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 Castaneda – KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Ameenat Kehinde Adesina – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Anka Klecina – Mid Sweden University 

Anne Braunroth – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Anran Mao – KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Assem Akkuly – Mid Sweden University 

Cong Chen – Linnaeus University, Sweden

Dandara Yasmim Bonfim de Oliveira Silva – São Paulo State University (Unesp), Brazil

Dia Pornpan Kongthong – Mid Sweden University

Elijah Mark Garcia– Aalto University, Finland

Ella Mahlamäki – VTT 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 Iamin – Universitat 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 Feldhusen – Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Jenickson Costa – University of São Paulo, Brazil 

Khashayar Vaezi – University of Oulu, Finland

Lauri Männistö – Natural Resources Institute, Finland 

Mahyar Sarmad – The University of British Columbia, Canada

Masato Kamogawa – University of Tokyo, Japan and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Morassa Raouf – Karlstad University, Sweden

Nam Pham – University of Pretoria, South Africa

Robert Kindler – ETH Zürich, Schweiz

Roberta Teixeira Polez – KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,

Taiwo Omotosho – LUT University, Finland

Yidong Zhang – Åbo Akademi University, Finland