Enabling sustainable technologies with positive impact on our society by understanding, creating, and controlling complex materials
A research program to enable sustainable technologies with positive impact on our society by understanding, creating, and controlling complex materials with a precision down to the single atom level.
Wise – Materials science that enables a sustainable world, 1min video.
About WISE
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.
Read moreRecruitment calls
Over the 10-year WISE program, 25 strategic faculty recruitments and hundreds of early-stage researcher positions will be created across the six universities. Follow the link below to see current recruitment calls.
Recruitment calls
11 Nov 2022
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.
25 Oct 2022
The first call for WISE PhD student and postdoc projects is now closed with a total of 193 applications received.
17 Oct 2022
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.
4 Oct 2022
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.
7 Sep 2022
WISE Inauguration, 7 September 2022. Program schedule.