Fellowships for research and studies in Canada
| Mats Carlsson PhD in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University. Postdoc in Cinema Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, QC, Canada. Research on image and video provenance in the age of generative AI. Donors: The Anders Zorn’s Fellowship Fund and The Fritz O Fernström Fellowship Fund |
| Olivia Kiwanuka Consultant in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm; PhD in Clinical Neuroscience from Karolinska Institute. Postdoc in Trauma Surgery at Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Clinical fellowship in trauma and acute care surgery integrated with postdoctoral research on trauma systems and traumatic brain injury outcomes. Donor: The Ingegerd & Viking Olov Björk Fellowship Trust |
| Daniel Rudbäck MSc in Geological sciences from Stockholm University. PhD Candidate in Oceanography at L’Université du Québec à Rimouski in Rimouski, QC, Canada. Research on the marine geology of the Arctic Ocean with a focus on the Holocene history of Earth’s magnetic field, its signal in sediments, and its applications and implications for climate research. Donor: The Roland Nilsson Fellowship Fund |
| André Rudolph PhD in Medicine from Karolinska Institutet. Postdoc in Paediatric Electrophysiology at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Highly specialised education on treatment of serious and life-threatening arrhythmias in children both non-invasively with antiarrhythmic medication and invasively with invasive electrophysiology and ablation as well as implantable cardiac devices such as pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Donor: The Ingegerd & Viking Olov Björk Fellowship Trust |
| Anonymous PhD Candidate in Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, QC, Canada. Research in modern and contemporary art in relation to technological developments. Donor: The Ernst O Ek Fellowship Fund |
Fellowships for research and studies in the United States
| Sara Alemir PhD Candidate in Political Science at Uppsala University. Visiting Scholar in Political Science at The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, The University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Research on U.S. border politics and security developments in Mexico with a focus on ethnographic research and data collection in high-risk settings. Donor: The Marshall of the Realm Fellowship Fund (Borgrättsfonderna) |
| Jens Amborg PhD Candidate in History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University (PhD defence in June 2026). Postdoc in History of Science at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA. Research on veterinary medicine and environmental change in the eighteenth-century French empire. Donor: The Marshall of the Realm Fellowship Fund (Borgrättsfonderna) |
| Christopher Andersson Master of Laws from Lund University and MSc from the College of Europe. Graduate studies in Law (LLM) at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. Studies in American Law that will include a Master dissertation focusing on antitrust law and competitiveness. Donor: The J P Seeburg Fellowship Fund |
| Giorgio Basciu PhD in Scandinavian Languages from Stockholm University. Postdoc in Germanic Philology at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Research on poetic patterns in Old Norse and Old English verse, with a focus on binomial expressions and the compositional strategies they reflect in the Germanic poetic tradition, from a comparative perspective. Donors: The Kooperativa Förbundet Fellowship Fund and The Anders Zorn’s Fellowship Fund |
| Daniel Cederberg MSc in Engineering and Physics from Linköping University. PhD Candidate in Optimization at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, USA. Research on developing optimization algorithms and software for engineering applications. Donor: The Ernst O Ek Fellowship Fund |
| Saga Fagerström BSc in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Graduate studies in Music Technology and Computation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA. Studies in Music Technology and Computation that will include a capstone project focusing on audio software for music creation and technological sound artworks. Donor: The ASEA Fellowship Fund |
| Daniel Fölstad PhD Candidate in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. Visiting PhD Candidate in War Studies at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Research in intelligence studies focusing on the intelligence producer-consumer interaction. Donor: The Ernst O Ek Fellowship Fund |
| Moa Glimberg BA from Mercer University. Graduate studies in Music Performance and Classical Double Bass at The Juilliard School inNew York, NY, USA. Studies in classical double bass with Professor Timothy Cobb (principal bass NYC Philharmonic Orchestra). Donor: Peter Baldwin & Lisbet Rausing |
| Annie Guo PhD in Medicine from University of Gothenburg. Postdoc in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital inBoston, MA, USA. Research on how diet and physical activity can reduce fatigue in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease. Donor: Tetra Laval |
| Lovisa Gyllencreutz Romander BA (Honors) from Harvard University. Graduate studies in Business Administration and Master of Public Policy at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. Studies in business, management and public policy, with a focus on renewable industry and infrastructure. Donors: The Axel Ax:son Johnson Fellowship Fund and The Ingemar Dörfer Fellowship Fund for studies at Harvard University |
| Ludvig Hambraeus Master of Laws from Lund University. Graduate studies in Law (LL.M.) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA. Studies in Business Administration with a master thesis focusing on international trade and technology investments. Donors: The Elof Hansson Foundation and The Hans Werthén Fellowship Fund |
| Erik Hartman MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Lund University. PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Infection Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Research on AI-driven algorithm development for therapeutic discovery targeting infectious and inflammatory diseases. Donor: The Ernst O Ek Fellowship Fund |
