At the General Meeting on 21 February, Josefin Larsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, was elected new member of the Academy´s class for astronomy and space science and Kristin Aslaug Persson, University of California and David Drew, Stockholm University, were elected new members of the class for chemistry.
Class for astronomy and space science
Swedish member
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Josefin Larsson Professor in astrophysics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Class for chemistry
Foreign members
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Kristin Aslaug Persson, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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David Drew, professor of biochemistry, Stockholm University