7 Feb 2023
Magnus Berggren receives honorary medal
Magnus Berggren, Director of WISE has received Norrköping municipality’s medal of honor, S:t Olofsmedaljen.
Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability
Enabling sustainable technologies with positive impact on our society by understanding, creating, and controlling complex materials
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31 Jan 2023
Meet Magnus Berggren, Director at WISE
Magnus Berggren is professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and the director of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE).
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19 Jan 2023
Meet Magnus Svensson, Director of WIRA
Magnus Svensson has been the director of the WISE Research Arenas (WIRA) since the establishment of WISE in 2022.
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16 Jan 2023
Meet Olle Eriksson, Vice-Director at WISE
Olle Eriksson is Program Professor at the Division of Materials Theory at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University.
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22 Dec 2022
The WISE Dialogue
The first-ever internal WISE conference is held in Stockholm at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) on 22-23 March 2023 and will target future energy systems, circularity, and sustainability policy.
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30 Nov 2022
First WISE PhD and Postdoc projects approved
193 applications were submitted in the first PhD and postdoc project call from which 90 projects have been granted funding.
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11 Nov 2022
WISE webinars
Hereby, WISE is announcing the upcoming Industrial PhD and Postdoctoral Student call for research projects (WISE-ip1) and invites industry representatives and principal investigators of the WISE partner universities to information webinars.
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25 Oct 2022
Great interest in WISE projects
The first call for WISE PhD student and postdoc projects is now closed with a total of 193 applications received.
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17 Oct 2022
Building awareness of WISE research arenas
Magnus Svensson, from, the research program WISE (Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability) will be talking at The Swedish Grafene Forum, Sweden’s largest conference on graphene and 2D materials on the 19th of October.
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4 Oct 2022
Successful inauguration of the WISE research program
The inauguration of WISE took place at Flygeln in Norrköping on the 7th of September. The event was kicked off with an opening speech by Peter Wallenberg, Jr., Chair of the Board of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
Now recruiting for academic PhD student and Postdoc positions!
Great PhD and Postdoc opportunities in WISE funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation! WISE is growing, we are now recruiting for 46 PhD and 43 Postdoc positions in total.
Read moreAcademic PhD student and Postdoctoral research projects
WISE has launched the first call for Academic PhD-student and Postdoctoral research projects. The call was directed primarily to researchers of the seven WISE-affiliated universities and sought to attract research projects addressing sustainability challenges for materials science within the WISE-matrix.
More information about granted projectsAbout WISE
Materials and sustainability
Although the production and extraction of materials are connected to environmental strain, their use is paramount in transforming our world towards a sustainable society. Functional materials are simply the most important parameter in the effort to accomplish green growth, since they form the physical components of future, greener technologies and circular economies.
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