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  • Bachelor student Simon Thor receives Anders Walls Scholarship for young scientists

    Published Mar 10, 2022

    Simon Thor has been selected among a large number of ambitious young scientists with outstanding research results for the annual Scholarship of 200 000 Kr for research in natural sciences from the And...

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  • New Fusion Record at JET

    Published Feb 14, 2022

    A new record in produced fusion energy has been achieved at the fusion experiment JET in Culham, UK. During the pulse, more than 10 MW of fusion power was produced for five seconds, compared to the pr...

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  • New docent Panagiotis Tolias

    Published Dec 16, 2021

    Congratulations Panagiotis Tolias on becoming a new Docent at EECS, Space and Plasma Physics!

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  • Federico Lucco Castello defends his PhD thesis

    Published Dec 16, 2021

    On Friday, Federico Lucco Castello defended his PhD thesis "Bridge functions in strongly coupled plasmas: theory, simulations and applications". Congratulations!

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  • Water found in icy moon atmospheres

    Published Oct 14, 2021

    After the detection of water at moon Ganymede, SPP researcher also finds water atmosphere at moon Europa.

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  • Research Spotlight: 20 years of auroral research with the Cluster spacecraft

    Published Sep 13, 2021

    Göran Marklund and Per-Arne Lindqvist have published a paper summarizing scientific achievments in the auroral research using more than 20 years of data from European Space Agency four-spacecraft mis...

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  • New results on the moons of Jupiter

    Published Mar 17, 2021

    Researchers from SPP publish new results

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  • Anita Kullen receives KTH's Pedagogical Prize for 2020

    Published Jan 27, 2021

    KTH's Pedagogical Prize is awarded to teachers within KTH for outstanding contributions to education at the first-, second and third-cycle levels.

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  • SPP receives 14.7 MSEK in funding from the Swedish National Space Agency

    Published Dec 15, 2020

    Space and Plasma Physics was very successful in this year's round of SNSA calls, and secured a large part of the hotly contended space research funding.

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  • Emil Thorén defends the PhD thesis

    Published Oct 12, 2020

    On Friday Emil Thorén defended his PhD thesis "Modelling of macroscopic melt motion in fusion devices". Congratulations!

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  • New docent Lorenz Roth

    Published May 27, 2020

    Congratulations Lorenz Roth, new Docent at EECS, Space and Plasma Physics!

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  • KTH student team selected to fly their experiment on a rocket

    B2D2 team at ESTEC
    Published Dec 14, 2019

    A team of KTH students was selected to participate in the 13th cycle of the REXUS/BEXUS programme.

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  • Successful SPP Summer Course

    Published Aug 26, 2019

    A new summer block course with the title “Exploring the Physics of Planetary Environments” was held at the Space and Plasma Physics division of KTH between August 13 and 22, 2019. 25 students from 14 ...

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  • SEAM nanosatellite delivered for launch

    Published May 21, 2019
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  • PhD student vacancy

    Published May 06, 2019
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  • Prof. Ratynskaia and Dr. Tolias receive VR funding to model dust and droplets in ITER

    Published Nov 13, 2015

    The three-year project led by Prof. S. Ratynskaia and Dr. P. Tolias aims to achieve predictive modelling of metallic dust and droplets in the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER).

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  • A study of CubeSat piggyback mission to an asteroid initiated

    Published Nov 03, 2015

    ESA has approved five concept studies for CubeSats to piggyback on ESA's asteroid mission.

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  • New Swedish research satellite approved for funding!

    Published Oct 28, 2014

    Funding for the Mats satellite has been approved by Swedish National Space Board

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  • Professor Brenning's HiPIMS paper selected as Journal of Physics D highlight

    Published Jun 27, 2014

    Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, has selected a paper by N. Brenning et al. as a highlight for 2013.

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  • Invigning av KTH rymdcenter med Christer Fuglesang

    Published May 25, 2014

    Fredag den 23 maj invigdes KTH Rymdcenter officiellt av rektorn. I samband med det ordnades intressanta och spännande öppna föreläsningar inför en fullsatt föreläsningssal.

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