Siv G. E. Andersson

Siv Gun Elisabeth Andersson (born 1959) is a Swedish evolutionary biologist, professor of molecular evolution at Uppsala University.^[1] She is member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of Engineering.^[2][3] She is also Head of basic research at the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation^[4] and has been co-director of the Swedish national center for large-scale research Science for Life Laboratory between 2017 and 2021.^[5] Her research focuses on the evolution of bacteria, mainly on intracellular parasites.