News from the SCAS Community

Terje Falck-Ytter; Karin Hassan Jansson; Linn Holmberg; Jennifer James; Ivan Miroshnikov; Valbona Muzaka; Janina Neufeld; Mia Phillipson

In the News from the SCAS Community section you find updates on funding, prizes, new positions, membership in academies and many other things.

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Terje Falck-Ytter has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for the project "Domängenerella tittmönster och social uppmärksamhet hos barn med typisk och atypisk utveckling". The grant totals SEK 3 906 000 over three years.

Terje Falck Ytter is a former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and was in residence at SCAS in the academic year 2018-19. He is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala University.

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Karin Hassan Jansson has been granted SEK 5 916 000 over four years by the Swedish Research Council. Her project is titled "Arbetarens uppkomst: Sverige 1750–1900".

Karin Hassan Jansson is Professor of History at Uppsala University. She was a Fellow at the Collegium in the spring semester 2011.

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Linn Holmberg has received a grant totalling SEK 4 896 000 over three years from the Swedish Research Council for her project "Crowdsourcing i upplysningstidens Frankrike: Förfrågningar och erbjudanden om intellektuell hjälp i lärda tidskrifter (1720–1789)".

Holmberg is Associate Professor of History of Ideas at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. She is a former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at SCAS and was in residence in the academic year 2020-21 and in the autumn of 2024.

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Jennifer James has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for a project titled "Förstå bildandet av multidomänproteiner". The grant amounts to SEK 1 935 000 and runs over two years.

Jennifer James is Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Uppsala University. She was a Natural Sciences Felllow in residence at SCAS in the academic year 2023-24.

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Ivan Miroshnikov has received a grant from the Swedish Research Council for a project titled "Den fajjumisk-koptiska versionen av Nya testamentet: materiell filologi, textkritisk utvärdering, lingvistisk analys - en utgåva med alla bevarade manuskript". The grant totals SEK 4 362 000 over three years.

Miroshnikov is a Researcher at the Mid Sweden University. He is a former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow of SCAS and was in residence at the Collegium in the academic year 2020-21 and the autumn 2021.

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Valbona Muzaka has been awarded a three-year grant by the Swedish Research Council for her project "Globala hälsoutmaningar som finansiella tillgångar". The grant totals SEK 5 010 000.

Valbona Muzaka was a Global Horizons Senior at SCAS in the academic year 2022-23. She is Professor of Economic History at Uppsala University.

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Janina Neufeld has received a four-year grant from the Swedish Research Council for her project titled "De bakomliggande mekanismerna för sensorisk överkänslighet vid autism: Beteendemässiga, neurala och genetiska faktorer". The grant amounts to SEK 5 400 000.

Neufeld is Principal Researcher at the Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND), and the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet. She is also a SCAS Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, and was in residence at the Collegium in the academic year 2022-23.

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Mia Phillipson has been awarded a grant totalling SEK 6 150 000 over four years by the Swedish Research Council. The project is titled "Immunterapier för att förbättra vävnadsfunktion vid hjärt-kärlsjukdomar".

Phillipson was a Natural Sciences Fellow at SCAS in the spring semester of 2022. She is Professor of Physiology at the Department of Medical Cell Biology at Uppsala University.