Internal nomination form for Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2017

In 2011, The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) set up a career program for future research leaders in order to assure long-term resources for themost promising young researchers in all disciplines and strengthen Sweden as a research nation. The Wallenberg Academy Fellows program will in its first 5 years (2012-2016) have granted 150 successful researchers 5-year fellowships. For the 2017 call, the University can nominate 12candidates; half of the nominees must be “external”, i.e., recruited internationally,and at least 40% of our nominees must be female.
Who can submit internal nominations?Heads of departments or equivalent.
When are internal nominations due?The internal deadline for nominations is November15, 2016.
Who can be nominated?Nominations are accepted from all disciplines, and candidates must have obtained their PhD’s after January 1, 2009 (exceptions: parental leave or extended sick leave). Four overall criteria will be applied to the nominee assessment, with most weight given to academic quality, originality and feasibility of the proposed research program, followed by academic results attained previously, the nominee’s potential as an independent researcher and as a research leader.
How are nominations processed and who decides? Nominations go through a 2-step process: this “pre-application”is reviewed at the scientific discipline level within the Academic Areas for Human Scienceand Science, respectively. Nominees are selected based on the criteria used by KAW and the science academies; the key word is scientific excellence. Nominees prioritized by the University (by early December) may develop full “application” documents. The University nominates its candidates byFebruary 15, 2017. For moreinformation (call text, assessment criteria, review processes),see the KAW and SU web pages: su.se/wallenbergstiftelserna.
How do I nominate candidates? Fill out this form(one for each candidate) and e-mail the completed form to Leif Järlebark (). All text must be in English. Departments can nominate one candidate each. If two candidates are nominated, then at least one must be external and at least one must be female.
Questions?Contact Leif Järlebark at the Research Support Office (Avdelningenförforskningsstöd), the University’s contact person for the Wallenberg Foundations.
Nomination date / Subject area review panels (select one)
☐Humanities ☐Social sciences ☐Natural sciences

Nominated researcher

Candidate status.50% of the nominees must be external. At the time of nomination, an external candidate may neither work at,nor having had employment at or fellowship funding from Stockholm University in the past 4 years. / ☐External (international) ☐Internal
First name and surname / Social security no. (yymmdd-xxxx)
Contact details (current university, department, address, postal code, city, country)
E-mail / Telephone number (incl. area code, country code)
Nominating Head of Dept./Director / Department/Center at Stockholm University
Nomination (not exceeding 1 A4 page). Motivate why your candidate should be nominated by the University; describe how the nominee will contribute to the department’s research, and how the department will provide support to the candidate.
Brief description of the proposed research program (not exceeding 2 A4 pages). Academic quality, originality and feasibility of the proposed research will be assessed; subsidiary criteria include: quality of the research program, its degree of innovativeness and significance in terms of research development. Regarding feasibility: Can the research be carried out at the nominating university? Do the right infrastructure, resources and context exist?
Brief CV (max. 2 A4 pages). Include year of doctoral dissertation/PhD award, information on national and international awards; documented academic breakthroughs; positions held; postdoctoral research positions (or equivalent; expected for all nominees in medicine, engineering and technology, natural sciences and, social sciences). Also, provide information that supports the nominee’s potential as an independent researcher and as a research leader, e.g. professional positions and positions of trust held; leadership training courses attended and appraised leadership capacity; communicative ability.
Publications. Provide a list of all publications in peer-reviewed journals, with the ten most important publications marked,e.g. using an asterisk (*). If relevant, provide an H-index (Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar) together with number of publications and number of quotes the H-index is based on. For Google Scholar preferably use Harzing’s Publish or Perish. Reviewers will assess quality from an international perspective and productivity/quantity. If the space provided below is insufficient, please send the publication list as a separate file (PDF or Word document).

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