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Council awards 155 million Swedish crowns to KTH research

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A total of 36 KTH researchers receive grants from the Swedish Research Council. Photo: KTH
Published Nov 03, 2025

A total of 36 researchers at KTH will receive 155 million Swedish crowns in grants from the Swedish Research Council's major distribution within natural sciences and technology. The KTH projects receiving funding cover everything from biological medicines and energy trading to post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and light sails for spacecraft.

A total of 36 researchers at KTH will receive 155 million Swedish crowns in grants from the Swedish Research Council's major distribution within natural sciences and technology. The KTH projects receiving funding cover everything from biological medicines and energy trading to post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and light sails for spacecraft.

This year, the Swedish Research Council (VR) awarded a total of 313 grants from 17 Swedish universities and colleges. Just over 1.37 billion Swedish crowns will be distributed to projects for the years 2025–2029.

With 36 grants awarded, KTH ranks fifth, just behind Chalmers, which received 37. Researchers at Uppsala University performed best, with a total of 58 grants awarded. One area where KTH stands out is cyber and information security, where researchers were awarded 30 per cent of the project grants.

As usual, the Swedish Research Council received a great number of applications, 1,890 in total, and the approval rate was 17 per cent.

Four additional researchers from KTH have been awarded grants from the Swedish Research Council's calls for proposals in medicine and health, and educational science.

Jon Lindhe ( jlindhe@kth.se )

Funding granted in science and technology

Shervin Bagheri – Biofilm morphology and growth in flows

Giuseppe Belgioioso – Autonomous peer-to-peer energy trading: scalability, robustness and fairness

György Dán – Robust Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Adversarial Environments

Elena Dubrova – Fault attacks on post-quantum cryptographic algorithms

Gabor Fodor – WIPER: Distributed integrated sensing and communication for perception networks

Roberto Guanciale – muVerif: Thorough security analysis of computer microarchitecture

Joakim Gustafson – Personal voices: Adaptable speech synthesis for people with speech difficulties

Pawel Herman – Continuous learning in generative brain-like neural networks – a step towards adaptive neuromorphic intelligence

Håkan Hjalmarsson – Managing system complexity in data-driven decision-making systems

Ian Hoffecker – DNA-based chemical neural networks

Noémie Jaquier – Manipulation of deformable objects on Riemannian manifolds

Klaus Kröncke – Positive mass and stability for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds

Zibo Liu – SMILE: Soundscape design with metamaterial innovation and learning

Helena Lundberg – Electrochemically driven lanthanide catalysis for reductive activation of organic compounds

Inger Odnevall – New molecular understanding of bacteria-metal-bacteria interactions and biofilm formation on advanced metal alloys in contact with humans (BacMeBac)

Panagiotis Papadimitratos – Reliable global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based services

Mark Pearce – X-ray polarimetry – seeing compact celestial objects in a new light

Florian Pokorny – GroundTruth: Towards transparent evidence-based analysis and bootstrapping of robot manipulation skills with foundation models

Lisa Prahl Wittberg – Better indicators for reduced risk of clotting in medical components

Oscar Quevedo-Teruel – Low-diffractive geodesic horn antennas for near-field focusing (LOGHAN)

Svetlana Ratynskaia – Explosive events driven by runaway electron deposition in components facing plasma

Niclas Roxhed – Local delivery of biological drugs to the intestine through artificial Velcro

Romain Rumpler – ARTEMIS: physics-driven inverse modelling of tunable engineered materials for sub-wavelength control of sound and vibration

Aman Russom – NanoSort: AI-driven microfluidic systems for exosome-based cancer diagnostics

David Rydh – Beyond good module rooms

Pelin Sahlén – Advancing Chromatin Interaction Mapping: Complex Promoter-Enhancer Contacts and Spatial cis-Interactomics

Henrik Shahgholian – Restriction maps and their properties

Kian Shaker – Open intelligent technology for sustainable lung X-rays

Göran Stemme – Nanopores for Multimodal Biomolecular Sensing

Daniel Söderberg – Controllable nanofibrillar systems for controlled transport and diffusion

Outi Tammisola – Control of elasto-inertial turbulence

Wouter van der Wijngaart – Ultralight silk-based light sails for spacecraft

Jerker Widengren – Fluorescence-based imaging and flow measurements of transient molecular interactions in cells and vesicles

Weihong Yang – Electrically heated 3D-printed catalysts for CO₂-to-solid carbon conversion via a two-step thermochemical process

Elias Zea – Dispersive boostlets: Dispersion-aware basis functions for multiscale wave propagation in space-time

Björn Önfelt – Workflow for evaluating immune responses at the single-cell level

Grants awarded in educational science

Olga Viberg – LÄS: Human-centred AI support for improved reading skills among young students

Lina Rahm – ReBild-AI: Educational ideals and knowledge development in the age of artificial intelligence

Grants awarded in medicine and health

Arian Lundberg – Multimodal mechanistic study of influential subtype-specific transcription factors in AR-independent metastatic prostate cancer, double-negative and neuroendocrine tumours

Seraina Anne Dual – CardioLoop: A flexible hybrid mock loop to reduce animal use in cardiovascular technologies

The Swedish Research Council

The Swedish Research Council (VR) is a government agency within the Ministry of Education and Research. VR fund research and research infrastructure in all scientific disciplines. They are also advisors to the Government on research policy issues and work to increase understanding of the long-term societal benefits of research.

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