WWSC News

Together with representatives from the central management of KTH, Peter Wallenberg Jr, Sara Mazur, and Axel Wallenberg from KAW visited WWSC KTH in March.

Christian Müller, Professor at Chalmers and WWSC member, is awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for making electronic textiles with conducting plastics . 

Professor Monica Ek, KTH, is awarded the 2021 Ekman Medal. The medal is awarded by the Swedish Paper and Cellulose Engineering Association (SPCI) for meritorious technical or scientific contributions in the Swedish forest industry.

Eleni Stavrinidou, senior lecturer and principal investigator at Electronic Plants at Linköping University’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics and WWSC member is awarded ERC Starting Grant of approximately EUR 1.5 million.

The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden’s leading senior researchers and gives the researchers long.term funding to carry out world-class research. WWSC member Christian Müller, professor at Chalmers, is one of the 2022 Wallenberg Scholars.

The first physical WWSC workshop since the pandemic was held in November. One of the highlights was the session where the students presented their work. The jury had a tough time deciding the winners of best pitch- and poster presentation!

WWSC members Klas Tybrandt and Simone Fabiano, Linköping University, are among the 27 newly appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows .

The continuation of WWSC receives 380 million SEK from Knut Alice Wallenberg’s Foundation. The increased funding leads to that the research program “New materials from trees for a sustainable future” is expanded to make possible a more sustainable future.

The Gunnar Sundblad Foundation’s research fund wants to promote the development, renewal and competitiveness of the fiber-based industry. Now the application for the foundation’s Competence award and Young Researcher’s award is open.

Center director Eva Malmström showed examples of the research in WWSC and the possibilities of forest-based materials in the science program Vetenskapens värld.

Johan Larsbrink, Associate Professor in molecular enzymology at Chalmers and WWSC member, is elected one of eight new members of the Young Academy of Sweden.