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  • Bo Lehnert 1926-2025

    Published Feb 20, 2026
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  • Sweden's first satellite, Viking, was launched 40 years ago

    Viking
    Published Feb 20, 2026

    Sweden's first satellite, Viking, was launched with an Ariane rocket from Kourou in French Guiana on 22 February 1986. The satellite explored the Earth's magnetosphere at altitudes of up to 13500 km, ...

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  • Sushen Joshi successfully defends his PhD thesis

    Published Feb 12, 2026

    On February 3rd, Sushen Joshi defended his PhD thesis with the title "Insights into Uranus’ atmosphere from HST FUV observations and radiative transfer modelling".

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  • Kick-off for the new department

    Published Jan 15, 2026
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  • Two divisions become one new department

    Published Dec 17, 2025

    SPP and EMF merge to form the new department, EMP, with Anita Kullen as its head.

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  • Konstantinos Paschalidis successfully defends his PhD thesis

    Published May 18, 2025

    On May 12th, Konstantinos Paschalidis defended his PhD thesis with the title "Modelling the damage of metallic plasma-facing components under energetic transient events in fusion reactors"

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  • Lars Bylander's contribution to JUICE instruments is celebrated in Uppsala University's Aula

    Published May 13, 2025

    Lars Bylander was celebrated in the Grand Auditorium of Uppsala University for his decade-long contribution to Juice's instruments

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  • Henriette successfully defends her PhD thesis

    Published Apr 04, 2025

    Yesterday, 3rd of April, Henriette Trollvik defended her PhD thesis with the title "Multipoint measurements of solar wind magnetic holes"

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  • SPP instruments celebrate 10 years in space on MMS

    Space-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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