Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2023
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 program was established in 2012 by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) Foundation in close collaboration with five royal academies and 16 Swedish universities.
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 invited by KAW to nominate researchers for the program. Evaluation is done by the academies that then present their most promising researchers to the foundation, which then makes the final selection.
Internal prioritization procedure in the fall of 2022
Because Uppsala University is only allowed to nominate a limited number of researchers, an internal prioritization process is applied. The internal prioritization process will take place during the fall of 2022. It consists of several steps where preparation and prioritization take place within the respective scientific domains as well as university-wide.
- Uppsala University may nominate a maximum of 16 researchers (8 internal and 8 external) this year.
- The University can only nominate one internal candidate for each external candidate.
- The universities shall strive for at least 40% of the nominations to include the gender that is underrepresented in the nomination.
Observe that the Foundation has decided that the following categories of researchers may not be nominated for a WAF grant: researchers who have received recruitment packages within the Foundation's investments in molecular medicine (WCMM centers), Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems Program (WASP), Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems Program - Humanities and Society ( WASP-HS), Data Driven Life Science (DDLS) or the Wallenberg Initiative for Materials Science and Sustainability (WISE).
Nomination procedure and schedule for WAF 2022/2023
- Instructions for nominations Humsam, contact persons Oddný Notstrand
- Instructions for nominations Medfarm, contact persons Maria Ferletta and Carin Marciszko
- Instructions for nominations Teknat, contact persons Ulrika Huss Melin och Carolina Rydin