Britt-Marie Sjöberg#
Membership Number: | 4633 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2017 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | https://www.swgc.org |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 CEO of the Wenner-Gren Foundations
- 2011 Professor emerita at Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University
- 1987 Professor of Molecular Biology at Stockholm University
- 1984 Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala
- 1976 Docent in Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Karolinska Institute
- 1973 PhD in Medical Chemistry at Karolinska Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Structure, function and evolution of the universal ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) enzyme family
- RNRdb - RNR database
- Deoxynucleotide metabolism
- Origin of Life on Earth
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2011 - 2014 Second Vice President of the Academy
- 2013 H.M. the King’s Medal in 8th size with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim for “outstanding scientific achievements within molecular biology"