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  • 500 000 articles on ethical hacking analysed 

    Published Jun 22, 2023

    More investment in cybersecurity is needed. This is the conclusion after analysing 500,000 articles on academic databases on ethical hacking. 

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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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  • Student field study: how coffee beans can lift farmers out of poverty

    Filip Borgström David Sigge and an employee at the coffee farm
    Filip Borgström (center) and David Sigge (right) together with coffee farmer Aphiwat Sukphong's employee.
    Published Jun 21, 2023

    KTH students David Sigge and Filip Borgström spent two months in Thailand as part of their degree project in industrial economics. They looked at if and how farmers could increase their income in a su...

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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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  • How higher food prices have an impact

    Woman in supermarket
    Rising food prices over the past year have changed our consumption patterns – but we still go on buying, according to a degree project by students at KTH. (Photo: Mostphotos)
    Published Jun 19, 2023

    What foods are we cutting down on and what do we go on buying, despite rising prices? Students at KTH have analysed all the purchases made by loyalty scheme members in Coop stores over the past two ye...

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  • KTH students learn to design and construct a material-efficient wooden bridge

    2 students building in wood.
    Construction is in full swing in a laboratory hall at KTH Campus. Carl Lagerkvist, a fifth-year student in the architecture program, and Samuel Auger, in the fifth year of the engineering program, are working on connecting a part of the bridge structure. "It has been fun but challenging at the same time due to the material delays we have experienced. It's like real life," they say. Photo: KTH.
    Published Jun 15, 2023

    Architecture students and engineering students are working side by side in a practical project aimed at designing and building a wooden bridge with a 10-meter span.

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  • Unveiling Pathways: Embracing a Decolonized Approach in internationalising the curriculum

    Associate Professor Jens Jungblut Professor Arnold Pears och Dr. Charnaldo Jaime Ndaipa
    Associate Professor Jens Jungblut (University of Oslo) Professor Arnold Pears och Dr. Charnaldo Jaime Ndaipa
    Published Jun 13, 2023

    Dr. Charnaldo Jaime Ndaipa Successfully Defends Doctoral Thesis, The Interpretation and Translation of Global Ideas into Local Practices. A Study of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in Mo...

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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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  • KTH Transformation Day 2023 gathers forces in circular economy

    Photo: Istock
    Published Jun 08, 2023

    KTH Industrial Transformation Platform and the KTH Circular Economy initiative are now shaping the program for this year's Transformation Day on 19 October. The idea is that KTH researchers and studen...

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  • Efficient heat exchanger ready for testing

    Computer drawing of the heat exchanger.
    The aluminum prototype filled with phase change material has both high energy density and high power.
    Published Jun 07, 2023

    A 3D-printed heat exchanger in aluminum filled with phase change material – that is what Professor Viktoria Martin and colleagues from KTH have experimented within a laboratory environment. The result...

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  • KTH among top 50 universities in global sustainability ranking

    Aerial view of a large brick building at the KTH Campus.
    Photo: Jann Lipka.
    Published Jun 01, 2023

    KTH drops five places on the latest Times Higher Education Impact Ranking, but the result is still satisfying, considering the increasing number of universities participating. “We continue to identify...

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  • Resistance to noise threats new types of drones

    A personal drone flying over a city in sunset.
    It may sound exciting to have personal drones over our cities, but when it comes down to it, people are not so willing to change their immediate surroundings. Photo: Joby Aviations
    Published May 31, 2023

    Flying cars above the Globe Arena and drones for cargo transport taking off and landing from Stockholm rooftops. Is this a realistic future scenario, and how do we get there? One thing that threatens ...

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  • Fresh vegetables all year round through farming in water

    Michael Martin in front of plants in a greenhouse
    Light and sensor technology means vegetables can grow quickly and thrive in water, even where there are no windows. The crops obtain their energy from LED lighting instead of sunlight. “Our main challenge is making the growing process itself as energy efficient as possible,” says researcher Michael Martin, Professor of Sustainable Production at KTH.
    Published May 30, 2023

    Water-based, or hydroponic, technology for indoor farming means that more and more retailers, restaurants and households are choosing to grow their own fresh vegetables. “Developing indoor farming of...

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  • The underwater robots ready to take on society’s challenges

    The SMaRC project addresses three central issues: ocean production, environmental sensing and safeguarding society
    Published May 29, 2023

    SMaRC (Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre), an initiative that numbers KTH among its many collaborators, unveils the potential of autonomous underwater robots to solve several of today’s societal challe...

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  • Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai visits KTH

    two persons in front of an audience
    Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai visited KTH and talked about artificial intelligence. He said that it’s ok to have fears if they are used for something sensible. Photo: Fredrik Persson.
    Published May 26, 2023

    During his first trip to Sweden, the CEO of Google also visited KTH. On the agenda were meeting with KTH personnel and students and a conversation about the biggest technological talking point of the ...

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  • Major drive for green steel

    Steel flowers
    Image by DALL-E.
    Published May 04, 2023

    In a project designed to help the steel industry transition to a climate-neutral production, KTH and Luleå University of Technology will share over 41 million SEK from EU and Tillväxtverket. The focus...

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  • A new ShiftLabs node is starting in Södertälje

    Map of Sweden with circles around the four node locations.
    ShiftLabs' four nodes are in Gothenburg, Skövde, Mälardalen and the Stockholm region.
    Published May 02, 2023

    Small and medium-sized businesses will receive help with digitalisation from KTH Leancentrum and Södertälje Science Park. As part of the innovation hub ShiftLabs, their mission is to provide companies...

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  • Studying traffic flows in Kista to reduce emissions

    Kista. Photo: City of Stockholm.
    Published May 02, 2023

    To better understand emissions from traffic, researchers will use big data and AI to study traffic flows in Kista. The hope is to create transport solutions that generate lower emissions and reduce th...

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  • The Ocean – a contemporary history

    A yellow sea cucumber on the seabed
    A "gummy squirrel" sea cucumber, Psychropotes longicauda, living at a depth of 5,000 meters. Image courtesy of the DeepCCZ expedition/NOAA
    Published May 02, 2023

    Tirza Meyer is a contemporary historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and History, who has come to devote her work to the ocean. After studying how the United Nations C...

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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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