Winners of Best Final Degree Project
Here the winners of KTH Space Center's prize for the best final degree project on basic and on advanced level is presented.
2024
Winners on basic level: Amer Avdic & Alfred Mjörnheim
Cosmic Lighthouse: Exploring X-ray Pulsars in Python (pdf 1.8 MB)
Winner on advanced level: Simon Thor
Improving tau decay simulations for detecting tau neutrinos at IceCube (pdf 2.9 MB)
2023
Winners on basic level: Cecilie Holmen & Mattias Wang
Winner on advanced level: Rasmus Maråk
Trajectory Optimisation of a Spacecraft Swarm Maximising Gravitational Signal (pdf 7.2 MB)
2022
Winners on basic level: Maheen Arfan & Isabelle Bonnier
Winner on advanced level: Tove Ågren
2021
Winners on basic level: Amanda Helmfrid & Richárd Bagi
Investigating the central engine in supernova 2002ap using X-ray observations (pdf 2.1 MB)
Winners on advanced level: Anna Hidalgo Larsson
Forward Modelling of Ground Based SST Telescope Images (pdf 3.7 MB)
and Leonardo Ricci
2020
Winners on advanced level: Filip af Malmborg och Teodor Elmfeldt
X-ray Spectral Analysis of a Serendipitously Observed Active Galactic Nucleus (pdf 1.6 MB)
Winner on basic level: Johan Ferm
Europa's Lyman-Alpha Shadow on Jupiter - A New Way of Searching for Water Plumes (pdf 5.2 MB)
2019
Winner on advanced level: Florine Enengl
On the Relationship Between Energetic Electron Precipitation and Mesopause Temperature (pdf 6.5 MB)
2018
Winners on basic level: Gustav Hedengren & Oscar Larsson
Electrostatic Ion Thrusters for Space Debris Removal (pdf 1.2 MB)
Winner on advanced level: Gustav Pettersson
Compact 3D Microscopy for Planetary Exploration (pdf 1.7 MB)
2017
Winners on basic level: Anton Björnberg & Erik Larsson
Thermal Analysis and Control of MIST (pdf 6.4 MB)
Winners on advanced level: Filip Samuelsson
Derivation of neutrino fluxes in Gamma-ray bursts using the multi-shell internal shock model (pdf 1.9 MB)
and Juan Alday
Ganymede's hydrogen corona and FUV albedo from HST/STIS images (pdf 4.5 MB)