The Award Committee

Anders Hagfeldt is Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University since 2021 and Professor of Physical Chemistry. He obtained his PhD at Uppsala University in 1993. His research has focused on the fields of dye-sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells and solar fuels. He has published more than 560 scientific papers that have received over 94,000 citations. 2014-2020 he was Professor at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Christina Frimodig holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology, and an MBA in international business, both from Uppsala University. She has pursued a career for over 30 years in the Life Science industry: diagnostics and medical technology in smaller and larger companies. Her focus has been in marketing and sales as well as holding various management and CEO positions in these companies. In the final years before retiring in 2018, she was CEO of STUNS, the foundation for collaboration between the universities, business and the public sector in Uppsala. In this role, she also chaired the business incubator Uppsala Innovation Centre (UIC), as well as repeatedly serving as a mentor in Mentor4Research

Per Bengtsson is the Managing Director and Academic Property Manager at Uppsala Akademiförvaltning. He is an agronomist specialising in mechanical engineering from SLU and has worked in research and development in both academia and the private sector. As Director of Studies for Technology at SLU, he helped found the School of Entrepreneurship in Uppsala. He has worked as an investment manager at SLU Holding and has several years’ experience as a founder, CEO and board member of companies in the agro, technology, food, IT, finance and property sectors. He is one of the founders of the business incubator UIC and served as its CEO for 18 years. Per has also set up the Uppsala-based fund Linnéa Capital and has worked in venture capital firms specialising in deep-tech companies. In addition, he has more than ten years’ experience of board work within the banking sector.

Fredrik Tell is Professor of Business Studies at the Department of Business Studies and is also affiliated with the Uppsala Centre for Business History at the Department of Economic History. His research focuses on innovation, including corporate technology strategies, the organisation of innovation and development projects, and the management and defence of intellectual property in large global companies as well as among inventors and entrepreneurs. Professor Tell leads the Uppsala Patent History Group, which focuses on historical identification and analysis of inventions and inventors in Sweden and abroad. He has many years of experience of working with companies and government agencies and as a board member of both startups and UU Invest AB.

Lars Jonsson is an MD and docent in anaesthesiology and intensive care at the Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University. He was CEO of Uppsala University Holding Company from 1998 until 2018, and head of business relations and head of UU Innovation between 2007 and 2013 in parallel with his work at the holding company. In his role, he has contributed to the start-up and development of around 60 companies based on research at Uppsala University. Thirteen of them are now listed. After his retirement in 2018, he has remained associated with the University as visiting researcher at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, and board member of Friends of Uppsala University. He is a member of the Royal Society of Sciences and of the investment committee for the newly started equivalent to a holding company at the University of Tartu in Estonia.