KTH Research Centres

Centre for Cyber Defense and Information Security (CDIS)

CDIS was established in 2020 as a collaboration between KTH and the Swedish Armed Forces. The centre develops new techniques and methods to strengthen Sweden’s cyber defence via research and education. CDIS contributes to the only course in Sweden for national service cyber soldiers, and around 25 researchers are connected to the research centre.

Center for Trustworthy Edge Computing Systems and Applications (TECoSA)

TECoSA aims to provide methods, tools, theory, and new partnerships to build safe, secure, and predictable systems relying on edge computing.

Dig-IT Lab

Dig-IT Lab is a Vinnova-funded competence centre, aiming to reduce buildings' environmental impact through digitalisation. The centre promotes collaboration and accelerates the transition from data collected from buildings to tangible impact. It is run in collaboration between industry and academia in Sweden, and several international research centres.

Digital Futures

Digital Futures is an interdisciplinary research centre whose vision is to create a sustainable society via digital transformation.

Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems (ICES)

The ICES Network is a vibrant meeting ground for leading Tech Companies and Academic Faculties at KTH. A place where industry experts, researchers and students come together to share, learn and innovate.

KTH Center for Scientific Computing (KCSC)

The KTH Center for Scientific Computing (KCSC) develops advanced software and computational methods to accelerate research in natural sciences and engineering.

Sustainable Mobile Autonomous and Resilient 6G SatCom (SMART 6G SAT)

SSF has awarded a grant of 60 million kronor to the multidisciplinary research center 'SMART 6GSAT - Sustainable Mobile Autonomous and Resilient 6G SatCom', the first Swedish center of its kind.

The Swedish Wireless Innovation Network (SweWIN)

The Swedish Wireless Innovation Network (SweWIN) is a competence centre within advanced digitalisation. The focus is on sustainability and energy efficiency in both wireless communication and sustainable materials.

Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC)

SeRC develops and integrates e-science tools and infrastructure to strengthen scientific breakthroughs in a large number of research areas in Sweden.

Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)

WASP is a major national initiative for strategically motivated basic research, education and faculty recruitment.

Academic-Industrial Nuclear Technology Initiative to Achieve a Future Sustainable Energy Supply (ANiTA)

The centre's objective is to create a Swedish knowledge and know-how base for new nuclear energy technologies that can provide information to enable decision-makers to make fact-based decisions on the future Swedish energy supply system. As such, the centre will be a resource for society to make the independent assessments needed for the transition to Swedish power and energy supply systems. ANiTA is hosted by Uppsala University.

Advanced Chip Technology (ACT)

Competence centre for advanced chip technology. The centre is led by Lund University.

Advanced Computing for Sustainable Thermal Management in Industry (AdTherm)

The competence center AdTherM, Advanced Computing for Sustainable Thermal Management in Industry, is envisioned to serve as a platform for models and methods focused on sustainable energy conversion, heat management, and energy recovery.

Batteries Sweden (BASE)

BASE is a competence centre for battery research that brings together academia and industry around the development of the batteries of the future. The centre is coordinated by Uppsala University, with KTH, Chalmers and RISE as partners.

Centre for Sustainable Nuclear Energy Research In Sweden (SUNRISE)

SUNRISE is preparing the construction and operation of a Swedish lead-cooled research reactor in Oskarshamn. The reactor will offer commercial services to customers and research opportunities for higher education and research institutes. These services include irradiation of fuels and materials for GenIV reactors and advanced modular reactors and the development of safety assessment strategies for a potential global expansion of small modular lead-cooled reactors.

Production, use and storage of hydrogen (PUSH)

PUSH performs research on the production, use, and storage of hydrogen. The centre’s researchers use electrolysis to produce hydrogen from water and renewable energy, convert hydrogen into fuel cells to generate electricity in vehicles, for example and investigate the possibility of binding hydrogen to organic molecules for ease of storage and distribution.

Swedish Gasification Centre (SFC)

SFC is a national competence centre conducting research on gasification technology to replace fossil fuels with biomass. The centre is led by Luleå University of Technology, with KTH and Chalmers as nodes.

Swedish Centre for Nuclear Technology (SKC)

SKC supports education, research and development in disciplines of nuclear technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and Uppsala University.

Swedish Centre for Sustainable Hydropower (SVC)

SVC conducts interdisciplinary research so that hydropower can meet society's need for balancing power and renewable electricity generation in a safe, efficient and environmentally sound way. The centre is led by Luleå University of Technology, with seven universities including KTH taking part.

