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  • Gene therapy drugs research project on IVA 100 list of 2023

    Published May 12, 2023

    A research project about gene therapy drugs, "GeneNova - botande behandlingar till fler", led by KTH Professor Johan Rockberg and his research team, has been listed on the Royal Swedish Academy of Eng...

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  • Recovering of lost energy research project on IVA 100 list of 2023

    Published May 10, 2023

    The research project "Recovering the Lost Energy", run by KTH Energy Platform Deputy Director Christophe Duwigs with colleagues, has been listed on the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences IV...

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  • Major drive for green steel

    Steel flowers
    Image by DALL-E.
    Published May 04, 2023

    In a project designed to help the steel industry transition to a climate-neutral production, KTH and Luleå University of Technology will share over 41 million SEK from EU and Tillväxtverket. The focus...

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  • A new ShiftLabs node is starting in Södertälje

    Map of Sweden with circles around the four node locations.
    ShiftLabs' four nodes are in Gothenburg, Skövde, Mälardalen and the Stockholm region.
    Published May 02, 2023

    Small and medium-sized businesses will receive help with digitalisation from KTH Leancentrum and Södertälje Science Park. As part of the innovation hub ShiftLabs, their mission is to provide companies...

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  • Studying traffic flows in Kista to reduce emissions

    Kista. Photo: City of Stockholm.
    Published May 02, 2023

    To better understand emissions from traffic, researchers will use big data and AI to study traffic flows in Kista. The hope is to create transport solutions that generate lower emissions and reduce th...

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  • The Ocean – a contemporary history

    A yellow sea cucumber on the seabed
    A "gummy squirrel" sea cucumber, Psychropotes longicauda, living at a depth of 5,000 meters. Image courtesy of the DeepCCZ expedition/NOAA
    Published May 02, 2023

    Tirza Meyer is a contemporary historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and History, who has come to devote her work to the ocean. After studying how the United Nations C...

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  • Great interest in KTH in Rwanda

    “Rwanda has a young population that wants to do a lot,” says Sebastiaan Meijer, who participated in KTH's delegation together with Peter Nilsson and Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao.
    Published Apr 28, 2023

    At the end of March, a delegation from KTH led by the President, visited several higher education institutions in Rwanda, including the University of Rwanda in Kigali. From the CBH school, Professor P...

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  • Laumert new director at Centrum för Ny Energiteknik (CNETO)

    Björn Laumert in KTH Library
    Published Apr 27, 2023

    Björn Laumert, head of the Department of Energy Technology, is new director at the Centrum för Ny Energiteknik (CNETO) in Oskarshamn. CNETO is a collaboration platform between the public sector, acade...

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  • KTH Energy Platform spoke at conference on EU future energy supply

    Published Apr 26, 2023

    The KTH Energy Platform attended and spoke at the conference “Challenges and opportunities for the EU's future energy supply” organised by the Riksdag Committee on Industry and Trade held in the Riksd...

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  • AI to help Stockholmers with their energy use

    Inner courtyard in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, Stockholm. Photo: City of Stockholm
    Inner courtyard in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, Stockholm. Photo: City of Stockholm
    Published Apr 25, 2023

    New technology to be developed by KTH can help residents and property owners becoming more climate smart.

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  • Open call within sustainable traffic and regional development planning

    Published Apr 13, 2023

    KTH and Region Stockholm are announcing a joint project call to develop research activities within sustainable traffic and regional development planning. Project funds can be granted for 1-2 years wit...

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  • KTH-based technology makes offshore wind power more accessible

    Scibreak HVDC breaker
    Published Apr 13, 2023

    Scibreak, a small startup company originating from the labs of KTH, has developed technology that can build a robust and reliable offshore power grid. This has caught the attention of industry giant M...

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  • The actions that prevent sex trade in hotels

    Image showing people in a hotel room, a reception and a woman with "Stop prostitution".
    Image: Stina Wirsén
    Published Apr 12, 2023

    Most people know that both prostitution and human trafficking take place in Swedish hotels. Few, though, think about how this affects the hotel staff and their attitude toward the workplace. And how c...

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  • Research exchange with the University of Tokyo

    A high buildning with a big clock. In front of the building there is a green open area.
    University of Tokyo. Photo: Sira Anamwong.
    Published Apr 05, 2023

    KTH is striving to deepen its collaboration with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Among other things, it is encouraging research visits of one to four months at the university. Younger people in the ...

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  • Researcher of the week – Sara Linderson

    Published Apr 03, 2023

    Regularly, researchers present themselves and how they contribute to the important industrial transformation for climate and competitiveness. This time, the researcher is Sara Linderson, an Industrial...

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  • Coconuts and lemons enable a thermal wood for indoor heating and cooling

    Coconuts and lemons in the foreground on a countertop in the lab. Behind them, two scientists.
    Peter Olsén and Céline Montanari, researchers in the Department of Biocomposites at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, say the new wood composite uses components of lemon and coconuts to both heat and cool homes. (Photo: David Callahan)
    Published Mar 30, 2023

    A building material that combines coconuts, lemons and modified wood could one day be enough to heat and cool your home. The three renewable sources provide the key components of a wood composite ther...

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  • William Usher new assistant professor in integrated systems analysis for sustainable development

    Published Mar 27, 2023

    In 2019, William Usher was appointed Assistant Professor in Integrated Systems Analysis for Sustainable Development at the Unit of Energy Systems/Department of Energy Tehnology/ITM school/KTH.

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  • Climate effects of payments

    Published Mar 24, 2023

    Researchers at INDEK have received funds to study the climate impact of payment services

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  • New AI tools – threats and opportunities

    screen dump of ChatGPT in action
    Published Mar 23, 2023

    Since ChatGPT was launched on 30 November 2022, there has been intense debate about the risks of new AI tools. What will happen with teaching, homework, reports and home assessment at Sweden’s univers...

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  • Emerging digital platforms force waste management rethink

    Photo: Erik Ottoson Trovalla / Nordiska museet
    Published Mar 22, 2023

    Crowd-sourced waste disposal services push the legal and ethical boundaries on who should take care of our waste.

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