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  • Pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome

    Pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome

    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

    Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    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

  • Banbrytande ekonomiska modeller för integrerad analys av skogssektorn

    Banbrytande ekonomiska modeller för integrerad analys av skogssektorn

    Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2023 delas ut till Drs Darius M. Adams, Joseph Buongiorno och Richard W. Haynes för utvecklingen av deras banbrytande ekonomiska modeller för skogsindustrin, TAMM och PAPYRUS. Priset delas ut av Kung Carl XVI Gustaf under en ceremoni i Stockholm i november i år. Läs mer på: www.mwp.org

  • Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta receives the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta receives the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    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

  • Fr v Mikael Hannus, Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen, Herbert Sixta, Aalto-universitetet, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Helsingfors universitet och Johanna Buchert, Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen.

    Hållbar process för träbaserade textilfibrer

    Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2022 tilldelas professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen och professor Herbert Sixta för utveckling och användning av nya joniska vätskor för konvertering av pappersmassa till högpresterande textilfibrer.
    Den framtida efterfrågan på textilfibrer ökar på grund av den globala befolkningsökningen. Produktionen av bomull, den cellulosafiber som främst används för textilier, förväntas inte

  • Marcus Wallenberg present the Marcus Wallenberg Prize at a digital prize ceremony. From above  laureates Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops.

    Digital prize ceremony for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    A digital prize ceremony for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize was accomplished yesterday. The three professors Joseph J Landsberg, Australia, Richard H Waring, USA, and Nicholas C Coops, Canada were awarded for a model, 3PG, with addition of advanced satellite imagery analysis. The result is a powerful tool for predicting forest growth and assessing the risks to the world's forests posed by climate ch

  • Marcus Wallenberg delar ut Marcus Wallenbergpriset vid en digital prisceremoni. Från ovan pristagarna  Joseph J. Landsberg, Richard H. Waring och Nicholas C. Coops.

    Digital prisceremoni för Marcus Wallenbergpriset

    Igår genomfördes en digital prisutdelning av Marcus Wallenbergpriset. De tre professorerna Joseph J. Landsberg, Australien, Richard H. Waring, USA och Nicholas C. Coops, Kanada belönades med priset för en modell, 3PG, som kompletterats med avancerad satellitbildsanalys. Resultatet är ett kraftfullt verktyg för att förutsäga skogstillväxt och bedöma vilka risker som klimatförändringarna innebär för

  • Marcus Wallenberg Prize laureates 2020. From left: Nicholas C Coops, Joseph J Landsberg and Richard H Waring.

    Invitation to The Marcus Wallenberg Prize Digital Ceremony and Symposium on October 26, 09:00 CEST

    Welcome to the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Digital Ceremony and Symposium where we will honor the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize laureates Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops.
    Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops receive the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for their groundbreaking work in developing forest growth models based on tree ecophysiology, and further

  • Mikael Hannus hopes to extend awareness of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize beyond the activities associated with the award ceremony.

    Wants to make the prize more widely known

    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.

  • Marcus Wallenbergpriset har fokuserat på vetenskapliga genombrott inom vitt skilda områden under Kaj Roséns tid som vetenskaplig sekreterare.

    Från upptäckter till vetenskapliga genombrott

    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.

  • The Marcus Wallenberg Prize has focused on scientific findings in a wide range of areas during Kaj Rosén’s years as Executive Secretary.

    From discoveries to scientific breakthroughs

    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 Wallenbergpris kommer att delas ut hösten 2021

    Marcus Wallenbergprisets utdelning flyttas till hösten 2021

    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.

  • Next Marcus Wallenberg Prize event will be held in autumn of 2021.

    The Marcus Wallenberg Prize postponed to autumn 2021

    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.

  • Nicholas C Coops, Joseph J Landsberg och Richard H Waring tilldelas Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2020.

    Förutsäger skogstillväxt under klimatförändringar

    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.

  • Nicholas C Coops, Joseph J Landsberg and Richard H Waring share the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

    Model for forest growth during climate change

    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.

  • Mikael Hannus utsedd till ny vetenskaplig sekreterare för Marcus Wallenbergpriset.

    Ny vetenskaplig sekreterare i Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen

    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.

  • Mikael Hannus is the new Executive Secretary for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

    New Executive Secretary of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

    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.

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