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  • Resilience in focus as KTH develops next-generation mobile networks

    Mobile phone masts. Photo: Mostphotos
    Published Jun 12, 2026

    KTH 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 wins first prize at SpaceShield Hack 2026
    The Signal Vector team receives first prize at SpaceShield Hack 2026
    Published Jun 11, 2026

    How 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.
    Elias Krantz, Gregorio Marchesini, Nicola De Carli, Dimos Dimarogonas, Mani Hemanth Dhullipalla. Photo: Emelie Smedslund
    Published Jun 02, 2026

    Working 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

    Illustration of a brain
    Published May 12, 2026

    With 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

    Illustration of a brain
    Published May 08, 2026

    How 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

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    Giuseppe Belgioioso optimises both transport and electricity systems.
    Published Mar 30, 2026

    Giuseppe 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

    Four course participants looking at each other and smiling
    Published Jan 27, 2026

    AI 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

    Martin Monperrus and Lina Bertling Tjernberg.
    Published Dec 16, 2025

    Lina 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)
    3I/ATLAS Image Credit: Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech (IfA/U. Hawaii)
    Published Nov 13, 2025

    A 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, 2025

    Last 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

    Benoit Baudry (Université de Montréal) and Martin Monperrus (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    Published Sep 24, 2025

    For 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

    Johan Håstad
    Professor Johan Håstad. A pioneer in areas such as circuit complexity, cryptography, parallel computing and optimisation.
    Published Sep 23, 2025

    Professor 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.

    Servicecenter.
    Published Sep 12, 2025

    From 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, 2025

    How 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, 2025

    For 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

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    Published Jun 26, 2025

    Surface 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
    Lorenz Roth and two panels that each show Uranus and dynamic aurora activity
    Published Jun 16, 2025

    After 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.
    The Starlink satellite design being developed by SpaceX. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
    Published Jun 16, 2025

    How 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, 2025

    For 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

    Ivana Feldfeber.
    Published May 26, 2025

    In 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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