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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2025: Explaining Innovation-Driven Economic Growth

Phil Thornton

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2025: Explaining Innovation-Driven Economic Growth

This year’s Economics Laureates illuminate the forces behind economic growth, showing how new ideas and creative destruction together sustain the remarkable economic progress we often take for granted.

Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2025: Peripheral Immune Tolerance

Hanna Kurlanda-Witek

Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2025: Peripheral Immune Tolerance

Explore the scientific journey that led to our modern understanding of regulatory T cells: the immune system’s crucial peacekeepers, and understand why this work was announced to be awarded with a Nobel Prize.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: Putting Quantum Mechanics in the Palm of our Hands

Ben Skuse

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: Putting Quantum Mechanics in the Palm of our Hands

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for bringing quantum physics from the subatomic world onto a chip.

Women in Research #LINOecon: Anastasiya-Mariya Noha

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINOecon: Anastasiya-Mariya Noha

Anastasiya works in the areas of development economics and economics of education. Her specialization is in digital social-emotional interventions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries and conflict settings.

Women in Research #LINOecon: Lorena de la Torre Díaz

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINOecon: Lorena de la Torre Díaz

Lorena's research line is inequality, particularly social mobility and factors that affect it. She is also interested in evaluating the impact of social programs, financial literacy, and gender gap, particularly related to STEM.

Women in Research #LINOecon: Sumana Kundu

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINOecon: Sumana Kundu

Sumana's research mainly focuses on situations of asymmetric information, i.e., when consumers and firms involved in a transaction do not share the same set of information.

Women in Research #LINOecon: Elisabeth Hofmeister

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINOecon: Elisabeth Hofmeister

Elisabeth examines the determinants of R&D productivity in research-intensive industries, particularly the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Women in Research #LINOecon: Luisa María Rodríguez Fajardo

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINOecon: Luisa María Rodríguez Fajardo

Luisa’s research focuses on financial decision-making at the corporate level across firms.

Women in Research #LINO25: Katarina Novčić

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINO25: Katarina Novčić

Katarina’s research contributes to the development of novel materials for electrochemical sensors and energy technologies.

Women in Research #LINO25: Thais Schroeder Rossi

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINO25: Thais Schroeder Rossi

#LINO25 participant Thais Schroeder Rossi is working on the electrochemical synthesis of Ag-Au nanoparticles using reverse micelles as nanoreactors.

Women in Research #LINO25: Sajal Arwish

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINO25: Sajal Arwish

Sajal is currently engaged in the fabrication of polymer electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries, with a particular focus on zwitterionic materials, ionogels, and solid polymer electrolytes.

Women in Research #LINO25: Sidonie Laviéville

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research #LINO25: Sidonie Laviéville

Sidonie is focussing on a new class of polymer materials to replace thermosetting materials which are resistant, but not recyclable.