Rebecka Keijser

I work as a researcher in Linda Lindströms Group at the Department of Oncology- Pathology (OnkPat), Karolinska Institutet.

Positions of responsibility

• Vice chair of the Junior Faculty at KI (2025, re-elected in 2026)
• Junior Faculty representative of the Faculty Council at KI (2025)
• Co-opted member of The Committee for Doctoral Education (KFU) (2024-2026)

Coordinating roles

• Working group Doctoral Education Day at KI (28th of April 2026)
• HER-MIND network coordinator, including main organizer of the event "Från mens till menopaus"  (2025-2026)
• Coordinator of KI-Discovers (2023-2024)

Postdoctoral research experience

• Department of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet (2024- 2026)
• Department of Women's and Children's Health (KBH), Karolinska Institutet (2022-2024)

PhD. education

I defended my PhD in Medical Science (Neuroscience) at Uppsala University in 2021 with the thesis "Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Psychometrics and the Influence of Family Environment, and Candidate Gene–environment Interactions".

Teaching

Autumn 2025 | 2026

Mental Health Research: Methods and Approaches, Doctoral course

Autumn 2025 - Spring 2026

Career skills for Scientists, Doctoral course

Supervision

Spring 2026 | Main supervisor
Supervised two medical students in their masters’ projects as part of the study programme in medicine at Karolinska Institutet

2025/2026 | Main supervisor

Supervised a high school student in the Karolinska Institutet Summer Research School. The student was awarded a stipend  through Unga Forskare for participation in the London International Youth Science Forum 

2025 | Main supervisor

Supervised a medical student in her masters’ projects as part of the study programme in medicine at Karolinska Institutet

2025 | Main supervisor

Supervised a visiting medical student from the Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland in her degree project at Karolinska Institutet

2024 - 2025 | Main supervisor
Supervising a master student in her degree projact as part of the master´s programme in public health sciences, Karolinska Instututet
Supervising a master student in her degree projet as part of the master´s programme in Work and Health, Karolinska Instututet 

Available degree projects for motivated students, spring of 2027 in epidemiology, with a focus on hormone-dependent diseases