Sustainability Issue #2 June 2008

 Stefan Thor, Professor of developmental biology at Linköping University, has been awarded one of the foremost distinctions that a Swedish researcher can receive - the Göran Gustafsson Prize  of MSEK 4.5. Stefan Thor is the biologist who has, via the fruit fly, researched the structure and regulation of the neural system.

 Margareta Hansson, Associate Professor at Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, has received this year's Descartes Prize in Brussels for research cooperation across national frontiers. Margareta Hansson is a member of the steering group for EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) which reveals climatic history by investigating ice cores in Antarctica.

 Professor Ann-Mari Sellerberg, Department of Sociology, Lund University, has received this year's Pedagogy Prize for developing researcher training and especially the situation of female postgraduate students. In the project "So far - and even further" she has invited twelve qualified and internationally famous female researchers to her department in order to stimulate young women to take up research.

 Pär K. Ingvarsson of Umeå University has received the Tage Erlander prize of KSEK 150 for natural sciences and technology. Ingvarsson conducts research on population dynamics which provides knowledge necessary for predicting how different species may react to changes in their environment. Ingvarsson has studied, inter alia, how the quantity of genetic variation from a few individuals may save a population from extinction because of inbreeding. Today, his group of researchers is focusing on the molecular population genetics of aspen.

 The journalist Isabella Lövin has been named "Sea Angler of the Year" by the Sport Fishing Fair. She received the accolade for her book The Silent Sea which opened the eyes of the public to just how serious the situation is in our seas.

 Professor Wolfgang Kropp, Engineering Acoustics, Chalmers, has been awarded the Håkan Frisinger Foundation Scholarship for 2007, amounting to KSEK 250, for his research on noise from tyres and carriageways.

 Mats Tysklind, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, has been awarded the SWECO Environmental Prize 2008 for his involvement in research and development concerning the  remediation of polluted areas.

 Rolf Kling has been nominated Environmental Profile of the Year. He  received this distinc­tion for his never ceasing work on safer water installations and the reduction of moisture damage in buildings.

 Göran Ståhl, Professor in Forest Inventory, Forest Resource Management and Geomatics at SLU Umeå, has been elected Vice Rector of SLU.

 Carl-Gustaf Thulin is the new director of Center for Fish and Wildlife Research CFW, SLU Umeå. Thulin has been conducting research on genetics and wild­life. CFW is a national network for researchers in this field.

 The new director of IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is Tord Svedberg, Chartered Engineer, previously director of Astra Zeneca.