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  • Wenfu Fu skillfully defends his PhD thesis

    Published Sep 24, 2026

    We congratulate Wenfu on becoming a doctor after successfully defending his PhD thesis on the 18th of September.

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  • New member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

    Published Sep 22, 2026

    Andris Vaivads, professor at KTH, has been elected as a new member of the class for astronomy and space science in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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  • Congratulations on standout research

    Published Aug 28, 2026
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  • Runaway Electron Modelling (REM) meeting at KTH

    Published Jun 19, 2026

    The topic of the meeting was runaway electrons and disruptions in fusion plants, which is one of the highest priority research areas for future fusion reactors.

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  • Judit Pérez-Coll Jiménez masterfully defends her PhD thesis

    Published Jun 13, 2026
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  • Lorenzo Votta carried out a successful licentiate seminar

    Published Jun 13, 2026
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  • Workshop at Nordita

    Published Jun 01, 2026
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  • Swedish Space Plasma Meeting 2026

    Published Apr 07, 2026

    This year the yearly Swedish Space Plasma Meeting was arranged by KTH.

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  • First EMP-workshop

    Published Mar 10, 2026

    On March 9th, the department had its first workshop at Villa Källhagen.

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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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