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.
2026 Lectures
The 2026 Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures took place on February 19th at Ångström Laboratory (Celsius) and EBC (Linnaeus).
Read more about the lectures here "Quantum sensors and genetic mutations".
Celsius Lecture: Diamond quantum sensors for biomedical applications
Fedor Jelezko
Director, Institute of Quantum Optics, Ulm University
Whatch the 2026 Celsius Lecture here on Uppsala University's YouTube channel.
Linnaeus Lecture: Why do human germline mutation rates depend on age and sex?
Molly Przeworski
Professor of Biological Sciences and of Systems Biology, Columbia University
Watch the 2026 Linnaeus Lecture here on Uppsala University's YouTube channel.
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 2025-2028
- Professor Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Department of Earth Science (chairman)
- Professor Klas Hjort, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Professor Karin Schönning, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Professor Cecilia Holmgren, Department of Mathematics
- Professor Per Eklund, Department of Chemistry - Ångström
- Professor Göran Arnqvist, Department of Ecology and Genetics
For more information, contact committee secretary Karin Thellenberg