News

April

• Sweden – Becoming a World Leader in Mathematics

  2013-01-17 Press release: The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to support Swedish research in mathematics. The aim is for Sweden to recover its position at the international cutting edge by giving the best young researchers international experience and by recruiting young as well as more experienced mathematicians to Sweden.

March

• Maria Strømme elected to the Academy's Class for Engineering sciences

  2013-03-28 News: At the General Meeting on 13 Mars Maria Strømme, Professor of Nanotechnology at Uppsala University, was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

• Stefan Thor and Peter Pagin elected to the Academy

  2013-03-28 News: At the General Meeting on 13 Mars Stefan Thor, Professor of biology at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University and Peter Pagin, Professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University were elected members of the Academy.

• North is becoming south, new study in Nature Climate Change

  2013-03-19 News: An international team of 21 authors from 17 institutions in seven countries, amongst others Academy researcher Terry Callaghan, published a study in the journal Natural Climate Change on March 10. It shows that, as the cover of snow and ice in the northern latitudes has diminished in recent years, the temperature over the northern land mass has increased at different rates during the four...

February

• Professor Eric S. Lander elected to the Academy's Class for biosciences

  2013-02-25 News: At the General Meeting on 13 February Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School, and President and Founding Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was elected to the Academy's Class for biosciences.

• New statement on stem cell research

  2013-02-13 News: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the fundamental discoveries that demonstrated that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. But stem cell research has also been the subject of much debate.

• Academy statement on the L’Aquila-verdict

  2013-02-05 Press release: On 18 January the reasons for the verdict of the L’Aquila process were made public. The scientists were sentenced to four years imprisonment for having communicated the risk so defectively that they are believed to be partly responsible for the death of more than 300 citizens of L’Aquila in the earthquake on 6 April 2009. The scientific community worldwide has reacted against the verdict, and n...

January

• Four new members elected to the Academy

  2013-01-24 News: At the General Meeting on 16 January Torsten Åkesson, Lund University, Per Molander, Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate, Johan Rockström, Stockholm University, and Kjell Jonsson, Umeå University, were elected members of the Academy.

• The Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2013

  2013-01-17 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2013 to Peter K. Gregersen ,The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA, Lars Klareskog , Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and Robert J. Winchester , Columbia University, New York, NY, USA,

• Available position: Two Research Positions with focus on global social-ecological dynamics and marine stewardship in a global context

  2013-01-16 News: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce two positions as Early Career Academy Researcher, one for a scholar with a documented background in economics and one for a scholar with a documented background in research on social-ecological interactions. The positions will be part of the Family Erling Persson’s Academy Program on The Ecological Economics of Global Change, lead by...