WISE grants to 11 projects at Uppsala University
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Eleven doctoral student and postdoctoral projects at Uppsala University have been awarded funding in the second academic call from WISE. A total of 54 projects in Sweden will have a share in SEK 166 million of funding.
The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) is the biggest initiative ever in materials science in Sweden. Its aim is to facilitate sustainable development through basic and needs-driven materials science research at the international forefront. Uppsala University participates in WISE along with six other Swedish universities. The Initiative is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW).
In the second academic call for doctoral and postdoctoral projects, the WISE Academic project call 2024 (ap2), 11 projects at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University have been awarded funding.
“It’s especially pleasing that our participation covers so many areas of our research, with projects from four different departments and as many units,” says Charlotte Platzer Björkman, Vice-Rector for the Faculty of Science and Technology.
The doctoral student projects awarded funding
- Project: Can a new family of inorganic materials make large scale solar energy more sustainable? Project leader: Jonathan Staaf Scragg, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Project: Mechanisms of Photochemical CO2 Reduction in Quantum-Dot/Molecular Catalyst Materials. Project leader: Leif Hammarström, Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory
- Project: Multicomponent alloys and nitrides for tailored thermal transport and energy harvesting. Project leader: Per Eklund, Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory
- Project: Magnetic nanocomposites for water remediation: a new environmental technology. Project leader: Tapati Sarkar, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The postdoctoral projects awarded funding
- Project: AI for AM – towards more resource-efficient development of additively manufactured light-weight alloys
Project leader: Cecilia Persson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Project: Atomic-Level Optimization of Li/Na Iron Phosphate Battery Cathodes for Enhanced Performance and Sustainability. Project leader: Håkan Rensmo, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Project: Making Rare Earth Elements in apatite available for next generations (REEgenerate). Project leader: Jaroslaw Majka, Department of Earth Sciences
- Project: Engineering Functionalized Hybrid Sorbent Materials Based on Lignin for Purifying Mining Wastewater: Sorb4MINE. Project leader: Maria Strømme, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Project: Additive manufacturing of rare-earth-free permanent magnets. Project leader: Martin Sahlberg, Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory
- Project: Seeing clearly where others can’t – X-rays reveal the genesis of C-H activation catalysts and how they function. Project leader: Philippe Wernet, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Project: Renewable fuel directly from sunlight, water and CO2 using non-noble metal catalysis. Project leader: Sergii Shylin, Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory
Anneli Björkman
Facts about WISE
- The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) is a collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Linköping University, Uppsala University, Stockholm University, Lund University and selected research groups at Karlstad University, Umeå University and Örebro University.
- Through partnerships with industry and society, WISE aims to promote and activate a transition to a sustainable society while advancing the frontiers in materials science, establishing Sweden as a leading nation in the field.
- WISE is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the total budget for the WISE programme is close to SEK 3 billion for the period 2022–2033.