NEWS Umeå University will be financing up to 2 million crowns each to the 70 recently named distinguished young researchers at the university.
“This is the future of Umeå University, which is why we are carrying out this investment that is like no other in Sweden,” says vice-chancellor Göran Sandberg.
“The aim is to identify our foremost researchers in an early phase in their careers and support them so they remain with us, as well as develop their research and strengthen their qualifications,” explains Marianne Sommarin, vice-rector with responsibility for research development and research evaluation at Umeå University.
The career grant titled ”Young Researcher Award”, has been open for application to those that are young in their academic careers – candidates that have received their doctoral level degree within approximately two to ten years – and are employed at Umeå University. This grant is the only one of its kind in Sweden.
The researchers have been selected following an external evaluation by a panel of experts.
”The national panel members have consisted of experienced evaluators. There were a total of 218 applications received, which was pleasantly high. The evaluators were extremely impressed by the quality of the applicants which resulted that we doubled the number of grants we initially planned to distribute, “explains Sommarin.
The panel members have evaluated the qualifications and merits by means of reviewing the research plan, independence and the scientific merits, taking into account the diverse conditions the time of post-doctoral research and discipline,
There are four departments that were notable in receiving a significant number of career grants. The department of physics received eight grants, department of chemistry (7), department of historical, philosophical and religious studies (5), and department of sociology (4). Five departments were awarded three grants and four departments had two grants. A new announcement of career grants to young researchers will take place in approximately two years.
“We want our researchers to feel that they have a stimulating research environment and that they choose to remain with us,” says Marianne Sommarin.
Contact person: Marianne Sommarin, Vice-Rector Phone: +46 (0)90-786 60 30 Mobile: +46 (0)70- 662 38 74
E-mail: marianne.sommarin@adm.umu.se
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Caroline Boucher, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Annelie Bränström-Öhman, Department of Culture and Media
Rickard Danell, Department of Sociology
Jonas Edlund, Department of Sociology
Mikael Hjerm, Department of Sociology
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Jonny Holmström, Department of Informatics
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Malin Isaksson, Department of Language Studies
Maria Karlsson, Department of Statistics
Åsa Karlsson-Sjögren, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Patrik Lantto, Centre for Sami Research
Christel Larsson, Department of Food and Nutrition
Urban Lindgren, Department of Social and Economic Geography
Sofia Lundberg, Department of Economics
Tom Madell, Department of Law
Guy Madison, Department of Psychology
Dieter Müller, Department of Social and Economic Geography
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Karina Nilsson, Department of Sociology
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Christer Nordlund, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Anna Stigsdotter-Neely, Department of Psychology
Patrik Svensson, Humlab
Marie Wiberg, Department of Statistics
Lotta Vikström, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Christina Wikström, Department of Educational Measurement
Per Wisselgren, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Helene Ybrandt, Department of Psychology
Ann Öhman, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies
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Ulf Ahlgren, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine
Niklas Arnberg, Department of Clinical Microbiology
Erik Björn, Department of Chemistry
Folmer Bokma, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Andrei Chabes, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Claude Dion, Department of Physics
Ludvig Edman, Department of Physics
Anders Eklund, Department of Radiation Sciences
Paul Franks, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
Leonid Freidovich, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics
Christiane Funk, Department of Chemistry
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Åsa Gilthorpe, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine
Markus Grebe, Department of Plant Physiology
Lena Gunhaga, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine
Petter Holme, Department of Physics
Charlotte Häger Ross, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation
Åsa Hörnsten, Department of Nursing
Pär Ingvarsson, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Roland Jansson, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Erik Johansson, Deparment of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Jörgen Johansson, Department of Molecular Biology
Jan Larsson, Umeå Centre for Molecular Pathogenesis
Kui Liu, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Emil Lundh, Department of Physics
Beatrice Malmer, Department of Radiation Sciences
Mattias Marklund, Department of Physics
Klas Markström, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Jyri-Pekka Mikkola, Department of Chemistry
Jonas Nilsson, Department of Molecular Biology
Per-Arne Oldenborg, Deparment of Integrative Medical Biology
Ruth Palmer, Department of Medical Biology
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Richard Palmqvist, Deparment of Medical Biosciences
Madeleine Ramstedt, Department of Chemistry
Martin Rosvall, Department of Physics
Åsa Strand, Department of Plant Physiology
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Malin Sund, Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences
Alexandr Talyzin, Department of Physics
Johan Trygg, Department of Chemistry
Hannele Tuominen, Department of Plant Physiology
Pernilla Wikström, Department of Medical Biosciences
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Department of Chemistry
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