Katarina Bjelke was appointed Director General of the Swedish Research
Council in 2022. Previously she was University Director at Karolinska
Institutet as well as Uppsala University. From 2008, she worked seven
years as Director of Research Policies for the Government with main
responsibility of the research policy bill for Sweden, which is put forward
every fourth year. Simultaneously she was responsible for a number of
research infrastructures agencies and the Swedish universities.
With a degree in dentistry and a PhD in Neuroscience from Karolinska
Institutet, she has also previously worked as Director for Research and
Postgraduate Education at Karolinska Institutet.
She has hold positions as Chair of the Audit Committee of the Nobel
Foundation and the Swedish National Space Agency, elected member of
the boards of Young Academy of Sweden, the Association of SE Higher
Education Institutions, European Spallation Source, STINT and several
holding companies.
At present she is an elected board member of Science Europe and
Swedish Public and Science.
SRC
The Swedish Research Council is Sweden’s largest governmental
research funding body and supports research of the highest quality in all
scientific fields. We advise the Government on research policy and work
to ensure that research benefit society.