Astrid Söderbergh Widding

Astrid Naemi Söderbergh Widding (born 27 May 1963) is a Swedish film studies scholar.

She is professor of film studies and rector (i.e. vice-chancellor) of Stockholm University since 2013.

Söderbergh Widding is a board member of the Swedish Film Institute, a former president of the board of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, and a columnist in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

She earned her PhD in 1992 at Stockholm University with a dissertation on Andrei Tarkovsky.

She was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014 and became a Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2015.