Stockholm University Research Articles

Lars Erik Blomqvist (1942 07 03 ‒ 2021 10 10)

Lars Erik Blomqvist was an outstanding Swedish Slavist and celebrated translator of Russian literature. He was awarded numerous prizes for his work as a translator, honored as the best lecturer at Uppsala University, bestowed the degree of doctor honoris causa by Stockholm University, and was one of the founders of the celebrated seminar at Södertörn University focused on the translation of prose and poetry. He translated the works of Bulgakov, Erenburg, Leonov, Aitmatov, Pristavkin, Pjecuch, Pilnyak, Grossman, Bitov, and many others, including the works of Russian classics — Radischev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Sologub. One of the highlights of his translations is the anthology of Russian poetry Från Derzjavin till Brodsky (1989), which was a joint project with Hans Björkegren. Lars Erik visited Vilnius University numerous times, where he gave lectures and master classes on the translation of fiction.

A global CO2 price – Necessary and sufficient

During the last 10 years, I have spent most of my research time on the economics of climate change. Basically all of it has been done together with my colleagues Per Krusell at IIES and Conny Olovsson at Sveriges Riksbank. Being a truly cross-disciplinary field, the close interaction with many natural scientists, in particular Jonas Nycander at the department of meteorology at Stockholm University has been an absolute necessity. In this article, based on a talk at the Finnish Economic Association annual conference in February 2020, I summarize what we have learned over the years. Hopefully it can be of value to other researchers and policy makers. In any case, I am convinced that economics is key for understanding what to do about global warming. The key conclusion is that a global agreement on a (minimum) price on fossil carbon emission is necessary, sufficient and efficient solution to limiting climate change.

Future designs of tertiary dance education: Scanning the field for decolonizing potentials in a major change project at the Department for Dance Pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts

This performative hybrid research and development project contributes knowledge about the decolonizing potentials and challenges that are articulated through an initial scanning of the dance pedagogical field as part of a large change project in tertiary dance education at the Department for Dance Pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden. To do this scanning in a way that would promote collective learning, multiple perspective taking and creativity, we utilised design thinking. In total, 140 scan cards collected through the project were analysed. Both students and staff and other people in different parts of the world within the dance educational field created the scan cards. As a result, we suggest that the scanning of the field has pushed ourselves, the rest of the staff, students, and others into a process of collective learning, multiple perspective taking, and creativity, in which clear decolonizing potentials, as well as challenges to change are expressed.

Isolation and Identification of Pseudo Seven-Coordinate Ru(III) Intermediate Completing the Catalytic Cycle of Ru-bda Type of Water Oxidation Catalysts

Isolation and Identification of Pseudo Seven-Coordinate Ru(III) Intermediate Completing the Catalytic Cycle of Ru-bda Type of Water Oxidation Catalysts

Lars Lyberg, (1944–2021)

Lars was born near Stockholm on 1 December 1944 and passed away on 9 March 2021 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He spent much of his early life in Stockholm where he studied statistics at Stockholm University, gaining a Doctorate under the supervision of Tore Dalenius. Like most Swedes, he had a stint of military service. He started his professional work career at Statistics Sweden in 1966 and spent the next 44 years there, culminating in his appointment as head of the Research and Development Department. After retiring from Statistics Sweden, he worked as a consultant in survey methods and quality management. Since 2003, he taught at Stockholm University with professorial status in recognition of his past contributions. He had many interests besides statistics especially sport where he had encyclopaedic knowledge not just about Sweden. He was an excellent tennis player in his younger days. Although modest by nature, he was generous of his time especially to young survey researchers. He was always a careful listener, often leaving his contribution to discussions to the end after hearing what others had to say. I first met Lars in 1983 while visiting Statistics Sweden and connected immediately. We exchanged knowledge on statistical methods gained through work in our respective statistical organisations and met regularly after this first meeting, enjoying watching live sporting contests as well as televised matches over a few beers. Lars is survived by his partner Lilli Japec, a fellow statistician at Statistics Sweden, who became head of Research and Development subsequent to Lars’s retirement. He had two adult sons, adopted from Bolivia during his first marriage. Lars was tall and blonde, whereas his sons were short and dark. It made for interesting discussions at immigration posts when travelling with his sons.

