Six new members elected to the Academy

At the General Meeting on 11 January Rikard Holmdahl, Karolinska Institutet, Ruth Palmer, University of Gothenburg, Ove Nilsson, Umeå Plant Science Centre and Jarone Pinhassi, Linnaeus University were elected Swedish members of the Academy. Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, were elected foreign members of the Academy.

Swedish members

Class for medical sciences

Rikard Holmdahl is Professor at Karolinska Institutet.

Rikard Holmdahl, Karolinska Institutet

Rikard Holmdahl, Karolinska Institutet

 

Ruth Palmer is Professor at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg.

Ruth Palmer, University of Gothenburg

Ruth Palmer, Göteborgs universitet

 

Class for biosciences

Ove Nilsson is Professor of forest genetics and plant physiology at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Umeå Plant Science Centre, UPSC.

Ove Nilsson, Umeå Plant Science Centre

Ove Nilsson, Umeå Plant Science Centre.

 

Jarone Pinhassi is professor of microbiology at the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University.

Jarone Pinhassi, Linnaeus University

Jarone Pinhassi, Linnéuniversitetet.

 

Foreign members

Class for medical sciences

Professor May-Britt Moser is Founding Director of Centre for Neural Computation and Co-Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

May-Britt Moser, Kavliinstitutt for nevrovitenskap. Foto: Alexander Mahmoud/Nobelstiftelsen

 

Professor Edvard Moser is Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Co-Director of Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

Edvard Moser, Kavliinstitutt for nevrovitenskap. Foto: Geir Mogen/NTNU