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27 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows appointed – over half are women

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 27 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. With the help of five years of funding, these young researchers will investigate everything from how particles in the atmosphere affect the climate to the Bible’s role in the development of a secular Europe.The grants are for research in the natural sciences, medicine, technology, humanities and social sciences, and there is huge variation among the issues being examined. How did prehistoric climate changes affect life on Earth? Can new superconductors be discovered by exposing existing materials to

Twenty-nine young researchers become Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2019

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. The five-year grant provides the young researchers with opportunities to make important scientific breakthroughs by providing long-term research funding in Sweden.Their research covers a wide range of subjects, as the funding is for research in the natural sciences, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. This year’s Wallenberg Academy Fellows will study everything from how Linnaeus inspired citizen science, the atmosphere of the oldest stars in the Milky Way, and energy conversion in

They are 2017’s Wallenberg Academy Fellows

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s investments in young researchers continue. This year, 24 outstanding researchers have been selected as Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Thanks to this funding, many of them can continue to conduct their research in Sweden, while others have been recruited to Sweden to build up their research here.“It is particularly pleasing that there are as many women as men among this year’s Academy Fellows. Those who are appointed to be Wallenberg Academy Fellows go through a thorough evaluation process. First, the university nominates candidates; they are then

Investment in young researchers to boost Swedish research

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s investments in young researchers continue with 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. The research challenges that this year’s Academy Fellows are tackling include important issues for the future, such as energy provision and public health.“Since the program started in 2012, 150 young researchers have become Wallenberg Academy Fellows. The Foundation is very happy to be able to provide promising research talent the opportunity to freely develop their ideas over a five-year period,” says Peter Wallenberg Jr, Chairman of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg

Investing in young researchers – 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows

This year’s Wallenberg Academy Fellows’ research focus on, among other things, new treatment of Leukemia, on Mathematics to make way for new quantum computers, on countries’ different approaches to migrants and asylum seekers, and waste heat used to make electricity.Wallenberg Academy Fellows is a program to support some of Sweden’s – and the world’s – most promising young researchers within humanities, medicine, natural sciences, social science and engineering sciences. The five year grant give the most promising young researchers a work situation that enables them to focus on their

This year’s Wallenberg Academy Fellows

Sweden’s largest private investment in young researchers is continuing, with the announcement of 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. The programme is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in order to provide young researchers with the opportunity to take on difficult, long-term research questions.The research programme supports some of Sweden’s, and the world’s, most promising researchers in medicine, natural sciences, engineering sciences, humanities and social science. This year’s Academy Fellows conduct research in a range of forward-looking areas. One example is “DNA

Thirty young researchers to become the first Wallenberg Academy Fellows

Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the largest private initiative to support young researchers in Sweden. It is a new career programme aimed at promising researchers in all disciplines. The programme provides long-term funding and enables the best researchers to focus on their research and it contributes to the internationalization of the Swedish research environment.– It is a true pleasure to announce the first Wallenberg Academy Fellows. The programme is the Wallenberg foundation's largest initiative ever and a long-term effort to support young promising researchers from Sweden and abroad at

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