Mattias Jakobsson is awarded “Wallenberg Academy Fellow”, and receives 7.5 million SEK. Congratulations!
Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career programme for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in 2012, provides long-term funding for young, promising Swedish and foreign researchers from all academic fields.
The programme runs in close cooperation with five royal academies and sixteen universities. The universities nominate researchers to the programme; the academies evaluate the candidates and present a shortlist of the most promising researchers to the Wallenberg Foundation, which makes the final selection. The universities assume the long-term responsibility for the selected researchers’ work.
Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s largest initiative ever. The aim of the programme is to support up to 125 young researchers between 2012 and 2016 with a potential total of SEK 1.2 billion.