Professional services at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (FyFa)

The Professional services at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology consists of a joint administrative department. We provide administrative services to students, PhD students as well as employees and affiliated researchers at the department.

Head of administration

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Kristina Ösund

Administrativ chef

Management assistant

Sabina de Villiers

Human resources

The HR unit at FyFa helps the research groups with:

  • Provide consultative support to FyFas managers.
  • Support in questions regarding employment matters such as illness, leave of absence, salary setting, performance management, holidays, benefits and regulations.
  • Support in questions regarding travels and expenses
  • Support in the process of recruiting new employees, both advisory and administrative, and with employment certificate.
  • Rehabilitation due to longer sick leave and contacts with the Occupational Health Service.
  • Opportunities for employees who experience problems in work or in the workgroup, for example regarding work environment, harassment or illness to contact HR.
  • Coordinate the overall HR work within the department.
     

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For general HR-enquiries, please contact us at HR@fyfa.ki.se

Financial unit

We help you with research project applications and financial reports. We assist with budgeting and provide follow-up of research groups. We work with the education finance of FyFa and support the FyFa management in their strategic planning. General accounting, such as closing of accounts, and financial reporting to KI university management and financial compliance are other important areas.

Supplier invoices are handled by Ekonomiservice, for questions contact ekonomiservice@ki.se

For questions about customer invoices, contact ekonomi@fyfa.ki.se

Have you been awarded a new grant, email the following documents to  ekonomi@fyfa.ki.se

  • Application
  • Contract/ Grant letter
  • Terms and conditions for the grant
  • Budget

Please contact the Purchasing and Procurement Unit for questions related to purchasing: inkopupphandling@ki.se

 

For general finance-enquiries, please contact us at ekonomi@fyfa.ki.se

Finance unit staff

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Emma Sjulin

Finance Officer

Research support

Contact Roelinde Middelveld for help with:

Support with identifying and writing grant applications

  • Identifying suitable grant opportunities, based on career stage and subject
  • Provide suggestions and critical feedback to applications, project plans, popular science summaries, etc 

Read more on the staff portal:

Research funding and economy

Coordination of contracts with external parties

Contact Roelinde when initiating any contracts with external parties, such as:

  • Research collaborations with academia or industry
  • Commissioned research agreements or service agreements with industry
  • Non-disclosure agreements
  • Material transfer agreements
  • Data processing, data transfer, data sharing agreements
  • Visiting researcher agreements
  • Other agreements with external parties

Read more on the staff portal: 

Research Contracts and Agreements

Human ethics/biobanking/use of personal data in research

Contact Roelinde regarding:

  • Human ethics applications
  • Use of human biological samples or cells: biobanking, receiving samples, sending samples
  • Use of human data: receiving data, sending data, storing data

Read more on the staff portal: 

iLab/common equipment

Contact Roelinde with any questions related to the FyFa shared equipment and the FyFa iLab, such as:

  • Giving access to the FyFa iLab for new users
  • Adding equipment to FyFa iLab

New users: please follow the below instructions

Instructions for new users, how to get access to the FyFa iLab

Educational administration staff

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Jolly Sandberg

Educational Administrator
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Sofia Pettersson

Educational administrator

Communications and web

The communications officer can help you if you need assistance with planning your communication, publish seminars, events, and news articles on the web, tips for the newsletter.

For communication-enquiries, please contact us at communication@fyfa.ki.se

Visiting address

Administrative staff are available in block A3 at least three days a week. Check each person's availability in individual Outlook calendar ("Working in another location"). All personnel within HR, finance and research support are on site on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The entire education administration is on site on Wednesdays. Of course, you can contact us throughout the week via email, phone or Teams. To provide additional support, you can also find parts of the administrative staff in quarter 5C, next to Sabina de Villiers, during the week. Currently, we do not have fixed days.

Biomedicum
Quarter A3, level 3
Solnavägen 9
171 65 Solna

For employees

You can find information about your employment, current events at the university and tools for your daily work on Karolinska Institutet's Staff Portal. There, it will be noted if any FyFa-specific information is available. Log in to be able to access it.

Content reviewer:
09-12-2024