Speakers - Nordic Quantum Life Science Roundtable 2025

Darja Isaksson serves as a member of the Swedish government’s National Digitalization Council. She is a founder of three agencies. She has served as adviser to the Prime Minister’s Innovation Council, been recognized as one of Sweden’s most powerful opinion-makers by the financial magazine Veckans Affarer and was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people in digital government by the website Apolitical

Göran Johansson, Full Professor in Applied Quantum Physics at Chalmers University of Technology
Since 2025, Göran is the Director of the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology. He has supervised 9 PhD students to graduation and published more than 110 scientific papers in international journals, including Science, Nature and Nature Physics. He has also co-authored the Swedish popular science book “Kvantfysiken och Livet” as well as the English “Quantum Physics and Life”. Göran is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2021.

Lene Oddershede, Chief Scientific Officer, Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation

Sabrina Maniscalco, professor and CEO & Co-founder Algorithmiq, is a world-leading academic with over 20 years’ experience in quantum technology and has been involved in many important societal initiatives, promoting the development of the field globally. 
Sabrina holds a professorship in quantum information and logic at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also the Vice-Director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Quantum Technologies and serves on several scientific advisory boards, such as the Institute for Quantum Optics and Information (Austria) and the Quantum Technology initiative at CERN. She represented Finland’s Quantum strategy at the White House in May 2022 and is recognised as one of the world’s leading experts in quantum technology. Under her leadership, Algorithmiq was nominated as one of the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers in 2024.

Sara Mazur is since 2024 Executive Director of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden’s largest private funder of research and education at Swedish universities.
Mazur joined the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation 2018 as Director Strategic Research and 2022 she was appointed Vice Executive Director and 2024 Executive Director. Prior to joining the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, she was Vice President and Head of Research at Ericsson, responsible for all research at Ericsson globally and leading the global research organization Ericsson Research, a position she held 2012-2018. Mazur worked 23 years for Ericsson on advanced technology and research to strengthen Ericsson’s technical excellence and has held many management positions in the group. Mazur is since 2013 member of the Board of Directors of Saab AB and since 2022 member of the Board of Directors of Wallenberg Investment AB.