Nina Wormb's new Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)
On Tuesday it was announce that Nina Wormbs has been elected as one of 39 new fellows of IVA. Among the inductees are researchers and experts at companies and within the public sector, both national and international.
IVA was founded more than 100 years ago and is one of the world's oldest engineering academies. Every year, new fellows are elected.
- The collective experience and expertise of our new Fellows will be a fantastic asset for IVA. Digitalisation and sustainable development in particular are areas that will be reinforced. They are key areas of expertise to meet future challenges, says Tuula Teeri, President of IVA.er, to iva.se
Nina Wormbs is a professor of History of Technology (KTH 2019). She has a degree as a civil engineer in Technical Physics (KTH 1994) and received her doctorate in History of Technology in 2003, defending the thesis "Who loved Tele-X? Conflicts on Satellites in the Nordic Countries 1974-1989". She has had several missons at as well as outside of KTH. She currently sits in the Faculty Council at KTH, and between 2011 and 2019 she was a member of the board of the Nobel Museum 2011-2019. Nina frequently write for the daily press and take active part in the public discourse through talks and interviews.
Maja Fjaestad, who defended her thesis and received her docent at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, was also selected as an IVA fellow this year.