The steel industry supports new professorship at KTH
KTH will be receiving almost SEK 2 million as a start-up grant for a new professorship in metallurgical process science. It is the Hugo Carlsson Foundation for Scientific Research, administered by Jernkontoret, that has authorised the grant.
The grant to KTH from the Hugo Carlsson Foundation for Scientific Research is for a new professorship after Professor Seshadri Seetharaman and is made up of scholarships over a four-year period for a professor and a doctoral student.
"Over the past two decades, Professor Seetharaman has built up a world-class laboratory for the measurement of the high-temperature characteristics of slags and metals and not least, a significant international reputation in the field of metallurgy," says Professor Pär Jönsson who is head of department at the Faculty of Materials Science at KTH.
"This is the only laboratory in Sweden providing the Swedish steel industry with these types of measurements at high temperatures," says Lars-Henrik Österholm, acting technical director at Jernkontoret.
KTH has raised two important reasons as to why a new professorship in metallurgy should be supported. The first reason is the new approach which means that the new professorship will be given greater diversify within its subject area - metallurgical process science - which among other things, will analyse the relationship between metallurgy and the environment. This is something which has proven to be an important part of the ongoing research in steel within the Foundation for Environmental and Strategic Research (MISTRA). The second reason is that the new professorship has support from the steel industry.
The professorship in metallurgical process science will be located at the Faculty for Materials Science at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, KTH.
Håkan Soold