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  • New forum makes INDEK stay relevant

    Published May 11, 2022

    Last week, the newly established INDEK Advisory Board had its first meeting on a sunny campus.

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  • Comparing public policies in Higher Ed to bring women to the board

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    Published May 10, 2022

    The purpose of this study is to compare academic leadership prospects for women in four countries: Germany, Poland, Norway, and Sweden.

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  • Unexpected bonds between covid and inorganic surfaces

    A coin, a corona virus and a detail of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and inorganic surfaces.
    Quantum mechanical modeling predicts strong interactions between glucosides of the tip of the S1 subunit of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and inorganic surfaces. These interactions depend largely on the type of surface and on the presence of surface bound water.
    Published May 04, 2022

    By using quantum mechanical modeling KTH has revealed how the covid virus interacts with inorganic surfaces. And the virus reacts a little bit different than expected.

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  • The university as Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

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    Published May 04, 2022

    The authors use Tönnies' twin concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft to analyze what early career academics (ECAs) gone through when they were recruited as assistant professors to gain tenure.

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  • THE Innovation and Impact Summit 2022 visits ITRL

    A group of people listens to a presentation at ITRL
    On Wednesday participants could visit ITRL.
    Published May 02, 2022

    Last week Scania and ITRL welcomed participants from the conference THE Innovation and Impact Summit for a closer look at how strategic partnerships drive innovation and sustainable development.

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  • Frauke Urban from INDEK attends Energy Transition Podcast

    Published Apr 28, 2022
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  • Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions in Mozambique

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    Published Apr 26, 2022

    University curriculums have undergone major reform with international content, branch campuses have been established, cross-border collaborations have been formed and programmes for international stud...

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  • ITRL paper presented at Design Thinking Research Symposium 13

    Lina Rylander presenting at the conference.
    Lina Rylander presenting at the conference.
    Published Apr 21, 2022

    Industrial PhD student Lina Rylander presented Designing for change in complex socio-technical systems at a conference in Israel.

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  • New glasses can pave way for new battery standard

    Illustration of an all-solid-state Li-ion battery with a glass as solid electrolyte.
    Published Apr 19, 2022

    A new type of Na-based glasses may unlock the potential for a new battery standard that can contribute to the transition to a sustainable and affordable energy system.

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  • INDEK researcher Fabian Levihn hosted EU Commission President during Sweden Visit.

    Published Apr 13, 2022

    Fabian Levihn, part-time researcher and associate professor in "Industrial Management of Energy Systems" at INDEK / KTH, was co-host of celebratory visit.

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  • INDEK researcher Fabian Levihn awarded Jan Häckner Bioenergy price

    Published Apr 12, 2022

    Fabian Levihn, part time researcher and docent in Industrial Management of Energy Systems at INDEK / KTH was awarded Jan Häckner Bioenergy price.

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  • Fabian Levihn researcher at INDEK interviewed in the program "Klotet" on Swedish Radio P1

    Published Apr 11, 2022

    "After the UN climate report - the forest and carbon capture can save us from the climate crisis"

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  • Nordic researchers do not suffer from the law of Jante

    A map of Norway, Sweden and Finland
    Published Apr 11, 2022

    How do Nordic academics assess their own performance in teaching and research when compared to their peers? What does that assessment tell us about the changing culture of the academic profession in...

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  • ITRL Annual Report 2021

    Published Apr 08, 2022

    We look back at 2021 in our now released annual report. Read through updates, results from our projects and work in the main research areas.

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  • Job satisfaction findings for Swedish faculty

    A group of teachers at KTH working together over a paper
    Published Apr 07, 2022

    The project Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society (APIKS) held a conference in Aveiro, Portugal. The Swedish APIKS team, Khayala Ismayilova, Anders Broström and Lars Geschwind from HEOS were...

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  • System-level impacts of self-driving vehicles Project summary

    Photo: Marcin Jozwiak on Unsplash
    Published Apr 05, 2022

    The project 'System-level impacts of self-driving vehicles' is coming to an end and recently presented its project summary.

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  • Refreshing visit from a bold new French master program at EGI

    French students visiting KTH
    Published Apr 04, 2022

    More than 30 students and program directors of the Master program in Energy Transition Management (ETM) , which is jointly offered by Emlyon Business school (among the top 5 of Business schools in Fra...

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  • We know what we should be doing to solve the climate crisis, why are we not doing it?

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    Figure: Synergies and trade-offs between climate action and the SDGs Targets. (Source: Fuso Nerini et al, Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals, Nature Sustainability 2019)
    Published Apr 04, 2022

    Today, April 4, IPCC Working Group III has released its long-awaited Sixth Assessment Report. The report urges for system-level climate action and focuses on the transformative changes needed to achie...

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  • Malin Selleby the first woman to get the Sefström Medal

    Malin receives a diploma and flowers from Peter, older man.
    Malin Selleby is regarded as one of the world's foremost experts in thermodynamic modelling in materials design. Here, she receives the medal by Peter Samuelsson. Photo: Mats Gartz
    Published Mar 30, 2022

    Malin Selleby receives the Sefström Medal for her work in Computational Thermodynamics. The Sefström Medal is awarded by The Swedish association of mining and metallurgical engineers* every 5 years si...

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  • Stainless-steel slag treat acidic wastewater

    Remains of slag is emptied an a steel plant
    Photo: Jernkontoret
    Published Mar 23, 2022

    Slag from stainless-steel can substitute the use of lime to neutralise industrial acidic wastewater. This way part of the CO2 emissions derived by the extraction and processing of lime can be avoided,...

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