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15 January - 18 February 2025

Tage Erlander visiting professorship

The purpose of the Swedish Research Council’s grant for visiting professors is to give higher education institutions the opportunity to develop a subject area by recruiting an internationally prominent professor during a limited period.

Subject area: Natural and Engineering Sciences

Support form: Research environment and collaboration support

Grant form: Visiting researcher grant

Focus: Natural and engineering sciences (see under the heading “Requirements for applicants” for further details).

Applicant: Organisation. A representative of the host organisation shall be invited to be the project leader for the application.

Participating researchers: No other researchers may be invited to join the application.

Grant period: 6-12 months

Grant amount: Maximum 2 000 000 SEK for the professorship.

Start of grant period: January 2027

Application period: 15 January 2025 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 18 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm)

Publication of grant award: No later than the end of June 2025

Focus and nominated candidate

The holder of the Tage Erlander professorship shall be an internationally prominent researcher, within a research field that changes according to a rolling schedule. The researcher nominated for the 2027 visiting professorship shall be active within one or several of the following fields:

  • Atmospheric, aquatic and soil sciences
  • Geology
  • Geochemistry
  • Geophysics
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Genetics
  • Ecology
  • Organism biology
  • Cell biology
  • Developmental biology
  • Microbiology
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular biology
  • Structural biology
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Physical chemistry
  • Theoretic chemistry
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Materials chemistry
  • Organic chemistry
  • Bioprocess engineering
  • Chemical engineering
  • Environmental engineering

The researcher nominated for the visiting professorship shall be the holder of a professorship or corresponding at the time of application, and must not already be established in Sweden.