Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2022-12-31

We will within this project develop a proof of concept assay to replace Botulinum Toxin type A (BoNT/A) testing in animals. Our assay is a cell based assay, based on human embryonic stem cells. These cells ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are of enduring interest to scientists and the general public because of their link to paleoclimate change, mass extinctions, evolution of life, and economic ore deposits ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

The four year project aims to facilitate Sweden’s transition to a 100% renewable energy system by defining required targets and processes. The temperature and equity framing of the Paris Agreement will ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations have become one of the most prominent responses to civil wars around the world. The role of civilian personnel and their activities have proliferated during ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2024-12-31

A new generation of superluminous X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) will deliver billions of exposures per day at intensities up to 100-times higher than intensities available from existing XFELs. The ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Proposed project is about songs sung by women for women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. I will call these songs "mamabies". Mamabies are recited in the Afro-Baloch community along the coast ...

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 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 2019-03-14 to 2019-03-16

This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of organizational institutionalism ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Supercapacitors belong to the top candidates for the next leap in energy storage technology, with better theoretical performance than the currently best batteries for applications in e.g. electric cars ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Will 5G hold its promise? Whereas a huge amount of efforts is being devoted to addressing the question, the research falls short on understanding, characterizing, and improving network-level performance ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Charge transporting materials play a cruical role in one of the most active research areas: the development of molecular materials to facilitate the conversion of solar energy into electricity, fuels and ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2023-12-31

The project has the aim of creating the scientific base for sustainable industrial processes for using the waste-residue streams from pulp production (annually consisting of ~400 Mtons of hemicellulose ...

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 2019-12-01 to 2023-11-30

Public space has become less accessible to children. Research on children’s mobility and play shows a link between compact city policies, heavy traffic, a lack of nearby green and open recreational and ...

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 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Our project aims to produce a documentary film on the blossoming of a cosmopolitan language in one of the most vibrant cities in pre-colonial Asia around 1700 and its codification. We will illustrate how ...

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 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 ...