New doctor interviews 2026

Construction projects are often complex, with many actors that must be coordinated simultaneously. To improve efficiency and reduce disruptions, municipalities and developers increasingly hire a dedicated logistics actor to coordinate logistics, material flows, and transportation during construction. This is a relatively new type of actor in construction projects.

Andreas Ekeskär’s dissertation investigates what happens when such an actor is not only a support function but a mandatory part of the project..

Hélène Svahn Garreau's dissertation addresses the conservation-restoration of kalkmålningar in Swedish church interiors between 1850 and 1980 in a European context. The aim is to understand how the paintings have been treated through different enactments within a network with actors.

The dissertation facilitates an understanding of what conservation-restoration is. The analysis of the history of conservation-restoration in Sweden enables a better understanding of what we do today and tomorrow within the field of conservation-restoration.

The motivation for Saeed Vosoughian's doctoral dissertation stems from the significant and persistent challenges associated with pavement performance in cold regions. Seasonal freezing and thawing of frost-susceptible soils induce ground surface deformations that lead to premature deterioration of asphalt pavements.

Despite extensive empirical knowledge and practical mitigation measures, there remains a lack of comprehensive mechanistic models capable of linking subsurface frost action to the structural response and damage evolution of asphalt layers. The research was therefore undertaken to bridge that gap.