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  • Björn Palm: Smarter Heat Pumps Will Drive Europe’s Energy Transition

    Published Dec 16, 2025

    Swedish manufacturers are betting on AI, smart controls, and greener refrigerants to make heat pumps more efficient. Professor Björn Palm was interviewed by Ny Teknik on the topic.

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  • Five new doctoral theses from HEOS during the last year

    Five pictures in a collage, where each picture shows a moment from one of the defenses.
    Published Dec 15, 2025

    During the last year, five new doctors from HEOS have successfully defended their doctoral theses!

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  • 2025 Mechatronics HK Grand Finale

    Published Dec 10, 2025

    Each year, students from the Advanced Mechatronics course are tasked with building a prototype as their final project. The course culminates in a presentation and demonstration session, where students...

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  • Solutions for a Resilient Planet - Turning Knowledge into Action

    Published Dec 09, 2025

    KTH researcher, Maryna Henrysson is one of the authors in The Global Environment Outlook: A future we choose (GEO-7) report. We met with Maryna to find out what are the key impacts of the report and w...

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  • Francisco Beltran's Final Pre-Defence Paper on Solar PVT for Urban Heating

    Francisco Beltran by Solar Panels
    Published Dec 09, 2025

    How do you deploy clean, quiet heating in dense cities with almost no available land? That’s the challenge tackled in a new study by Francisco Beltran, PhD researcher at the department of Applied Th...

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  • "Don't think twice, just go to dES!" - Interview with Visiting PhD Student Corrado Maria Caminiti

    The picture shows Corrado and his colleagues in the office, and a carved Halloween pumpkin.
    Corrado (first from right) and a few of his colleagues in dES with their "Halloweenpumpa".
    Published Dec 08, 2025

    Corrado Maria Caminiti, a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, recently finished a 3-month research visit in the Energy Systems division (dES). Having settled back in Italy, he reflects on his stay w...

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  • Towards Zero-Waste: Sweden–India Project Shares Early Insights on Circular Bio-Waste Solutions

    A screenshot of the Zoom session of the BioCircularR project's workshop in November 2025.
    The BioCircularR project team met for a workshop on November 25, 2025.
    Published Dec 04, 2025

    On 25 November 2025, researchers and stakeholders from Sweden and India gathered for a joint dissemination and consultation workshop under the project Towards Zero-Waste through a Bio-based Circular R...

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  • Camilla Lo Giudice Wins Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025

    Camilla Lo Giudice receives the Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025.
    Camilla Lo Giudice receives the Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025.
    Published Dec 02, 2025

    The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) organizes every year, since 2007, a conference on energy modelling, climate change, and resource assessment. This year, the conference was held fro...

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  • Innovating Thermal Energy Storage: Insights from the KTH–Kyoto Group Collaboration

    Published Nov 28, 2025

    KTH and Kyoto Group, a Norwegian leading thermal battery company, have maintained an ongoing research collaboration since 2022, with the latest milestone of the industrial partner being the inaugurati...

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  • Major research grant awarded to project on productivity and climate transitions

    Christian Thomann
    Published Nov 28, 2025

    A big research grant is awarded to the research project: “The effect of climate policy and financing on firms’ green transition”

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  • KTH dES in COP30 in Belém

    The photo shows the convention center in Belem, Brazil in which COP30 was held in November 2025.
    COP30 was held at the Hangar Convention Centre in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. Photo: Åsa Persson
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    At the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP30) in Belem, Brazil, the Division of Energy Systems (dES) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology highlighted how rigorous energy systems analysis can supp...

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  • KTH Students and NIBE Drive New Circular Heating Concept

    The winner - group of students
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    A student team from KTH has developed a winning concept for NIBE that rethinks the heat-pump industry through a circular, service-based model. The project, created by third-year energy-system students...

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  • From Italian Dolomites to Swedish Archipelago: Interview with Soroush Zarghami

    Soroush Zarghami and some of his colleagues in dES, on the rooftop of the M building.
    Soroush (middle) and some of his colleagues in dES. Photo: Francesco Gardumi
    Published Nov 24, 2025

    Soroush Zarghami, a PhD student at the University of Trento (UNITN), recently finished a 6-month research visit in the Energy Systems division. In this piece, Maryna Henrysson and Francesco Gardumi ta...

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  • AI servers could use ten percent of U.S. electricity by 2030

    Francesco Fuso-Nerini
    Francesco Fuso-Nerini is part of the international research team behind a study on AI's environmental impact.
    Published Nov 21, 2025

    A study recently published in Nature Sustainability warns that, by 2030, AI servers in the U.S. alone could consume up to ten percent of the country’s current electricity use, an amount comparable to ...

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  • KTH in three new national research schools for teacher educators

    Two men in a lecture hall
    Strafan Hrastinski and Arnold Pers will run three new research schools. Photo: Anna Gullers
    Published Nov 19, 2025

    The Swedish Research Council has awarded funding to twelve national research schools for teacher educators. KTH is participating in three of them – two with a clear focus on AI and one in science and ...

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  • ETT’s Anton Julin Wallén Named Ebbe Lyth Scholarship Winner 2025

    The winner with one of the supervisors
    Anton with his supervisor from KTH/ETT – Samer Sawalha,
    Published Nov 17, 2025

    The Ebbe Lyth Scholarship 2025 was announced on November 6th during KVP-dagen, where Anton Julin Wallén from ETT, Energy Technology, KTH received the University category award for his thesis on heat r...

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  • Finding abundant elements for greener batteries

    Published Nov 13, 2025

    As the demand for greener energy storage grows, researchers are looking beyond traditional lithium-ion batteries toward more sustainable and abundant options like sodium- and calcium-ion batteries for...

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  • Jannis Angelis from INDEK invited to Science Week in Lithuania as technology transfer expert

    Image from ftmc.lt
    Published Oct 28, 2025
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  • Happy 100th birthday to the refrigerator!

    Published Oct 22, 2025

    It all started as an invention within a master’s thesis at KTH and was the beginning of what later became the Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration – today part of the Department of Ene...

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  • Björn Glaser new professor in Experimental Kinetics of Metallurgy

    Björn at his office
    Björn Glaser was appointed professor at the department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2025.
    Published Oct 17, 2025

    Earlier this year Björn Glaser has been appointed as professor at KTH in Experimental Kinetics of Metallurgy.

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