Swedish Foundations' Starting Grant research fellows

Since the launch in 2015 a total of 35 fellows have been funded with 450 million SEK. Seven of the fellows have been awarded ERC grants, two of them twice.

Meet the SFSG fellows

Portrait of Anne-Lise Viotti
2026

Anne-Lise Viotti

Department of Physics, Lund University

Project Title

Revisiting table-top XUV light generation with ultrafast optics

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Portrait of Felix Bender
2026

Felix Bender

Department of Social Sciences, University of Malmö

Project Title

Democratizing Refugee Camps

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Portrait of Andreas Kohler
2026

Andreas Kohler

Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University

Project Title

Quality Control of Mitochondrially-Encoded Proteins during Ageing

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Portrait of Amanda Andersson
2026

Amanda Andersson

Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute

Project Title

Cell identity across foetal pancreas development and adult regeneration

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Portrait of Daniela Calvigioni
2026

Daniela Calvigioni

Department for biomedicical and clinical sciences, Linköping University

Project Title

Can fluctuations in estradiol change how we perceive the world around us?

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Portrait of Ana Sofia Luís
2025

Ana Sofia Luís

Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Gothenburg University

Project Title

Unravelling the mechanisms of microbiota-human mucin interactions

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Portrait of Eszter Lakatos
2025

Eszter Lakatos

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University

Project Title

Re-defining cancer immunogenicity on the systems level

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Portrait of Stephen De Lisle
2024

Stephen De Lisle

Department of Environmental and Life Science, Karlstad University

Project Title

Origins of diversity in sexual organisms

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Portrait of Roham Parsa
2024

Roham Parsa

Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute

Project Title

The development and function of mucosal T cells

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Portrait of Laurence Picton
2024

Laurence Picton

Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute

Project Title

Spinal cord tension dynamics and central proprioception

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Portrait of Kathlén Kohn
2024

Kathlén Kohn

Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology

Project Title

Algebraic Vision

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Portrait of Joan Camuñas-Soler
2023

Joan Camuñas-Soler

Department of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg

Project Title

Physiological profiling of excitable cell types using spatially-resolved patch-seq microscopy.

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Since the launch in 2015 a total of 30 fellows have been funded with over

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