The Swedish Research Council

The Swedish Research Council is the largest external donor to research at Uppsala University. It is a government agency under the Ministry of Education and Research that supports research in all areas.

Funding granted in the past five years:

  • 2025: SEK 866 milliion
  • 2024: SEK 863 million
  • 2023: SEK 799 million
  • 2022: SEK 752 million
  • 2021: SEK 691 million

The figures are from Uppsala University’s annual report for 2025.

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Grants awarded from the Swedish Research Council 2025

Where shall we live, darling? Causes and consequences of voluntary spatial segregation among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Sweden, Michal Grahn

Exposure to diversity and the social integration of ethnic minorities: evidence from exogamic partnerships, Yaroslav Yakymovych

Shuffling Students, Shaping Futures? The impact of school closures and the opening of voucher schools on student achievement, school segregation and exclusion from society, Marcus Österman

Refugee’s political participation in times of restrictive migration policiesHenrik Andersson

Mobilizing Emotions to Build Democratic Resilience: Feminist Coalitions in the European Union, Giulia Mariani

Democracy in Verse: Women Poets and Networks of Resistance under the Franco Regime, Maria Teresa Navarrete Navarrete

FORensic Evidence in domestic and sexual assault cases against WOMen – FOREWOM, Marie Allen

Traumatic brain injury caused by intimate partner violence, Erika Comasco

Conflict or cooperation? Civil society, the police and crime prevention in vulnerable areas, Kristine Höglund

Can quality care improve health and prevent FGM/C? A study on needs, experiences, and protective factors using mixed methods, Malin Jordal

Responding to gender-based violence at the open preschool: Evaluating a co-designed training and intervention program, Georgina Warner

Determination Of Neurobiology and efficacy of Theta Burst Stimulation for Adolescent Depression (DONT-B-SAD), Robert Bodén

Perinatal depression: Hormone sensitivity and neural circuitries via multimodal imaging, Erika Comasco

Revealing the neuromolecular underpinnings of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and the effects of its pharmacological treatment, Inger Sundström Poromaa

Structural biology; Medicinal chemistry (natural sciences specialisation under 10405); Bioinformatics and computational biology (method development under 10203), Jens Carlsson

How viruses exploit motif-based interactions in the secretory pathway for assembly and replication: From fundamental understanding to peptide-based inhibitors, Ylva Ivarsson

Cytokine autoantibodies as determinants of viral disease susceptibility and severity, Nils Landegren

Cooperate or compete? Potentials and perils of deploying AI for International Water Dispute Management (AI-Water), Ashok Swain

Attacks on first responders: Peace- and war-time dynamics, risk and crisis preparedness, Kristine Höglund

Faith Communities in Civil Preparedness: Diversity and Challenges in Sweden’s Emergency Management System, Linnea Lundgren

Graduate School on Teachers’ Work Environment in the Age of GenAI, Mats Daniels

Subterranean Senses: The Phenomenological Challenge of Aquifers in Spain, Susann Baez Ullberg

Older People in War: Establishing a New Research Field, Johan Brosché

Demolitions of housing – Effects on individuals and neighborhoods, Matz Dahlberg

Why evictions turn violent: The politics of growing cities, Emma Elfversson

Domain-General Visual Biases and Social Attention in Typical and Atypical Development, Terje Falck-Ytter

What babies know 2.0, Gustaf Gredebäck

Outland Networks– transports and exchange in the global north (AD 0-1300) (OUTNET), Andreas Hennius

How Violent Actors Distort the Path to Political Power: Evidence from Colombia, Sandra Håkansson

The emergence of the “worker”: Sweden 1750–1900, Karin Hassan Jansson

The Militarized Sensorium: State-Sponsored Infrastructure and Affective Politics in Egypt and Tunisia, Maria Fredrika Malmström

Transforming global health issues into financial assets: in sickness and in wealth, Valbona Muzaka

Solidarity and Gender in African Literatures, Sanja Nivesjö

The Rainforest in Sweden: The Emergence of a Grassroots Concept of the Planetary, 1980–2000, Julia Nordblad

How words mean: lessons from large language models, Jessica Pepp

Institutional change and agricultural development in Sweden 1800-1900, Viktor Persarvet

Navigating Complexity: Intergenerational Memories of the Khmer Rouge Perpetrators in the Context of Rising Authoritarianism in Cambodia, Savina Sirik

Unlocking the Secrets of Complex Data: A New Generation of Statistical Modeling with latent variables, Fan Wallentin.

