
Celsius–Linnaeus Lectures 2023
February 9, 09.00-16.15 at Eva von Bahr, Ångström Laboratory.
Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures
Each year the Faculty of Science and Technology arranges the Celsius-Linnaeus honorary lectures in memory of Anders Celsius and Carl von Linné. The selected Celsius- and Linnaeus-lecturers are at today's forefront within their field.
The 2023 Celsius-Lecturer is Johan Rockström, Professor Earth System Science, University of Potsdam and Director Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Celsius-Lecture: A safe and just future for humanity on Earth
The 2023 Linnaeus-Lecturer is John A. Rogers, Simpson Querrey Professor and Director of QSIB at Northwestern University.
Linnaeus-Lecture: Soft, Skin-Interfaced Electronic and Microfluidic Systems.
The Celsius-Linnaeus lecturers are selected by the Celsius-Linnaeus Committee. The committee also selects four symposie-lecturers, two national and two from Uppsala University.
Here you can take part in the whole program for the 2023 Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures.
The lectures takes place at Eva von Bahr, Ångström Laboratory. All lectures are open for everyone to attend, no registration needed.
Since 1991, eleven of the Celsius-Linnaeus lectures have been awarded a Nobel Prize.
Svante Pääbo, who was Linnaeus-lecturer in 2022, has received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine the same year. Take part in his lecture Archaic Genomcis here.
THE CELSIUS-LINNAEUS COMMITTEE
The Celsius-Linnaeus committee has the task of inviting top-class lecturers in the world each year in the subject areas of Anders Celsius and Carl von Linné respectively.
Members of the Celsius-Linnaeus committee 2022-2025
- Professor Máté Erdélyi, Department of Chemistry-BMC (chairman)
- Professor Klas Hjort, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Professor Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Department of Earth Science
- Professor Karin Schönning, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Professor Per Ahlberg, Department of Organismal Biology
- Professor Silvelyn Zwanzig, Department of Mathematics
For more information, contact committee secretary Karin Thellenberg
Previous lecturers

Anders Celsius

Carl von Linné
