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Monica Ringvik appointed CEO of Chalmers Next Labs

The Chalmers Group has appointed Monica Ringvik as CEO of Chalmers Next Labs, a newly established company that will have a central role in effectively getting research out to society and business where it is useful.

Anna Mighetto

Posted on August 15, 2024

- "It feels extremely exciting to step in as the first CEO of Chalmers Next Labs. I look forward to creating the conditions for and accelerating the utilization of all the fantastic knowledge and research generated at Chalmers. With this, we lay the foundation for future innovations in business and society," says Monica Ringvik. 

Chalmers aims to become a world-leading technical university. The path to this goal involves development towards academic excellence combined with highly efficient utilization. This requires a strong focus on making research results available to society and industry quickly and efficiently.   

- "Chalmers Next Labs has great potential to impact society. I am therefore pleased that we have now appointed Monica Ringvik as CEO of Chalmers Next Labs and look forward to the development that can now take place," says Sara Wallin, CEO of the Chalmers University of Technology Foundation, which is the parent company of the Chalmers Group.   

- "With Chalmers Next Labs, we can have research-related development on a completely different scale than inside the strictly academic part of the university," says Martin Nilsson Jacobi, President and CEO of Chalmers University of Technology AB.  

- This is incredibly important for the advanced knowledge generated at Chalmers to have maximum impact on Swedish competitiveness and the transition to a sustainable society.