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  • Innovating education: KTH Cloud's journey from concept to reality

    Emil Karlsson and Pierre Le Fevre
    Students Emil Karlsson and Pierre Le Fèvre built the KTH Cloud as a degree project. Photo: Åsa Karsberg, KTH
    Published Jan 31, 2024

    Two students from the Computer Engineering programme in Flemingsberg built a cloud service as a degree project. Since then, Pierre Le Fèvre and Emil Karlsson have built on the concept and can now offe...

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  • New method can map B and T cell receptors in human tissue

    Kim Thrane
    Kim Thrane. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Jan 24, 2024

    Researchers at KTH, KI and SciLifeLab have found a way to identify unique immune cell receptors and their location in tissue. The results were published in the journal Science.

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  • “Witnessing the launch of the space capsule was incredibly powerful”

    Michail Magkos and Mikael Forsman
    Michail Magkos and Mikael Forsman witnessed the launch at Kennedy Space Center. Photo: private
    Published Jan 23, 2024

    On 18 January, at 22:49 Swedish time, Marcus Wandt and the other astronauts of the Axiom 3 mission were launched into space from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. CBH researchers Mikael Forsman and Micha...

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  • New tool for generating sufficient evidence

    “The tool can streamline development work at all stages, from idea to design, planning, collaboration, education, training and communication,” says Adam Darwich. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Jan 16, 2024

    Does your idea meet the needs of the Swedish healthcare system? Now you can test your innovation at an early stage with an interactive PDF.

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  • New project aims to make the extraction of battery metals more sustainable

    Portrait photo of Kerstin Forsberg.
    Kerstin Forsberg, professor in chemical engineering at KTH. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Jan 10, 2024

    A research project at KTH will make the extraction of nickel, cobalt and manganese for battery production more sustainable by investigating new crystallisation methods.

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  • She wants to replace fossil-based binders at an industrial level

    Researcher in lab coat.
    Maria Wennman. Photo: Hans Erik Nygren
    Published Jan 04, 2024

    Maria Wennman's thesis is about bio-based and biodegradable binders for paper and the textile material nonwoven, which can replace several types of the plastic-based binders currently used commerciall...

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  • New professor improves biomaterials by looking at the nanolevel

    Man with glasses outside.
    Professor Stephan Volker Roth. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Dec 07, 2023

    Stephan Volker Roth is a new professor for scattering-based characterisation in fibre and polymer technology at KTH. He shares his position between the Division of Fibre Processes at KTH and DESY in H...

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  • ForMAX celebrates one year – enables studies of wood-based materials from the atomic level upwards

    ForMAX Beamline
    ForMAX Beamline. Photo: Anna Sandahl
    Published Nov 22, 2023

    The ForMAX beamline has now been in use for a year at the MAX IV synchrotron in Lund. Researchers at KTH were the first to test the instrument, which can be used to study wood-based materials from the...

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  • Gabriella Mastantuoni designs multi-functional materials

    Smiling woman outdoors.
    Gabriella Mastantuoni. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Oct 25, 2023

    Gabriella Mastantuoni is a recent PhD in glycoscience at KTH. She successfully defended her thesis “Engineering of lignin in wood towards functional materials” on 19 September.

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  • Ulrica Edlund talks about water purification at ForskarFredag

    Ulrica Edlund
    Ulrica Edlund, Foto: Jon Lindhe
    Published Sep 12, 2023

    Ulrica Edlund, Professor of Polymer Technology at KTH is participating in this year's ForskarFredag. She will discuss how material chemistry can be part of the solution to today's environmental challe...

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  • Community and collaboration in focus at BIWIC

    Smiling man with a beard.
    Assistant Professor Fred Marques Penha thinks that everyone should try organising an international event such as BIWIC.
    Published Sep 06, 2023

    The 28th BIWIC International Workshop on Industrial Crystallization was hosted by KTH last week. 85 participants from 27 countries came together to exchange knowledge and strengthen the community thro...

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  • Tomas Vikström: "Come and change the world with us!"

    Tomas Vikström, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Fiber Processes, shows an instrument that
    From lab to factory. Tomas Vikström, new Adjunct Professor at the Department of Fiber Processes, is an expert in scaling up chemical processes. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Jun 21, 2023

    Tomas Vikström is a new Adjunct Professor at the Department of Fiber Processes at KTH. He is also head of research and development at the Fiberline Technology Unit at Valmet in Sundsvall. "We have pr...

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  • Newly appointed professor who loves resource recovery

    Kerstin Forsberg
    Kerstin Forsberg, newly appointed professor. Photo: private
    Published Jun 20, 2023

    Kerstin Forsberg stepped through KTH's doors for the first time in 1998. Then she began studying the Degree programme in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. 25 years later, she is a newly appointed pr...

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  • Francisco Vilaplana: “I have always had a soft spot for the underdogs”

    Francisco Vilaplana in a field.
    Photo: Pavel Matveev
    Published Jun 20, 2023

    Francisco Vilaplana, new professor in glycoscience, became fascinated by the molecular diversity of polysaccharides as a postdoc. A love story that is still going strong. “Polysaccharides are in the...

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  • KTH researcher develops first wood xerogel

    Two researchers.
    Professor Qi Zhou and postdoc Shennan Wang. Photo: KTH
    Published Jun 13, 2023

    Researchers at KTH have produced a xerogel made from wood – the material enables more energy-efficient production of high-quality transparent wood. ”The significant advance is that our mesoporous woo...

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  • Anselme Payen Award to Lars Berglund

    Lars Berglund and the CELL logo.
    The Anselme Payen Award is awarded every year by the American Chemical Society. Photo: KTH, ACS
    Published May 31, 2023

    Lars Berglund, professor at the Division of Biocomposites at KTH, receives the prestigious chemistry prize Anselme Payen Award. “It's nice to be noticed and to receive international recognition fro...

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  • "It's an incredible freedom to do what I find fun!"

    Magnus Johnson in the surface chemistry lab. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published May 11, 2023

    He is fascinated by surface chemistry and dreams of spending more time in the lab. The microscope that makes it possible to study surfaces at the nano level was a turning point in the career of Magnus...

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  • Great interest in KTH in Rwanda

    “Rwanda has a young population that wants to do a lot,” says Sebastiaan Meijer, who participated in KTH's delegation together with Peter Nilsson and Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao.
    Published Apr 28, 2023

    At the end of March, a delegation from KTH led by the President, visited several higher education institutions in Rwanda, including the University of Rwanda in Kigali. From the CBH school, Professor P...

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  • KTH researcher rewarded for new type of cellulose pulp

     Yuanyuan Li shakes hands with King Carl XVI Gustaf.
    Yuanyuan Li receives the Gunnar Sundblad Research Foundation Competence Development Award from Carl XVI Gustaf. Photo: Carl Moser, Swedish Forest Industries
    Published Apr 21, 2023

    Yuanyuan Li, Assistant Professor at KTH, receives this year's Competence Development Award from the Gunnar Sundblad Research Foundation. The prize of SEK 700,000 goes to her research into a new type o...

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  • New opening of 2MILab

    Matthew Fielden
    Matthew Fielden, director of 2MILab, is satisfied that the entire operation is now located in Kemihuset at Teknikringen.
    Published Apr 13, 2023

    April 25 is the time for the new inauguration of the laboratory 2MILab, which has been located in Kemihuset since the turn of the year. “We welcome all users to come and mingle with us!” says Matthew...

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