Åsa Avdic
Journalist and novelist
02.01.2026 – 29.01.2026
« Journalist and tv-host at SVT (Swedish Television, a public service broadcast company), currently working with arts news. Also novelist, with previous work including Isola (2016, also translated to French), One more life (2022) and The witch of sea and sorrow (2025). »
« Currently working on a novel that partly takes place in Paris, and also touches on the earls history of French cinema. Coming to Paris to conduct research and to write. »
Charlotte Jung
Poet, playwright and translator
02.01.2026 – 23.01.2026
« I am a former psychologist turned experimental playwright and minimalist concrete poet. In my absurdist plays I explore disorientation and the fragile logic of being human, while my poetry strips language down to its fundamentals. In the spring of 2024, my play THE DELIVERY was featured in the Trap Door Theatre’s series for groundbreaking work. My recent publications include COLLECTED (Timglaset Editions, 2023) and EYESORE (above/ground press, 2024). »
« During my residency I will develop my absurdist plays ENCLOSURE and D&A, particularly focusing on the sections containing dialogue in French. Being in Paris, immersed in French, will help me refine the language’s rhythm, tone, and expressive range, allowing the French passages to deepen the play’s voice. I also plan to visit the Théâtre de la Huchette, a key venue in the tradition of absurdist theatre in Paris. »
Stefan Svallfors
Professor in Sociology
02.01.2026 – 29.01.2026
« I work at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, and I am a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. My research concerns different forms of expertise and their role in politics and public policies. This research deals, for example, with “policy professionals”, that is, people who are employed to do politics and affect politics rather than elected to office. Later research concerns expert reports and their role in health care governance. »
« My current project deals with the inner world of research policies and research funding agencies. It is primarily focussed on Sweden but will also include a comparison with French research policy. During my stay in Paris, I will conduct interviews at French research funding agencies and do documentary analyses. »
Ozan Öktem
Professor in Mathematics
02.01.2026 – 29.01.2026
« I am an applied mathematician working on theory and algorithms for inverse modelling: reconstructing hidden parameters (signals) from indirect observations (data) using computational models. My research focuses on large-scale, ill-posed problems in tomographic imaging, where data are noisy, solutions must be stable and fast, and ideas from analysis, statistics and numerics all interact. »
« Planned Paris stay involves collaborations on mathematical theory and computation for inverse problems in engineering and imaging with Schlumberger, ENS Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne University and Université Paris Cité. Themes are generative models for multidimensional signals in engineering and shape analysis for recovering protein structure and dynamics from electron microscopy data. »