Per Erik Ahlberg - Curriculum Vitae#
Academic degrees:
- 1989: PhD in Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
Scientific supervision (PhD and postdoctoral):
- Supervised 10 PhD students, 1996-present.
- Adviser to eight postdoctoral students, 1997-present.
Commissions of trust:
- Head of Subdepartment.
- Director of Zebrafish Facility, SciLifeLab Uppsala.
- Member of Uppsala University Museums Council, 2004-2016.
- Member of Governing Board, Uppsala University Museum of Evolution, 2007-2010.
- Joint Editor-in-Chief (with Graham Budd) of Acta Zoologica, 2003-2006.
- Handling editor for Palaeontology (2003-2005) and Journal of Anatomy (2001-2005).
- Council member of the Linnean Society of London (1995-1999), Systematics Association (1996-2000) and *Palaeontological Association (2003-2005).
- Member of Romer Prize committee, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2007-2016).
- Sole or chief organizer of international symposia: “Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution: Palaeontology Phylogeny, Genetics and Development”, London, 1999; “11th International Symposium on Early Vertebrates”, Uppsala 2007; “Palaeontological and Molecular Approaches to Early Vertebrate Evolution”, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Jubilee Symposium, Uppsala 2015.
- External reviewer of numerous grant applications from ARC (Australia), VR (Sweden), BBSRC and NERC (UK), NSF (USA) and other funding bodies.
- Appointed peer reviewer to European Research Council, 2009.
- Appointed to Beam Time Allocation Panel, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 2014.
- Appointed as Mentor / Network Coordinator for Wallenberg Fellows by Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2015.
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London (2003-2007).
- Official host for Sir David Attenborough during Linnaeus Tercentenary Celebrations, Uppsala University, 2007.
Major grants:
- NERC grant, 2000-2003: £53,572
- BBSRC grant, 2002-2007: £101,414
- Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council), professorship, 2003-2009: SEK 16,200,000 (€1,680,000)
- Vetenskapsrådet, project grant, 2004-2006: 2,160,000 kr (€225,000)
- Vetenskapsrådet, Linnaeus framework grant, 2009-2019: 6,000,000 kr (€623,500)
- Vetenskapsrådet, project grant, 2015-2018: 4,000,000 kr (€416,000)
- ERC advanced investigator grant, 2009-2014: €868,582
- Wallenberg Scholarship, 2010-2015: 15,000,000 kr (€1,559,000)
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP110101127, 2011-2015: AU$ 710,000 (Ahlberg share approx. 10%)
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP160102460, 2016-2020: AU$ 496,669 (Ahlberg share approx. 10%)
- Wallenberg Scholarship, 2016-2020: 20,000,000 kr (€2,078,000)