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  • 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

  • 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

  • Mikael Hannus hoppas att kännedomen om Marcus Wallenbergpriset ska omfatta mer än aktiviteterna i samband med prisceremonin.

    Vill göra priset känt i vidare kretsar

    Mikael Hannus vill sprida evenemangen över hela året och hitta nya målgrupper i både samhälle och akademi. Han hyser stor respekt för de traditioner som har skapats sedan det första Marcus Wallenbergpriset delades ut 1981, men är samtidigt öppen för förändringar som kan förena vetenskap och skogsindustri i helt nya sammanhang.

  • 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.

  • 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.