Mika H. Sipponen

Mika H. Sipponen

Ilich A. Ibarra.

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Cell scientist to watch – Alexey Amunts

ABSTRACT Alexey Amunts earned his PhD in 2010 from Tel Aviv University for his work on the structure of a plant photosystem I in the lab of Nathan Nelson. He then moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, for a postdoc with Venki Ramakrishnan, where he used cryo-EM to study ribosomes from human and yeast mitochondria. Since 2016, he has been a group leader at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) and Stockholm University. His lab is investigating the mechanisms, assembly and evolution of bioenergetic complexes. In 2019, Alexey was selected for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme, and he has also received the Cancer Foundation Junior Investigator Award, as well as funding from the ERC, Wallenberg Foundation and SSF Future Leaders.

Experimental and theoretical studies of excited states in Ir−

The properties of atomic negative ions are to a large extent determined by electron-electron correlation which makes them an ideal testing ground for atomic many-body physics. In this paper, we present a detailed experimental and theoretical study of excited states in the negative ion of iridium. The ions were stored at cryogenic temperatures using the double electrostatic ion ring experiment facility at Stockholm University. Laser photodetachment was used to monitor the relaxation of three bound excited states belonging to the [Xe] $4{f}^{14}5{d}^{8}6{s}^{2}$ ionic ground configuration. Our measurements show that the first excited state has a lifetime much longer than the ion-beam storage time of $1230\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}100\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}}\mathrm{s}$. The binding energy of this state was measured to be $1.045\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.002\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}$. The lifetimes of the second and third excited states were experimentally determined to be $133\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}10$ and $172\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}35\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}}\mathrm{ms}$, respectively. Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations were performed in order to extract binding energies and lifetimes. These calculations predict the existence of the third excited bound state that was detected experimentally. The computed lifetimes for the three excited bound states agree well with the experimental results and allow for a clear identification of the detected levels.

Research School of Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University

Research School of Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University

CASCADE – The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE

Abstract. Biogeochemical cycling in the semi-enclosed Arctic Ocean is strongly influenced by land–ocean transport of carbon and other elements and is vulnerable to environmental and climate changes. Sediments of the Arctic Ocean are an important part of biogeochemical cycling in the Arctic and provide the opportunity to study present and historical input and the fate of organic matter (e.g., through permafrost thawing). Comprehensive sedimentary records are required to compare differences between the Arctic regions and to study Arctic biogeochemical budgets. To this end, the Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE (CASCADE) was established to curate data primarily on concentrations of organic carbon (OC) and OC isotopes (δ13C, Δ14C) yet also on total N (TN) as well as terrigenous biomarkers and other sediment geochemical and physical properties. This new database builds on the published literature and earlier unpublished records through an extensive international community collaboration. This paper describes the establishment, structure and current status of CASCADE. The first public version includes OC concentrations in surface sediments at 4244 oceanographic stations including 2317 with TN concentrations, 1555 with δ13C-OC values and 268 with Δ14C-OC values and 653 records with quantified terrigenous biomarkers (high-molecular-weight n-alkanes, n-alkanoic acids and lignin phenols). CASCADE also includes data from 326 sediment cores, retrieved by shallow box or multi-coring, deep gravity/piston coring, or sea-bottom drilling. The comprehensive dataset reveals large-scale features of both OC content and OC sources between the shelf sea recipients. This offers insight into release of pre-aged terrigenous OC to the East Siberian Arctic shelf and younger terrigenous OC to the Kara Sea. Circum-Arctic sediments thereby reveal patterns of terrestrial OC remobilization and provide clues about thawing of permafrost. CASCADE enables synoptic analysis of OC in Arctic Ocean sediments and facilitates a wide array of future empirical and modeling studies of the Arctic carbon cycle. The database is openly and freely available online (https://doi.org/10.17043/cascade; Martens et al., 2021), is provided in various machine-readable data formats (data tables, GIS shapefile, GIS raster), and also provides ways for contributing data for future CASCADE versions. We will continuously update CASCADE with newly published and contributed data over the foreseeable future as part of the database management of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University.

