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Katarina Bjelke, Director General
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Biography
Katarina Bjelke Director General of the Swedish Research Council
Dr. Bjelke was appointed Director General of the Swedish Research Council in 2022.
She has a solid background in academia where she amongst other duties served as a University Director at Karolinska Institutet, as well as at Uppsala University. From 2008, she worked for seven years as Director of Research Policy for the Government, with main responsibility for the Swedish Government’s research policies, including the Swedish research bills, which is presented every fourth year. Simultaneously, she was responsible for a number of research funding bodies and the Swedish universities.
She is trained as a Doctor of Dental Surgery and holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Karolinska Institutet.
Dr. Bjelke also held positions such as Chair of the Audit Committee of the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish National Space Agency, and as an elected member of the boards of Young Academy of Sweden, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions, the European Spallation Source, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, and several holding companies.
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Joakim Malmström, Executive Director
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Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt, Medicine and Health
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Jonas Oldgren, Clinical Therapy Research
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Lisbeth Olsson, Research Infrastructure
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Pernilla Nilsson, Educational Sciences
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Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, Humanities and Social Sciences as well as Artistic Research
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Stefan Bertilsson, Natural Sciences
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Marika Edoff, Engineering Sciences
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Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, Deputy Secretary General, Artistic Research
Teresa Ottinger, Deputy Head of the Departement of Research Funding
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Sofie Björling, Head of the Department of Research Infrastructures
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Johan Holmberg, Research Secretary
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Johan Lindell, Head of the Departement of Research Policy
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Viktoria Mattsson, Head of the Department of Collaboration
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Mikael Jonsson, Head of the Department of Communications and Public Relations
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Per Nihlén, Acting Head of Department of Technical Development and Strategy
Jonny Lundin, Acting Head of Department of Operations and IT Services
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