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Upcoming call

14 January - 17 February 2026

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 “Focus and nominated candidate” for further details).

Applicant: Organisation applicants only. 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 2028

Application period: 14 January 2026 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 17 February 2026 (14.00/2 pm)

Publication of grant award: No later than the beginning of June 2026

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 2028 visiting professorship shall be active within one or several of the following fields:

  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Applied and Engineering Physics
  • Astronomy and Subatomic Physics
  • Physics of Light and Matter
  • Engineering Mechanics
  • Medical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering
  • Systems and Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Computational Mathematics, Data Science and Statistics
  • Mathematics

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.

Do you have questions about this call?

We cannot give you any specific information about the call until the call has opened. Until then, you can ask general questions about our calls by email: utlysningar@vr.se

We recommend that you read our Guide for applicants before the call opens.