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.

Grants awarded from the Swedish Research Council 2025
Research into segregation and exclusion
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
Research into democracy and societal resilience
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
Research into crime: crime prevention, gender equality and domestic violence
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
Psychiatric research
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
Research into viruses and pandemics
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
Research into the social consequences of digitalisation
Cooperate or compete? Potentials and perils of deploying AI for International Water Dispute Management (AI-Water), Ashok Swain
Research into societal preparedness and security
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
Doctoral programme grant for teacher educators
Graduate School on Teachers’ Work Environment in the Age of GenAI, Mats Daniels
Humanities and social sciences
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.
Cooperation with ISIS: instrumentation and methods for ESS
Entangled neutrons for the study of mesoscopic structures, Max Wolff
Medicine and health
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.
Educational sciences
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.
Natural and engineering sciences
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
Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden
Michael Way, forskare, NASA Goddard institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
Regina Smyth, Professor, Dept of Political Science, Indiana University, USA.
Artistic research
The Knowledge Codex – Comics as Expansive Graphic Repositories, Ilan Manouach
Research infrastructure of national interest
Swedish contribution to EPOS-ERIC
Super-ADAM
Planning future excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies
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
International post doc within medicine and health
Exploring functional plasticity in glioblastoma stem cells, Erika Dalmo
International postdoc within natural and engineering sciences
The Syntrophic Hydrogen Economy: Metabolic Adaptations and Bioenergy Potential of Anaerobic Microbial Eukaryotes, Princess R. Carbotaje
Representation-theoretic aspects of module categories, Mateusz Stroinski
International postdoc within humanities and social sciences as well as educational sciences
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
Visiting researcher grant in research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
Daniel Lee, Reader in Modern History at Queen Mary University of London.
Tage Erlander visiting professorship
Andreas Kirschning, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover, Tyskland.
Research on civil society
Uncivil Students: The Militarization of Student Civil Society as a Threat to Democracy, Anders Themnér
Examples of research supported by the Swedish Research Council
WHOLE takes a holistic approach to women’s health
A long-term initiative focusing on interdisciplinary research into women's health, particularly in relation to mental health and pain, i...

World-leading battery researcher joins Uppsala University
Professor Patrik Johansson is the new director of the flagship project Battery 2030+. He has led many large international research projects ...

New light on sexual corruption
Sexual corruption is a global issue, yet the phenomenon remains relatively underexplored in corrupti...
