Assessing, prioritising and making decisions about grants
RFI assesses and prioritises the needs for research infrastructure in Sweden and is responsible for calls concerning grants for research infrastructure. RFI also makes decisions on which applications will be awarded grants.
RFI has three advisory groups and an e-Infrastructure committee to support the planning and prioritisation of research infrastructure.
Monitoring and evaluating research in the field
RFI monitors, evaluates and creates strategies for the field. One example is the “Swedish Research Council's Guide to Infrastructure", which points to new needs for research infrastructure and suggests measures to improve existing research infrastructure and access to it. RFI is also working to increase national and international collaboration and coordination around research infrastructures.
Composition of the council
RFI has thirteen members, nine of which are active researchers from different disciplines. The Swedish Research Council appoints the chair and members based on proposals from the Swedish Research Council's three scientific councils, and from the Forte, Formas and Vinnova research councils, who nominate one member each. The term of office is three years and members can be reelected for a further three years.
The council meets five times a year.
Namn | Title | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Björn O. Nilsson (chair) | PhD in biochemistry and CEO Ursus Innovation AB | Ursus Innovation AB |
Peter Eriksson | Chief Strategist | Vinnova |
Emma Gretzer | PhH, head of the Unit for Environmental and Spatial Planning and Deputy Director General | Formas, Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning |
Dan Henningson | Professor | Department of Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH |
Olle Lundberg | Secretary General; Professor | Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare; Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University |
Olle Lundh | Senior lecturer at Atomic Physics | Lund University |
Marika Nestor | Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology | Uppsala University |
Roland Roberts | Professor, Department of Earth Sciences | Uppsala University |
Maria Selmer | Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Structural Biology | Uppsala University |
Pelle Snickars | Professor of Digital cultures | Lund University |
Sara Strandberg | Professor of Particle physics | Stockholm University |
Gunilla Svensson | Professor of Meteorology | Stockholm University |
Marie Wiberg | Professor in Statistics | Umeå University |
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