Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) has provided SEK 640 million in grants to 20 projects within medicine, natural science and technology which it is believed will generate future scientific breakthroughs. The following top-researchers have received long-term support from KAW.
2022 Isaac Santos
Project: Unravelling the legacy of historical, emerging, and future groundwater pollution.
Approved grant: 30,2 MSEK over five years.
2020 Thierry Coquand
Project:Type Theory for Mathematics and Computer Science
Principal investigator: Thierry Coquand, professor of computer science
Co-investigator: Peter Lumsdaine at Stockholm University.
Approved grant: 34,7 MSEK over five years.
2019 Giovanni Volpe
Project: Active matter goes smart
Principal investigator: Giovanni Volpe, Professor of Physics.
Co-investigator: Bernhard Mehlig, Professor of Physics.
Approved grant: 37 MSEK over five years.
Partners:
Chalmers
Mikael Käll
Lund University
Joakim Stenhammar
2018 Ruth Palmer
Project: Understanding the origin and heterogeneity of childhood neuroblastoma.
Principal investigator:
Ruth Palmer, professor of molecular cell biology
Co-investigators:
University of Gothenburg
Bengt Hallberg
Tommy Martinsson
Karolinska Institutet (A medical university)
Igor Adameyko
Johan Holmberg
Approved grant: 36,7 MSEK over five years.
Previous projects
Raimund Feifel
Fredrik Bäckhed
Maria Falkenberg
Gunnar C Hansson
Thomas Nyström
Grants
Research projects with high scientific potential
The Foundation supports projects with high scientific potential. Projects should be focused on a coherent research question where the complementary competencies of the participating scientists gives new possibilities to attack the chosen research question.
Projects normally have a budget of between SEK 15 million and SEK 30 million. Projects can have a duration of three to five years.