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Borgenstam on prestigeous list
Annika Borgenstam is recognized because, as a teacher, researcher and leader, she pays attention to how inequality is recreated and works to promote equality. Published Mar 10, 2023Annika Borgenstam, Professor at Materials Science and Engineering, is among the 40 most powerful women in mining and steel, according to "Sveriges hårdaste lista".
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A giant in materials research
Professor Emeritus Mats Hillert was 97 years old, all along an active researcher at KTH. Published Mar 08, 2023During his record-long researcher’s work on Materials Science, Mats Hillert trained generations of scientists and engineers. He also laid the foundation for modern materials science at KTH.
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CoKitchen final seminar
Published Mar 08, 2023We wrapped up the CoKitchen project with a public seminar held at KTH with presentations from the project participants and a panel discussion about the future of housing with experts from across the s...
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Quantum mechanics could lead to stronger, more sustainable alloys
Researcher Song Lu holds a piece of metal that was developed using quantum mechanical theory. Published Feb 23, 2023It may be an abstract concept for many people, but a new study shows that quantum mechanics can play a role in reducing the carbon footprint for producing steel and other alloys while making materials...
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Brandberg School receives a visit from the Royal Institute of Technology and the House of Science
Published Feb 23, 2023Students from Brandberg School were visited by students from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Vetenskapens Hus, and then Year 8 went on a visit to KTH.
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An additive assembly of experts
Prof. Sasan Dadbakhsh from IPU played a major role in organizing the event Published Feb 22, 2023KTH researchers organised a conference called ’The Swedish Arena for Additive Manufacturing of Metals’, an event that attracted around 55 people from the largest Swedish companies, institutions, and o...
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KTH improves power generation
Where the radiation is good it might be suitable to capture heat from the sun is by mirrors angled so that they redirect the light to a point in a tower. The tower gets very hot and fluid takes up and storage the heat that is later used to drive a CO2 turbine. Salvatore Guccione and Rafael Guedez visited this tower in Spain. Published Feb 15, 2023Many of today's power plants are powered by turbines run by steam. In recent years, turbines driven by a special form of CO2 show exciting potential. There is still research needed to make the technol...
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New project on digital solutions for value recovery in manufacturing
Photo: This is engineering, Unsplash. Published Feb 07, 2023A four-year research project involving KTH and partners from 9 countries kicked-off in January 2023. The project will focus on the development of an open access platform for lifecycle information mana...
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PSSST releases final report
Photo by Nabeel Syed on Unsplash. Published Jan 31, 2023The project PSSST (Policies for sustainable, shared self-driving transportation) has ended and the final report is now available. Some of the findings were the importance of mixing different kinds of ...
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INDEK researcher granted 5.1 million SEK for project about CO2 emissions
Published Jan 24, 2023New grant worth SEK 5.1 million by Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse for the project"Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on firm behavior and CO2 emissions".
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INDEK researcher has been appointed as member of an expert group in European Union DG CLIMA
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Financial Times praises article by Christian Thomann at INDEK
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Replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa could save half a million lives every year
A new study assigns actual value to the negative aspects of traditional cooking methods in the developing world, including lost time due to collecting wood or other burnable biomass. Pictured, women carry firewood for cooking at home in Kenya. (Photo: Youssef Boulkaid) Published Jan 12, 2023Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.
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Interview with Henrik Uggla from INDEK at Sweden's Marketing Association
Published Jan 12, 2023Brand expert Henrik Uggla at INDEK, where he has the courses Brand Portfolio Management and Strategy and industrial marketing, has been interviewed by the Swedish Marketing Association
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Nanoparticles in emissions on researcher’s radar
Published Jan 05, 2023Nanoparticles are everywhere, but we don't know how many or how toxic they are to humans and nature. The nPETS project involves researchers from all over Europe who visit road tunnels and airports to ...
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ScAIEM Winter School
Published Dec 14, 2022The ScAIEM Winter School “Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives” (5 ECTS) is an interdisciplinary PhD course package that offers doctoral students a training in innov...
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They won the Ebbe Lyths scholarship 2022
Published Dec 13, 2022Two students at the Energy Technology department, Julia Almebäck and Rebecka Magnius, have received a scholarship from Kylbranschens samarbetsstiftelse for their MSc thesis work.
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Course takes a critical look at assumptions about sustainability
"The sustainability discourse both in research and the public domain is usually dogmatic, often picturing sustainability as a black-and-white issue,” says Emrah Karakaya. Published Dec 12, 2022A new PhD course examined how common assumptions about sustainability feed into research and what can be done about it.
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The overqualified taxi driver
Published Dec 06, 2022How would life have turned out for Munir Al-Saadi if Sandvik's Olle Wijk had not gotten into his taxi that December night 15 years ago? Most likely, he had not been receiving a doctoral diploma in the...
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Impact on biodiversity often neglected in autonomous vehicle research
Description of the explored dimensions and the three scenarios. Published Nov 28, 2022The impact on important issues such as biodiversity and cybersecurity are often neglected in autonomous vehicle research frameworks, according to a new ITRL study.
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