SCAS News - 8 June, 2015

Three Promising Researchers Have Been Admitted to Pro Futura Scientia X

In the tenth admittance round of the Pro Futura Scientia programme, three promising scholars have
been selected Fellows after a rigorous selection procedure. The decision was formally made by the
Board of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond on 4 June, at the recommendation of the SCAS Pro Futura
Scientia Programme Selection Committee.To this year's admittance round, 20 researchers from twelve
universities in five countries were nominated.

The new Pro Futura Scientia Fellows are:
Renaud Gagné, Faculty of Classics, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Joel Isaac, Faculty of History, Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Andreas Stokke, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University
(Nominated by Uppsala University)

The selections were based on criteria such as excellent research profiles and the ability to work
independently and with ground-breaking results. The three new Pro Futura Scientia X scholars
will receive their diplomas during a ceremony at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in
September.

Both Björn Wittrock, Principal of SCAS and Chair of the Selection Committee for the Pro Futura Scientia
Programme, and Göran Blomqvist, Managing Director of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, agree that the Pro
Futura Scientia Programme has come to play an important role in the efforts being made to strengthen the
conditions for young researchers within the social sciences and the humanities.The programme has proved
to be an attractive career path for promising young scholars, and also attracts skilled researchers from the
international arena into the Swedish university and research system.

A large number of those researchers who have previously been admitted to the programme have been
appointed professors during or after their time as Pro Futura Scientia Fellows, and/or have been elected
members of scholarly academies and societies and joined research councils and key bodies at universities.
Among other things, five (current and former) Pro Futura Fellows are now members of the Young Academy
of Sweden.

The Pro Futura Scientia programme was initiated in 1999 by the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in order to give especially promising young scholars within the fields of the
humanities and social sciences optimal scope for developing as researchers, over a longer period of time and
in stimulating environments.

Read more:
Pro Futura Scientia History and Mission
Nominations and Selections
Pro Futura Scientia Fellows (1999 - present)
Press release from Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds Pressrum (in Swedish)