Introducing WLT Book Buzz

WORLDLIT.ORG 13 Adnan Mahmutović came to Sweden from Bosnia as a war refugee in the 1990s. He lectures at Stockholm University in literature and creative writing and has published two novels, Thinner Than a Hair and, most recently, At the Feet of Mothers; a shortstory collection, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair; and a volume of literary criticism, Ways of Being Free. times, and most importantly in different states. You can write entire stories just following a peculiar phrase synchronically and diachronically. Like this prayer called the Bosnian prayer, which another friendthrough -words sent me. It is not Bosnian in origin, of course. It started, they say, as poetry in the mind of the great Tagore, probably as fragments, and traveled all the way from Calcutta for a century, over many borders and open landscapes, transformed through different languages, to the pen of a Bosnian translator, and became one of the most cited prayers in all kinds of official and private contexts. The Bosnian prayer jumped into English, and from there it bounced back into the world and impressed people so much they called it by our name. And it is ours. And it is Tagore’s. And it is yours, like all words. At least that’s what the legend says. And so, in the end, if I may think of, or hope for, the future, my idea of an eternal afterlife is not, as in some people’s opinions , a life in a place where everyone speaks one and the same language, some dialect of the protofather Adam, which encompasses all words that capture the essences of all things; instead, it’s an eternity spent learning millions of languages, getting to know each other, trivas for all eternity. Stockholm WLT IS JOINING THE BOOKTUBE WORLD! The show is WLT Book Buzz, hosted by two former interns who now work in children’s book publishing. After watching Laura Hernandez and Bunmi Ishola read more books than anyone else we knew, we convinced them to discuss their reading in a short monthly program. Though not exclusively about children’s and young adult lit, these two voracious readers will cover many children’s and YA books with an international focus that incorporates their (and our) commitment to reading diverse authors. Laura Hernandez lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Working in the book-publishing industry has only made her book-hoarding tendencies worse. She takes at least one international trip a year and has visited over twenty different countries so far. But when she’s not reading or traveling, she’s galavanting around New York City in search of foodventures and whimsy. You can find her on Instagram: @laura_louda and @booklynbites. Bunmi Ishola is a former journalist turned middleschool teacher who works in children’s book publishing. She’s constantly guilty of tsundoku , but that hasn’t stopped her from buying more books. She loves to travel and has been to about twenty countries and every continent except Antarctica (she’s saving that for her fortieth birthday!). When she’s not reading, buying books, or traveling, she’s probably watching something on Disney+, HGTV, or Food Network. You can find this former WLT intern on Instagram: @bunmi_ishola. Join Laura and Bunmi on our YouTube channel, worldlittoday, where you can subscribe for free. Introducing WLT Book Buzz by The Editors of WLT a WLT BOOK BUZZ I trust with my life people whom I can ask about the provenance of some strange word around midnight and go to sleep only to find out in the morning they’ve been up all night researching the word. BOOK BUZZ WLT WORLDLIT.ORG 13 ...

K. Anders Ericsson (1947–2020).

Presents the obituary of K. Anders Ericsson (1947-2020). Anders received his PhD from University of Stockholm in 1976. His postdoctoral fellowship (1977-1980) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) with Nobel Laureate, Herbert A. Simon, helped set his research agenda. With Simon, he defined rigorous procedures for using think aloud verbal protocols, making that technique a potent tool for exploring cognitive processes, leading to their classic Psychological Review article on the topic of verbal reports as data, followed by a highly cited book, Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data (14,000+ citations) , revised a decade later. Anders moved to University of Colorado at Boulder from 1980-1986; teaming up with Walter Kintsch to develop an influential theory about long-term working memory. He took a leave from 1987-1989, becoming a research associate professor at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education. There he cemented his reputation as one of the foremost "experts on expertise," with a study of the role of deliberate practice in expert music performance with Krampe and Tesch-Römer that became his second-most cited publication (11,000þ). He joined Florida State University (FSU) in 1992 as a Conradi Eminent Scholar. Once at FSU, he put FSU's psychology department on the map for cognitive psychology, specifically for the study of expert performance. He remained there until his death, supervising 11 doctoral students. Anders was appointed Fellow of Division 3, the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science of the American Psychological Association (1997), and the Association for Psychological Science (2006). He was invited to spend a sabbatical as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2002, and was proud to have been made a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2009. He was big brother to Lasse Ericsson and Kerstin Loden. He is survived by his wife, Natalie Sachs-Ericsson, daughter Lina and son Jens from his first marriage to Anna-Lena Malm, and grandson, Jakob Pahler. Despite his aggressive pursuit of truth in the practice of science, he will be remembered fondly by a multitude of people whose lives he changed for the better, as a kind and loving family member, loyal colleague, superb mentor, and faithful friend. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Green-Eye and Mimetic Desire in Strindberg

