Funding and Awards

Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (WAF): Fellowship to establish a research group, and conduct research and teaching at the Department of Geological Sciences and Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm University.

This includes five years of project funding (see below under 'Funding Awarded').

Research and development work prize: Faculty-level award from UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.

The R&D (research and development work) award shall honor employees, units or the environment who have excelled in research, professional and artistic development work over time or especially in recent years.

The award winner is described as a spearhead in his field of research and has excelled with his collaborative projects and discoveries. The award winner is an expert in the application and development of ancient DNA methodologies, and his recent collaborative project, in which the world's oldest DNA was found in a mammoth tooth, has received local, national and international attention. The award winner's publication rate is high, and the committee is particularly impressed by his international reach and publications in renowned journals such as Nature and Current Biology. This helps to position UMAK and the University Museum in the research field.

Crafoord Foundation:
Gateway to Scandinavia: Early postglacial immigration of plants and animals to Sweden
(Co-applicant; PI: Dan Hammarlund; 200,000 SEK)

BNP Paribas Foundation:
FLO-CHAR - Fluxes from Land to Ocean: How Coastal Habitats in the Arctic Respond
(WP leader; PI: Bennet Jules; €702,990)

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW):
First Contact - a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of human arrival on faunal biodiversity
(co-I; PI: Anders Götherström; 26,700,000 SEK)

• We were also awarded a Research Environment grant for this program from Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council) with myself as PI (17,985,000 SEK), but had to decline due to the KAW funding.

Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (WAF):
Main project: Reconstructing biotic responses to multiple periods of abrupt climate warming using deep-time ancient DNA from marine and terrestrial sediments
(PI: 13,100,000 SEK)

Spanish State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation
Quantifying and discerning the origin of PYrenean environmental Changes: Abrupt Climate and HUman impact (PYCACHU)
(project collaborator; PI Penélope González Sampériz)

European Commission SYNTHESYS grant to visit the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Stockholm) for one month

(PI: €9,400)