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

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:16:00 GMT

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

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:51:00 GMT

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

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:13:00 GMT

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 seasons, causing a reduction in temperature and vegetation seasonality in this area.

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

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:00:00 GMT

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

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:03:00 GMT

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.

Four new members elected to the Academy

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:11:00 GMT

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 Prof. Carl Folke.

The Institute for Solar Physics transferred to Stockholm University and the Swedish Research Council

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:43:00 GMT

On 1 January 2013 the Institute for Solar Physics will be transferred to Stockholm University. The institute then becomes a national research infrastructure supported by the Swedish Research Council.

Two geoscientists elected to the Academy

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:38:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 12 December Martin Jakobsson and Barbara Wohlfarth, Stockholm University, were elected members of the Academy's Class for geosciences.

Thirty young researchers to become the first Wallenberg Academy Fellows

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:55:00 GMT

Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the largest private initiative to support young researchers in Sweden. It is a new career programme aimed at promising researchers in all disciplines. The programme provides long-term funding and enables the best researchers to focus on their research and it contributes to the internationalization of the Swedish research environment.

Four new researchers elected to the Academy

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:00:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 14 November Patrik Ernfors and Camilla Sjögren, Karolinska Institutet, Helene Andersson-Svahn, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Ole Kiehn, Karolinska Institutet, were elected members of the Academy.

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

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:00 GMT

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce two positions as 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.

Professor Per Strömberg elected to the Academy's Class for social sciences

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:30:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 10 October Per Strömberg, Professor at Stockholm School of Economics, was elected to the Academy's Class for social sciences.

Two mathematicians new members of the RSAS

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:08:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 12 September Ari Laptev, Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Imperial College, London, UK, and Carel Faber, Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, were elected to the Academy's Class for mathematics.

Available position: Deputy Director, Social Sciences for International Research Programme

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:36:00 GMT

The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) secretariat is seeking a deputy director, social sciences. IGBP is an international research programme with the vision to provide essential scientific leadership and knowledge of the Earth system to help guide society onto a sustainable pathway during rapid global change.

Hans Rosling and Susanne Lundin new members of the Academy

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:00:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 13 June Hans Rosling, Professor at Karolinska Institutet and Susanne Lundin, Professor at Lund University, were elected to the Academy's Class for humanities and for outstanding services to science.

Professor Andrew Ewing elected to the Academy's Class for chemistry

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:45:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 9 May Andrew Ewing, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, was elected to the Academy's Class for chemistry.

Five new researchers elected to the Academy

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 11 April 2012 Gert Brodin and Gunnar Malmberg, Professors at Umeå University, Magnus Johannesson, Professor at Stockholm School of Economics, Bo Rothstein, Professor at University of Gothenburg and Kerstin Sahlin, Professor at Uppsala University, were elected members of the Academy.

Lars Heikensten elected to the Academy's Class for humanities and for outstanding services to science

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:08:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 14 mars Lars Heikensten, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation, was elected to the Academy's Class for humanities and for outstanding services to science.

Six new researchers elected to the Academy

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 18 January 2012 Per Ahlberg, Uppsala University, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Uppsala University, Bernt Eric Uhlin, Umeå University, Sven Widmalm, Uppsala University, Donald E. Canfield, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and Stanislav Smirnov, University of Geneva, Switzerland, were elected members of the Academy.

Five prominent researchers elected to the Academy

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 9 November 2011 Leif Groop, Professor at Lund University, Magnus Berggren, professor at Linköping University, Danica Kragic Jensfelt, professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Kari Alitalo, professor at University of Helsinki, Finland and Fred H. Gage, professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA, were elected members of the Academy.

How does the German phase-out decision affect Europe and Sweden?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:19:00 GMT

The Academy's Energy Committee has produced a report on effects of Germany's decision to phase-out their nuclear power stations before 2022. If the whole of the EU were to follow the German example, the EU’s carbon dioxide emissions would rise by 20% compared with the current level, directly contrary to the EU objective of reducing emissions by 20% by 2020.

Pekka Pyykkö elected foreign member of the Academy’s Class for chemistry

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:37:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 5 October Pekka Pykkö, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland, was elected foreign member of the Academy's Class for chemistry.

This year's Nobel Prizes and Prize in Economic Sciences will soon be announced

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:25:00 GMT

Soon this year's Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The moment the Permanent Secretary begins his announcement at the webcasted press conference, press releases, illustrated popular scientific presentations, Scientific background and more will be published here and at http://nobelprize.org.

