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  • SPP instruments celebrate 10 years in space on MMS

    Published Mar 13, 2025

    The NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission celebrates 10 years in space since its launch.

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  • Most powerful solar flare of the current solar cycle

    Published Oct 04, 2024

    The biggest solar flare of the last seven years was observed on October 3rd, be prepared for a possible aurora weekend in Stockholm

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  • This year's Alfvén Lecture was given by Professor Tünde Fülöp

    Published Sep 04, 2024

    "Faster than lightning: Electron Beams in Laboratory Plasmas" is the title of the 2024 Alfvén Lecture. It was given by Professor Tünde Fülöp on September 24.

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  • Assoc. Prof. Lorenz Roth explains the ESA Mission JUICE to the royal couples from Denmark and Sweden

    Published May 07, 2024

    Assoc. Professor Lorenz Roth talks to the Kings and Queens from Denmark and Sweden about the ESA Jupiter Icy Moon Mission JUICE and our divisions involvement in it.

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  • Lorenz Roth becomes an Associate Professor at SPP

    Published Mar 13, 2024
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  • Swedish Space Plasma Meeting held at KTH

    Published Feb 17, 2024
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  • Martin Lindberg defends his PhD thesis

    Published Jan 25, 2024

    Congratulations to Martin Lindberg on becoming a doctor!

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  • Nickolay Ivchenko gets the professorship

    Published Jan 05, 2024

    Big congratulations to Prof. Nickolay Ivchenko for being promoted to full professor! 

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  • Svetlana wins the 2023 Nuclear Fusion Award

    Published Oct 25, 2023

    Professor Svetlana Ratynskaia has been awarded with the 2023 Nuclear Fusion Award by the IAEA, for her outstanding work on Resolidification-controlled melt dynamics under fast transient tokamak plasma...

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  • Anita Kullen awarded honorary membership in the senior club of the 'Konglig Elektrosektion'

    Published Sep 20, 2023

    The lifetime honorary membership in the 'Konglig Elektrosektion' was awarded to Anita during the Nollegasque September 15, 2023 with a Sword-dubbing in acknowledgement of her "strong engagement for el...

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  • European mission en route to Jupiter after successful launch

    Launch of the JUICE spacecraft with an Ariane 5 rocket in April 2023
    Launch of the JUICE spacecraft with an Ariane 5 rocket in April 2023
    Published Aug 28, 2023
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  • New head of Division

    Group Picture on the day we changed Heads
    Published Apr 01, 2023
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  • Congratulations to Andris Vaivads on becoming the rector of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences

    Published Mar 31, 2023
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  • Savvas Raptis defends PhD thesis

    Savvas with his diploma after the successful defense.
    Savvas with his diploma after the successful defense.
    Published Nov 24, 2022
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  • KAW grant to study extreme plasma flares

    Aurora
    Aurora as seen from the International Space Station. © ESA/NASA
    Published Oct 14, 2022

    SPP is part of the consortium that has been awarded a project grant by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to study extreme plasma flares.

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  • Bachelor student Simon Thor receives Anders Walls Scholarship for young scientists

    Published Mar 10, 2022

    Simon Thor has been selected among a large number of ambitious young scientists with outstanding research results for the annual Scholarship of 200 000 Kr for research in natural sciences from the And...

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  • New docent Panagiotis Tolias

    Published Dec 16, 2021

    Congratulations Panagiotis Tolias on becoming a new Docent at EECS, Space and Plasma Physics!

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  • Federico Lucco Castello defends his PhD thesis

    Published Dec 16, 2021

    On Friday, Federico Lucco Castello defended his PhD thesis "Bridge functions in strongly coupled plasmas: theory, simulations and applications". Congratulations!

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  • Water found in icy moon atmospheres

    Published Oct 14, 2021

    After the detection of water at moon Ganymede, SPP researcher also finds water atmosphere at moon Europa.

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  • Research Spotlight: 20 years of auroral research with the Cluster spacecraft

    Published Sep 13, 2021

    Göran Marklund and Per-Arne Lindqvist have published a paper summarizing scientific achievments in the auroral research using more than 20 years of data from European Space Agency four-spacecraft mis...

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