Carolina Wählby

Carolina Wählby is professor in Quantitative Microscopy at the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University, and Scientific Director of the NBIS Bioimage Informatics Unit. Her research is focused on developing computational approaches for extracting information from image data with applications in life science; primarily at the microscopy scale. Methods include traditional image analysis and computer vision technology as well as AI and deep learning. The goal of the analysis ranges from fast antibiotics susceptibility testing to ‘functional pathology’ combining tissue morphology with spatial transcriptomics. She received the SBI2 President’s innovation award in 2014 for her pioneering work on in situ sequencing, the Thuréus prize in 2015 for development of open tools for image analysis, and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. She is an active member of the steering group of a 300M€ effort on Data Driven Life Science, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, with the ambitious goal of training the next generation of life scientists. She has a MSc in molecular biotechnology and a PhD in digital image analysis, and carried out postdoc research within genetics and pathology. She worked at the Imaging Platform of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in 2009-2015 and became full professor at Uppsala University in 2014.