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Peter Hedström: Extremely gratifying. This support from LiU’s management confirms the value of our operations and reinforces my motivation to develop them further. IAS was founded in 2014. In a relatively short time, we’ve worked to establish ourselves as an internationally leading research institute.

Magnus Berggren: This enables us to hire young researchers who can take on completely new tracks and spin-offs from our existing research. The focus is on reinventing research, and this means boldness with the possibility of innovative research results.

Markus Heilig: SThis support provides stability to maintain and further develop a successful research environment we’ve built up over a ten-year period. It allows us to support young employees in their development, and enables long-term high-risk, high-gain research.

Fredrik Heintz: It’s fantastic! LiU was the first in Sweden to use AI, and today is the hub and engine of the growing AI cluster around Linköping. With research excellence, we can create benefits and prosperity through AI, since virtually all applications are based on the latest research. What’s particularly exciting right now is AI for science, where AI can accelerate and develop the scientific process.

Peter Hedström: The ambition is to establish interdisciplinary collaborations at LiU, as well as with leading international research groups and organisations outside academia.

Magnus Berggren: The obvious collaborations are of course with nearby groups in our laboratory (LOE). However, as we focus on new research tracks, we also expect new collaborations with groups having complementary skills, both nationally and internationally.

Markus Heilig: We’re now starting a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin and their Waggoner Center in transcriptomics, and with several European partners in the field of non-invasive brain stimulation in cases of alcohol addiction.

Fredrik Heintz: AI development is global; we collaborate with researchers across the world. Together with leading research groups internationally, we can develop both our excellence and our international visibility. By coordinating large EU projects and the AI factory Mimer, we have good cooperation within the EU. We want to strengthen this, as well as our Nordic cooperation. In times of geopolitical turmoil, it’s good to focus on the local area.

Peter Hedström: External funding is of key importance. But LiU’s commitment to excellence provides flexibility, giving more room for intellectual risk-taking. We’ll also have room for advanced model and theory development, which is crucial for science but difficult to finance.

Magnus Berggren: The focus we have initially defined is 1) producing electronic functions on single cell membranes and 2) electrochemical food production for a sustainable society.

Markus Heilig: We’re making a major investment in a completely new, non-invasive, focal deep brain stimulation that uses temporal interference. This sounded like science fiction when I heard Dr. Adam Williamson talk about it a few years ago. We already have preliminary data.

Fredrik Heintz: The truly innovative ideas can’t be planned. They appear when researchers have time to think and discuss together. Long-term financing is a prerequisite for this. AI is evolving fast. With the Centre of Excellence, we can quickly invest in new opportunities that open up.

Peter Hedström: We can act quickly if a strategically important recruitment opportunity presents itself. Initially, we will primarily attract prominent guest researchers and collaborations with leading researchers. We have good potential to support young researchers on the path to recognition.

Magnus Berggren: We hope that by offering very attractive new research tracks we can recruit the wildest and most excellent brains, internationally.

Markus Heilig: We mainly attract young talents at the post-doc level from all over the world through the attention our research is given internationally. The center gives us the opportunity to have an infrastructure that makes it easier for these talents to focus on actual research, and thus be competitive to receive start-up funds from the Swedish Research Council (VR), Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning, and the ERC.

Fredrik Heintz: The best researchers want to work with the leading researchers in the field. By strengthening our research excellence, we become more attractive. We want to create a dynamic, creative research environment in which promising young researchers in particular develop. We must also become even better at spreading all the impressive AI research carried out at LiU!