SEK 10 million each for Future Research Leaders
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The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF, has just decided to grant 20 young researchers SEK 10 million each in the research programme Future Research Leaders. Three researchers at Uppsala University have won grants.
The Future Research Leaders Programme is designed to provide successful young researchers with good resources to build up independent operations at a Swedish higher-education institution. The research programme identifies and supports promising young researchers with leadership potential. The programme, which runs for five years, includes special leadership training.
The grant recipients in this fifth call have now been announced. The competition was stiff. Twenty of 186 applicants were selected.
The various research projects range across several fields, including fundamental technologies that often find applications in the life sciences, materials technology and biotechnology. They comprise stem cell research, studies of biomolecules, solar cells of various materials, DNA nanotechnology, and much more.
Here are the researchers at Uppsala University who have been named Future Research Leaders by SSF:
- David Black-Schaffer, Department of Information Technology – Faster and Cheaper: System-level IR for Program Optimisation
- Thijs Ettema, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology – New Light on the Obscure Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell
- Charlotte Platzer-Björkman, Department of Engineering Sciences – Highly Efficient Solar Cells from Common Basic Elements
Anna Malmberg