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Porträtt på en kvinna
Curiosity became a career

What is it like to be a doctoral student? Meet Julia, whose research takes her all the way to Jupiter's moons.

Oscar Rantatalo
Improving investigations into online sexual abuse of children

Oscar Rantatalo is Umeå University’s first professor of police science.

Johanna BjörklundProfessor vid Institutionen för datavetenskap
Newly appointed professor wants to make AI less overconfident

Johanna Björklund aims to make today’s AI systems understand their own limitations.

Anna Baranowska-Rataj
Anna Baranowska-Rataj explores families’ health in the context of changing Arctic

Anna wants to investigate how critical life events, including migration, affect families’ health in the Arctic

Pedro Sanches
Pedro Sanches wants to make environmental data in the Arctic more understandable

Through Arctic Six, he connects Arctic environmental research with participatory design.

A man wearing a blue labcoat, holding a tray of plants in a greenhouse.
Predicting how plants respond to their environment

How do genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment? Yanjun Zan aims to predict them.

Full list of Profiles and Features

Felipe Cava
Felipe Cava wants to learn more about the small and complex microbes.
Published: 2019-05-14
Yannick Stephan
Yannick Stephan is currently enrolled in the Master's Programme in Political Science at Umeå University.
Published: 2019-05-13
Successful research collaborations brought Petros Pashiardis back to Umeå
Read interview with Petros Pashiardis, visiting researcher at the Centre for Principal Development.
Published: 2019-05-08
Anna Överby Wernstedt
The purpose of Anna Överby Wernstedt`s research is finding methods to stop the TBE virus before it spreads.
Published: 2019-05-08
Oskar in Turin
Oskar chose to study in Italy.
Published: 2019-03-11
The Industrial Doctoral School gave new perspectives
What happened to physician Steven Shen after graduating from the Industrial Doctoral School?
Published: 2019-02-22
Rising temperatures heighten ill-health
According to Maria Nilsson, illness due to climate change is already a fact for Swedes and Europeans.
Published: 2019-02-19
Nordic Noir trendsetting in Europe
Katarina Gregersdotter is part of an EU project studying the formation of Europe's cultural identity.
Published: 2019-02-08
How the Iranian image of Europe has changed
How the Iranian image of Europe has changed according to Professor Mohammad Fazlhashemi.
Published: 2019-02-08
Low interest in the EU also in election year
Johan Hellström says the May election can turn the balance of power in the Europe's most important parliament.
Published: 2019-02-08
Open doors to Europe
Erasmus+ offers students good chances to study a term abroad in another European country.
Published: 2019-02-08
Terrorism takes new forms
There are signs that the last, so-called religious wave, is changing.
Published: 2019-02-08
Means of terrorism become more poisonous
A growing problem in Europe is that individuals handle harmful substances.
Published: 2019-02-08
Believes in a change in GMO legislation
Stefan Jansson, professor of plant physiology, believes it's an ideal time to make legal changes.
Published: 2019-02-08
Artificial intelligence for humans
AI research at Umeå University is partly specialised in ethics and social affairs.
Published: 2019-02-08