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  • Female enrollment in master’s programmes hits all-time high

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    “Given the numbers of qualified students, KTH is in higher demand – it’s more competitive to get in,” says Åsa Andersson, who leads the university international student recruitment team in the Education Office.
    Published Nov 28, 2025

    Enrollment figures for 2025 show the KTH master’s programme has increased female enrollment by 10 percentage points over the last seven years, while becoming even more attractive in terms of the numbe...

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  • KTH researchers receive grants for technology promoting independence

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    KTH professors Danica Kragic Jensfelt and Lanie Gutierrez Farewik at the Promobilia event. Photo: Sara Rossi
    Published Nov 27, 2025

    How can technology give people more freedom in their daily lives? It’s a question that unites KTH professors Danica Kragic Jensfelt and Lanie Gutierrez Farewik who have now been recognised by the Prom...

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  • AI to reduce the number of wildlife accidents

    A moose walking cross a road. Photo: Mostphotos
    Published Nov 27, 2025

    Over 70,000 wildlife accidents were reported in Sweden last year, resulting in a societal cost of approximately SEK 11 billion. Now, start-up Flox is presenting an AI solution that will make roads saf...

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  • New partnership to improve Swedish cancer treatment

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    KTH is among the partners in a new research centre on medical radiation science with a primary focus on medical radiotherapy, imaging of tumours, cancer-related biomarkers and radiation protection. Photo: Karolinska University hospital
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    KTH together with Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University and Region Stockholm intend to establish a new centre for medical radiation science in Stockholm. By combining the universities' cutting-e...

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  • ‘Build AI that supports collective well-being’

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    Amir H. Payberah works at the Division of Software and Computer Systems at KTH. He also leads the WASP cluster on Legal, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of AI, and runs several courses and initiatives on technology, feminism, and decolonialism. (Photo: KTH)
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    On a quest to create more inclusive AI systems, the KTH researcher Amir H. Payberah explores equity and justice in the development of large language models. His goal is to challenge the structural sil...

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  • Calcium-sensitive switch designed to boost efficacy of cancer drugs

    A patient receiving a drug transfusion at a clinic.
    The concept takes aim at a common challenge with targeted drugs, which tend to cling too tightly to receptors expressed by tumors.
    Published Nov 24, 2025

    Cancer-fighting antibody drugs are designed to penetrate tumor cells and release a lethal payload deep within, but too often they don’t make it that far. A new study shows how this Trojan Horse strate...

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  • Few differences between green and conventional funds

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    How green are your green funds? Photo: Mostphotos
    Published Nov 19, 2025

    Are funds that market themselves as green actually investing in something different? A new study from researchers at KTH and Stockholm University suggests the answer is more complicated than many inve...

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  • Turning deepfake porn into a design challenge

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    Alejandra Gómez Ortega and Madeline Balaam present their photo booth, which generates implicit images of its subjects. Photo: Anna Gullers
    Published Nov 17, 2025

    It takes one photo and five minutes and your face could appear in a fake porn video. KTH researchers Madeline Balaam and Alejandra Gómez Ortega are investigating how generative AI fuels this form of a...

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  • How she reveals hidden norms

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    The design of technical products often signals narrow ideas about who the user is expected to be, according to Karin Ehrnberger. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)
    Published Nov 17, 2025

    The design of technical gadgets influences more than we think – from our behaviour to who is welcomed or excluded. Researcher and industrial designer Karin Ehrnberger shows how design can reveal norms...

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  • Feeling safe at the station – a question of fairness

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    If certain groups feel that they cannot travel safely, it becomes a question of equality, says Vania Ceccato, professor of urban planning. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)
    Published Nov 17, 2025

    The feeling of safety at Swedish railway stations varies significantly between different groups. Women, LGBTQI people and people with disabilities more often feel unsafe in station environments, which...

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  • Nuclear power in a warmer climate

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    Per Högselius wants to see an open and level-headed debate about the pros and cons of nuclear power. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)
    Published Nov 12, 2025

    How will nuclear power cope with climate change? A new book, edited by historian of technology Per Högselius, examines how a warmer climate and water shortages could affect nuclear power plants.

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  • Potential treatment may prevent brain damage in premature babies

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    New research reveals details about how cerebral hemorrhages cause brain damage during premature birth. “Instead of remaining flexible and ready to grow into different types of brain cells, the stem cells start changing too early or stop growing altogether,” says Professor Anna Herland.
    Published Nov 11, 2025

    A treatment that could protect premature babies from brain damage showed promise in a recent study. Using a first-of-its-kind prenatal brain model created with human cells researchers observed new det...

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  • ERC funding: researchers to map how cancer spreads

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    Doctor examining an X-ray image of a patient with lung cancer. (Photo: Mostphotos)
    Published Nov 06, 2025

    A majority of cancer-related deaths occur because a primary tumour has produced metastases. However, the primary tumours and cancer cells that give rise to metastases, how they spread, and how they ev...

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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 recei...

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  • KTH partners with Singapore on quantum technology

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    The agreement was signed in Singapore by Camilla Johansson, QSIP, and Ling Keok Tong, NQO, and witnessed by ministers Ebba Busch from Sweden and Jasmin Lau from Singapore. Photo: EnterpriseSG
    Published Nov 03, 2025

    Sweden and Singapore are stepping up their collaboration in quantum technology to speed up research and innovation in an area expected to underpin future technologies. A newly signed Memorandum of Und...

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  • Heart ‘blueprint’ reveals origins of defects and insights into fetal development

    “This map provides a kind of blueprint, showing how key parts of the heart—like the pacemaker system, heart valves, and the wall between the upper chambers—form and function,” says KTH researcher Enikő Lázár, (pictured right). On the left is the study's co-lead author, Raphaël Mauron, (Photo: Patrick Truong)
    Published Oct 29, 2025

    New research has produced a “blueprint” revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It offers insights that could lead to improved prenatal care and new treatments for heart de...

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  • KTH professor receives prestigious geoscience award

    Picture of Prosun Bhattacharya (centre) receiving the award next to two colleagues.
    Prosun Bhattacharya (centre) works at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering at KTH. Photo: R. Olsson KTH
    Published Oct 29, 2025

    Thanks to research developed by KTH, more than one million people have gained access to safe drinking water with life-saving health benefits. Professor Prosun Bhattacharya has now been awarded one of ...

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  • Doubtful climate gains from seaweed feed

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    Methane emissions, mostly from cow burps, contribute more to global warming than carbon dioxide. (Photo: Mostphotos)
    Published Oct 29, 2025

    Seaweed in animal feed has been highlighted to reduce the impact of cattle on the climate. However, new findings from KTH show that the alleged benefits may disappear when the entire life cycle is con...

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  • KTH lab to revolutionise nuclear fuel production

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    In his research project, Professor Pär Olsson will establish a laboratory to develop expertise in the manufacture of nuclear materials. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Oct 28, 2025

    Two KTH projects in the field of nuclear energy have received over SEK 50 million from the Swedish Energy Agency. The money will be used to build a research laboratory and a knowledge platform for the...

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  • Mats Danielsson receives IVA’s Gold Medal for his groundbreaking research

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    Mats Danielsson (right) received IVA's Gold Medal from Chair Marcus Wallenberg at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' 106th Annual Meeting. Photo: Erik Cronberg, IVA
    Published Oct 24, 2025

    Professor Mats Danielsson has been awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ (IVA) Gold Medal 2025, for his pioneering work in medical imaging technology. “I am very proud and see t...

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