Other Welcome to the NVS Day 2026!
16-06-2026 1:00 am Add to iCal
Join us for a full day with NVS and an exciting program. Davide Liborio Vetrano and Breiffni Leavy will guide us through the day.
The day will be held in English. For registered employees and affiliates of NVS only.
Program
Registration
Entrance Cirkus
Welcome by Maria Ankarcrona
New Cirkus, conference room
Tobias Karlsson's talk
Tobias Karlsson will give a lecture entitled ”You can make a difference”
This is an inspiring lecture with dancer and choreographer Tobias Karlsson (known from Let’s dance), where he shares his life story and experiences of feeling excluded, but also of finding himself, to keep daring to dream.
New Cirkus, conference room
Dance with Tobias Karlsson
Old Cirkus
Coffee
Open area entrance and outside
Presentations of new senior lecturers
- Sara Garcia Ptacek, neuroscience
- Anna Jervaeus, nursing
- Daniel Ferreira, neuropsychology
New Cirkus, conference room
Short talks
- Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga will talk about TraCeDem – KI Transdisciplinary Research Center for Personalized Dementia Prevention & Care.
- Davide Liborio Vetrano will interview our Head of Department Maria Ankarcrona and the Deputy Heads of Department Malin Nygren Bonnier and Eric Westman.
New Cirkus, conference room
Lunch
Old Cirkus, restaurant
Presentations of new docents
- Sofia Vikström, occupational therapy
- Erland Axelsson, applied psychology
- Amit Kumar, medical informatics
- Lena Lund, nursing
- Ulrika Einarsson, physiotherapy
- Simona Sacuiu, psychiatry
New Cirkus, conference room
Shorts talks
- Linus Jönsson will present a beta version of a new application developed within the NVS Task Force on Aging. The platform is designed to make it easier to identify researchers at NVS and explore their expertise, methodological skills, research interests, collaborations, and much more. A kind of "NVS ChatGPT" for navigating the department's research ecosystem.
- Karin Högstedt and Adina König, representatives, will present the NVS Doctoral Student Council.
New Cirkus, conference room
Coffee
Open area entrance and outside
Lecture Jan Semenza
Jan Semenza will give a lecture entitled ”Climate change and aging: health risks and paths to action".
Jan Carlo Semenza is a physician and epidemiologist specializing in climate change and health, with a focus on how environmental exposures shape infectious diseases and population health risks.
New Cirkus, conference room
Celebrations new docents and senior lecturers and conclusion of the day by Maria Ankarcrona
New Cirkus, conference room
Aperitif and jazz band
Old Cirkus, restaurant
Dinner with surprise entertainment
Old Cirkus
After party with dance and music
Old Cirkus, the bar is open in the restaurant