Five KI researchers awarded grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In this year’s major round of research funding, the foundation’s board of directors has decided to fund a total of 77 projects in the humanities and social sciences for a total of just over SEK 370 million. Five of these projects are run by researchers at Karolinska Institutet.

In order to finance the applications that are of the highest scientific quality, the foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) attaches great importance to the assessment of the research applications.

The applications are assessed and prioritised in one or more of RJ’s review panels and by external experts.

The following KI researchers have been awarded grants from RJ:

RJ Project 2024

The grant supports research for up to three years.

Björn Lindström , principal researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Project: Collective Innovation: Augmenting Cumulative Cultural Evolution through Human-AI Collaboration

Grant: SEK 4,042,442

Lydia Kwak , docent at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM)

Project: Retaining teachers: A discrete choice experiment of factors affecting teachers’ retention-decision and their alignment with national reforms

Grant: SEK 3,857,483

Artin Arshamian , principal researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Project: How is valence coded in the olfactory system? The neural mechanisms behind why we like or dislike a smell

Grant: SEK 3,465,351

Malin Ericsson , assistant professor at the Aging Research Centre , Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

Project: Health inequalities in cognitive aging: Studies of education, socioeconomic childhood circumstances, and genetic predispositions

Grant: SEK 3,464,555

RJ Sabbatical 2024

The grant makes it possible to complete advanced research in six to twelve months.

Jonas Rafi , researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Project: Multidisciplinary treatment for individuals who stutter

Grant: SEK 1,116,180

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