Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures
Each year the Faculty of Science and Technology arranges the Celsius-Linnaeus honorary lectures in memory of Anders Celsius and Carl von Linné. The selected Celsius- and Linnaeus-lecturers are at today's forefront within their field.
The Celsius-Linnaeus lecturers are selected by the Celsius-Linnaeus Committee. The committee also selects four symposie-lecturers, two national and two from Uppsala University.
2025 Celsius Lecturer: Francesco Calegari
University of Chicago
2025 Linnaeus Lecturer: Andrea Rinaldo
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and Università di Padova
The 2025 lectures will take place on February 13 at Ångström Laboratory (Celsius-Lecture) and Geo Centre (Linnaeus-Lecture).
Nobel prize
Since 1991, eleven of the Celsius-Linnaeus lecturers have been awarded a Nobel Prize.
Svante Pääbo, who was Linnaeus-lecturer in 2022, has received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine the same year.
Previous Lecturers
List of previous lecturers.
Anders Celsius
Read more about Anders Celsius.
Carl von Linné
Read more about Carl von Linné.
The Celsius-Linnaeus Committee
The Celsius-Linnaeus committee has the task of inviting top-class lecturers in the world each year in the subject areas of Anders Celsius and Carl von Linné respectively.
Members of the Celsius-Linnaeus committee 2022-2025
- Professor Máté Erdélyi, Department of Chemistry-BMC (chairman)
- Professor Klas Hjort, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Professor Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Department of Earth Science
- Professor Karin Schönning, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Professor Per Ahlberg, Department of Organismal Biology
- Professor Silvelyn Zwanzig, Department of Mathematics
For more information, contact committee secretary Karin Thellenberg