Prof Carolina Wählby

Carolina Wählby is professor in Quantitative Microscopy, Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University, and director of the National SciLifeLab Bioimage Informatics facility. Her research is focused on developing computational approaches for extracting information from image data with focus on medicine and life science. Methods including large-scale cell-based screening, AI, deep learning for dynamic and static tissue, antibiotics susceptibility testing, and spatial transcriptomics, funded primarily by the ERC and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic research. She received the SBI2 President’s innovation award in 2014, and the Thuréus prize in 2015 and is a member of the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. She has a MSc in molecular biotechnology and a PhD in digital image analysis, and carried out postdoc research within genetics and pathology. She was part of the Imaging Platform of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in 2009-2015, developing CellProfiler, and became full professor at Uppsala University in 2014. More info at https://user.it.uu.se/~cli05194/