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- The trend in recent years is that conflicts over water have increased. We have not recognised this in time and have let things go in the wrong direction," says Zahra Kalantari. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)

Water conflicts more frequent - how to solve them

Water is a scarce resource,causing an increasing number of conflicts. A project at KTH Royal Institute of Technology is exploring how nations and regions can better resolve the problems.

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Truck with timber
The forestry industry wants to reduce emissions from transport and aims to have half of freight transport electrified by 2030 (Photo: Scania)

Electrifying transport in the forestry sector

The forestry industry has set an ambitious target – to electrify half of the transports by 2030. How to get there? KTH researchers will help to answer that question.

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Portrait Eva Halén
“Because we don't want to create unnecessary barriers for the students and researchers who approach us, we choose to have low thresholds for the projects we take on. We want to give as many people as possible the chance to try to bring their inventions and ideas to the market,” says Eva Halén, business development coach at KTH Innovation.

From CEO to Business Coach at KTH

After decades as a CEO of large companies, she returned to the university - now in the role of a business coach. Today she helps researchers and students realise their dreams through KTH Innovation. ...

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Recent publications

[1]
X. Yue et al., "Unveiling nano-scale chemical inhomogeneity in surface oxide films formed on V- and N-containing martensite stainless steel by synchrotron X-ray photoelectron emission spectroscopy/microscopy and microscopic X-ray absorption spectroscopy," Journal of Materials Science & Technology, vol. 205, pp. 191-203, 2025.
[2]
R. Sun, D. Lai and W. Liu, "A computationally affordable and reasonably accurate approach for annual outdoor thermal comfort assessment on an hourly basis," Energy and Buildings, vol. 316, 2024.
[3]
O. N. Bancerz Aleksiejczuk et al., "3D-Printing Hydrogel Robots," , 2024.
[4]
T. Frachon et al., "A divergence preserving cut finite element method for Darcy flow," SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 1793-1820, 2024.
[5]
H. Zhang et al., "300 GHz photonic-wireless transmission with aggregated 1.034 Tbit/s data rate over 100 m wireless distance," in 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2024 - Proceedings, 2024.
Full list in the KTH publications portal