Monica Ringvik becomes CEO of Chalmers Next Labs

"It feels extremely exciting to step in as the first CEO of Chalmers Next Labs. I look forward to creating the conditions for and accelerating the utilisation of all the fantastic knowledge and research generated at Chalmers . This will lay the foundation for future innovations in business and society”, says Monica Ringvik. 

 Chalmers aims to become a world-leading technical university. The path to this goal involves development towards an academic top level combined with highly efficient utilisation. This requires a strong focus on making research results available to society and industry quickly and efficiently.   

"Chalmers Next Labs has great potential for societal impact. I am therefore pleased that we have now appointed Monica Ringvik as CEO of Chalmers Next Labs and look forward to the development that can now take place," says Sara Wallin, CEO of the Chalmers University of Technology Foundation, which is the parent company of the Chalmers Group.   

"With the establishment of Chalmers Next Labs, we can have research-related development and development on a completely different scale than inside the strictly academic part of the university," says Martin Nilsson Jacobi, President and CEO of Chalmers University of Technology AB.

"This is incredibly important if the advanced knowledge generated at Chalmers is to have maximum impact on Swedish competitiveness and the transition to a sustainable society”. 

Facts / Chalmers Next Labs  

Chalmers Next Lab's first major project is already underway and aims to build a quantum computer. Thanks to funding of SEK 50 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, an agreement has been signed between Chalmers and IBM, and a quantum test bed has been opened up for researchers and partners. The long-term aim of the testbed is to develop and enable a higher level of expertise in quantum technology in Sweden, and to lower the threshold for using quantum technology in both academia and industry.   

Facts / Monica Ringvik  

Monica Ringvik holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering with Physics from Chalmers University of Technology (1996-2001), and most recently held a position as CTO for RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.  

In between, she has held a number of different positions within the Volvo Group, including Director Research & Public Funding Programme Sweden and Director Research & Innovation Policy, before being CTO of AstaZero AB between 2017 and 2021.