Research Article| May 01 2021 Green-Eye and Mimetic Desire in Strindberg Anders Olsson Anders Olsson Stockholm University and the Swedish Academy ANDERS OLSSON is professor emeritus in comparative literature at Stockholm University and chair of the Nobel committee at the The Swedish Academy. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture (2021) 28: 33–53. https://doi.org/10.14321/contagion.28.2021.0033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Anders Olsson; Green-Eye and Mimetic Desire in Strindberg. Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture 1 May 2021; 28 33–53. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/contagion.28.2021.0033 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressContagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Michigan State University Board of Trustees Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Paul Josef Crutzen: Ingeniousness and innocence

On January 28, 2021, the world lost a scholar, who won a Nobel Prize, who shaped our thinking about planet Earth, and whose fight for the protection of the global environment will be remembered forever. Paul Josef Crutzen was born in Amsterdam in 1933 and embarked on a cosmopolitan journey in 1957, when he left The Netherlands for Sweden. Looking back at that journey, we can state that he arrived at a triad of accomplishments that few intellectuals obtain: the disruptive advancement of science, the inspiring communication of science, and the responsible operationalization of science. Paul J. Crutzen. Image credit: Carsten Costard Photography. Paul J. Crutzen at work. Image credit: Archives of the Max Planck Society. Paul was trained as a civil engineer for the construction sector, which he abandoned for becoming a computer programmer at the Meteorology Institute of Stockholm University (MISU). The university housed the world’s fastest computers at that time, and the institute, founded by the great Gustav Rossby, was at the forefront of atmospheric research. When Paul arrived, MISU was headed by another giant of meteorology, Bert Bolin, who later became the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Paul had always longed for an academic career due to his interest and talent in mathematics and physics, yet was denied access to university education in The Netherlands by an unfortunate episode of illness. So, while helping develop numerical weather forecasting models for various projects, he also took lecture courses at Stockholm University, was graduated there, and eventually received a doctorate in meteorology in 1968. … [↵][1]1Email: emdir{at}pik-potsdam.de. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1

Chen-Chao Koo and the Early Numerical Weather Prediction Experiments in China

Although the first successful numerical weather prediction (NWP) project led by Charney and von Neumann is widely known, little is known by the international community about the development of NWP during the 1950s in China. Here, a detailed historical perspective on the early NWP experiments in China is provided. The leadership in NWP of the late Professor Chen-Chao Koo, a protégé of C. G. Rossby at the University of Stockholm during the late 1940s and a key leader of modern meteorology (particularly of atmospheric dynamics and physics) in China during the 1950s–70s, is highlighted. The unique contributions to NWP by Koo and his students, such as the ideas of formulating NWP as an “evolution” problem, in which the past data over multiple time steps are utilized, rather than an initial-value problem, and on the cybernetic aspects of atmospheric processes, i.e., regarding the motion of the atmosphere at various time scales as an optimal control system, are also emphasized.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2020

Despite the height of the coronavirus infection, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded in Stockholm in October 2020. This event was held online for the first time and was not accompanied by the traditional honoring of the laureates. In his will, Alfred Nobel entrusted the selection of the winner in this nomination to the Karolinska Medical and Surgical University of Stockholm, and the first award in this nomination took place in 1901. Since then, this event has been held 110 times, and 216 scientists have become laureates of the prize in the field of physiology and medicine, since the nominees are often not just one, but a group of researchers. This happened in 2020 - for research in the field of studying the hepatitis C virus, three scientists received the most prestigious award: the British Michael Houghton and the Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice. Due to the results of the research, which these three people conducted separately from each other, for the first time it became possible to completely eliminate the virus from the body.