| Ermal Hetemi PhD in Business Administration (specialised in Project Organisation and Innovation) from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Postdoc at Stanford University (SCANCOR) in Palo Alto, CA, USA. Research on how knowledge ecosystems are organised and orchestrated to enable sustainability transitions, focusing on collaboration across academia, industry, and public actors. Donor: The Roland Nilsson Fellowship Fund |
| Simon Jangard PhD in Psychology from Karolinska Institute, and Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Postdoc in Psychiatry at The Center for Computational Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, USA. Research on how social functioning influences alcohol and cannabis use disorders by studying the behavioral and neural mechanisms, with the aim of developing more personalized and effective treatments. Donor: The Marshall of the Realm Fellowship Fund (Borgrättsfonderna) |
| August F. Jernbom PhD in Biotechnology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Postdoc in Precision Immunology at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD, USA. Deciphering the developing immune system through antibody profiling and integrative omics. Donor: The Ingegerd & Viking Olov Björk Fellowship Trust |
| Klara Kotarsky BA from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and a Master from Luleå Technical University in cooperation with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Graduate studies in Viola performance at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, CA, USA. Music studies in classical music on the instrument Viola. Donor: Thanks to Scandinavia Inc. |
| Caroline Krylborn Postgraduate degree (Magister) in Specialist Nursing from Umeå University. Graduate studies in Business Administration (MBA) at Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business in Provo, UT, USA. MBA studies with an international focus, specializing in marketing, strategy, and global business development. Donor: Stockholms Grosshandelssocietet |
| Muataz Lafta PhD in Medicine from Uppsala University. Postdoc in Neuroscience and Neurosurgery at Stanford University, Department of Neurosurgery, in Stanford, CA, USA. Research on stereotactic radiosurgery for surgically challenging brain tumors. Donor: The Marshall of the Realm Fellowship Fund (Borgrättsfonderna) |
| Viktor Lådö Naess BSc in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics; BSc in Information Technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Graduate studies (MSc) in Data Science at New York University (NYU) in New York, NY, USA. Studies in machine learning, statistical modelling, and large-scale data analysis with applications in quantitative predictive systems. Donor: The Mix Family Entrepreneur Foundation |
| Olle Persson BSc in Political Science from Umeå University. Graduate studies in Transatlantic Affairs at The Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston, MA, USA. Studies in transatlantic relations with a final thesis on NATO’s unmanned warfare in the Arctic. Donor: Tetra Laval |
| Gustav Romare MSc in Engineering and Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. PhD Candidate in Physics at The University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, WI, USA. Condensed matter theorist working on exotic phases of matter in quantum many-body systems, with specific focus on superconductors and optimal parameter regimes. This research interest also connects to quantum computing hardware such as superconducting qubits and its interplay with the surrounding medium. Donor: The Ingegerd & Viking Olov Björk Fellowship Trust |
| David Silverlid Master of Laws (LL.M.) from The University of California, Los Angeles; PhD Candidate in Law at Örebro University. Visiting Scholar in International Law at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. Doctoral research in international law that will focus on the application of the law of jurisdiction to electronic evidence stored in cloud-based servers. Donor: The J Sigfrid Edström Fellowship Fund |
| Ambjörn Sjörs PhD in Semitic languages from Uppsala University. Postdoc in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics at The University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, USA. Research on argument structure in Biblical Hebrew, especially alternations in the expression of the object of the verb. Donor: The Marshall of the Realm Fellowship Fund (Borgrättsfonderna) |
| Henrietta Skareng BSc from The University of Bristol. Graduate studies in Law and Diplomacy (MA) at Tufts University in Medford, MA, USA. Studies in law and diplomacy, focusing on international conflict resolution and Middle Eastern studies. Donor: Thanks to Scandinavia Inc. |
| Embla Steiner Malka PhD in Medical Science from Karolinska Institute. Postdoc in Neuroscience at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, USA. Research on immunotherapy for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, focusing on the interactions between cells in the tumour micro-environment that are driving tumour progression and therapy resistance. Donor: The Ernst O Ek Fellowship Fund |
| Shreyas Suryanarayana PhD in Medical Neuroscience from Karolinska Institute. Postdoc in Developmental and Systems Neuroscience at Duke University, School of Medicine in Durham, NC, USA. Research on how distinct developmental neurogenic programs shape the diversification of cortical projection neuron types and output channels, and how these evolutionarily conserved and specialized circuits organize sensory and motor control. Donor: The Anders Zorn’s Fellowship Fund |
| Anton Zackrisson PhD Candidate in Industrial Engineering and Management at Linköping University. Visiting PhD Candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) inCambridge, MA, USA. Research on computational modeling and simulation of heavy-duty electric freight logistics with a focus on combining operations research and machine learning methods. Donor: The Roland Nilsson Fellowship Fund |
| Dani Zalem PhD in Basic Medicine from the University of Gothenburg. Postdoc in Cell and Mucosal Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA. Research focused on the role of cell membrane glycosphingolipids in protection against bacterial and viral infections. Donor: The Ernst O Ek Fellowship Fund |
Other programs
Alfred Brandt
Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, USA. Undergraduate studies.
Axel Ritzler
Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, USA. Undergraduate studies.