Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF)

Time schedule

• Humsam´s heads of department nominate candidates by sending an e-mail with attached documents mentioned below to Oddný Notstrand. Deadline for the institution´s nomination is Friday October 14th 2022.
• Received nominations are prepared and prioritized by the evaluation group of the disciplinary domain and confirmed by the domain´s steering committee, after which a university-wide prioritization takes place.
• The Vice-chancellor’s decision on which candidates to nominate to the Foundation will be made in the beginning of December. The researchers and heads of department will then be notified of the decision. Nominated researchers can receive assistance with their applications from the domain´s research support.
• Nominated researchers are responsible for submitting their proposal via KAW´s web portal before deadline on February 15th 2023.

Nomination instructions for the heads of departments

• Note that nominated candidates must be very competitive.
• The nominated researcher must have received a doctoral degree after 1 January 2014. (An exception may be nominees who received their doctoral degree before 2014 and who, upon request, can document a parental leave or longer sick leave that took place after the doctoral degree.)
• To be eligible as an external candidate, the researcher must be employed outside of Sweden and not have received funding for research in Sweden or having been employed at a Swedish university in the past four years.
• Observe that the Foundation has decided that the following categories of researchers may not be nominated for a WAF grant: researchers who have received recruitment packages within the Foundation's investments in molecular medicine (WCMM centers), Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems Program (WASP), Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems Program - Humanities and Society ( WASP-HS), Data Driven Life Science (DDLS) or the Wallenberg Initiative for Materials Science and Sustainability (WISE).

The department´s nomination needs to contain the following order of documents:

1. Project description (max 6 A4).
2. The nominee's CV containing positions, awards and postdoc stay (max. 2 A4).
3. The nominee's biography, which should primarily be a description of the scientific/scholarly achievements so far, together with information on external funding and support from the university (max. 2 A4).
4. A list of all publications in peer-reviewed journals, with the ten most significant publications marked. Include a simpler bibliometric analysis with e.g. H-index (if possible).
5. A motivation letter signed by the Head of Department (max 2 A4) - with a motivation/justification about how the nominated researcher complements and strengthens the Department's research and is considered an important part of the Department's and the University's research environment. Describe how the proposed research program supports the candidate's career development and what resources are made available to the candidate.
6. External candidates are also required to include a document with a motivation for why they want to establish their research at UU (max 1A4).

The department's nominations

Heads of departments at Humsams send nominations to Wallenberg Academy Fellows via e-mail to Oddný Notstrand at the latest on Friday the 14th of November 2022.

Time schedule

The internal prioritization process at Uppsala University consists of several steps.

• Teknat's heads of department nominate candidates via a web form. Instructions and a link can be found below. Deadline for the departments' nominations is Tuesday 1 November 2022.
• Received nominations are prepared and prioritized by the faculty's Advisory Committee for Research in November, after which a university-wide prioritization takes place.
• The Vice-chancellor’s decision on which candidates to nominate to the Foundation will be made in the beginning of December. The researchers and heads of department will then be notified of the decision.
• Nominated researchers will receive application support from Teknat's Research Support.

The nominated researchers are responsible for submitting their application via KAW's portal before the deadline of 15 February 2023.

Nomination instructions for the heads of department

• Note that nominated candidates must be very competitive.
• The nominated researcher must have received a doctoral degree after 1 January 2014. (An exception may be nominees who received their doctoral degree before 2014 and who, upon request, can document a parental leave or longer sick leave that took place after the doctoral degree.)
• If granted a WAF, the department can, according to current university guidelines, annually request co-funding of SEK 250 000 from the Vice-Chancellor and from the disciplinary domain - for external fellows SEK 1 000 000 and for internal fellows SEK 750 00.

External candidates

To be considered an external candidate, the researcher must be active abroad at the time of nomination and must not have been scholarship-financed or have been employed in Sweden for the past four years (between 15 February 2019 and 15 February 2023). Please note that KAW allows researchers under the category of external candidate to nominate researchers with a Swedish doctoral degree who have had a postdoc employment funded by VR at a foreign university. These candidates are not counted as employees in Sweden during their stay at the foreign university.

KAW offers external candidates to apply for additional funding of SEK 1 500 000, 3 000 000 or 4 500 000, provided that the university co-finances with the same amount.

Teknat nominations are made in this web form.

A merged PDF (in English) (max 2MB), including the following documents in the following order, should be submitted:

1. Project description (max 6 A4).
2. The nominee's CV containing positions, awards and postdoc stay (max. 2 A4).
3. The nominee's biography, which should primarily be a description of the scientific achievements so far, together with information on external funding and support from the university (max. 2 A4).
4. A list of all publications in peer-reviewed journals, with the ten most significant publications marked. Include a simpler bibliometric analysis with e.g. H-index (if possible).
5. A motivation letter signed by the Head of Department (max 2 A4) - with a motivation/justification about how the nominated researcher complements and strengthens the Department's research and is considered an important part of the Department's and the University's research environment. Describe how the proposed research program supports the candidate's career development and what resources are made available to the candidate.
6. External candidates are also required to include a document with a motivation for why they want to establish their research at UU (max 1A4).