Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grants 2024

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.

Associate Professor Per Anders Rudling
Lund University

The growing phenomenon of long-distance nationalism

Professor Terje Falck-Ytter
Uppsala University

Early signs of autism in infants

Associate Professor Jan Marcus Dahlström
Lund University

Creating clocks to measure ultrashort laser flashes

Professor Carina Schlebusch
Uppsala University

Prehistoric DNA reveals the spread of agriculture

Dr. Rike Stelkens
Stockholm University

Yeast – teaching us how to cope with environmental change

Dr Simon Elsässer
Karolinska Institutet

Living cell biochemistry yields new insights into cell memory

Professor Klas Modin
Chalmers University of Technology

Paving the way for gentler radiotherapy

Dr Karin Lind
Stockholm University

Mapping the childhood of the Milky Way

Associate Professor Wushi Goldring
Stockholm University

Algebraic groups – a universal language in mathematics

Professor Sara Zahedi
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Improving computer simulation tools

Associate Professor Elin Esbjörner 
Chalmers University of Technology

Understanding the causes of neurodegenerative diseases