Center for X-rays in Swedish Material Science (CeXS)

CeXS focuses on the use of high energy X-rays in materials research and development, and is the academic host of the Swedish Material Science beamline at PETRA III.

Centre X

Centre X (Advanced Manufacturing Solutions for Next-Generation Powertrains) is an initiative in the field of Production Engineering, led in collaboration by KTH and Chalmers. The focus of Centre X is to develop new methods and tools for the next generation of powertrains and support established industries in adapting to rapid changes and new actors in the field of Production Engineering.

Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems (DMMS)

DMMS was formed in 2005 on the initiative of Scania CV AB, AB Sandvik Coromant and the Royal Institute of Technology. It addresses the manufacturing of advanced, capital and knowledge intensive mechanical parts, such as automotive powertrain parts.

Excellence in production research (XPRES)

XPRES is a research and education environment within advanced production that creates new technologies and business models for a world-leading Swedish manufacturing industry and a sustainable society.

NEutron and X-ray science for industrial technology Transitions (NEXT)

The Vinnova Sustainable Industry competence centre, NEutron and X-ray science for industrial Technology transitions (NEXT), co-creates materials innovations for enabling sustainable industry transitions – using large scale neutron and synchrotron infrastructures (LSIs) as an enabling technology.

AdBioPRO

AdBIOPRO looks to develop competitive technology for bioproduction with a focus on the coming paradigm shift towards continuous biopharmaceuticals processes and on the manufacture of emerging potent therapeutic agents such as recombinant viral vectors and cell products.

Additive Manufacturing for the Life Sciences (AddLife)

Competence centre for additive manufacturing with applications in the life sciences. The centre is led by Uppsala University.

Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences (AIMES)

AIMES' mission is to offer an academic research environment that promotes interdisciplinary research and education alongside innovation and entrepreneurship.

Human Proteome Resource Centre (HPRC)

HPRC builds on the infrastructure and knowledge developed within the Human Protein Atlas project. The centre is linked to KTH's protein research.

MedTechLabs

MedTechLabs is an interdisciplinary centre for medical technology research that aims to improve the prospects of patient survival and a better quality of life for people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other non-infectious diseases. The centre creates ways that enable healthcare providers to offer patients more secure diagnoses and better treatment at a lower cost.

Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab)

The SciLifeLab is a national centre for molecular biosciences with a focus on translational medicine, data-driven life science, and molecular biosciences.

Center for Mechanics and Materials Design (MMD)

MMD brings together solid mechanics and materials science with the aim of generating processes for the production of superior materials. The development towards more powerful simulation methods within both solid mechanics and materials science, plus higher demands on optimal designs are bringing these areas ever closer to each other. By synchronising these activities, processes for the production of better materials can be accelerated.

Center for Swedish Batteries – An Alliance for Ultrahigh Performance Batteries

Competence centre for battery research focusing on creating new types of lightweight, environmentally friendly and safe batteries with ultra-high energy storage capacity. Coordinated by Uppsala University, with KTH, Chalmers and RISE as partners.

Fib:Re

Competence centre for biocomposites focusing on developing sustainable materials from forest raw materials. The centre is led by Chalmers.

BioGlue Centre

The BioGlue-Centre is a network of excellence in the field of bio-based adhesives in co-operation with 3 universities and 12 companies from different industrial sectors (furniture, construction, packaging), sharing the same research questions around adhesives and bonding.

Treesearch

Treesearch looks to drive and continuously develop a world-leading research and innovation environment in the form of a national platform to support collaboration between the world of higher education and the forestry industry and to make this more efficient in relation to four pillars: research, collaboration, education and the research infrastructure. The platform combines know-how and knowledge in industrial research and development by creating access to an advanced research infrastructure for challenge-driven research and development to support industrial innovation and enable a sustainable bio-based society.

Wallenberg Center for Protein Research (WCPR)

The centre is primarily based on the infrastructure and knowledge built up in the course of the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) project to study human proteins and develop platforms for the efficient production of biopharmaceuticals.

Wallenberg Wood Science Centre (WWSC)

WWSC is a multidisciplinary collaboration between KTH, Chalmers University of Technology, and Linköping University that strives for scientific excellence with the general objective of developing new sustainable materials from wood and the forestry industry.

Centre for Sustainable Aviation (CSA)

As residential areas are gradually creeping closer and closer to airports in the country, aviation needs to be developed to reduce noise and emissions. To this end, the Swedish Transport Administration and KTH decided to create the Centre for Sustainable Aviation. The objective is to create leading Swedish research into the control and operation of aviation with regard to the environment and noise in particular. The hope is that the centre will be able to generate societal benefits from both a short and long-term perspective and a local and international perspective.

