Four mathematicians receive research grants from KAW

The Mathematics Programme gives a number of mathematicians the opportunity each year to go abroad to conduct research at prestigious institutions, whilst bringing top-class mathematicians from abroad to Sweden. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation funds the programme and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences evaluates the candidates.

Two doctoral students in mathematics at Uppsala University have been awarded funding for postdoctoral positions at universities abroad, as well as support for two years following their return to Sweden:

Alireza Ataei, who is due to defend his thesis in 2026, will travel to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. There, he will work on a project concerning the fundamental structure of matter.

Anna Rodriguez Rasmussen is also due to defend her thesis in 2026, after which she will move to the University of Cologne in Germany. In her research, she will focus on algebras and, in particular, new and broader applications for A¥-structures.

Assistant Professor Hankyung Ko has been awarded funding to recruit a researcher from abroad for a postdoctoral position at Uppsala University. The planned project aims to investigate algebraic structures within representation theory, and its main objective is to deepen our understanding of Hecke categories.

The University will also receive funding to recruit Professor Nikita Nekrasov as a visiting professor. He is currently based at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, New York, USA. Nikita Nekrasov is world-renowned for his work on supersymmetric gauge theories, and the Nekrasov partition function is named after him. His host at the Department of Mathematics will be Associate Professor Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell.

Linda Koffmar