Praktische Theologie angesichts der ökologischen Krise

Abstract This article clarifies essential concepts and describes what the actual ecological crisis is about, based on the model of planetary boundaries from Stockholm University. Thereupon it is explained to what an extent the perception of this crisis has increased in statements by the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches. How the ecological crisis is mirrored in substantial practical theological publications is demonstrated in an overview on the basis of three pertinent monographs on religious education. Then the focus lies on the resulting task of Education for Sustainable Development and on the question of its potential religious contours. Furthermore, relevant empirical studies on ecological awareness and education are presented.

The Ghost Boulevard

Abstract: The Ghost BoulevardThomas Borén, from the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University, reviews The Ghost Boulevard by Bojan Borić (published in 2020 by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm).

Introducing <em>WLT Book Buzz</em>

WORLDLIT.ORG 13 Adnan Mahmutović came to Sweden from Bosnia as a war refugee in the 1990s. He lectures at Stockholm University in literature and creative writing and has published two novels, Thinner Than a Hair and, most recently, At the Feet of Mothers; a shortstory collection, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair; and a volume of literary criticism, Ways of Being Free. times, and most importantly in different states. You can write entire stories just following a peculiar phrase synchronically and diachronically. Like this prayer called the Bosnian prayer, which another friendthrough -words sent me. It is not Bosnian in origin, of course. It started, they say, as poetry in the mind of the great Tagore, probably as fragments, and traveled all the way from Calcutta for a century, over many borders and open landscapes, transformed through different languages, to the pen of a Bosnian translator, and became one of the most cited prayers in all kinds of official and private contexts. The Bosnian prayer jumped into English, and from there it bounced back into the world and impressed people so much they called it by our name. And it is ours. And it is Tagore’s. And it is yours, like all words. At least that’s what the legend says. And so, in the end, if I may think of, or hope for, the future, my idea of an eternal afterlife is not, as in some people’s opinions , a life in a place where everyone speaks one and the same language, some dialect of the protofather Adam, which encompasses all words that capture the essences of all things; instead, it’s an eternity spent learning millions of languages, getting to know each other, trivas for all eternity. Stockholm WLT IS JOINING THE BOOKTUBE WORLD! The show is WLT Book Buzz, hosted by two former interns who now work in children’s book publishing. After watching Laura Hernandez and Bunmi Ishola read more books than anyone else we knew, we convinced them to discuss their reading in a short monthly program. Though not exclusively about children’s and young adult lit, these two voracious readers will cover many children’s and YA books with an international focus that incorporates their (and our) commitment to reading diverse authors. Laura Hernandez lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Working in the book-publishing industry has only made her book-hoarding tendencies worse. She takes at least one international trip a year and has visited over twenty different countries so far. But when she’s not reading or traveling, she’s galavanting around New York City in search of foodventures and whimsy. You can find her on Instagram: @laura_louda and @booklynbites. Bunmi Ishola is a former journalist turned middleschool teacher who works in children’s book publishing. She’s constantly guilty of tsundoku , but that hasn’t stopped her from buying more books. She loves to travel and has been to about twenty countries and every continent except Antarctica (she’s saving that for her fortieth birthday!). When she’s not reading, buying books, or traveling, she’s probably watching something on Disney+, HGTV, or Food Network. You can find this former WLT intern on Instagram: @bunmi_ishola. Join Laura and Bunmi on our YouTube channel, worldlittoday, where you can subscribe for free. Introducing WLT Book Buzz by The Editors of WLT a WLT BOOK BUZZ I trust with my life people whom I can ask about the provenance of some strange word around midnight and go to sleep only to find out in the morning they’ve been up all night researching the word. BOOK BUZZ WLT WORLDLIT.ORG 13 ...