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• Get to know the doctoral student Lukas

  We will introduce the school's faculty employees in a series of articles. This is Lukas Bähner, a doctoral student at the Division of Electromagnetic Engineering and Fusion Science (EMF) – whose ambition is to take the Sun's power to Earth.

• Martin Lindberg defends his PhD thesis

  Congratulations to Martin Lindberg on becoming a doctor!

• Nickolay Ivchenko gets the professorship

  Big congratulations to Prof. Nickolay Ivchenko for being promoted to full professor! 

• Anita Kullen awarded honorary membership in the senior club of the 'Konglig Elektrosektion'

  The lifetime honorary membership in the 'Konglig Elektrosektion' was awarded to Anita during the Nollegasque September 15, 2023 with a Sword-dubbing in acknowledgement of her "strong engagement for electrical engineering students during at least 100 moons". 

• Svetlana wins the 2023 Nuclear Fusion Award

  Professor Svetlana Ratynskaia has been awarded with the 2023 Nuclear Fusion Award by the IAEA, for her outstanding work on Resolidification-controlled melt dynamics under fast transient tokamak plasma loads.

• European mission en route to Jupiter after successful launch

• Most powerful solar flare of the current solar cycle

  The biggest solar flare of the last seven years was observed on October 3rd, be prepared for a possible aurora weekend in Stockholm

• Assoc. Prof. Lorenz Roth explains the ESA Mission JUICE to the royal couples from Denmark and Sweden

  Assoc. Professor Lorenz Roth talks to the Kings and Queens from Denmark and Sweden about the ESA Jupiter Icy Moon Mission JUICE and our divisions involvement in it.

• New head of Division

• Congratulations to Andris Vaivads on becoming the rector of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences

• This year's Alfvén Lecture was given by Professor Tünde Fülöp

  "Faster than lightning: Electron Beams in Laboratory Plasmas" is the title of the 2024 Alfvén Lecture. It was given by Professor Tünde Fülöp on September 24.

• Swedish Space Plasma Meeting held at KTH

• Lorenz Roth becomes an Associate Professor at SPP

• Lars Bylander's contribution to JUICE instruments is celebrated in Uppsala University's Aula

  Lars Bylander was celebrated in the Grand Auditorium of Uppsala University for his decade-long contribution to Juice's instruments

• Konstantinos Paschalidis successfully defends his PhD thesis

  On May 12th, Konstantinos Paschalidis defended his PhD thesis with the title "Modelling the damage of metallic plasma-facing components under energetic transient events in fusion reactors"

• Henriette successfully defends her PhD thesis

  Yesterday, 3rd of April, Henriette Trollvik defended her PhD thesis with the title "Multipoint measurements of solar wind magnetic holes"

• Two divisions become one new department

  SPP and EMF merge to form the new department, EMP, with Anita Kullen as its head.

• Emil Thorén defends the PhD thesis

  On Friday Emil Thorén defended his PhD thesis "Modelling of macroscopic melt motion in fusion devices". Congratulations!

• New docent Lorenz Roth

  Congratulations Lorenz Roth, new Docent at EECS, Space and Plasma Physics!

• Successful SPP Summer Course

  A new summer block course with the title “Exploring the Physics of Planetary Environments” was held at the Space and Plasma Physics division of KTH between August 13 and 22, 2019. 25 students from 14 different universities across Europe as well as South Africa and the USA came for the two weeks to Stockholm to participate in the course.

• SPP receives 14.7 MSEK in funding from the Swedish National Space Agency

  Space and Plasma Physics was very successful in this year's round of SNSA calls, and secured a large part of the hotly contended space research funding.

• KTH student team selected to fly their experiment on a rocket

  A team of KTH students was selected to participate in the 13th cycle of the REXUS/BEXUS programme.

• PhD student vacancy

• SEAM nanosatellite delivered for launch

• Anita Kullen receives KTH's Pedagogical Prize for 2020

  KTH's Pedagogical Prize is awarded to teachers within KTH for outstanding contributions to education at the first-, second and third-cycle levels.

• Kick-off for the new department

• New docent Panagiotis Tolias

  Congratulations Panagiotis Tolias on becoming a new Docent at EECS, Space and Plasma Physics!

• Federico Lucco Castello defends his PhD thesis

  On Friday, Federico Lucco Castello defended his PhD thesis "Bridge functions in strongly coupled plasmas: theory, simulations and applications". Congratulations!

• Water found in icy moon atmospheres

  After the detection of water at moon Ganymede, SPP researcher also finds water atmosphere at moon Europa.

