Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Swedish |
Citizenship | Swedish and American |
Alma mater | Chalmers University of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry |
Thesis | Intelligent nucleic acid interactions with peptide nucleic acids and in recombination proteins (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Bengt Nordén |
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede (maiden name Wittung) is a Swedish biophysical chemist, born in 1968, who is a professor of chemical biology at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. In 2019 she was named by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as a Distinguished Woman in Chemistry.
She received her Master of Science Degree in Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and a doctorate at the same institution in 1996 in biophysical chemistry under Bengt Nordén, [1] with a thesis entitled Intelligent nucleic acid interactions with peptide nucleic acids and in recombination proteins. [2]
After her Ph.D., she worked for twelve years in the United States at the California Institute of Technology, Beckman Institute in Pasadena, California (1997–98), Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana [3] (1999-2003) and Rice University in Houston, Texas [4] (2004-2008). [5]
In 2008, she returned to Sweden to a professor position at Umeå University. Since September 2015, she has been a professor at Chalmers University of Technology and was the head of the Chemical Biology division. She leads a research group that focuses on the biophysical properties of proteins; both metal-transporting proteins and proteins that fold incorrectly and clump together. The research is basic science, but has links to diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cancer. [6]
In 2010, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede was one of ten researchers in Sweden, appointed as a Wallenberg Scholar, receiving a grant awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation that she has renewed several times (most recently in 2024). [7]
In 2017 she was elected a member of the council of Biophysical Society (BPS). [8] It was the second time ever for a Swedish scientist; the first one was Arne Engström 1960–1963. [9]
In 2020, she became a member of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Committee, and since 2021 she is a council member for The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. [10]
In 2019 she started Genie at Chalmers, a 300 MSEK gender equality initiative funded by the Chalmers Foundation and led it for four years. [11]
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has received a number of awards and prizes. These include:
Pernilla has published over 260 scientific peer-reviewed articles since her first in 1994 (h index Google scholar 58, April 2024) and over 50 popular articles. Full list on her Orcid [26] or Scopus [27]
Wittung-Stafshede is married to Patric Stafshede and they have two daughters, Selma and Hilda Stafshede.
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