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  • ACTIVA develops new optical technologies for a good vision throughout life

    Published Aug 31, 2023

    The School of Engineering Sciences at KTH will be the home of ACTIVA, a newly launched Doctoral Network, with the goal to provide an international, interdisciplinary platform to train young scientists...

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  • Mathematics researcher receives sizeable grant

    Published Jul 13, 2023
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  • Romain Rumple gets ‘Supervisor of the Year’ Award

     Left to right: Fredrik Lundell, head of Engineering Mechanics, Mohammad Abuasbeh, chairperson of TH
    Left to right: Fredrik Lundell, head of Engineering Mechanics, Mohammad Abuasbeh, chairperson of THS PhD chapter, Romain Rumpler, winner of the award, Susanne Boij, head of the Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory (MWL), Sahba Zojaji, chairperson of the Supervisor of the year award jury
    Published Jun 21, 2023

    This year’s ‘Supervisor of the Year’ award goes to Romain Rumpler, associate professor at SCI. This is the third year the Ph.D. Chapter at THS has awarded the prize. Congratulations!

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  • Tiny quantum electronic vortexes in superconductors can circulate in ways not seen before

    Tornado shaped illustrated figures show direction of flow with arrows
    A new study by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University revises of our understanding of quantum vortices in superconductors. Pictured, an artist’s depiction of quantum vortices. (Illustration: Greg Stewart, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
    Published Jun 01, 2023

    Within superconductors little tornadoes of electrons, known as quantum vortices, can occur which have important implications in superconducting applications such as quantum sensors. Now a new kind of ...

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  • The underwater robots ready to take on society’s challenges

    The SMaRC project addresses three central issues: ocean production, environmental sensing and safeguarding society
    Published May 29, 2023

    SMaRC (Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre), an initiative that numbers KTH among its many collaborators, unveils the potential of autonomous underwater robots to solve several of today’s societal challe...

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  • KTH and Alstom in joint effort for a sustainable European railway system

    Train in snow landscape.
    KTH and Alstom are collaborating to develop train traffic in Europe as part of the EU's commitment to sustainable transport. (Photo: Alstom / KBD Bilder AB)
    Published Jan 16, 2023

    The EU is focusing heavily on sustainable travel. With Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), the vision is to introduce a high-capacity, highly reliable integrated European railway system in orde...

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  • “Nuclear power is now being taken seriously as a sustainable energy option”

    Janne Wallenius outside in front of a building
    “I am honoured to receive KTH Innovation Award, an award to encourage creativity, grit and courage in the mission of making science and technology useful for humanity. One of the lessons from developing the SMR technology is to never give up,” says Professor of Nuclear Engineering Janne Wallenius, who has been researching design and safety analysis of lead-cooled reactor systems since 1996.
    Published Sep 02, 2022

    Public resistance to nuclear power was strong when Professor Janne Wallenius began developing the technology for small, lead-cooled nuclear reactors. But times have changed, and ten years down the lin...

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  • Boats that fly like the wind

    A test model of a recreational boat is performed by a person in a marine environment.
    Ivan Stenius gooses the throttle to bring the Foilcart test boat up to a speed of ten knots so that it can hydroplane, commencing ‘take-off’.
    Published Jun 08, 2022

    Silent zero-emission vessels that swiftly float past the cobs and skerries – is this the future of coastal and open-water boating? We paid a visit to the KTH Värmdö field station, where researchers ar...

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  • Interview with Ulf Ringertz about CERO project and more

    Published Mar 23, 2022

    We talked with professor Ulf Ringertz about the CERO project and his contribution in it, as well as his interesting work with NASA in aeroelasticity.

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  • Four KTH projects win big EU grants

    robot hand, wingtip, cannula and cells.
    1) Four research projects from KTH have been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants. Photos in the collage: upper left image: National Cancer Institute, upper right image: Raghavendra V. Konkathi, lower left image: Paul Vincent, lower right image: This is Engineering. All photos from Unsplash.
    Published Mar 22, 2022

    The recently published European Research Council list of European researchers who will receive 2021 ERC Consolidator Grants, contained the names of 313 researchers who will each be awarded a grant. Fo...

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  • Method offers sharper images of lung disease in living mice

    3D dimensional color representation of shape of mouse's lungs, encase in ribcage
    A 3D image of the test mouse's lungs, created with the new technique developed at KTH.
    Published Mar 09, 2022

    In a first for X-ray imaging, researchers in Sweden generated high resolution, three-dimensional images of the lungs of free-breathing mice, without using mechanical ventilation. The technique develop...

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  • News from MedTechLabs – a multidisciplinary research centre hosted at SCI

    Published Feb 26, 2022

    Sweden has long been a pioneer in innovative medical technology solutions for the healthcare sector. Swedish innovations such as the pacemaker, the Gamma Knife, the ultrasound and the Seldinger techni...

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  • SEK 99 million to small lead-cooled nuclear reactors

    Pär Olsson in lab
    “We are performing all the research that is needed before the construction of a lead-cooled nuclear reactor. The aim is to build an electrically heated pilot plant that can be used to prove the viability of an actual reactor,” says Professor Pär Olsson at KTH.
    Published Feb 21, 2022

    Researchers and industry in Sweden are working closely together to realise fourth generation lead-cooled nuclear power plants. Testing and preparatory work is in progress at KTH ahead of production of...

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  • David Rydh has been awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize

    David Rydh, Institutionen för matematik. Foto: KTH
    David Rydh, Department of Mathematics. Photo: KTH
    Published Mar 16, 2021

    The Göran Gustafsson Prize in Mathematics 2021 for young researchers up to the age of 45, has been awarded to David Rydh, Professor of mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, KTH.

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  • Mats Wallin is the new Director of AlbaNova

    Mats Wallin, the new Director of AlbaNova, monitors the growing Albano campus from his office window. Photographer: Sofia Nyström
    Published Jan 05, 2021

    Mats Wallin, professor of theoretical physics, Department of Physics, is the new Director of AlbaNova.

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  • GE buys Swedish start-up Prismatic Sensors

    Mats Danielsson. Photography: Prismatic Sensors
    Published Jan 04, 2021

    American General Electric acquires the KTH spin-off company Prismatic Sensors founded in 2012.

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  • Superconductors can revolutionize how we use electricity

    Oscar Tjernberg and his model of superconducting train that hovers above magnetic rails. Photography: Oscar Tjernberg
    Published Jan 03, 2021

    For the first time, American researchers have succeeded in creating a so-called superconductor that works at room temperature. This technology has the potential to revolutionize how we use electricity...

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  • GE buys Swedish start-up Prismatic Sensors

    Mats Danielsson
    Mats Danielsson. Photography: Prismatic Sensors
    Published Nov 27, 2020

    American General Electric acquires the KTH spin-off company Prismatic Sensors founded in 2012.

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  • KTH in collaboration with Brazil

    Dan Henningson, Department of Engineering Mechanics,  KTH.
    Dan Henningson, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Engineering, KTH. Photography: Private
    Published Nov 26, 2020

    Dan Henningson, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Engineering Mechanics, has been commuting between Stockholm and Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, for five years. The aim is to build a partnersh...

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  • A hub for nuclear technology knowledge and competence

    Published Nov 12, 2020

    The annual symposium of the Swedish Centre for Nuclear Technology (SKC) was held in October. For two days, around 100 researchers, students, and industry representatives gathered digitally to share th...

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