and discrimination in the labor market, and the growth of the Sweden Democrats
Professor Elin Naurin
University of Gothenburg
Associate Professor Hanne Fjelde
Uppsala University
Engineering and Technology
Associate Professor Jiayin Yuan
Clarkson University, New York State, USA (Stockholm University)
Associate Professor Ergang Wang
Chalmers University of Technology
Dr. Erik J. Berg
Paul Scherrer Institute, Zurich, Switzerland (Uppsala University)
Associate Professor Hanna Isaksson
Lund University
Associate Professor Feng Gao
Linköping University
Medicine
Dr. Emanuela Santini
Columbia University, New York, USA (Karolinska Institutet)
Dr. Joanna Rorbach
Karolinska Institutet
Professor Stefano Romeo
University of Gothenburg
Dr. Carmen Gerlach
Harvard Medical School, USA (Karolinska Institutet)
Better vaccines and cancer therapies inspired by the body’s immune system
Dr. Katarzyna Koltowska
University of Queensland, Australia (Uppsala University)
Exploring the unknown mechanisms building the lymphatic vessels