ECO2 Vehicle Design

The centre is engaged in multidisciplinary and multi-vehicle research to find solutions to cross-functional problems in the vehicle system. The centre has assembled research expertise from higher education and industry within areas such as aerodynamics, acoustics, vehicle dynamics, lightweight structures, life cycle analysis, sustainability, information science, and modularisation.

Integrated Transport Research Laboratory (ITRL)

ITRL aims to simplify the transition to a sustainable transport system via an integrated research method that brings together several stakeholders. Their vision is a world where future generations have access to social justice and environmentally clean and efficient transport systems. The centre is tasked with developing and communicating knowledge contributing to the switch to sustainable road transport. They aim to achieve this by integrating different disciplines, system levels, and stakeholders in their research.

Railway Group (JVG)

The KTH Railway Group aims to contribute to the development of railways and the Swedish rail industry, and to make rail more competitive, by developing knowledge within rail-related subjects. We do this through research and education in subjects dealing with guided transport.

Today, the Railway Group is active in several Areas of Excellence (Trafikverket funding) and EU projects within Europe's Rail, where we cooperate in principle with all players in the railways such as vehicle manufacturers, infrastructure managers, operators, universities, research institutes and consultants.

KTH Space Center

KTH Space Center coordinates and promotes space-related activity at several KTH departments, with an overarching objective of establishing KTH as a "Space University" and a hub for Swedish space research and technology.

Road2Science

Road2Science (R2S) is a research centre at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. With its industry partners, R2S aims to bridge the gaps between academia and industry in transportation infrastructure.

Swedish Aerospace Physiology Centre (SAPC)

The SAPC was established early 2013. The overall aims of the SAPC are to conduct and support research, development and teaching that may act to improve medical safety during manned space flights.

Swedish Electromobility Centre (SEC)

Swedish Electromobility Centre aims to generate knowledge within the field of electromobility, to build the foundation for a sustainable society where it is possible to stay mobile and at the same time make environmentally conscious choices.

Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre (SMaRC)

SMaRC is an interdisciplinary research centre for maritime robotics. Their primary assignment is to explore and demonstrate solutions that can contribute to autonomous intelligent underwater systems. The centre focuses on four research disciplines – autonomy, endurance, perception, and communication – to develop next-generation maritime robotics for maritime production and protect society and the environment.

Transport Research Environment with Novel Perspectives (TRENoP)

TRENoP develops research focused on land transport and explores innovative technology and policy concepts, intelligent decision-making support at a tactical, operational, and strategic level, and implementation processes.

ACCELERATE

Innovative technologies for capturing and converting CO2 and creating sustainable value chains for chemical production.

Blue Food – Centre for Future Seafood

The Blue Food competence centre is a national seafood center which develops the Swedish sustainable production of seafood and increasing accessibility for people throughout the country.

Climate Action Centre (CAC)

KTH Climate Action Centre is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative and research-focused centre aiming to advance climate mitigation and adaptation in synergy with all the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL)

Applying humanities and social science methods and theories to questions of environment, nature and climate and their representations in society and culture.

KTH Centre for Total Defence

Coordinating, developing, and showcasing research and education that directly support societal security and resilience.

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KTH FOOD

A centre for sustainable and healthy food systems.

KTH Live-In Lab

KTH Live-In Lab is a platform for accelerated innovation in the real estate sector with a focus on digitalisation and sustainability. The centre offers full-scale testbeds for verifying products, services and processes in a real living environment.

WaterCentre@KTH

The WaterCentre@KTH aims to find ways of rising up to meet the world’s water challenges, today and tomorrow.

NAVET – Centre for research in art, technology and design

NAVET is a hub to navigate unexplored regions between art, technology and design.

PLENTY – Centre for Symbiotic and Circular Food Provisioning

PLENTY is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research centre funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas that brings together academic institutions, public organisations and private companies with the vision to build a symbiotic and circular food system.

Sjöstadsverket Water Innovation Centre (SWIC)

Sjöstadsverket is one of the world's leading research and development facilities for water treatment technology. The facility is jointly owned and operated by KTH and IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.

Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL)

Sustainable Finance Lab SWEDEN is a transdisciplinary research center established to transform financial markets and to enhance the sustainable development of society.

Swedish Life Cycle Center (SLCC)

Swedish Life Cycle Center is a Center of Excellence and collaboration platform for academia, research institutes, industry and government agencies.