Martin Ivar Högbom (born 29 May 1974) is a Swedish biochemist and structural biologist. He was appointed professor of structural biochemistry at

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

in 2013 and worked as visiting professor at Stanford University during 2016 and 2018. Högbom's research regards bio-inorganic chemistry, mainly how enzymes employ

metal ions A metal (from Greek μέταλλον ''métallon'', "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typicall ...

and

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species to perform particularly challenging chemical reactions. The research concerns biological energy conversion,

deoxyribonucleotide A deoxyribonucleotide is a nucleotide that contains deoxyribose. They are the monomeric units of the informational biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA). Each deoxyribonucleotide comprises three parts: a deoxyribose sugar (monosaccharide), a ni ...

synthesis, and biochemical oxidation of hydrocarbons. Högbom was awarded The European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry in 2010 and the Svedberg prize in 2012. He was a member of the Young Academy of Sweden (2011–2016) and served as its president from 2014 to 2015. He was elected as a member of the

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in 2020.

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