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Without semiconductors the world stops
The Electrum Laboratory, where Mikael Östling, Professor of Microelectronics, and Carina Zaring, Director, work, is part of the major European initiative on semiconductors. Published Apr 02, 2025Without semiconductors, the world would come to a standstill, at least the way we are used to seeing and moving around in it. The small chip can be found in virtually all the electronics we use every ...
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Mathematicians receive millions
Top left: Adrianna Gillman and Federica Milinanni, bottom left: Danai Deligeorgaki and Sven Sandfeldt. Published Mar 25, 2025Four of the grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation's mathematics programme will go to KTH this year. One researcher from abroad will be recruited as a visiting professor at KTH, and thre...
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The scientists who want to help us sleep better
Researchers Miriam Akkermann, Sandra Pauletto and Kira Vibe Jespersen are studying sleep and sound. Published Mar 21, 2025Music can help you fall asleep – but which music works best? That’s one of the questions an international consortium on sound, music and sleep are looking at.
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Leather bag made of fungus
Researchers hope that products made from fungal leather could be available in stores, within a few years. (The bag pictured is made from traditional leather) (Photo: Mostphotos) Published Mar 20, 2025From crummy food scraps to a stylish leather bag. In a new project, researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and other institutions will investigate how biotechnology can be used to produce ...
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KTH researchers contribute to more sustainable student accommodation
Students testing co-living in an experimental apartment at the Live-in Lab, KTH's residential lab. (Photo: Fredrik Persson) Published Mar 17, 2025More sustainability and less loneliness. This could be the result of the new building regulations for student accommodation that are proposed to be introduced on 1 July and where KTH has contributed w...
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Light chemistry could lead to better medicines
Tove Kivijärvi has developed the new method together with researchers from KI and Uppsala University. Photo: KTH Published Mar 13, 2025By combining hydrolysis and light chemistry, researchers at KTH, KI and Uppsala University have developed a new method for controlling the functionality of medical biomaterials. The results may ultima...
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“Both men and women gravitate toward power”
Charlotte Holgersson is a researcher at INDEK and puts male-dominated workplaces under the microscope. Photo: Ulrika Georgsson Published Mar 07, 2025Why do outdated masculine ideals persist in some work places despite a growing awareness about equality? The short answer is "unequal distribution of power," says KTH researcher Charlotte Holgersson, ...
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Bringing computation to brain health research
Arvind Kumar is leading a new initiative which aims to unite and improve the scientific understanding on brain disorders. Published Mar 04, 2025A new brain health initiative at KTH will bring together expertise from across disciplines to pave way for better diagnosis, and treatment of brain disorders. Meet the initiator, researcher Arvind Kum...
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For graphene sources, a potential green alternative to mining
“The future of auto manufacturing will build on battery-based power, and the question is where the graphite will be sourced? They are going to need alternatives," says researcher Richard Olsson, seen here in the lab holding two sources of graphene, a spool of carbon fiber and a piece of mined graphite. Published Mar 03, 2025KTH researchers report a green alternative to reduce reliance on mining graphite, the raw source behind the next wonder material, graphene.
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KTH Innovation among Europe's best
“Many of Sweden's most promising startups emerge from KTH and it's great that this is being recognized” says Lisa Ericsson, head of KTH Innovation, next to Anders Söderholm, KTH's president (Photo: KTH) Published Feb 27, 2025Latest Financial Times ranking places KTH Innovation among the best startup hubs in Europe. Particularly good marks are given to the efforts in sustainability.
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Dedicated teachers rewarded with KTH's Pedagogical prize
Rodrigo Muro and Carl Dahlberg, who were awarded KTH's Pedagogical prize for 2024 in December. Photo: Christer Gummeson Published Feb 27, 2025The two teachers Carl Dahlberg and Rodrigo Muro were awarded KTH's Pedagogical prize for 2024 in December, with excellence in teaching and encouragement of critical thinking among the motivations.
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Newsmakers at KTH – February 2025
Top from left: Mattias Wiggberg, Madeline Balaam and Arnold Pears. Bottom from left: Pontus Johnson, Carlo Fischione, Danica Kragic and Fredrik Viklund (Photo: KTH) Published Feb 20, 2025Road safety through touch and sustainable generators are a couple of the areas where researchers at KTH have recently attracted attention.
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KTH ramps up efforts creating deep-tech companies of the future
Hannes Eder Öhrström, business development coach at KTH Innovation (left) in conversation with entrepreneurs Sandra Jernström, a researcher turned entrepreneur with experience in several deep tech startups, and Per Aniansson, with over 20 years in venture capital. Both will collaborate with Pioneer. Photo: Patrik Lundmark. Published Feb 18, 2025KTH Innovation and KTH Holding launch Pioneer, a programme that brings together research projects with entrepreneurs in a new way.
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AI on aircraft can reduce risk of mid-air stalls and sudden drops
The AI control system zeroes in on one particularly dangerous aerodynamic phenomenon known as flow detachment, or turbulent separation bubbles. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Feb 17, 2025Artificial intelligence aboard aircraft could help prevent mid-air stalls and terrifying drops in altitude. In a new study, an international research team successfully tested a machine learning system...
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KTH maintains high rankings in key subjects
KTH’s Engineering ranking is ninth highest in Europe, and the highest among universities in Sweden. Published Feb 14, 2025In the latest university subject rankings from Times Higher Education, KTH placed high among the world’s top universities.
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Bridging continents: Interest in sustainability led student to Japan
KTH student Armin Moghiman represented Sweden and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in a prestigious exchange program in Japan recently. Published Feb 14, 2025KTH student Armin Moghiman represented Sweden and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Japan, by participating in a prestigious exchange programme aimed at empowering students to lead the global susta...
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The facility that links to EU quantum communications
Dena Wibowo, research engineer, demonstrates the new facility (Photo: Malin Persson Mörk) Published Feb 11, 2025A pilot quantum communications facility has been inaugurated at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). It will serve as Sweden's launching platform for the new EU quantum communications network.
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Scania cooperation shows promise of remanufactured products
The people behind the successful implementation of remanufactured gearboxes in new truck production at Scania AB: from left, Michael Lieder, Business Developer at Scania, Christer Wilhelmsson, workshop manager at Scania, Kevin Karlsson, Industrial Engineer at Scania, Farazee Asif and Jonny Gustafsson, researchers at KTH, and Jens Edberg, Manager Manufacturing at Scandinavian Transmission Service AB. Published Feb 10, 2025Scania last year made automotive history by incorporating remanufactured components into the production of new trucks. This innovative move, supported by research from KTH Royal Institute of Technolog...
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Alternative to studded winter tires reduces airborne particles by 20 percent
Beyond keeping cars from losing control studded tires also pulverize the pavement - generating micro-particles that go deep into the body when inhaled. Researchers have developed a metal that does less damage to the road surface. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Feb 05, 2025On icy roads, studded winter tires can save lives – but they pulverize pavement and fill the air with dangerous, inhalable particles. A new study shows that both road wear and airborne particles could...
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As Scandinavian peninsula rises from sea, new satellite data shows gravity changes
Two KTH researchers developed a more accurate way to measure gravity shifts as the Scandinavian peninsula continues its centuries-long rise from the sea. Pictured, a vew of Smögen on the west coast of Sweden. (Photo: Roger Borgelid/Visit Sweden) Published Feb 03, 2025Bouncing back from under the weight of Ice Age glaciers which have long since vanished, the Nordic region land mass is slowly rising above sea level. Two scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technolog...
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