A group of young researchers from Canada, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Brazil, USA and Denmark have been selected for the MWP Young Researchers’ Program 2025.

The Young Researchers’ abstracts are published below: Click on the name to read the abstract.



Alexandros Alexakis –
Stockholm University, Sweden

Anna Iurchenkova
– Uppsala University, Sweden

Anran Liu –
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium

Bingrui Chen –
UGent-Woodlab, Ghent University, Belgium

Chhavi Verma –
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Edward Carlsson – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Elham Badalzadehe Aghdam
– Linnaeus University, Sweden

Giiguulen Enkhsaikha –
Aalto University, Finland

Joao Gabriel Zanon Paludeto –
Klabin S/A; Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Joel Kostensalo –
LUKE, Finland

John Tosin Aladejana –
Linnaeus University, Sweden

Linus Kron
– Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Marina Mehling – University of British Columbia, Canada

Matilda Öjmertz –
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Maximiliano Estravis Barcala – Umeå Plant Science Centre, (SLU), Sweden

Moaaz Safwa –
LUT University, Finland

Nissa Nurfajrin Solihat–
Aalto University, Finland

Pauliina Ahokas –
VTT, Finland

Peter Nordström –
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Sakari Välimäki –
LUKE, Finland

Shiying Zhang –
Aalto University, Finland

Simona Fine –
Northwestern University, USA

Tuuli Virkkala –
VTT, Finland

Valentina Perna –
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Xiang Hu –
University of Turku, Finland

Zonghong Lu – Åbo Akademi University; Finland