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KTH-led project develops next-generation biorefineries
Efthymios Kantarelis, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at KTH. Published Jan 31, 2023Researchers from KTH and Lund University will develop an integrated alcohol biorefinery for the production of industrially important chemicals (IIC) and energy carriers from Swedish biomass.
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Hydrogel based on food waste can protect the colon
Researchers at KTH have invented a gel based on corn fibers. Photo: Jesse Gardner, Unsplash Published Jan 23, 2023A third of the raw material used in global food production is wasted each year. Researchers at KTH have found a new use for the part of the food that would otherwise be wasted. The invention is a gel ...
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CBH team receives prize for environmentally friendly sanitary products
Björn Birdsong, Mercedes Bettelli and Antonio Capezza. Photo: Patrik Lundmark, KTH. Published Dec 14, 2022Antonio Capezza, a postdoc researcher at the Division of Polymeric Materials at CBH, has, together with his team at start-up SaniSOLE, won Stora Ingenjörspriset Innovation sponsored by Vattenfall. The...
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“We provide tools and methods to make a sustainable impact on society”
Antonius Van Maris, Head of the department of Industrial Biotechnology. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Dec 08, 2022The department of Industrial Biotechnology does research and teaching on sustainable biotechnological production of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. ”Sustainability is...
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"Our success is based on scientific curiosity"
Peter Savolainen, Head of Deparment at Gene technology. Photo: KTH Published Dec 01, 202212 research groups with different focus work at the Department of Gene Technology. The common denominator is their way of working with method development, mainly in medical problems. ”One of the ...
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”I want everyone in my class to feel included”
Sara Sebelius, photo: Michail Magkos Published Nov 23, 2022As a doctoral student, Sara Sebelius discovered how fun it is to teach. Despite being a very successful researcher, she found that it was even more fun to teach than to conduct research and be in the ...
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The research engineer who realised that teaching that was her thing
Sara Naumann remembers all the students that have passed through the institution over the years. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Nov 17, 2022The department of Engineering Pedagogics, led by Sara Naumann, is an odd bird among KTH’s departments. It deals almost exclusively with education and has the overall responsibility for the qualifying ...
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”I have my hobby as a job”
Anders Cajander is one of CBH's many committed teachers. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH. Published Nov 09, 2022Anders Cajander is lecturer and Head of the Division of Health Informatics and Logistics at campus Flemingsberg. He worked for many years in the business sector until he, in 2014, became a teacher at ...
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"The whole picture is our motto"
Mats Johansson. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Oct 27, 2022The Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology is relatively large and its operations occupy almost two buildings on Teknikringen. The department was formed about 20 years ago by the merging of the de...
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Royal visit at SciLifeLab
The King and Queen of the Netherlands, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Maxima, and The King and Queen of Sweden, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia visiting the national research infrastructure SciLifeLab. Charlotte Stadler, SciLifeLab/KTH is Head of the National Spatial Proteomics Facility and presented the facility together with Tony Ullman, research engineer. Photo: SciLifeLab Published Oct 19, 2022On 12 October, the Swedish Royal couple visited the national research infrastructure SciLifeLab together with the King and Queen of the Netherlands, to learn more about technologies to study cells and...
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Jonas Garemark, Fibre and Polymer Technology
Jonas Garemark. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH. Published Oct 19, 2022The wood aerogels can be used as thermal insulation in buildings and for energy harvesting from water in order to create materials for self-sustained systems. Even though it’s a pure wood material, th...
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New centre for sports-related research at KTH
Andreas Chrysanthou, Joakim Dalfors and Jonas Willén in the lab in Flemingsberg. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Oct 19, 2022The KTH Center for Sports Engineering is a newly started centre with that aims to improve sports training and equipment at all levels. The centre will be inaugurated next year and will be a point of c...
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István Furó: Our department is very heterogeneous
Professor István Furó. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Oct 11, 2022For the Department of Chemistry, the research evaluation RAE was decisive for the merger with the then Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, even though the idea had already been there befo...
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”He put a six-pack of beer on the table, then we talked chemistry”
Professor Mårten Ahlquist. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Oct 11, 2022Barry Sharpless is, together with Morten Meldal and Carolyn Bertozzi, this year’s Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Mårten Ahlquist, professor and head of the division Theoretical Chemistry and Biology...
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”That he alone receives the prize shows his greatness”
Peter Savolainen. Photo: KTH Published Oct 05, 2022Peter Savolainen, Head of the department Gene Technology, did his postdoc in Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo’s lab at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. Here, he remembers his time there and comm...
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Grand slam at Grand Prix for KTH researchers
Tomas Rosén won first place in the Researcher's Grand Prix in Stockholm. Photo: Vetenskapens hus Published Oct 05, 2022It went well for KTH in the Researcher’s Grand Prix in Stockholm – robotics researcher Sanne van Waveren came in second place and Tomas Rosén from Fibre processes claimed victory. ”Now, it feels very...
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Awarded doctoral student studies biofuels from inedible crops
Teun Kuil, doctoral student at the department Industrial Biotechnology, has been awarded for his abstract and presentation. Photo: Jon Lindhe. Published Oct 04, 2022Teun Kuil, doctoral student at the department Industrial Biotechnology, has received the 2022 ESBES award for the combination of best abstract and presentation. “It was a big surprise and I feel hono...
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Algae waste to become food and cosmetics in circular EU project
Amparo Jimenez Quero, researcher at the Division of Glycoscience at KTH. Published Sep 28, 2022Each year, large amounts of macro and microalgae are produced over the world, but the waste from the production is discarded and not made use of. A new EU project coordinated by KTH aims at finding wa...
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MTH is gaining momentum
Sebastiaan Meijer, Head of department at MTH. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Sep 22, 2022The major part of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems is situated in its own building by the Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge and has around 110 employees. One division,...
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CBH’s Tomas Rosén competes in research presentation
Tomas Rosén is competing in Researcher's Grand Prix on September 30. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Sep 22, 2022Researcher’s Grand Prix is a Swedish competition that has been running annually since 2012, where researchers compete by presenting their research in the most captivating way. On September 30, the com...
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