At the General Meeting on 13 December, nine new members were elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Their top level research adds new fields of knowledge to the Academy’s already wide spectrum of expertise.
Swedish members
Class for physics
Ellen Moons is Professor of Physics at the Department of Engineering and Physics, Karlstad University.
Ellen Moons, Karlstad University
Dirk Rudolph is Professor at the Physics Department, Lund University.
Class for biosciences
Anders Hedenström is Professor at the Centre for animal movement research, Lund University
Anders Hedenström, Lund University
Christos Samakovlis is Professor at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
Group Christos Samakovlis, Stockholm University
Neus Visa is Professor at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
Group Visa, Stockholm University
Class for medical sciences
Fredrik Bäckhed is Professor at the Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Fredrik Bäckhed, University of Gothenburg
Foreign members
Class for physics
Frank Wilczek is Professor at Fysikum – the Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Class for biosciences
Roger Butlin is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at The University of Sheffield
Roger Butlin, The University of Sheffield
Claudia Köhler is Professor for Plant Molecular Cell Biology at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU
Claudia Köhler’s lab, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU