Pernilla Wittung Stafshede#
| Membership Number: | 4456 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/bio/research/chemical_biology/Wittung-Stafshede-Lab/Pages/default.aspx |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Full Professor with Tenure and Head Chemical Biology division, Biology and Biological Engineering Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2008 - 2015 Full Professor with Tenure Chemistry Department, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- 2004 - 2008 Associate Professor with Tenure Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX
- Associate Professor with Tenure Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX
- 2002 - 2003 Associate Professor with Tenure Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1997 - 1998 Swedish Technical Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, CalTech, with Dr. Harry B. Gray
- 1993 - 1996 Research and Teaching Assistant, Physical Chemistry, Chalmers, with Dr. Bengt Norden
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein folding
- Metal transfer proteins
- Spectroscopy
- Biophysical methods
- Protein amyloid formation
- Macromolecular crowding
- Metalloproteins
- Oligomeric proteins
- Cancer
- Parkinson's diease
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award
- 2000 Newcomb College Mortar Board Teaching Award
- 2000 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
- 2001 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
- 2001 Albert Wallin’s Science Award from the Gothenburg Royal Academy of Science and Art
- 2002 Selected as one of “40 best under 40” in Gambit Weekly Magazine, New Orleans, LA
- 2003 The National Fresenius Award, by Phi Lambda Upsilon, National Chemistry Honor Society
- 2009 Wallmarkska Prize (by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, KVA)
- 2009 The Göran Gustafsson’s Prize in chemistry (the next biggest Swedish prize)
- 2010 Nordea’s Prize for life science research
- 2010 Selected as one (of ten) Wallenberg Scholar 2010-2015
- 2013 STIAS fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa, August 2013
- 2016 Arrhenius medal (Swedish Chemical Society; pioneering work in chemistry)
- 2016 Elected as one of 18 members, Swedish Royal Academy of the Sciences, Chemistry class
- 2017 Elected as a member, The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, Chemistry
- 2018 - 2022 Renewed appointment as Wallenberg Scholar
