Two guest professors and three post doctors from South Korea will be employed this autumn at KTH School of Technology and Health, STH. The new collaboration with the university KAIST is enabled through a donation.

It’s been about 15 years since neurosurgeon Hans von Holst decided he was tired of seeing so little done to reduce the severity of head injuries from sports or bicycle accidents that he saw in the emergency room at Stockholm’s Karolinska Hospital. He contacted KTH researcher Peter Halldin, beginning a collaboration that’s now on the verge of transforming EU standards for helmets.