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The 2026 Alfvén Lecture

On October 8th, the Department of Electromagnetics and Plasma Physics organized the yearly Alfvén lecture. This year's speaker was Dr Costanza Maggi.

Wenfu Fu skillfully defends his PhD thesis

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

Congratulations on standout research

Judit Pérez-Coll Jiménez masterfully defends her PhD thesis

Workshop at Nordita

First EMP-workshop

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

Sweden's first satellite, Viking, was launched 40 years ago

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, ...

The dream: an economically sustainable fusion reactor 

Fusion is the sustainable energy source of the future. However, there are still complex obstacles to this technology that can damage reactors. Researcher Mathias Hoppe is developing advanced computati...

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

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.

Swedish Space Plasma Meeting held at KTH