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Wicky Qin holding a sleep mask
Wicky Qin, a KTH student and product designer, has worked with an international team to produce a sleep mask to improve sleep. The product has three modules: Neural Signal Detection, Bone Conduction and Light Stimulation, which are combined to improve the user's sleep quality. Now, the BEKVÄM sleep mask has been named this year's national winner of the James Dyson Award.

Hello there Wicky Qin, designer of an award winning sleep mask

You have designed a sleeping mask that may improve the quality of sleep by connecting brain signals with light and sound functions. Now the product has been named this year's national winner of the pr...

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Photo: Scania

They unravel the impact of high fuel costs

When the fuel prices surge – what happens to the transport sector? KTH is part of a project that will find out and focus on how environmental policies impact behavior.

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portrait Sophia Hober in stairway
“The Nobel Laureates' findings form the basis of our understanding of how proteins work, and it gives us a more detailed picture of how the different components of proteins affect their three-dimensional appearance. When we plan to create new properties of a protein, we can record the changes in the AI programme. This way, the technology generates a three-dimensional model of the new protein,” says Sophia Hober, KTH professor of molecular biotechnology and co-founder of the Human Protein Atlas.

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2024 laid the foundation for KTH mapping of proteins

Hello there, KTH Professor Sophia Hober, co-founder of the Human Protein Atlas, The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to researchers David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for discoveries rela...

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Recent publications

[1]
N. Hytönen et al., "Microscopic characterisation of brittle fracture initiation in irradiated and thermally aged low-alloy steel welds of a decommissioned reactor pressure vessel," Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 603, 2025.
[2]
S. Zhang et al., "Inducing columnar-to-equiaxed transition by gradient impediment-flow optimization mechanism: The inheritance chain of solidification," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 236, 2025.
[3]
T. Hu et al., "The surface chemistry of cuprous oxide," Surface Science, vol. 751, 2025.
[4]
A. T. Mossie et al., "Energy demand flexibility potential in cement industries: How does it contribute to energy supply security and environmental sustainability?," Applied Energy, vol. 377, 2025.
[5]
F. Mallor et al., "Experimental characterization of turbulent boundary layers around a NACA 4412 wing profile," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, vol. 160, 2025.
Full list in the KTH publications portal