Christian Glaser awarded the 2026 Wallmark Prize

Christian Glaser, Associate Professor at Uppsala University, has been awarded the 2026 Wallmark Prize

“for internationally recognized research achievements in the field of radio detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, with particularly significant contributions to the real-time analysis of data from ice-based detectors using machine learning”.

by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

“I see the prize as a recognition of the hard work over the last few years. It shows that the work I did was meaningful and made an impact to advance science. This is very good to hear,” says Christian Glaser.

He started working on the radio detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos as a PostDoc in California in 2017, before coming to Uppsala in 2020. Most of the work the prize honors, he carried out at Uppsala University.

“I had a great local team consisting of two outstanding postdocs, Thorsten Glüsenkamp and Alan Coleman, as well as the PhD students Nils Heyer and Martin Ravn, and I received valuable advice from my senior colleagues Allan Hallgren, Olga Botner, and many other excellent colleagues,” says Christian Glaser.

Most of his time he now spends at TU Dortmund University and the LAMARR Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Germany, where he accepted a full professorship in the fall last year. He is still at Uppsala University 20% of his time to continue the work on the project he was awarded the prize for, with strong collaboration between Sweden and Dortmund. For instance Pawel Marciniewski, Senior research engineer at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University and another engineer at Stockholm University are working on the project of real-time analysis of data from ice-based detectors using machine learning. Christian also still teaches the courses Applied Deep Learning in Physics and Advanced Deep Learning in Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University.

Christian Glaser is amazed by the history of the price. It goes back to the endowment of Lars Johan Wallmark, who was a Swedish physicist and director of the Technological Institute (1848-1855), an institution that eventually became KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm. The first prize was awarded in 1859 to C. J. Malmsten and has been awarded yearly since. Among the winners is also Anders Jonas Ångström, who won the prize twice in 1866 and 1870.

“I'm very proud and humbled to have received a prize with such a history,” says Christian Glaser.

Camilla Thulin