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  • “I focus on those in the shadow of the entrepreneurs”

    Portrait of Kristina Nyström
    Kristina Nyström, new professor at INDEK.
    Published Oct 06, 2021

    The third newborn professor from INDEK, Kristina Nyström, put the spotlight on people and companies that normally are overshadowed by charismatic entrepreneurs and startups.

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  • Our new course - LT1029 Supervising School Placements Students 3.0 credits

    Published Oct 06, 2021

    The course is designed for secondary school teachers who, in their professional practice, receive students on school placement education (VFU).

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  • Meet the all virtual Hillert Laboratory

    Levente Vitos
    Levente Vitos, director of Hillert Laboratory, explaining ”muffin-tin orbitals”.
    Published Oct 05, 2021

    Modeling is a rapidly growing field in materials science. It is also an area where the new Hillert Laboratory will play an important role.

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  • KTH students improve Spanish university campus

    Sign "Valencia" from the city, a sunny day.
    Photo: Reiseuhu on Unsplash
    Published Sep 30, 2021

    Over 100 KTH students have worked on creating sustainable energy system proposals for Valencia’s technical university. Each year the students of Energy Management, an international masters programme, ...

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  • Leadership Forum will support ITM’s managers

    Woman sitting with her arms outstretched
    Photo from Unsplash.
    Published Sep 22, 2021

    How do you tell an employee that the person is not doing their job? What responsibility do I have when I suddenly become a manager? And how do I implement the development dialogues? ITM's new Leadersh...

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  • New director at Hultgren Laboratory

    Ander Tilliander outside Hultgren Laboratory
    Anders Tillander is associate professor in industrial process metallurgy. He started as a researcher at the Department of Materials Science in 2003. He has also worked with safety issues and fire protection at the department. Photo: Alexandra von Kern.
    Published Sep 21, 2021

    With increased accessibility and an expanded instrument park, Anders Tilliander wants to offer the lab’s services to small and medium-sized companies.

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  • "Money and payments concern everyone”

    Portrait
    Niklas Arvidsson is a fresh Professor at INDEK. Photo: Anna Gullers
    Published Sep 15, 2021

    INDEK's Niklas Arvidsson foresaw the cashless society and says that several exciting innovations are on the way that will change the payment systems for all of us. Niklas is one of three new professor...

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  • Agreeing on how to collide

    Photo from inside a car, inside a tunnel. Dramatic.
    Do we and the self-driving cars understand each other? Photo: Samuele Errico Piccarini, Unsplash
    Published Sep 14, 2021

    Autonomous vehicles (AV) are expected to improve road safety and avoid serious accidents significantly. But do the autonomous systems and humans understand each others reactions in a tense traffic sit...

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  • KTH hosts “the Olympic Games in production engineering”

    Published Sep 13, 2021

    Sweden and KTH will host the CIRP General Assembly – “the Olympic Games in production engineering” in 2025.

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  • Entrepreneurship in the veins

    Portrait of Terrence Brown
    Published Sep 08, 2021

    He’s got entrepreneurship in his blood since childhood, and research in this field has great impact on society. INDEK’s Terrence Brown, one of three new professors at ITM, tend to stay with his crew, ...

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  • Meet our new colleagues at Learning in STEM

    Published Sep 02, 2021

    We have three new colleagues at the Department of Learning/Learning in STEM who will be part of the research group HEOS (Higher Education Organization Studies). Here is an overview of their talents. W...

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  • KTH develops the future aircraft engine

    Flygplan
    Foto: Artturi Jalli på Unsplash
    Published Aug 23, 2021

    KTH participates in a project that develops the future aircraft engine. "H2Jet" has received SEK 15 million from the Swedish Energy Agency to develop critical components for hydrogen propulsion with g...

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  • Marcus Angelin takes over House of Science

    Published Aug 18, 2021

    The project manager for Researchers' Friday, Marcus Angelin, is the new director of the House of Science (Vetenskapens Hus). The premises will re-open in the autumn.

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  • Francesco Fuso-Nerini receives teacher award

    Francesco Fuso-Nerini in front of a tree
    Published Jun 16, 2021

    He conducts extensive and pioneering sustainability-related education and research, and has started international collaborations spanning over many research areas. For that Francesco Fuso-Nerini at th...

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  • The staff will return to campus starting August 16th

    Department of Energy Technology
    Published Jun 03, 2021

    President Sigbritt Karlsson welcomes all staff back to campus in the autumn

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  • The pandemic gave House of Science new ideas

    Published Jun 02, 2021

    After the summer, The House of Science will re-open for school classes. But the digital activities during the pandemic have provided new lessons for the staff, and they have new ideas waiting to be de...

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  • Paper waste makes greener steel

    Woman in lab holding a lab glass
    Osmet started around the same time as Tova Jarnerud graduated from Bergs. Tova had not planned to do a doctorate, but was attracted by the Osmet project. Photo: Alexandra von Kern.
    Published Jun 02, 2021

    If the ideal sustainability project saves both the environment and money, and at the same time develops a research area, Osmet might be just that. Two of Sweden's largest basic industries join forces ...

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  • To the moon during a conference

    The participants digital avatars on the moon.
    Published May 26, 2021

    At her last conference, she arranged a visit to the moon, the Oval room in the White House and a guided tour through Copenhagen with her Nordic colleagues. Despite a pandemic. After Zoom and Teams co...

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  • From gardener at KTH to workshop manager

    Published May 26, 2021

    Hi, Tomas Östberg, technician and responsible for the workshop at MMK, retiring after 48 years at KTH. What have you done all this time at KTH?

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  • They found a way to optimize recycling of cars – with torrefaction

    Image with car, shredder fines, torrefaction and output.
    Illustration: Katarzyna Jagodzińska
    Published May 26, 2021

    Hi Katarzyna Jagodzińska, who recently published the article together with Stena Recycling International AB: “Can torrefaction be a suitable method of enhancing shredder fines recycling?”

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