A group of young researchers from Canada, Sweden, Finland, Schweiz, Spain, South Africa, Brazil, have been selected for the MWP Young Researchers’ Program 2026.

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



Alvaro CastanedaKTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Ameenat Kehinde Adesina Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Anka KlecinaMid Sweden University 

Anne BraunrothSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Anran Mao KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Assem AkkulyMid Sweden University 

Cong Chen Linnaeus University, Sweden

Dandara Yasmim Bonfim de Oliveira SilvaSão Paulo State University (Unesp), Brazil

Dia Pornpan Kongthong Mid Sweden University

Elijah Mark GarciaAalto University, Finland

Ella MahlamäkiVTT Technical Research Center of Finland

Ellen Svensson – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Emily Hart Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Fatima-Zahra el Bouchtaoui Linköping University, Sweden

Giovana Signori IaminUniversitat de Girona, Spain

Glen Pauls VTT Technical Research Center of Finland

Janne Toivonen Natural Resources Institute (Luke), Finland

Janneke Aylward University of Pretoria, South Africa

Jasmin Hertzberg Aalto University, Finland

Jelka FeldhusenChalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Jenickson CostaUniversity of São Paulo, Brazil 

Khashayar Vaezi University of Oulu, Finland

Lauri MännistöNatural Resources Institute, Finland 

Mahyar Sarmad The University of British Columbia, Canada

Masato KamogawaUniversity of Tokyo, Japan and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Morassa RaoufKarlstad University, Sweden

Nam Pham University of Pretoria, South Africa

Robert KindlerETH Zürich, Schweiz

Roberta Teixeira PolezKTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,

Taiwo OmotoshoLUT University, Finland

Yidong ZhangÅbo Akademi University, Finland