Dr. Gerald Tuskan is awarded the 2025 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome. His leadership in this project has revolutionized research in tree and forest genomics and biotechnology, paving the way for genome-based breeding of commercially important trees.
Dr. Tuskan led the project to sequence the genome of the black cottonwood tree (
Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize
Pioneering research for advanced understanding of lignin
The 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph for their groundbreaking research leading to a fuller understanding of lignin biosynthesis and structural diversity. King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the prize on Monday 11
The 2023 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Drs Darius M. Adams, Joseph Buongiorno and Richard Haynes for their development of the original and groundbreaking forest economic models TAMM and PAPYRUS and its extension to the global forest products model GFPM.
The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of SEK 2 million is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres. King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the prize on Monday 11 October in Stockholm.
The future demand for textile fibres is growing due to global population growth. Pro
Mikael Hannus wants to spread the events over the whole year and identify new target groups in both society and academia. He has great respect for the traditions that have been established since the first Marcus Wallenberg Prize was awarded in 1981, but is at the same time open to changes that are able to unite science and the forest industry in completely new contexts.
under sina år som vetenskaplig sekreterare för Marcus Wallenbergpriset har Kaj Rosén betonat hur viktigt det är med en hög nivå på forskningen . "Så länge som nomineringarna vilar på seriös och högkvalitativ forskning vågar vi belöna vetenskapliga genombrott som ännu inte börjat tillämpas. Vi höjer ribban hela tiden", säger Kaj Rosén.
Kaj Rosén has emphasized the importance of high scientific standards during his years as Executive Secretary for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize. “As long as the nominations were based on serious research, we had the courage to reward scientific breakthroughs that had not yet been applied. We were constantly raising the bar”, Kaj Rosén says.
Årets Marcus Wallenbergspris skulle enligt planerna ha delats ut i Stockholm i oktober 2020. Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsens styrelse har dock beslutat att flytta fram prisutdelningen ett år på grund av en ökande osäkerhet kring reserekommendationer till följd av covid-19-pandemin.
The Prize event was planned for October 2020. The Marcus Wallenberg Foundation has however decided to postpone the ceremony and symposium due to the COVID-19 pandemic with its increased uncertainty regarding travelling recommendations.
Tre forskare delar på Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2020 för en modell, 3PG, som förutsäger skogstillväxt i ett föränderligt klimat. Satellitbilder kan skala upp modellen för att visa hur nya miljöförhållanden påverkar världens skogar.
Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops, share the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for a model to predict forest growth in a changing climate. Satellite imagery offers the possibility to scale up the model to show how different environmental conditions affect the world's forests.
The 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize will be announced on 28 April at 22:00 CEST.
Styrelsen för Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen har utnämnt Mikael Hannus till vetenskaplig sekreterare med ansvar för Marcus Wallenbergpriset. Samtidigt har professor Annika Nordin utsetts till ledamot i stiftelsens styrelse. Hon är professor i skoglig ekofysiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU i Umeå.
The Board of Directors of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation has appointed Mikael Hannus as the Executive Secretary, responsible for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, based in Sweden. Professor Annika Nordin has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the foundation. She is Professor in forest science at the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, SLU.
Receiving the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize made Gerhard Schickhofer reflect on his career. – It is a situation to think about my work and future, he says. Last October Gerhard Schickhofer received the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf. The ceremony and following banquet took place in Stockholm, Sweden, with 350 guests from forest industry and forest research worldwide.
Kung Carl XVI Gustaf överlämnade måndag 7 oktober Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2019 till Gerhard Schickhofer. Professor Schickhofer tilldelas priset för sin forskning och utveckling av korslimmat massivträ, CLT. Forskningen har varit en förutsättning för möjligheterna att bygga flervåningshus i trä. Marcus Wallenbergpriset på 2 miljoner SEK är en internationell utmärkelse.
Gerhard Schickhofer mottar Marcus Wallenbergpriset måndag 7 oktober 2019. Han belönas för sin forskning och utveckling av korslimmat massivträ, CLT. CLT består av flera lager av massivt trä som har limmats ihop korsvis. Limträskivorna blir både starka och stabila och kan användas i flervåningshus. CLT är är precis som timmer ett ekologiskt hållbart och förnybart material, som lagrar koldioxid.
Gerhard Schickhofer will Monday 7 October recieve the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for research and knowledge transfer behind cross-laminated timber, CLT. CLT consists of several layers of solid wood laminations glued together crosswise. The elements are stable and can be used in multi-storey wood buildings. CLT is also a sustainable and renewable material, that stores carbon dioxide.
Korslimmat massivträ, CLT, är förklaringen till det stigande intresset för riktigt höga trähus runt om i världen. Gerhard Schickhofer tilldelas Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2019 för forskning och utveckling av ett industriellt byggande med ett stabilt och miljövänligt material. Han belönas med Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2019 på 2 miljoner kronor för sina upptäckter.
Professor Gerhard Schickhofer, the Institute of Timber Engineering and Wood Technology at Graz University of Technology, Austria, has laid the scientific and technological foundation for the development of cross-laminated timber, CLT. For his discoveries he is awarded the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of SEK 2 million.