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Upcoming call
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.