Entangled neutrons for the study of mesoscopic structures, Max Wolff

A virtual pediatric intestine for prediction of drug absorption after oral administration to children, Christel Bergström

Molecular regulation of vascular permeability, Lena Claesson-Welsh

Women's mental health: One size does not fit all, Erika Comasco

NEUROCLAP: The Role of the Claustrum in Neuropathic Pain, Roberto de la Torre Martinez

Activation of the lectin pathway in endothelial cells - a novel prothombotic mechanism in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies, Oskar Eriksson

Gut microbiome diversity – does it matter? Antibiotics, genetics and a blood test to assess the impact on cardiometabolic disease, Tove Fall

Human herpesvirus 6 infection as an underlying cause of preeclampsia, Susanne Lager

Pathogenic and disease-protective roles of cytokine autoantibodies, Nils Landegren

A roadmap to dementia prevention: Unraveling the role of modifiable risk factors, circulating biomarkers, and the gut microbiome, Susanna Larsson

Chromatin ogranization and epigenetic aberrations in acute myeloid leukemia - understanding biology and tools for precision medicin and targeted therapies, Sören Lehmann

Biomarker discovery and treatment of cerebral cavernous malformations, Peetra Magnusson

ADAC-Based Antibody Shuttle, a Trojan Horse for Delivery of Oligonucleotide-based Therapeutics, Sara Mangsbo

Who needs more vitamin D to prevent fragility fractures? Karl Michaëlsson

In situ identification of the active immune regulatory mechanism of resistance: A functional concept for precision diagnostics in lung cancer, Patrick Micke

Developing the basis for precision medicine in primary Sjögren’s disease, Gunnel Nordmark

Macrophages as Key Regulators of Repair in Injured Myocardial and Skeletal Muscle, Mia Phillipson

Chronic knowledge - from selfcare to meta-selfcare in chronic conditions, Sara Riggare

Precision Medicine for Myasthenia Gravis: Unveiling Predictive and Subgroup Biomarkers for Targeted Treatments, Anna Rostedt Punga

Antibody-based therapy and diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease, Dag Sehlin

Kidney-resident regulatory B cells in diabetic kidney disease, Kailash Singh

Microfluidic device for simulating dynamic biotransformations of orally delivered nanomedicines, Alexandra Teleki

Reprogramming Aggressive Metastatic States with a Functional Map of Colorectal Cancer Plasticity, Sanja Vickovic

ACT-ALL: Reducing Guardians’ Abandonment of Children’s Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Tanzania: Development and Evaluation of an SMS Intervention, Louise von Essen.

University Governance: From Academic Republics to State Agencies and Subcontractors, Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

Towards Accessible and Inclusive Computing Education, Bedour Alshaigy

TeaSeR – Teacher Careers and Teacher Segregation Research Network, Emil Bertilsson

Physical Computing in STEAM Education: From Pixels to Projects, Calkin Suero Montero.

Verification of Quantum Circuits, Parosh Abdulla

Integrating data into physics-based earthquake models, Martin Almquist

Optimised 3D non-equilibrium models for accurate abundance analyses of the Milky Way halo, Anish Amarsi

MAESTRO - MAgneto-ionic Engineered Spin Torque for Reconfigurable Operation, Gabriella Andersson

CMOS-compatible Telecommunication Modulators based on Colloidal Quantum Emitters, Houman Bahmani Jalali

Integrationg ecology into genomic predictions of climate change vulnerability, David Berger

What if the Higgs boson is not an elementary particle?, Elin Bergeås Kuutmann

Lanthanide photocatalysts for organic synthesis and small molecule-activation, Eszter Borbas

Meringosphaera as a new model to study the origin of plastids by endosymbiosis, Fabien Burki

Lanthanide photocatalysts for organic synthesis and small molecule-activation, Sergei Butorin

Molecular control of dopaminergic signaling by allosteric modulators and designer receptors, Jens Carlsson

Foundation Models for Adaptive Transparency in Human-Robot Interaction (FLARE), Ginevra Castellano

Brain-like Artificial Neurons with Circuit-Device Co-Design Enables High-Efficiency Neural Networks, Libo Chen

Selective PFAS Capture and Sequential Catalytic Degradation via Electro or Photocatalysis using bottom-up engineered Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Ocean Cheung

Understanding behavioral innovations: the molecular evolution of mating tactics in water striders, Alberto Corral Lopez

Time-resolved Soft X-ray Spectro-Electrochemistry, Luca D'Amario

4D-printed biodegradable Mg alloys as implant materials for dynamic bone regenerationg, Francesco D'Elia

Byzantine Resilience and the Cost of Privacy in Distributed Learning and Optimization, Subhrakanti Dey

Tailored thermal and electrical properties of multicomponent Mgm+1(An)m thin films for energy harvesting, Per Eklund

Avian photoperiodism: molecular and cellular regulation of physiology and behavior, Amir Fallahshahroudi

Hybrid Search and Declarative Search, Pierre Flener

Phase Engineering in Quantum Materials via Tailored Light Pulses, Oscar Grånäs

Functions of RNA-binding proteins in pathogenic bacteria, Erik Holmqvist.

