3 Oct 2023
A new WISE fellow in Nanoporous materials for sustainable solutions
“When I told my former supervisor about the WISE start-up package, he described it as the scientific equivalent of winning the lottery!”
21 Apr 2023
Cooperation between industry and academia – necessary to handle large challenges in society.
Many of today’s major challenges primarily involve sustainability. New technologies are likely to play an important role in tackling these challenges. WISE (Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability), the largest ever investment in materials science in Sweden, has recently announced several industrial doctoral and postdoctoral positions.
-Dealing with our large challenges in society require close collaboration between academia and industry, and materials research is a particularly important field going forward, says Pontus de Laval, former CTO of Saab and now a senior advisor to the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, which supports the WISE research program.
-New technologies are one of the major forces driving societal change and disrupting businesses. As a company, dealing with these sorts of challenges can be very tough. Cooperation with academia here is key to understand if these technologies will affect your business, he says.
Benefits for companies and researchers
-My experience from Saab, with a very diversified product portfolio which made it difficult to operate a relevant internal research organization, was that industrial doctoral students were an excellent and cost-effective way to interact with academia, says Pontus de Laval.
Ericsson Research has a long history of working with industrial PhD students as part of their collaboration with academia.
-It’s a great way to have brilliant researchers focus on industrial applications and research questions that are important to the future of the mobile industry. This way of working, with close collaboration between PhD students and our in-house researchers, means that we can benefit from the latest academic research, and it provides industry relevance for the university research projects, says Magnus Frodigh, Vice President & Head of Ericsson Research.
Employing industrial doctoral students or postdoctoral researchers provides two great advantages for the company: gaining access to the technology base and the competence-related value of training own staff.
– When it works well, it’s a smart career path for the researchers. However, it is important that the companies have a long-term plan for their doctoral students and postdocs, says Pontus de Laval.
Benefits for society
-Industry plays a key role to meet our major global sustainability challenges. With new technologies developed together with academia we can produce clean energy, mitigate C02 emissions and create circular material systems without depleting our natural resources, concludes Pontus de Laval.
3 Oct 2023
“When I told my former supervisor about the WISE start-up package, he described it as the scientific equivalent of winning the lottery!”
22 Sep 2023
“Twisted or planar?” is the question Assistant Professor at Lund University and WISE faculty member, Maning Liu, and his colleagues explore in their new article.
20 Sep 2023
The projects call opens on 20 September.
31 Aug 2023
Welcome Meeting 2023 sparked networking and exciting discussions. On 28-30 August more than 200 WISE researchers and distinguished guests gathered at Vildmarkshotellet in Kolmården, outside of Norrköping.
25 Aug 2023
We are happy to introduce Martin Månsson, one of our great speakers at WISE Welcome Meeting, August 28-30.
24 Aug 2023
We are happy to introduce Professor Olof Karis, one of our great speakers at WISE Welcome Meeting, August 28-30.
22 Aug 2023
We are happy to introduce Professor Tomas Kåberger, one of our great speakers at WISE Welcome Meeting, August 28-30.
21 Aug 2023
We are happy to introduce Professor Cecilia Persson, one of our great speakers at WISE Welcome Meeting, August 28-30.
17 Aug 2023
Yury is one of our speakers at the Welcome Meeting conference, August 28-30.
15 Aug 2023
Magda is one of our speakers at the Welcome Meeting conference, August 28-30.
29 Jun 2023
WISE (The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability), the largest single investment ever in materials science in Sweden, which is carried out at seven of Sweden’s leading research universities, is now establishing national research infrastructures.
(Byline Thor Balkhed, Linköping University)
21 Jun 2023
Daniel Simon is American and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he first entered the world of organic (bio)electronics.
20 Jun 2023
WISE and WASP open a joint call on June 20. Up to 30 million SEK will be invested in the projects, financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation.
7 Jun 2023
Out of the 49 applications submitted to the WISE-ip1 call, 28 projects were finally approved and will be funded by WISE and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW).
25 May 2023
49 applications were submitted in the first industrial PhD and Postdoc call from which 28 projects (14 PhD & 14 Postdoc) have been granted funding.
23 May 2023
Petronella Norberg has been the Program Coordinator of WISE since the establishment of WISE in 2022.
17 May 2023
One of the first WISE Fellow recruitments is Matias Kagias.
11 May 2023
WISE is very proud to have outstanding Guest Professors participating in the program. We are happy to introduce Prof. Mikhail Katsnelson. Prof. Katsnelson head of Theory of Condensed Matter group at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
5 May 2023
WISE is very proud to have outstanding Professors participating in the program. We are happy to introduce Prof. Sheng Guo from Chalmers University of Technology.
4 May 2023
The first call for WISE Industrial PhD student and Postdoc projects is now closed. WISE received in total 49 applications from a broad spectrum of companies, ranging from start-ups to some of the largest industries in Sweden.
2 May 2023
WISE is very proud to have outstanding Professors participating in the program. We are happy to introduce Prof. Karin Lundgren from Chalmers University of Technology.
27 Apr 2023
The WISE research program is advancing rapidly. Recruitment initiatives for different positions are taking place and the research projects at our partner universities will be up and running shortly.
31 Mar 2023
The first call for WISE Industrial PhD student and postdoc positions opens 1 April.
29 Mar 2023
More than 100 people from the WISE community, as well as industry representatives, gathered in Stockholm on 22-23 March at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) for the first-ever WISE Dialogue.
21 Mar 2023
We are happy to introduce Jonas Weissenrieder, one of our speakers at the WISE Dialogue conference, March 22-23.
16 Mar 2023
We are happy to introduce Maria Åstrand, one of our speakers at the WISE Dialogue conference, March 22-23.
15 Mar 2023
We are happy to introduce Stefan Månsson, one of our great speakers, to present at WISE Dialogue, March 22-23.
13 Mar 2023
We are happy to introduce Anneli Kruve, one of our great speakers, to present at WISE Dialogue, March 22-23.
8 Mar 2023
Anna Delin is full professor at KTH since 2011. She leads a research group with focus on magnetic and quantum phenomena in materials.
3 Mar 2023
We are happy to introduce Carl Folke, one of our great speakers, to present at WISE Dialogue, March 22-23.