Six Wallenberg grants to mathematicians at Stockholm University

Six mathematicians from Stockholm University will receive grants this year within the framework of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation's mathematics program. Each year, the foundation awards around SEK 25 million to research in mathematics, which is an important foundation for many other sciences and for the development of new technology.

Matematik Foto: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse

Photo: Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

"Mathematics is everywhere. We may not always be aware of it, but mathematics is found throughout our daily lives, applied to everything from bank payments and web searches, to what is now a very relevant field, infectious diseases. But contemporary mathematics is not adequate, for example when we want to use the enormous amounts of data now being produced. New mathematics is necessary for an increasing number of applications, both in research and industry," says Peter Wallenberg Jr, Chair of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Six promising projects

The grants to Stockholm University go to two recruits of researchers from abroad to the Department of Mathematics and to four postdoctoral positions for mathematicians from Stockholm University at universities abroad.

Recruitments
Alexander Berglund Photo: Max Hedmark	The key to uniting global and local properties Associate Professor Alexander Berglund will receive funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to recruit an international researcher for a postdoctoral position at the Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, for a project in algebraic topology. Read more
Sofia Tirabassi Photo: Solfrid T. Langeland/UiB	Unknown properties of abstract geometric objects Associate Professor Sofia Tirabassi will receive funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to recruit an international researcher for a postdoctoral position at the Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, to develop new techniques for studying the geometry of varieties, with a special focus on algebraic varieties in positive characteristics Read more
Post-doctoral positions
Lisa Nicklasson Photo: private	Arranging and sorting algebraic structures Lisa Nicklasson will receive her doctoral degree in mathematics from Stockholm University in 2020. She has been given a postdoctoral position with Professor Aldo Conca, Università di Genova, Italy, for a project that includes multiple studies of objects called graded algebras. Read more
Stefano Marseglia Photo: private	Efficient algorithms for new mathematics Stefano Marseglia received his doctoral degree in mathematics from Stockholm University in 2018. He will hold a postdoctoral position with Professor Andrew Sutherland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA, to investigate special types of varieties, the abelian varieties, and their moduli spaces. Read more
Bashar Saleh Photo: Stockholm University	Algebra brings order to topological spaces Bashar Saleh will receive his doctoral degree in mathematics from Stockholm University in 2020. He will hold a postdoctoral position with Professor Joana Cirici at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, for a project that is about classifying geometric spaces, which are important objects of study in the branch of mathematics called topology. Read more
Jacopo Emmenegger Photo: Ota de Leonardis	In search of bugs in computer programs Jacopo Emmenegger received his doctoral degree in mathematics from Stockholm University in 2019. He will hold a postdoctoral position with Professor Giuseppe Rosolini at the University of Genoa, Italy, to test to what extent the univalence axiom is computable. Read more

Cooperation with KVA

Since the program started, an average of SEK 25 million has been awarded every year for positions and scholarships. The program is a partnership with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which evaluates all the nominated candidates.
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is delighted to be able to contribute to this important investment. Mathematics is the foundation of the natural sciences and engineering, and mathematics research is increasingly important in our modern society. If Sweden is to remain among the leading nations in research and innovation, we must have strong research in mathematics and higher education," says Göran K. Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Max Hedmark

Read more about the grants from KAW

Last updated: March 24, 2020
Source: Samverkansavdelningen

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