John Wettlaufer to return to Nordita on 10 year VR Grant

by Axel Brandenburg 31 Oct 2014 Staff, Visitors
Published in the "From the Institute" section of Nordita News issue 1, 2014

John Wettlaufer of Yale University (USA) is a familiar figure at Nordita. During the fall of 2008, he spent his sabbatical at Nordita; see Nordita Newsletter 2008/3, funded in part by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Stochholm Astrobiology Graduate School, and Nordita. He came back to Nordita in 2011, again supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation; see Nordita Newsletter 2011/2. He was then awared the distinguished Tage Erlander Guest Professorship of 2012; see Nordita Newsletter 2011/3.

The Swedish Research Council (VR) has now awared him a 106 MSEK grant for a 10 year stay under the scheme "Grants for international recruitment of leading researchers". We wish John a prosperous time at Nordita!

John Wettlaufer (left) at the inaugural lecture of the Tage Erlander Guest Professorship for 2012, together with Prof. Sven Stafström, head of the Swedish Research Council. (Photo: Fabio Del Sordo)