Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

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.

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
Born (1968-08-31) August 31, 1968
Umeå, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
CitizenshipSwedish
Alma materChalmers University of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
ThesisIntelligent nucleic acid interactions with peptide nucleic acids and in recombination proteins (1996)
Doctoral advisorBengt Nordén

Education

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]

Employment

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 is 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 who was appointed as a Wallenberg Scholar, with a five-year grant awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.[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]

Awards and honors

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has received a number of awards and prizes. These include:

Bibliography
  • Natura: [for secondary school grades]. Biology 3, Life in development, co-author of the chapter A researcher tells, Liber, Stockholm, 1997, pp 88-89 ISBN 91-47-01174-2
  • Protein Folding and Metal Ions - Mechanisms, Biology and Disease Editors: Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, C. Gomes Taylor & Francis Books Inc. Oct 22, 2010 under imprint CRC Press ISBN 9781439809655

Scientific articles

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has published more than 200 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals (January 2017).[18]

Debate articles

Is the Gender Gap Solved in Liberal Sweden? Debate article, published on STEM Women website.[19]

Academia in Sweden is not as equal as you think. Debate article in Swedish in the Swedish Research Council’s web magazine Curie.

Other

In 2016, she was a guest blogger for the Research Council's web magazine Curie.[20]

References
  1. http://www.chalmers.se/chem/EN/divisions/physical-chemistry/nordenlab/former-members Retrieved 14 July 2017
  2. http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/publication/1105-intelligent-nucleic-acid-interactions-with-peptide-nucleic-acid-pna-and-recombination-enzyme-reca Retrieved 7 March 2017
  3. "Tulane University - Protein Folding Unraveled". www2.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  4. "Home Page". www.bioc.rice.edu. Archived from the original on 2005-12-18. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  5. "Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede new Head of Division of Chemical Biology". www.chalmers.se. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  6. "Pernilla Wittung Stafshede". www.chalmers.se. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  7. https://www.wallenberg.com/kaw/en/research/protein-research-can-alter-our-view-how-diseases-develop Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 7 March 2017
  8. "Biophysical Society Council 2017 Election Results" (PDF). Biophysical Society. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  9. Society, Biophysical. "Past Council". www.biophysics.org. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  10. "National Fresenius Award". chemgroups.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  11. "Prizes and medals acknowledged during the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' 187:th annual meeting". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  12. "Prizes and medals acknowledged during the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' 187:th annual meeting". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  13. "Fellows". Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  14. "List of recipients". Swedish Chemical Society. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  15. "Pernilla Wittung Stafshede". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  16. "Wittung-Stafshede new member of KVVS". Chalmers University of Technology. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  17. "Fellows". Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  18. "Scopus - Author details (Wittung-Stafshede, Pernilla)". Scopus. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  19. "Is the Gender Gap Solved in Liberal Sweden?". STEM Women. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  20. "Guest blogger Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede". Swedish Research Council's web magazine Curie. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
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