
Interviews and portraits – meet our researchers
More than 5,000 researchers and doctoral students have their workplace at Karolinska Institutet. Here you can get to know some of them. The interviews and feature articles bellow have previously been published in our magazine Medical Science or online on KI News.
Portrait of a researcher

Jan Albert: “HIV is an infectious disease like any other”

Georgios Belibasakis: A glimpse into another world

Martin Bergö addresses the debate about vitamin pills

Cynthia Bulik: She wants us to see the biology

Marie Carlén: She wants to decode the brain

Tore Curstedt helped millions of preterm babies

Anna Mia Ekström wants justice

Maria Eriksdotter is fighting ageism

Patrik Ernfors wants to understand pain

Fang Fang gives remote assistance

Óscar Fernández-Capetillo: He wants to have fun

Susanne Guidetti improves the lives of people with stroke

Emily Holmes: A picture is worth a thousand words

Irene Jensen: She wants to see more good managers

Akira Kaneko's dream: the eradication of malaria

Claudia Lampic: Family regardless of kinship

Nobel Laureate Tomas Lindahl: “I had an excellent group at KI”

Helena Lindgren: Focus on birth injuries

Johan Lundberg: The reawakening of depression research

Ali Mirazimi is fighting the virus

Caroline Olsson: Prestige affects important choices

One scientist, many hats – meet Gabrielle Paulsson-Berne

Johan von Schreeb wants to create order in chaos

Thomas Perlmann is passionate about the Nobel Prize

Richard Rosenquist Brandell in the golden age for geneticists

Hannes Sigurjónsson on gender confirming surgery

Kirsty Spalding: Bord at work? Fat chance

Carl Johan Sundberg refuses to sit still

Stefan Swartling Peterson cares about the children

Carol Tishelman wants us to talk about death

Elisabete Weiderpass: Preventing cancer in all corners of the world

Yvonne Wengström uses exercise as medicine

Rikard Wicksell: "Pain should not be allowed to dominate your life"
From the researchers' point of view

Per Andrén treats children with tics online

Lena Berg: “Sometimes you need to be left alone to work”

Yvonne Brandberg: “He would never start a family”

Ken Chien on Moderna and the mRNA vaccine

Liv Eidsmo learned to appreciate the critics

Kerstin Erlandsson on Swedish midwifery in Africa

Emma Frans on why we should be more critical

Emma Fransson: What role does bacteria play in a delivery?

Cecilia Fridén: Should exercise be adapted to a woman’s menstrual cycle?

Meet Hedvig Glans in KI’s COVID-19 expert group

Katarina Görts-Öberg on hypersexuality

Karin Jensen: "There is confidence in young researchers"

Viktor Kaldo: Can AI be useful to psychologists?

Konstantina Kilteni: Why can't you tickle yourself?

Eva Kosek supports those with fibromyalgia pain

Carola Lidén: Less allergies with nickel-free coins

Magnus Lundbäck about the danger of e-cigarettes

Anna Martling: “It’s when you meet the patient that the circle closes”

Gerald McInerney: Antibodies against the coronavirus

Helena Nordenstedt a volunteer in the fight against Ebola

Christoffer Rahm wants to take action before it is too late

Kenny Rodriguez-Wallberg: "It was a true miracle”

Ineke Samson: “Covert stuttering can create a great deal of anxiety”

Shervin Shahnavaz: "We can finally offer young people timely help”

Maria Smitmanis Lyle studies psychiatric self-admission

Joakim Sturup: Violent crimes are increasing – and not

Anders Sönnerborg: "We struggled together for six months"

Fredrik Ullén on brain anc culture

The beauty of the smallest things

Three researchers fighting ignorance

When nature provides the model

Three researchers on innovation

Nobel inspiration – a tale of three researchers

They see the value of nature

Three researchers: Safe sport their goal

Foot on the brake – about road safety

Three researchers: Passion instead of pension

They see the power of music

Solving really cold cases

They are counting on our health

Three researchers on patient dialogue

Liver in test tube replaces animal testing

With death as a colleague

Three researchers who experiment on themselves
Introducing some of our new Professors

Inauguration of professors 2022
On Thursday 13 October 2022, 21 new professors of Karolinska Institutet will be inaugurated in solemn forms in Aula Medica. In addition, we give our new adjunct professors a warm welcome and celebrate a number of recipients of academic awards. Read more about our new professors and their research!

Early years’ impact on long-term lung health
Professor Erik Melén studies the causes of allergies, asthma, and other lung problems in children. His goal is to develop knowledge and treatments for better lung health over a person’s lifetime. View a video about his research produced for the annual professors' inauguration ceremony.