World leading researchers headline digital seminar on February 5

16 Jan 2026

WISE Academic Project Call 2026–2027. Pre-Call Information

WISE is preparing its 3rd Academic Project Call (WISE-ap3) to fund PhD and postdoc research advancing sustainable, eco-friendly materials and manufacturing processes.

22 Dec 2025

The path to a sustainable future via sustainable materials science

“Sustainability is at the center of everything we do. Our research focuses on some of the greatest challenges of our time – such as how we extract raw materials, use energy, deal with emissions and reduce waste.”

Photo credit: Thor Balkhed, Linköping University

16 Dec 2025

WISE supports solar cell research

Research on organic solar cells at Karlstad University is advancing with support from WISE.

15 Dec 2025

Exciting Opportunity Ahead!

On February 2, 2026, WASP and WISE will launch a joint call for proposals for five-year NEST projects.

11 Dec 2025

Uncovering direction-dependent heavy fermions in a 2D material

“Ce-based systems continues to surprise us in their unique physical and chemical properties, and the current discovery certainly should be placed under WISE thematic area Discovery, with hope to become a key ingredient in applications for sustainability”, says Prof. Eriksson from Uppsala University and WISE co-director.

5 Dec 2025

Get to Know Our Guest Professor, Mukundan Thelakkat

“For us it is important to work with sustainable materials and make sure that we manufacture them employing low-energy processes. We think from the beginning what elements we are going to use -their availability, price, recycling possibilities, etc.”, says Professor Thelakkat.

28 Nov 2025

WISE Additive Node Inaugurated in Uppsala

The Uppsala node of the WISE Additive Research and Technology Platform (RTP) was officially inaugurated this week, marking a significant step in strengthening Sweden’s national research capacity in additive manufacturing.

Picture credit: Tobias Sterner, Bildbyrån

25 Nov 2025

Exploring the Future of Sustainable Energy: Meet WISE Guest Professor Sandrine Lyonnard

Energy storage is one of the great scientific challenges of our time. To move toward a more sustainable society, we need batteries that are not only efficient but also environmentally responsible.

20 Nov 2025

Bridging Algorithms and Atoms: Machine Learning Meets Materials Science series

Join us for the 7th Machine Learning Meets Materials Science Seminar, part of the WASP–WISE initiative! Mark your calendars: November 26 at 10:00!

17 Nov 2025

Uppsala University to Host Webinar on Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing

Uppsala University’s WISE Symposium series will spotlight cutting-edge sustainability research on November 26, 2025, with a webinar dedicated to the environmental aspects of additive manufacturing.

12 Nov 2025

WISE Guest Professors to Give Lecture at Uppsala University

On December 4, 2025, from 15:00 to 16:00, Uppsala University will host a WISE Guest Professor Lecture featuring Professor Julie Beth Zimmerman and Dr. Sandrine Lyonnard, both WISE Guest Professors at the university.

11 Nov 2025

Inaugural Lecture by WISE Guest Professor Madhavi Srinivasan

“This talk explores the emerging   frontier of biotechnology in enabling greener battery technologies, specifically through  biohydrometallurgy and bio-based materials, ” says Prof. Srinivasan Nanyang from the Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

10 Nov 2025

Meet Our WISE Guest Professor: Mette Rica Geiker

As part of WISE’s Guest Professor (GP) program — one of our key initiatives to foster international collaboration and enrich student learning — we are delighted to welcome Professor Mette Rica Geiker from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to Chalmers University of Technology.

Picture by Ann-Marie Thoresen at Statens Vegvesen

6 Nov 2025

Successful Inauguration of the WISE Additive Node at Linköping University

The inauguration of the WISE Additive node at Linköping University (LiU) took place this week, marking an important milestone in the development of Sweden’s research infrastructure for additive manufacturing and soft electronics for sustainability.

Picture by Thor Balkhed, Linköping University

3 Nov 2025

Meet our WISE Guest Professor Mikhail Katsnelson

The Guest Professor (GP) program is one of WISE’s recruitment and outreach activities, designed to foster international research collaborations and support the development of our students.

