Chalmers Entrepreneurial Fellowship is a unique opportunity for researchers in the beginning of their career to work on developing commercial ideas and building their entrepreneurial skills over a one-year period of employment. At the end of the programme, the aim is to be able to start up new companies based on the innovation, with the researcher taking an active role. The programme is aimed at postdocs and doctoral students.
As a participant in the Entrepreneurial Fellowship programme, you will be employed for one year within the Chalmers Group. During that time, you will have the opportunity to develop your research idea or results with a view, eventually, to taking them to the market in the form of a start-up company. In addition to financial resources, the programme provides you with support and advice to develop your idea commercially and build entrepreneurial skills.
The aim of the Chalmers Entrepreneurial Fellowship is to create more new deep tech companies with greater potential to develop further in Sweden. It is also a way of strengthening Chalmers’ utilisation by developing more research-based innovations, commercialising them and creating socio-economic value.
The Chalmers Entrepreneurial Fellowship programme is a joint venture between Chalmers University of Technology, Chalmers Next Labs and Chalmers Ventures.
Meet Chalmers' first Entrepreneurial Fellows
The historic first three Fellows are:
- Sajid Alvi, postdoc at Physics, who is developing a new type of alloy anode for lithium-ion batteries, focusing on increasing energy density and sustainability.
- Dhelipan Mahenthiran, postdoc at Chemistry, who is developing an air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell stack for portable applications such as drones.
- Florian Morati, postdoc at Life Sciences, who is developing a new method for DNA-based data storage.
The three will begin their positions on September 1 and will be employed at Chalmers Nextlabs. They will continue to have access to Chalmers’ labs and infrastructure for their innovation development.
“It feels fantastic to be able to present our first appointments, and I am especially glad that we could select three such entrepreneurial individuals with highly promising innovations underway. It will be exciting to follow their journey over the coming year,” says Mats Lundqvist, Vice President for Utilization, Innovation and Lifelong Learning
