Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career program for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in cooperation with the Swedish Royal Academies in 2012, provides long-term funding for promising Swedish and international researchers from all academic fields.

The universities nominate researchers to the program, the academies evaluate the candidates and present the most promising researchers to the Foundation, who then make the final selection.

This year, 27 new researchers have been appointed to the program, including our member Helena Lundberg of KTH, whose research focuses on electrochemistry