Stefan Svallfors elected to the Academy's Class for social sciences

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:18:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 14 september Stefan Svallfors, Professor of Sociology at Umeå universitetet, was eleceted to the Academy's Class for social sciences.

Managing Editor, Physica Scripta

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:22:00 GMT

Due to retirement of the current Managing Editor, we are looking for a new Managing Editor of Physica Scripta, an international scientific, physical journal published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the physical societies and academies of science in the Nordic countries.

Nobel Laureates hand over recommendations to UN high level panel on global sustainability

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:36:00 GMT

Yesterday 18 Laureates of the Nobel Prize and the Prize in Economic Sciences signed the Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability, a document that recommends a suite of urgent and far-reaching actions for decision makers and societies to become active stewards of the planet for future generations.

Two prominent geoscientists elected to the Academy

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:51:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 13 april Marie-José Gaillard-Lemdahl, Professor of botany-vegetation history/palaeoecology at Linnaeus University Kalmar, and Martin Whitehouse, adjunct Professor at Stockholm University and Senior research fellow at Swedish Museum of Natural History, were eleceted foreign members of the Academy's Class for geosciences.

Four prominent researchers elected to the Academy

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:56:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 9 February Anders Tunlid, Professor of Microbial Ecology at Lund University, Olle Kämpe, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Uppsala University, Jonas Frisén, Professor of Stem Cell Research at Karolinska Institutet and Mee-mann Chang (Miman Zhang), Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, were elected members of the Academy.

Researchers in physics and phonetics elected to the Academy

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:10:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 19 January Eva Olsson, Professor of Experimental Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Francisco Lacerda, Professor of Phonetics at Stockholm University, David Haviland, Professor of Nanostructure Physics at KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology and Jon Magne Leinaas, Professor of Theoretical Physics at University of Oslo were elected to the Academy.

Twelve new members elected to the Academy

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:02:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 15 December a total of twelve prominent researchers were elected to the classes for mathematics, chemistry, geosciences, biosciences and engineering sciences.

Abisko Scientific Research Station transferred

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:40:00 GMT

On 1 December 2010 the Abisko Scientific Research Station was transferred to the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. The station has been managed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1935, but the first field station was established as early as 1903.

New foreign members elected to the academy

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:08:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 19 May Professor Simon K. Donaldson at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK, and Paola Eerola, Professor of experimental elementary particle physics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, were elected as foreign members of the Academy.

Physicist and architect elected to the Academy

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:08:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 14 April Claes-Göran Wahlström, Professor of Physics and head of Atom Physics division at Department of Physics, Lund University, and architect Johan Celsing were elected members of the Academy.

Five prominent researchers elected to the Academy

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:41:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 11 November five Swedish researchers were elected to the Academy: Johan Åqvist and Lars Tranvik, Uppsala University, Klas Kärre, Karolinska Institutet, Juleen Zierath, Karolinska University Hospital and Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University.

Message for the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:25:00 GMT

At the international symposium Energy 2050 a message for the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was discussed. It contains recommendations for the future global energy production and is based on analyses of different sources of energy made by the Energy Committee 2005-2009.

Academy statement on climate change

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:00 GMT

The Academy has formulated a statement concerned with the scientific basis of climate change. It has not been an objective to deal with areas outside the natural sciences. However, it is clear that changes in climate require a response from society that involves a wide range of other disciplines, with development and application of new technologies.

Planetary Boundaries

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT

A new approach to sustainable development is conveyed in the coming issue of the scientific journal Nature. A group of 28 internationally renowned scientists, including the academy members Carl Folke and Henning Rodhe, have made a first attempt to identify and quantify a set of nine planetary boundaries. The group propose that global biophysical boundaries, identified on the basis of the scientific understanding of the Earth System, can define a ‘safe planetary operating space’ that will allow humanity to continue to develop and thrive for generations to come.

New web site

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:32:00 GMT

Welcome to the Academy's new web site! We hope that the new information structure and design will help you find what you're looking for.

Two prominent researchers elected to the Academy's class for chemistry

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:37:00 GMT

On 10 June two new members were elected to the Academy’s class for chemistry: Reiko Kuroda, Professor at Department of Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, and Pär Nordlund, Professor of biophysics at Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.