• Research Spotlight: 20 years of auroral research with the Cluster spacecraft

  Göran Marklund and Per-Arne Lindqvist have published a paper summarizing scientific achievments in the auroral research using more than 20 years of data from European Space Agency four-spacecraft mission Cluster. The paper has been selected as a Research Spotlight by the American Geophysical Union.

• New results on the moons of Jupiter

  Researchers from SPP publish new results

• Savvas Raptis defends PhD thesis

• KAW grant to study extreme plasma flares

  SPP is part of the consortium that has been awarded a project grant by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to study extreme plasma flares.

• Bachelor student Simon Thor receives Anders Walls Scholarship for young scientists

  Simon Thor has been selected among a large number of ambitious young scientists with outstanding research results for the annual Scholarship of 200 000 Kr for research in natural sciences from the Anders Walls Stiftelse.

• Professor Göran Marklund erhåller EGU’s Hannes Alfvén Medalj 2013

• MUSCAT experiment launched successfully from Esrange

  REXUS experiment developed by a student team from KTH and SU, MUSCAT (MUltiple Spheres for Characterisation of Atmospheric Temperature), was launched successfully from Esrange on May 9, 2013. Dr. N. Ivchenko from Space and Plasma Physics and Dr. G. Tibert from Mechanics have supervised the project.

• Invigning av KTH rymdcenter med Christer Fuglesang

  Fredag den 23 maj invigdes KTH Rymdcenter officiellt av rektorn. I samband med det ordnades intressanta och spännande öppna föreläsningar inför en fullsatt föreläsningssal.

• Professor Brenning's HiPIMS paper selected as Journal of Physics D highlight

  Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, has selected a paper by N. Brenning et al. as a highlight for 2013.

• MUSCAT, 4th REXUS student rocket project selected for flight

  ESA has selected the student rocket proposal MUSCAT (MUltiple Spheres for Characterisation of Atmospheric Temperature) for flight in 2013. This is the fourth consecutive year that KTH EES gets selected for the REXUS programme.

• Space and Plasma Physics hosts 2012 SRS meeting

  The 2012 meeting of SRS (Svenska Rymdforskares Samarbetsgrupp) will be held at KTH, 13-14 March.

• Komet-jägaren Rosetta vaknar till liv

  Ett av de mest ambitiösa interplanetära satellitprojekten drivna av det europeiska rymdorganet ESA närmar sig efter 10 års resa kometen Churymov-Gerasimenko.

• Prof. Ratynskaia and Dr. Tolias receive VR funding to model dust and droplets in ITER

  The three-year project led by Prof. S. Ratynskaia and Dr. P. Tolias aims to achieve predictive modelling of metallic dust and droplets in the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER).

• A study of CubeSat piggyback mission to an asteroid initiated

  ESA has approved five concept studies for CubeSats to piggyback on ESA's asteroid mission.

• New Swedish research satellite approved for funding!

  Funding for the Mats satellite has been approved by Swedish National Space Board

• Students to fly rocket probe from Kiruna in 2010

  Six students from the Department of Space and Plasma Physics have been selected by ESA’s REXUS programme to fly a rocket probe from Kiruna. Now they must undertake a year’s training in space quality, design review and construction of the experiment.

• Student rocket project

  The sound of the rotors rises to a roar as the helicopter lifts towards the sky. On board are Christian Westlund and Joakim Sandström, who are studying vehicle engineering and electrical engineering, respectively, at KTH. They will be dropping three test probes as part of the first experiment within the scope of the LAPLander (Light Airbag Protected Lander) project.

• Space and Plasma Physics hosts IPELS 2009

  Space and Plasma Physics will host the 10th International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS),

• Hannes Alfvén 1908-2008

  Skolan för Elektro- och Systemteknik firar 100-årsminnet av en pionjär. Läs intervjuerna med Hannes Alfvéns kollega och vän Carl-Gunne Fälthammar, Rymd och Plasmafysik.

• Rymdsondflygning från Kiruna?

  Sex studenter från Rymd- och Plasmafysik kan få flyga sondraket från Kiruna 2010. De har nämligen gått vidare till sista urvalsrundan i ESA:s årliga REXUS-program.

• KTH hosts 39th EPS jointly with 16th ICPP

• The dream: an economically sustainable fusion reactor 

  Fusion is the sustainable energy source of the future. However, there are still complex obstacles to this technology that can damage reactors. Researcher Mathias Hoppe is developing advanced computational methods to study how to prevent runaway electrons.