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  • Anselme Payen Award to Lars Wågberg

    Lars Wågberg
    Lars Wågberg. Photo: Johan Olsson
    Published Apr 09, 2024

    Lars Wågberg, Professor of Fibre Technology at CBH School, receives the prestigious Anselme Payen Award 2024. "It is of course an honour and I am especially pleased with my research group, which of...

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  • New workshops on interpersonal skills for Doctoral students and supervisors

    Illustration: iStock
    Published Mar 26, 2024

    HR at CBH invites to new workshops for both doctoral students and supervisors, where theory is combined with discussions. As in the autumn, the theme is interpersonal skills. The workshop is held on t...

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  • "They discover programmes they didn't think existed"

    Peter Sillén, programme manager Engineering and Economics, and Solivan Yehya, student ambassador.
    Peter Sillén, programme manager, Engineering and Economics, and Solivan Yehya, student ambassador.
    Published Mar 25, 2024

    On March 21 there was an Open House at KTH in Flemingsberg. Programme managers, study counselors and students met interested visitors and told them about the different engineering programmes and the T...

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  • Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering – only at KTH

    Sofie Göransson and Marion Salem
    Sofie Göransson and Marion Salem graduated from the Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 2022. It did not take long for them to get jobs. Photo: Åsa Karsberg, KTH
    Published Mar 20, 2024

    From autumn 2024, KTH will be the only university in Sweden to offer a 3-year Bachelor of Science programme in Chemical Engineering. For those who want to contribute to making the planet a little bett...

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  • "My goal is to put KTH on the map"

    Veronique Chotteau
    Veronique Chotteau. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Mar 19, 2024

    Veronique Chotteau leads a multidisciplinary research group that is the only one of its kind in Sweden and one of the few in the world. After more than ten years in industry developing processes to pr...

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  • Biochemicals from wastewater – a gamechanger

    Researcher working in a fume hood.
    Isaac Owusu-Agyeman is one of the researchers who want to use bioreactors to produce volatile fatty acids from wastewater. Photo: KTH
    Published Mar 13, 2024

    Researchers at KTH aim to produce chemicals from wastewater as an alternative to fossil-based chemicals. The researchers in the project named NEEDED, which is funded by Åforsk, will design a group of ...

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  • Eva Malmström elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

    Eva Malmström
    Eva Malmström has a great commitment to the conditions for research. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Feb 07, 2024

    Eva Malmström, professor in coating technology, has been elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class for engineering sciences. “I am particularly pleased to be part of a group where one...

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  • Innovating education: KTH Cloud's journey from concept to reality

    Emil Karlsson and Pierre Le Fevre
    Students Emil Karlsson and Pierre Le Fèvre built the KTH Cloud as a degree project. Photo: Åsa Karsberg, KTH
    Published Jan 31, 2024

    Two students from the Computer Engineering programme in Flemingsberg built a cloud service as a degree project. Since then, Pierre Le Fèvre and Emil Karlsson have built on the concept and can now offe...

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  • New method can map B and T cell receptors in human tissue

    Kim Thrane
    Kim Thrane. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Jan 24, 2024

    Researchers at KTH, KI and SciLifeLab have found a way to identify unique immune cell receptors and their location in tissue. The results were published in the journal Science.

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  • “Witnessing the launch of the space capsule was incredibly powerful”

    Michail Magkos and Mikael Forsman
    Michail Magkos and Mikael Forsman witnessed the launch at Kennedy Space Center. Photo: private
    Published Jan 23, 2024

    On 18 January, at 22:49 Swedish time, Marcus Wandt and the other astronauts of the Axiom 3 mission were launched into space from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. CBH researchers Mikael Forsman and Micha...

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  • New tool for generating sufficient evidence

    “The tool can streamline development work at all stages, from idea to design, planning, collaboration, education, training and communication,” says Adam Darwich. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Jan 16, 2024

    Does your idea meet the needs of the Swedish healthcare system? Now you can test your innovation at an early stage with an interactive PDF.

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  • New project aims to make the extraction of battery metals more sustainable

    Portrait photo of Kerstin Forsberg.
    Kerstin Forsberg, professor in chemical engineering at KTH. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Jan 10, 2024

    A research project at KTH will make the extraction of nickel, cobalt and manganese for battery production more sustainable by investigating new crystallisation methods.

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  • She wants to replace fossil-based binders at an industrial level

    Researcher in lab coat.
    Maria Wennman. Photo: Hans Erik Nygren
    Published Jan 04, 2024

    Maria Wennman's thesis is about bio-based and biodegradable binders for paper and the textile material nonwoven, which can replace several types of the plastic-based binders currently used commerciall...

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  • New professor improves biomaterials by looking at the nanolevel

    Man with glasses outside.
    Professor Stephan Volker Roth. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Dec 07, 2023

    Stephan Volker Roth is a new professor for scattering-based characterisation in fibre and polymer technology at KTH. He shares his position between the Division of Fibre Processes at KTH and DESY in H...

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  • ForMAX celebrates one year – enables studies of wood-based materials from the atomic level upwards

    ForMAX Beamline
    ForMAX Beamline. Photo: Anna Sandahl
    Published Nov 22, 2023

    The ForMAX beamline has now been in use for a year at the MAX IV synchrotron in Lund. Researchers at KTH were the first to test the instrument, which can be used to study wood-based materials from the...

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  • Gabriella Mastantuoni designs multi-functional materials

    Smiling woman outdoors.
    Gabriella Mastantuoni. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Oct 25, 2023

    Gabriella Mastantuoni is a recent PhD in glycoscience at KTH. She successfully defended her thesis “Engineering of lignin in wood towards functional materials” on 19 September.

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  • Ulrica Edlund talks about water purification at ForskarFredag

    Ulrica Edlund
    Ulrica Edlund, Foto: Jon Lindhe
    Published Sep 12, 2023

    Ulrica Edlund, Professor of Polymer Technology at KTH is participating in this year's ForskarFredag. She will discuss how material chemistry can be part of the solution to today's environmental challe...

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  • Community and collaboration in focus at BIWIC

    Smiling man with a beard.
    Assistant Professor Fred Marques Penha thinks that everyone should try organising an international event such as BIWIC.
    Published Sep 06, 2023

    The 28th BIWIC International Workshop on Industrial Crystallization was hosted by KTH last week. 85 participants from 27 countries came together to exchange knowledge and strengthen the community thro...

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  • Tomas Vikström: "Come and change the world with us!"

    Tomas Vikström, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Fiber Processes, shows an instrument that
    From lab to factory. Tomas Vikström, new Adjunct Professor at the Department of Fiber Processes, is an expert in scaling up chemical processes. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Jun 21, 2023

    Tomas Vikström is a new Adjunct Professor at the Department of Fiber Processes at KTH. He is also head of research and development at the Fiberline Technology Unit at Valmet in Sundsvall. "We have pr...

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  • Newly appointed professor who loves resource recovery

    Kerstin Forsberg
    Kerstin Forsberg, newly appointed professor. Photo: private
    Published Jun 20, 2023

    Kerstin Forsberg stepped through KTH's doors for the first time in 1998. Then she began studying the Degree programme in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. 25 years later, she is a newly appointed pr...

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