27 Oct 2025

Call Now Open: Joint WACQT–WISE Projects on Quantum Technology and Sustainable Materials

The Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) and the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) have launched a new call for proposals — now open for applications!

23 Oct 2025

Meet our Guest Professor Federico Rosei

“Our society is increasingly dependent on technology. Take smartphones, for example: our entire lives are stored in them. Yet most of us are unaware of how energy-intensive their production processes are, how toxic or scarce some of the materials used in these devices can be, or how poorly many technologies are designed for recycling”, says WISE Guest Professor Federico Rosei at LTU.

22 Oct 2025

Director of Sustainability

The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) seeks a Director of Sustainability to lead and develop the initiative’s strategic sustainability efforts.

20 Oct 2025

Meet our Guest Professor Alexander Bismarck

“I think it is important to observe and learn from nature. Nature does not waste. What one organism discards, another uses as energy. The key question for us is how we can minimize and reuse our own waste, how we can create more with less”, says WISE Guest Professor Alexander Bismarck from University of Vienna.

16 Oct 2025

Webinar – Exciting Collaboration Opportunity: WACQT–WISE Pilot Call 2025.

We’re thrilled to kick off the WACQT-WISE Pilot Call 2025 with an inspiring webinar.

14 Oct 2025

WISE Congratulates the 2025 Nobel Laureates in Physics

—Quantum phenomena and materials science have once again demonstrated unique phenomena with the potential to benefit society, says Professor Olle Eriksson at Uppsala University, WISE Co-Director and Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics.

9 Oct 2025

Turning Waste into Wealth: How Proteins Could Revolutionize Lithium Recovery

In a world increasingly powered by lithium-ion batteries—from smartphones to electric vehicles—the race is on to find cleaner, smarter ways to recover this critical metal.

Photo taken by Retain.

3 Oct 2025

Chalmers Launches Cutting-Edge 3D Printing Hub for Sustainable Innovation

On 2 October 2025, Chalmers University of Technology officially inaugurated its new additive manufacturing infrastructure: AM@Chalmers and the Chalmers WISE Additive node.

3 Oct 2025

New Call: Joint WACQT–WISE Projects on Quantum Technology and Sustainable Materials

The Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) and the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) are launching a new call to spark collaboration at the cutting edge of research.

2 Oct 2025

WISE-led team sets the bar for emerging tech

—Imagine a world where vehicles, buildings, and even everyday devices become self-powering, seamlessly merging structure and storage. This is the vision of structural power composites. Structural power composites open the door to a future where every part of a product contributes not only to its form and strength, but also to its function as an energy source, says WISE Guest Professor Madhavi Srinivasan from Nanyang Technological University.

25 Sep 2025

Meet the chairperson of the WISE Student Council: Yasmini Portes

-Our role is to act as a bridge between PhD students, postdocs, and WISE Research School management. We receive questions and concerns both from students and postdocs as well as from the RS management, which we bring to our meetings for discussion, says Yamini Portes, chairperson of the WISE Student Council and PhD student at Stockholm University.

24 Sep 2025

From Algorithms to Atoms: Machine Learning Meets Materials Science

Join us for the 6th Machine Learning Meets Materials Science Seminar, part of the WISE–WASP initiative! Mark your calendars: October 1 at 10:00!

24 Sep 2025

Registration Now Open for AM4Life/WISE Additive Autumn School

We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for the AM4Life/WISE Additive Autumn School on the theme “Post-processing in AM and Surface Engineering.”

24 Sep 2025

Welcome Professors Johan Hjelm and Yury Gogotsi – Join Us for an Exclusive WISE Digital Event

We are pleased to welcome Professor Johan Hjelm, WISE Guest Professor at Lund University (LU), and Professor Yury Gogotsi, WISE Guest Professor at Linköping University (LiU), for a joint digital event on October 2, 2025, from 15:00 to 16:00.

17 Sep 2025

Introducing the WISE Researchers

At WISE, we love to share the stories of the people driving science forward. Meet Professor Chao Zhang, an Associate Professor at Uppsala University who is passionate about reimagining the future of energy.