Creative researchers in medicine and humanities elected to the Academy

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:50:00 GMT

On 12 November three prominent Swedish researchers were elected to the Academy: Ann-Mari Svennerholm, Professor in Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Perlman, Professor of Molecular Development Biology and Arne Jarrick, Professor of History.

New members of the Academy

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:20:00 GMT

At a meeting on 10 September three foreign and three Swedish members were elected members of the Academy. Their disciplines range from biochemistry, geosciences and astronomy to neuroscience and economics.

The Volvo Environment prize for 2008 awarded to Academy member Crawford “Buzz” Holling

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:54:00 GMT

Craford Buzz Holling, Emeritus Eminent Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida, USA and member of the Academy’s class for biosciences has been awarded the Volvo Environment prize for 2008.

The first Kavli Prize in Neuroscience awarded to Academy member Sten Grillner

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:28:00 GMT

Sten Grillner, Professor of physiology at the Karolinska Institutet and member of the Academy’s class for biosciences has been awarded the first Kavli Prize in Neuroscience “for discoveries on the Developmental and functional Logic of Neuronal Circuits"

The Academy promotes research collaboration between Europe and Africa in basic science

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:04:00 GMT

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is taking part in an unprecedented series of research conferences to promote excellence and research collaboration between Europe and Africa in basic science.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences supports free access to scientific results

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:30:00 GMT

The Academy has signed the Berlin Declaration on “Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”. The basic idea of Open Access Publishing is that the results of research financed by the public also should be freely available to the public.

New members elected to the Academy

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:07:00 GMT

At the General meeting on 13 February Professor Sheila Kirkwood at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna, Sweden and Ph.D. Oded Schramm at Microsoft Research Redmond, USA were elected to the Academy.

New research fellow positions in clinical oncology

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:16:00 GMT

By support from Acta Oncologica Foundation the Academy will appoint two research fellow positions in clinical oncology. The two part-time (50%) positions will extend over a period of five years, with the opportunity of working one to two years abroad.

Two physicists and one expert in political science elected to the Academy

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:52:00 GMT

At the General Meeting on 16 January Lene Vestergaard Hau, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, Gunnar Ingelman, Uppsala University, Sweden and Daniel Tarschys, Stockholm University, Sweden were elected to the Academy.

New members elected

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:46:00 GMT

At the general meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on 14 November no less than 15 new members were elected to the Academy’s classes for chemistry, medical sciences and social sciences.

New members of the Academy

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:01:00 GMT

On 12 september 2007 the Academy elected Professor Peter Brzezinski at Stockholm University and Professor Tamas Bartfai at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA as new members of the Class for Chemistry (Class IV).

The Japanese Emperor and Empress visited the Academy

Tue, 22 May 2007 10:50:00 GMT

On 22 May the Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited the Academy. It is the Emperor’s big interest in the Linnaeus Tercentenary and the Linnaean apostle and Academy member Carl Peter Thunberg that brought them to the Academy.

New foreign member elected to the Academy

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:55:00 GMT

The Academy has elected Professor John Broome, University of Oxford, UK as foreign member in Class X (the class for humanities and for outstanding services to science).

Prominent physicist elected foreign member of the Academy

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:30:00 GMT

The Academy has elected Professor Steven M. Girvin, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA as foreign member of Class III (Physics).

New Directors of the Beijer Institute

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:26:00 GMT

Professor Carl Folke, Stockholm University, has been appointed new Director of the Beijer Institute with Professor Aart de Zeeuw, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, as Co-Director. They will both work 50 % starting in February 2007.

EASAC to EU Commission: reduce obstacles to vaccine development

Mon, 08 May 2006 09:20:00 GMT

The European Commission must encourage greater collaboration between universities and drug companies on the research and development of vaccines, according to a report from EASAC, an umbrella body for the national science academies of the European Union.

New foreign members elected

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:04:00 GMT

The Academy has elected Prof. Helga Nowotny, Wissenschaftzentrum Wien, Austria, and Prof. Yoshinori Yasuda, International Research Center for Japanese studies, Kyoto, Japan as foreign members in Class X (humanistic sciences).

The Linnaeus celebrations 2007 presented

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:44:00 GMT

The national Linnaeus delegation has presented the main events during the worldwide Linnaeus year 2007. An international TV production, a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show in London and thematical school activities are among the events.

