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Resilience in focus as KTH develops next-generation mobile networks
Published Jun 12, 2026KTH is launching a new research programme to develop future 6G networks. The focus is on building communication systems that are robust, self-adaptive and capable of functioning even in crisis situati...
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KTH student wins first prize in international space and defence hackathon
The Signal Vector team receives first prize at SpaceShield Hack 2026 Published Jun 11, 2026How can technology help cities prepare for crises and protect important infrastructure? That was the challenge KTH student Kacper Lisik and his team won first prize for at one of Central and Eastern E...
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New experiment could enable safer work in space
Elias Krantz, Gregorio Marchesini, Nicola De Carli, Dimos Dimarogonas, Mani Hemanth Dhullipalla. Photo: Emelie Smedslund Published Jun 02, 2026Working as an astronaut outside a space station involves significant risks; astronauts’ time is also limited and precious. On several occasions, astronauts have found themselves in life-threatening si...
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Why finding biomarkers for brain disease is harder than it looks
Published May 12, 2026With today’s powerful brain imaging, genetic analysis and artificial intelligence, it would be reasonable to expect that brain diseases could be diagnosed directly from biology. Yet in everyday medici...
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How the brain keeps its options open
Published May 08, 2026How does the brain know when to continue a thought, change direction, or stop altogether? Most of the time, this happens effortlessly. Yet beneath this apparent ease lies the coordinated activity of v...
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Belgioioso awarded prize for work on smarter infrastructure systems
Giuseppe Belgioioso optimises both transport and electricity systems. Published Mar 30, 2026Giuseppe Belgioioso, researcher at KTH has been awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize, including a three-year grant of SEK 1.25 million per year. The funding will support his research on how digitalisati...
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AI is changing journalism – KTH contributes with contract education
Published Jan 27, 2026AI is already affecting how news is being produced, disseminated and consumed – often through technology and platforms that journalists themselves have no control over. At a time when algorithms contr...
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KTH researchers awarded IEEE fellow
Published Dec 16, 2025Lina Bertling Tjernberg, Professor in Electrical Power Systems, and Martin Monperrus, Professor in Software Engineering, have been elevated as IEEE Fellows Class 2026. Both are with KTH and School at ...
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What is the rare interstellar object made of? New observations give clues
3I/ATLAS Image Credit: Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech (IfA/U. Hawaii) Published Nov 13, 2025A mysterious visitor from outside our solar system has once again captured global attention — and researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology played a key role in uncovering what it really is.
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Prestigious IEEE award to EECS associate professor
Qianwen Xu receives IEEE award during the awards ceremony in Madrid Published Oct 22, 2025Last week Qianwen Xu, associate professor at EECS’ Division of Electric Power and Energy Systems received the J. David Irwin Early Career Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginee...
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Taking Humour Seriously in Graduate Training
Published Sep 24, 2025For nearly two decades, Benoit Baudry (Université de Montréal) and Martin Monperrus (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) have supervised master’s and PhD students. Along the way, they’ve drawn a perhap...
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Johan Håstad honoured with the Royal Society Milner Award 2026
Professor Johan Håstad. A pioneer in areas such as circuit complexity, cryptography, parallel computing and optimisation. Published Sep 23, 2025Professor Johan Håstad, of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has been awarded the Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture 2026 for his sustained and transformational contributions to theo...
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The Service Centre now handles all orders for KTH accounts.
Published Sep 12, 2025From 1 September, the EECS Service Centre will handle all orders for KTH accounts for affiliated persons. An affiliated person is someone who is formally linked to KTH through a contract/written agree...
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Academic skills, archipelago views, and community
Published Sep 04, 2025How do you become a more effective researcher, communicate your work with confidence, or take your innovation from lab to launch? For EECS doctoral students, these questions took centre stage at this ...
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EECS's Research & Impact Day highlights progress behind our digital future
Published Aug 26, 2025For the second year in a row, the autumn semester began with EECS Research & Impact Day. This year, the focus was on new perspectives on research and development in a digital future. The topics ranged...
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Trees important for lowering outdoor temperatures in cities
Published Jun 26, 2025Surface temperatures in a city are affected by trees. This is shown by measurements that researchers Ulla Mörtberg, professor of energy systems analysis and environmental assessment, and Elina Merdyms...
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Aurorae reveal Uranus’s true rotation – with unmatched precision
Lorenz Roth and two panels that each show Uranus and dynamic aurora activity Published Jun 16, 2025After more than a decade of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have measured Uranus’s rotation period with unprecedented accuracy – using the planet’s own aurorae as a cosmic c...
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The students' report on Starlink has been downloaded over 7500 times
The Starlink satellite design being developed by SpaceX. Image: Wikimedia Commons. Published Jun 16, 2025How is satellite-based internet affected by rain and time of day? KTH students Emil Fredriksson and Céline Careau investigated this in their thesis - and they got it right. Their report has now been d...
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Wide range of research at EECS Research & Impact Day 2025
Published Jun 12, 2025For the second year, EECS Research & Impact Day is organised. This year's event will highlight research on our digital future, space research, AI and cybersecurity.
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When data makes a difference: How AymurAI helps the justice system in Latin America
Published May 26, 2025In Latin America, there is a lack of structured data on gender-based violence against women and LGBTI people. In order to statistically map gender-based violence against women and LGBTI people, Ivana ...
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