SEK 96 Million in Project Grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
The Department of Physics and Astronomy was the main applicant for three projects that were granted in total SEK 96 million during five years from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation 2026.
The projects at the Department of Physics and Astronomy that were awarded project grants for 2026 from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation are:
Project title: Black-Hole Dynamics and Gravitational Physics
Main applicant: Henrik Johansson, Theoretical Physics
Grant amount: SEK 30 000 000 during five years
Project title: Stranger Things – from Hypernuclear Interactions to Neutron Stars
Main applicant: Karin Schönning, Nuclear Physics
Co-applicants: Andreas Ekström and Christian Forssén, Chalmers
Grant amount: SEK 37 000 000 during five years
Project title: New magnets for new quantum technologies
Main applicant: Olle Eriksson, Materials Theory
Co-applicants: Biplab Sanyal, Erik Sjöqvist, Vladislav Borisov, Philipp Rybakov, Materials Theory
Grant amount: SEK 29 000 000 during five years
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is Sweden’s largest private research funder and in total the foundation granted SEK 900 million in project grants for 2026 to 30 research projects.
The projects that are awarded funds from the foundation are considered to be of the highest international standard in basic research within medicine, technology and natural sciences, and for interdisciplinary projects. The projects eligible for funding from the foundation must also be able to lead to future scientific breakthroughs. The evaluation of the projects is done according a strict peer-review process, where the applications are evaluated by the foremost international researchers in each subject.