WWSC members promoted
Congratulations to the WWSC members Merima Hasani, Chalmers, Lauren McKee, KTH, and Mika Sipponen, Stockholm University, who recently got promoted!
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WWSC News
Gabriella Mastantuoni awarded for her doctoral thesis by IAWS
Gabriella Mastantuoni has been awarded the 2024 prize from the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS) for her doctoral thesis ‘Engineering of lignin in wood towards functional materials’. “My work focuses on chemically and physically modifying wood to create sustainable, multifunctional materials,”Mastantuoni explains. “By enhancing wood’s permeability, porosity, and compatibility with conductive polymers, I’ve developed
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WWSC researchers receive KAW funding for unravelling lignin’s untapped potential
Professor Minna Hakkarainen, KTH, and co-applicants receive 24 MSEK for the project ”From atomistic to macroscopic understanding: unravelling lignin’s untapped potential as earth’s most abundant natural phenolic compound” from Knut and Alice Wallenberg’s foundation.
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ERC Starting grant to Tobias Benselfelt
Tobias Bensefelt, KTH, has been awarded ERC Starting Grants 2024 for a project on developing adaptive separation techniques to improve the production of bio-based pharmaceuticals.
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Johan Larsbrink awarded with Ascending Investigator grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation
WWSC project leader Johan Larsbrink has been awarded 5-year funding for the investigation of microbial and enzymatic valorization of tree bark. While bark is a well-known material, the knowledge of how it is broken down in nature is poorly understood today.
Science, She Says! Award to Eleni Stavrinidou
Professor Eleni Stavrinidou at LiU received the Science, She Says! Award, an international prize established to recognize an outstanding junior female scientist who has remarkably contributed to the advancement of science and technology.
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WWSC research at Tekniska museet
Materials from Wallenberg Wood Science Center are part of the Tekniska museet’s new exhibition the Forest, which opened May 18. “We have invited WWSC to showcase cutting-edge research to spark interest and elevate the discussion about the materials of the future”, says Jenny Attemark, curator and project manager at the museum.
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Feng Gao appointed as a new Wallenberg Scholar
Feng Gao, Professor at Linköping University and WWSC member, is appointed as a new Wallenberg Scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden’s leading senior researchers and gives the researchers long term funding to carry out world-class research.
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Anselme Payen Award to Lars Wågberg
Lars Wågberg, Professor at KTH, receives the prestigious Anselme Payen Award 2024, awarded by the American Chemical Society’s Cellulose and Renewable Materials (CELL) Division.
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NyTeknik magazine lists the 33 top start-ups in Sweden, shows an interest in forest-related innovation
The “33-listan” is published by Ny Teknik, a Swedish language science and engineering magazine. Each year they highlight 33 promising innovation-focussed start-up companies, which must be based in Sweden and have been founded less than seven years ago. The 2023 list showed a big emphasis on forest-related companies in the Swedish start-up scene.
Eva Malmström elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
WWSC Director Professor Eva Malmström has been elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Class for engineering sciences.
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WWSC researcher co-author of EPNOE Polysacharide roadmap
Tiina Nypelö, associate professor at Chalmers and Aalto University, is one of the authors to the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) research roadmap 2040: Advanced strategies for exploiting the vast potential of polysaccharides as renewable bioresources.
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