Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

The ways that armed political actors prevent sexual violence remains an unresolved research puzzle. By questioning why some actors are able to discipline their fighters, this study will contribute to our ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

A promising approach to treatment of disseminated cancer is a targeting, i.e. therapy based on specific recognition of cancer-associated molecular alteration in tumour cells. Success of the targeting therapy ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Sweden’s possession of the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy (StB) is inadequately investigated. The Swedish Caribbean Colonialism 1784–1878 project (SweCarCol) integrates, orders and opens up important ...

Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2019-06-30

The overall aim is to understand platelet biogenesis, development and reactivity. The first two years of training will be in the host institute abroad, i.e., Framingham heart study (FHS), National Institutes ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31

Reversing a famous functionalist formulation – from “towers in the park” to “parks around the towers” – I study the construction, use, and transformation of outdoor spaces in suburbs from the Swedish Record ...

Research project from 2018-05-03 to 2018-05-04

Changes in the legal access to ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) for queer and transgender people in different countries have created both challenges and possibilities for reproduction of LGBTQ-people ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

This project aims at investigating the intersection of rurality and disability, more specifically how rural life is experienced from a disability perspective. We will find out where questions of the intersection ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Cool giant stars are strongly affected by dynamical processes. Large-scale convective flows reach deeply into the stars, bringing newly produced elements such as carbon to the surface. Convection and pulsation ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Converging plate boundaries are areas where upper crustal rocks are subjected to intense compressional deformation. Deformation (strain) resulting from this compression is partitioned in both space and ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering spectroscopy has several important features that makes is attractive for studies ranging from fundamental phenomena in atoms and molecules to the function of complex ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

During recent years there have been striking changes in the patterns of rulemaking within the EU internal market. That can be seen, most obviously, in a shift of instruments for rulemaking; from directives ...

Research project from 2017-07-01 to 2020-06-30

In this proposal, we aim to explore the uncharted interactions between the heat released from an exothermic enzymatic reaction, and the enzyme’s structure and function. To achieve this goal, we chose pyruvate ...

Research project from 2015-12-01 to 2018-11-30

Genetic factors account for up to 80% of the risk in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The advent of genomic approaches (such as genome-wide association studies, GWASs) has led to the characterization of 26 genetic ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

This project is a direct continuation of the project "A framework for parallel programming models", to accommodate and verify a spectrum of high-level modeling languages. We formally established correctness ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

The project aims at the development of a novel photochemical process for production of sustainable fossil-free lubricant oils from compounds obtained from Swedish biosources. For a variety of different ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Parabolic equations and systems are indispensable models in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, finance and in most engineering disciplines. These models appear in contexts involving time dependent ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

During the last decades, it has often been claimed that the Swedish school system is in crisis. These crises have led to a number of school reforms and a vast academic debate about the causes and solutions ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Governments today face complex problems such as migration and environmental threats, problems which cut across territorial and sectoral borders and are truly hard to handle. Politicans and scholars alike ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

In contemporary Sweden, children increasingly grow up in urban environments. Simultaneously, spaces for children in the city – including (pre)school yard spaces – are decreasing which in children spending ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Due to the harmful consequences of female circumcision (FC), this project will seek to decrease the support of its continuation among newly arrived Somalis in Sweden. The hypothesis is that a community-based ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Inland waters are a large source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, and ebullition, i.e. gas bubbles, is the dominating pathway of inland water CH4 emission. Ebullition is extremely stochastic in time ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

In this project we will establish and develop synthetic methods to construct in vivo targeting biomaterials using motives from, or extracellular matrix (ECM) components as macromolecular building blocs ...

Research project from 2017-12-01 to 2019-12-31

Antimicrobials are an indispensable part of modern medicine. Improvement of antimicrobial use, in particular prevention of overuse of (broadspectrum) antibiotics, through antimicrobial stewardship (AMS ...

Research project from 2018-11-05 to 2019-07-01

Purpose and goal: The project aims to after step 3 having developed digital tool to calculate local climate goals in relation to national as well as the Paris agreement, inclusive of a local carbon budget ...

Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2021-12-31

At the core of this project is the question how a cell coordinates growth with DNA replication. We have recently shown that the bacterium E. coli does this by triggering replication initiation at a fixed ...

Research project from 2018-11-26 to 2019-08-31

Purpose and goal: The project aims to produce an efficient and secure method of combining biobank data with health register data for the benefit of academic and industrial research. A platform for ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

The present project focuses on high-fidelity mathematical and numerical models, in collaboration with Stanford University, to simulate infrasound from a wide range of volcanic activity. The first task ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

A significant proportion of health care resources are used for counseling support for fear of childbirth. Women are mostly satisfied with such counseling but the treatment has not shown any noticeable ...

Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2018-12-31

This project aims at using scientific methods to improve the design of slow moving, permanent magnet generators for marine energy conversion. The goal is to develop generators that have better performance ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

The project will attempt to shed new light on the history of French. In spite of at least 150 years of research, there are still many unsolved problems in French language history. This is particularly ...