The appointment Wallenberg Academy Fellow is awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to the most promising young researchers in medicine, natural sciences, engineering, technology, humanities and social sciences. On this page, you can read about the KTH researchers that have been appointed.
Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2019
Emil Björnson, Professor at the Department of Communication Systems
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5G technology enables us to transfer more data than ever before – but also poses challenges. It requires numerous miniature antennas that need to be inexpensive and energy-efficient, which distorts the signals. Emil Björnson wants to address the issue with better algorithms.
Marina Petrova, Associate Professor of Wireless Communication
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To acheive the internet of things, it will be essential to develop high-speed intelligent wireless networks. Marina Petrova’s research has its sights set beyond 5G, on cognitive network systems at high radio frequencies, in the millimeter-wave band.
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Computer simulations have become an increasingly vital tool for researchers and engineers. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Sara Zahedi will be using her grant to develop new, powerful computational tools for simulations involving many deformable and interacting objects.
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When we use social media, travel on the subway or pay a bill using a mobile banking app, advanced mathematical models are running constantly in the background. And sometimes mathematical problems that are centuries old inspire researchers to find creative solutions to the challenges of the modern age.
Emma Lundberg, Professor of Cell Biology Proteomics
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If we better understand the function of proteins in our cells, it will be easier to understand what goes wrong when diseases like cancer strike. Emma Lundberg wants to learn more about what happens when cells divide, and she is happy to enlist the help of computer games to interpret microscope images.
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Plants and animals often have built-in energy efficiency. For instance, butterfly wings and shark skin have microscopic surface structures allowing air and water to flow over them with little resistance. Shervin Bagheri borrows ideas from nature to create computer models of energy-efficient surfaces for vehicles of the future.
