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)