Bone Dynamics, Per Isaksson

Understanding the formation of multidomain proteins, Jennifer James

Capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry for data-driven identification and characterization of dynamic cellular protein complexes, Erik Jansson

Environmentally Friendly Quantum Dot Solids for Thermophotovoltaic Heat Engines, Erik Johansson

The role of sex ratio selection for sex chromosome evolution, Sophie Karrenberg

Design of Nanocomposites Incorporating Magnetic Nanoparticles in Transition Metal Nitrides for Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties, Arnaud le Febvrier

Quantitative TEM analysis of magnetic interfaces and nano-structures using down to subatomic EMCD signals, Klaus Leifer

Hierarchical Positive-unlabeled Multiple Instance Learning for Computational Pathology, Joakim Lindblad

Multiphase computational model for ion diffusion in composite electrolytes, Amber Mace

Fair social network analysis, Matteo Magnani

Enhancing stability and performance in next generation solar cells by employing advanced synchrotron characterization, Ken Mattsson

Higher representation theoretic methods in Lie theory, Volodymyr Mazorchuk

Modification of the Moon’s mantle by impacts preserved in the chemistry of rare lunar basalts, Renaud Merle

Detecting supernova neutrinos in the IceCube Upgrade, Erin O'Sullivan

Driving collective current excitations using light, Chin Shen Ong

Controlling Molecular Motion and Electronic Structure in Molecular Machines Composed of Heavier Main Group Motifs, Andreas Orthaber

Lazy Clause Generation Pseudo-Boolean Solving, Justin Pearson

Impact of Ion Interaction and Chemical Environment in the Modifications of Plasma Facing Materials, Eduardo Pitthan Filho

Vibrational and magnetic spectroscopies at nano-scale, Jan Rusz

CHRONO-MeD: Circadian Rhythm-Dependent DNA Methylation – Introducing and Understanding a Novel Temporality of Epigenetic Regulation, Joelle Rüegg

MCSE: Model-Constructing Symbolic Execution for Web Security, Philipp Rümmer

Mapping Coke Formation in the Micropores of Zeolite Catalysts during Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Reaction, Przemyslaw Rzepka

Proton-Coupled Electronic Processes with Plasmons, Jacinto Sa

Rethinking the early evolution of tetrapods’ locomotor patterns on land, Sophie Sanchez

Blending probabilistic and nonlinear representations, Thomas Schön

Zonal jets and turbulence in planetary atmospheres, Antonio Segalini

From friendly to deadly – tracking the evolutionary transition of a social supergene into a balanced lethal system in Myrmica ants, Hanna Siegman

Nonlinear quantum spin dynamics in magnetic systems, Erik Sjökvist

Drawing Inferences About Causal Effects in Complex Randomized Experiments, Fredrik Sävje

Selfish genetic elements as drivers of adaptation in fungi, Aaron Vogan

An Integrated NEOtrap-ISFET Single Molecular Sensor for Protein Dynamics, Chenyu Wen

To Be Locked or Not: Effects of Rapid Lake Transitions from Ice-Covered to Open Water on the Global Carbon Cycle, Gesa Weyhenmeyer

NEAT: Interconnection Networks for Heterogeneous AI Accelerators, Yuan Yao

Surface acidity and charge storage at the electrochemical interfaces of conducting metal oxides, Chao Zhang

Michael Way, forskare, NASA Goddard institute for Space Studies, New York, USA

Regina Smyth, Professor, Dept of Political Science, Indiana University, USA.

The Knowledge Codex – Comics as Expansive Graphic Repositories, Ilan Manouach

Swedish contribution to EPOS-ERIC

Super-ADAM

Personalized Infection Medicine - Unmet needs and new technologies, Johan Elf

The Culture Code: Developing Deep Sustainable AI, Anna Foka

Molecular tools for drug discovery based on RNA-protein interactions, Erik Jansson

Exploring functional plasticity in glioblastoma stem cells, Erika Dalmo

The Syntrophic Hydrogen Economy: Metabolic Adaptations and Bioenergy Potential of Anaerobic Microbial Eukaryotes, Princess R. Carbotaje

Representation-theoretic aspects of module categories, Mateusz Stroinski

What if populism is not just something "they" do, but that "we" do? – Toward a dynamic theory of populism, Karl Ekeman

A Country Built with Law? The Rule of Law in Swedish Administrative and Judicial Practice, c. 1600-1900, Jezzica Israelsson

Scribal Variability: The Impact of Medium, Genre, Context, and Audience on Writing Styles in Deir el-Medina (SVar), Muhammad Ragab

Daniel Lee, Reader in Modern History at Queen Mary University of London.

Andreas Kirschning, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover, Tyskland.

Uncivil Students: The Militarization of Student Civil Society as a Threat to Democracy, Anders Themnér

Examples of research supported by the Swedish Research Council

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