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  • Climate risks and commercial property: lessons and challenges to strengthen financial stability

    Published May 29, 2026

    A joint workshop organised by the Sustainable Finance Lab and Sveriges Riksbank in November 2025 explored how climate related risks transmit through commercial real estate markets to the financial sys...

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  • Designing the Future of Food with AI and Interdisciplinary Research

    Published May 28, 2026

    By combining artificial intelligence, food science, and experimental research, Jingnan Zhang explores new ways to design more sustainable and functional foods. Her work bridges disciplines and scales,...

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  • When side streams met new ideas on Gotland

    Published May 28, 2026

    What happens when food companies, researchers, and local innovation actors sit down in the same room and talk, not about abstract sustainability goals, but about real leftovers, side streams and misse...

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  • Predicting and preventing forest fires with AI-technology

    Published May 28, 2026

    Learn more about the latest AI technology within the FIRE project, offering a new way to predict and prevent forest fires.

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  • Royal recognition for sustainable steel research

    Yu-Chiao Lu and King Carl XVI Gustaf, photo: Jonas Borg
    Published May 26, 2026

    Receiving a prestigious scholarship is always a milestone. Receiving it from the King of Sweden makes it even more memorable. When Carl XVI Gustaf handed KTH researcher Yu-Chiao Lu a scholarship from ...

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  • Digital Futures Open Research Day 2026 showcases cross-sector collaboration and real-world challenge

    Published May 22, 2026

    On 6 May 2026, researchers, industry representatives, and public sector partners gathered for the Digital Futures Open Research Day 2026, a full-day event dedicated to discussing pressing societal cha...

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  • Poster exhibition about Digitalisation and Sustainability at KTH Library

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    Published May 21, 2026

    Doctoral students in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment’s special initiative on Digitalisation and Sustainability will present their projects in a new poster exhibition.

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  • Driving Innovation for High-Temperature Solutions: Meet HPT at the 2026 IEA Heat Pump Conference

    HPT Researchers heading to the 2026 IEA Heat Pump Conference
    HPT Researchers heading to the 2026 IEA Heat Pump Conference [Photo by Carrie Borden on Unsplash - graphic elements added]
    Published May 21, 2026

    Researchers from KTH’s HPT division would be presenting cutting-edge research on ultra high-temperature heat pumps at the 15th IEA Heat Pump Conference, taking place from May 26 – 29 2026 in Vienna, A...

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  • Building Sustainable Materials from Nature’s Smallest Structures

    Published May 20, 2026

    Proteins are among nature’s most versatile building blocks. By studying their structures and behaviors, Christofer Lendel and his team at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are uncovering new possibili...

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  • Innovative Heat Pump Powers Both Hot Tub and Ice Bath

    Double-side heat pump prototype
    Published May 20, 2026

    A novel heat pump system developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology is turning heads by simultaneously heating a hot tub and cooling an ice bath - using a single device.

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  • The invisible threat to democracy

    Two men and a woman sitting at computers.
    Pontus Johnson, Professor of Cybersecurity at KTH, together with colleagues at Cybercampus Sweden. Photo: Hamid Ershad Sarabi
    Published May 19, 2026

    All it takes is one weak link. A vulnerability in a payment system, a breach at a power plant, an attack on a government agency’s servers. Services we take for granted suddenly stop working. Pontus Jo...

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  • Blog post from Sarah Hamilton on governing groundwater

    Sarah Hamilton
    Published May 18, 2026

    In beginning of May we had the pleasure to invite Sarah Hamilton to hold a lunch seminar co-hosted by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory and the KTH Water Centre. Her talk was titled "Governi...

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  • Tiny fungi, big potential: Ievgeniia Tiukova on yeast research for sustainable foods

    Dr. Ievgeniia Tiukova. Photo: private
    Published May 14, 2026

    In Sweden, yeast is mainly known for its crucial role in the making of cinnamon buns. For thousands of years, the single-celled fungi have been used in baking and brewing, but nowadays their role as v...

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  • The New Geopolitics of Food: Navigating Policies for Resilient Self-Reliance.

    Published May 13, 2026
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  • From Fossil Resources to Sustainable Biotechnology

    Published May 13, 2026

    At KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Antonius van Maris is developing biotechnological solutions that could reduce dependence on fossil resources and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Through research ...

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  • Digital Futures Open Research Day 2026 showcases cross-sector collaboration and real-world challenge

    Published May 13, 2026
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  • EU parliamentarian Emma Wiesner guest lectured for the third year in a row

    Published May 12, 2026

    For the third year in a row, EU parliamentarian Emma Wiesner gave a guest lecture in the Energy business course, which is part of the INDEK course offering.

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  • How the “Election Professor” fine-tunes democracy

    Man sitting in a window
    Svante Linusson has changed the way votes are translated into seats in the Swedish parliament. Photo: Anna Gullers
    Published May 12, 2026

    For nearly 20 years, he has explained the mathematics behind Sweden’s electoral system – in interviews, opinion pieces and television studios. He has also helped change the way votes are translated in...

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  • Voting rights are not for robots

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    Danica Kragic Jensfelt emphasises the importance of regulating robotics and its use.
    Published May 11, 2026

    In a future where robots are taking over more and more of our tasks and can interpret and mirror our behaviour, what effect will this have on democracy and its citizens?

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  • Citizens’ assemblies boost climate action

    Woman standing in the forest.
    Karin Bradley, Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at KTH, has studied how the City of Gothenburg has utilised citizens’ assemblies in its climate and environmental work.
    Published May 11, 2026

    It has been called a democratic innovation and a renewal of the democratic system. Researchers at KTH have studied how the City of Gothenburg has used citizens’ assemblies to involve residents in the ...

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