Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

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Full Name	Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
Occupation	University Teacher
Date Of Birth	Aug 31, 1968(1968-08-31)
Age	56
Birthplace	Umeå
Country	Sweden
Birth City	Västerbotten
Horoscope	Leo

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede Biography

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is one of the most popular and richest University Teacher who was born on August 31, 1968 in Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden. Pernilla Wittung Stafshede (maiden nickname Wittung) is an Swedish biophysical chemist who was born in 1968. She is a professor in Chemical Biology in the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.

In 2010 Pernilla Wittung Stafshede was one of ten researchers from Sweden that was named an Wallenberg Scholar, with a five-year grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

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

In 2017 she was elected a member of the council of Biophysical Society (BPS). It was the second time ever for a Swedish scientist; the first one was Arne Engström 1960–1963.

Since 2008, the professor came back to Sweden for a professorship in Umea University. Since September of 2015 she is an instructor in the department of Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology and is head for the Chemical Biology division. She is the head of a research team that studies biological properties and biophysical characteristics of protein, including metal- transporting proteins as well as proteins that fold in a wrong way and form clumps. The study is basic science, yet it has connections to various diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and even cancer.

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede Net Worth

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is one of the richest University Teacher from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She earned her Master of Science Degree in Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and an honorary doctorate from the same institution in the year 1996 in biophysical chemical chemistry under Bengt Norden. She defended her thesis titled Intelligent nucleic acids interaction with the peptide nucleic acid and Recombination proteins.

Following her Ph.D. after her Ph.D., she spent 12 year within the United States at the California Institute of Technology, Beckman Institute in Pasadena, California (1997-98), Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (1999-2003) and Rice University in Houston, Texas (2004-2008).

In 2016, she was a guest blogger for the Research Council’s web magazine Curie.

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Pernilla Ranked on the list of most popular University Teacher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Pernilla Wittung- Stafshede celebrates birthday on August 31 of every year.

Top Facts about Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

1. Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is a Swedish biophysical chemist.
2. She is currently a professor at Chalmers University of Technology.
3. Her research focuses on protein folding and metal ion homeostasis.
4. She has published over 100 scientific papers in her career.
5. Wittung-Stafshede has received numerous awards for her research, including the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry.
6. She is also an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
7. In addition to her research, she is involved in promoting gender equality in science.
8. Wittung-Stafshede earned her PhD from Lund University in 1999.
9. Prior to joining Chalmers, she held positions at several other universities around the world.
10. Her work has implications for understanding diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.