Wallenberg Foundation supports KTH researcher
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has determined which researchers will receive financing through their new programme entitled the Wallenberg Scholars. Karl Henrik Johansson, KTH, is one of ten Swedish researchers at Swedish universities who will receive SEK 3 million annually for a five-year period.
Wallenberg Scholars is a new programme aimed at supporting and stimulating some of the most successful researchers at Swedish universities. The universities have been invited to nominate individual researchers who, due to their research and development potential, are expected to strengthen the current profile of their university.
Karl Henrik Johansson, Professor of Networked Control at KTH, has been selected in the first group of Wallenberg Scholars. He and the other researchers received freely disposable support for their research of SEK 3 million annually for a period of five years. The aim is that the selected researchers will be able to work using a higher level of ambition and with less pressure on them to apply for external research funding. This is to improve the preconditions for Swedish research to exert an even greater international impact and provide researchers with the opportunity to start up bolder and longer-term projects. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation assumes that the universities concerned will continue to fund the Scholars to at least their current level.
Håkan Soold