Five Lund researchers appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows

Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the single largest private initiative to support young researchers in Sweden. It is a new career programme aimed at promising young researchers in all disciplines. Besides giving the best young researchers long-term funding, which means they can concentrate on their research, the programme also contributes to the internationalisation of the Swedish research environment. Of the 30 researchers who are benefiting from the initiative, five are from Lund University. "It is excellent that the Wallenberg Foundation is making long-term investments in young researchers within academia and it is of course especially pleasing that five of our researchers have been given the opportunity to benefit from the initiative", says Per Eriksson, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. The five researchers from Lund University are: Anders Johansen , Astronomy, who conducts research on the formation of planets, Kimberley Dick, Physics, who conducts research on nanowires, Johan Malmström , who conducts research on antibiotic resistance, Tobias Uller , who studies how species' flexibility is influenced by epigenetics, and Björn Nilsson , whose aim is to develop a better treatment for leukaemia. The Wallenberg Academy Fellows have been appointed through a process that helps to increase competition and mobility among researchers in a unique collaboration between universities, academies and funding bodies.