Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF)

Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF) is a career program for young promising researchers, open to researchers in all scientific disciplines; medicine, technology, natural sciences, social sciences and humanities/religious sciences, as well as in the interfaces between them.

The purpose of the program is to provide the most promising young researchers with long-term funding so that they can focus on undertaking difficult and long-term research issues. The universities are regularly invited by KAW to nominate researchers for the program.