Hans Chen from Chalmers University of Technology is one of two researchers to receive a grant of one million SEK from the Hasselblad Foundation for his research on how climate change in the Arctic has affected and will affect ecosystems and the carbon budget, i.e. how much more carbon dioxide can be emitted before the temperature risks increasing more than stated in the Paris Agreement.
At a ceremony on January 15, 2024, the Hasselblad Foundation awarded the two research grants for continuing education given each year to young researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. The grant of SEK 1 million aims to support young researchers in the natural sciences.
The Chalmers researcher who received the 2023 grant is Hans Chen at the Division of Geoscience and Remote Sensing at the Department of Space, Earth and Environment. His research focuses on two directions – climate change in the Arctic and how it is linked to weather and climate in the rest of the world, and greenhouse gas emissions and removals.
– I am very excited about this grant because I have previously worked quite a lot with the Arctic climate system, and also on carbon cycle dynamics but never both of them together. So the support from the Hasselblad foundation allows me to combine those two research interests and to explore this new and very interesting research direction.
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Hasselblad Science is the scientific branch of the Hasselblad Foundation. The Foundation's aim is to promote both photography and natural sciences. In the scientific domain, we award research funding, donations and stipends, and our ambition is to support larger projects of long-term strategic importance in primarily Western Sweden.
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The grant received by Hans Chen is one of two research grants from the Hasselblad Foundation that are awarded annually to young researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. The SEK 1 million grant aims to support young researchers in the natural sciences. The second grant in 2023 went to Daniel Bojar and his team at the University of Gothenburg, who are using specially developed AI tools to investigate the unexplored sugar molecules found in mammalian breast milk. Read more in the news item "1 million SEK for continued research on breast milk" on the University of Gothenburg website.
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