UNESCO lists the Swedenborg collection

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:49:00 GMT

UNESCO has inscribed the Emanuel Swedenborg collection on the Memory of the World list. The collection is kept at the Center for history of science at the Academy.

How should Europe prevent the spread of new diseases?

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:05:00 GMT

In a new report published by EASAC, the European Academies Science Advisory Council, newly-emerging diseases are described and identified. Measures against their spread are proposed.

Friedman and Tryggvason new foreign members

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:10:00 GMT

The Academy has elected Prof. Jeffrey Friedman from the Rockefeller univ. in New York, and Prof. Karl Tryggvason, the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, as new foreign members of Class VII (Medicine).

European conservation targets at risk

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:19:00 GMT

Targets on stemming the decline of European wildlife and their habitats could be undermined because of lack of monitoring system, warns a report by EASAC – the European Academies Science Advisory Council.

Göran Scharmer receives prestigious award

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:37:00 GMT

The director of the Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Göran Scharmer, has been awarded the Lennart Nilsson Award for his pictures of the sun.

Researchers at the Beijer Institute receive award

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:57:00 GMT

Professors Carl Folke, Stephen Carpenter and Brian Walker have received The Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award for a joint article in Nature.

The oldest member of the Academy turns 100

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:55:00 GMT

Henri Cartan, famous French mathematician and also a foreign member of the Academy since 1981, turns 100 years. The Academy congratulates him.

Dangerous air pollution levels from shipping, North America and Asia

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:57:00 GMT

Efforts to improve air quality across the European Union are failing because of pollution created elsewhere in the northern hemisphere, particularly Asia and North America, and by international shipping, according to an EASAC report.

Use of plant genetics in conventional agriculture ‘held back’

Mon, 24 May 2004 08:49:00 GMT

The successful application of new tools and methods in plant genetics to conventional farming is being held back in the European Union by the lack of a coherent research strategy and the impact of legislation.

New foreign members of the Academy

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:17:00 GMT

New foreign members were elected at the Academy meeting April 14.

Inventing a better future

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:48:00 GMT

IAC (The InterAcademy Council), a body created by 90 of the world's academies of science located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has published a report outlining how to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Finland and Sweden lead way towards target for R&D

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:37:00 GMT

Finland and Sweden have already attained a European Union target for expenditure on research and development, according to a report by the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC).

The coronal heating problem solved

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:25:00 GMT

In the outer layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, temperature reaches several million degrees centigrade. What makes this enormous heat possible has remained unexplained. In a PhD thesis, Boris Gudiksen, Stockholm university, offers an explanation.

Nobel laureate participates in Energy symposium

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:10:00 GMT

The Nobel laureate in Chemistry 1999, Prof. Ahmed Zewail from Caltech in California, will participate in the Energy symposium on March 11. He will also give an open lecture on March 10, on new techniques for the study of biological reactions.

James Barber new foreign member of the Academy

Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:19:00 GMT

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on November 12 elected Prof. James Barber, Imperial College, London, UK, as new foreign member of the Academy's IV Class (Chemistry). Prof. Barber is one of the world's leading authorities on photosynthesis.

New foreign members elected

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:39:00 GMT

The professors Ahmed Zewail, Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, Calif., USA and Nobel laureate in Chemistry 1999, and Rita Colwell, Director for NSF in Washington, DC, are two of the newly elected foreign members of the Academy.

European scientists review genetics for conventional plant breeding

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:59:00 GMT

Leading European scientists have launched a study into how recent rapid advances in decoding the genetic information for crops can be applied to conventional plant breeding, it was announced today (18 March 2003).

New foreign members

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:48:00 GMT

The Academy has elected three new foreign members: Prof. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, USA, and Prof. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Japan, into the class for Humanistic and other Sciences and Professor Dan Olof Riska, Finland into the Physics class.

Swedish breakthrough in solar physics

Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:34:00 GMT

The first results from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope on La Palma are published as a Letter in Nature on November 14, 2002. The telescope is run by the Institute for Solar Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Language gene differs between humans and apes

Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:31:00 GMT

The Academy member Svante Pääbo and coworkers at the Max Planck-institute have described subtle but crucial gene differences between apes and humans. The gene probably plays a regulating role and seems to be of great importance in the control of speech.

Genes in human brains more active than in other primates

Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:24:00 GMT

The genome of humans and chimpanzees display a similarity of 99%. The Academy member Svante Pääbo and co-workers show that the main difference lies in the level of gene expression, especially in the brain.