Prof. Dr. Astrid Gräslund
Corresponding Council Member
Education
High School graduation at Högre Allmänna Läroverket in Härnösand, 1963
Master of Science in Engineering (Applied Physics) at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 30 October 1967
Doctor of Philosophy (Biophysics) at Stockholm University, 29 November 1974
Employments
Research Assistant at Dept. of Biophysics, Stockholm University, 1967 – 1976
Assistant/Associate Professor at Dept. of Biophysics, Stockholm University,
1977 – 1988
Professor of Medical Biophysics, University of Umeå, 1988 – 1993
Professor of Biophysics, Stockholm University, since 1993
Formally retired in 2012, at present partly re-employed (20%) as Professor of Biophysics (working full-time)
Visiting Scientist at University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and at Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, in 1987 – 1988 and at The Scripps Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA, in 2003
Chairwoman of the Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Stockholm University, 2006 – 2011
Honours and activities
Received the 1982 Lindbom Prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class of Chemistry, since 1993
Received the 1995 Arrhenius Plaque, awarded by the Swedish Chemical Society
Member of the Board of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, 1995 – 2000
Secretary and Deputy Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 1996 – 2014
Second Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2000 – 2003
Member of the Board of the Swedish Research Council 2004 – 2006
Deputy Member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, 2006 – 2015
Received the 2007 Björkén Prize, awarded by Uppsala University
Elected Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance, since 2009
Chairwoman of the Class of Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2010 – 2015
Chairwoman of the Board of The Magn. Bergvall Foundation, since 2014
Received the 2018 Bror Holmberg Medal, awarded by the Swedish Chemical Society
Elected Fellow 2018 of the American Biophysical Society
Publications
About 370 scientific publications in molecular biophysics and ca 13,000 citations, h-index 69 from Web of Science