Interviews and portraits – meet our researchers
More than 3,000 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
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
Ole Petter Ottersen on sharing global responsibilities
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
Maria Smitmanis Lyle studies psychiatric self-admission
Per Andrén treats children with tics online
Lena Berg: “Sometimes you need to be left alone to work”
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
Märit Halmin: ”Getting run over was my doorway into research”
Karin Jensen: "There is confidence in young researchers"
Viktor Kaldo: Can AI be useful to psychologists?
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”
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.