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  • Green transition requires organizational learning

    Matti Kaulio, Professor at INDEK
    Photographer: Anneli Nygard
    Published Nov 26, 2024
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  • How to reduce emissions from consumption

    Portrait and chimneys
    Göran Finnveden, Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis, presents research at the UN Climate Summit on how to reduce emissions (Photo: Håkan Lindgren and Mostphotos)
    Published Nov 18, 2024

    Göran Finnveden, Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis, will be reporting on instruments for climate change mitigation during the ongoing COP29 climate summit in Baku.  "Being able to communi...

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  • Better research in interaction with industry

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    Emil Björnson, professor of wireless communications, shows a prototype of a set of antennas that could be used in 6G mobile phone masts. (Photo: KTH)
    Published Nov 15, 2024

    KTH has received funding for five new industrial doctoral students. One of the projects aims to develop more efficient mobile masts for future wireless data traffic. “Our promising research findings ...

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  • New methods for modifying drugs with electricity

    Researcher in lab.
    There will be an open call for the position. Photo: KTH
    Published Nov 14, 2024

    A new PhD project at KTH will investigate electrosynthetic modification of PROTAC drugs. The project has been granted funding from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) and will be carri...

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  • Three SEED researchers have received the Formas Career Grant for Early-career Researchers

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    Published Nov 14, 2024

    Three young researchers from Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) have received the Formas Career Grant for Early-career Researchers. The funded research...

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  • To compete globally, Europe’s seafood farmers may get boost from AI research

    Man dressed in boating clothes holds up a starfish
    “We are trying to find ways to be more and more competitive," says Fredrik Gröndahl, director of the Blue Food Seafood Centre. Several AI projects are in the works, with the aim of boosting competitiveness in the global sea farming industry. (Photo: Charlotte Rosell )
    Published Nov 13, 2024

    In the global seafood market, European aquaculture could expect a boost from AI solutions developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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  • KTH helps maintain Montreal Protocol

    Björn Palm at COP13
    Björn Palm is a senior professor of Energy Engineering who has been researching mainly heat pumps and cooling systems since the 1990s.
    Published Nov 13, 2024

    Björn Palm, Professor at KTH and pioneer in refrigerants, you presented at COP13/MOP36 a few days ago. What did you say?

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  • New immunotherapy suggests quicker, more affordable individualized treatment

    Portrait of Johan Rockberg
    Mice receiving the treatment had prolonged survival. At higher doses, the treatment also save the mice from cancer.
    Published Nov 12, 2024

    A new vaccine for several kinds of cancer was tested successfully on human blood samples and on live mice. Researchers report in Nature Communications on this latest potential breakthrough in precisio...

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  • Minister underlines KTH's role in green transition

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    Minister of Education Johan Pehrson on a visit to KTH with Anders Söderholm, President, on the right and Sofia Ritzen, Dean of Faculty, in the middle.
    Published Nov 05, 2024

    "KTH is the pride of Sweden, with impressive activities and a clear focus on the future." This is what Education Minister Johan Pehrson said during a visit to KTH, when he got a taste of KTH's energy...

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  • Repam drives innovation in metal powder manufacturing

    Powder
    Generative AI interprets metal powder.
    Published Oct 23, 2024

    Innovative applications of new technology are ways to meet the growing demands for material performance in additive manufacturing. In a newly launched project, KTH is collaborating with research group...

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  • Seaweed could be set to fashion the future

    Seaweed close to a wall.
    Seaweed is a raw material that could form the basis of future clothing. Here, a seaweed bed in Iceland.
    Published Oct 23, 2024

    How about a dress or trousers made from seaweed? A Nordic research and collaboration project is looking at how one of the ocean's raw materials can be used to make the fashion industry more sustainabl...

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  • KTH helps Nepal shift to cleaner cooking fuels

    Woman cooking on electric stove
    New research highlights that by adopting cleaner cooking technologies, like electric cooking, Nepal could prevent around 9,563 deaths annually and reduce health costs and emissions significantly.
    Published Oct 17, 2024

    KTH is part of a collaboration to make Nepalis to use cleaner fuels when cooking.

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  • Newsmakers at KTH – October 2024

    Collage of six portraits
    Top from left: Léa Braud, Johan Rockberg, Kaspar Norberg. Below: Nicolai Kristersson Campbell, Georgia Destouni, Sverker Sörlin.
    Published Oct 16, 2024

    Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings, results and researchers have attracted attention outside KTH? Under the vignette Newsmakers, we provide a selection of the latest news an...

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  • Research on lignin and superconductors receives Wallenberg grant

    Professors Egor Babaev, Minna Hakkarainen och Oscar Tjernberg.
    KTH professors Egor Babaev, Minna Hakkarainen and Oscar Tjernberg are recipients of project grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for their basic research. Photo: KTH
    Published Oct 14, 2024

    What is the structure of lignin and can it be used to create new sustainable materials? Can a new kind of spectroscopy method reveal how electrons bind together and what are the properties of a comple...

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  • “The importance of technology for our oceans”

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    Peter Sigray talking about his research in the arctic waters of Greenland
    Published Oct 04, 2024

    Water-related research at KTH covers a wide range of themes. A common denominator is the practical approach and the solution-oriented quality of projects and research areas. This makes it ideal for ex...

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  • Using AI to fight youth gang recruitment

    Susanne Nilsson and Rob Comber
    Researchers Susanne Nilsson and Rob Comber will use an AI-powered database to help social actors collaborate better and more innovatively. (Photo: Anna Gullers)
    Published Oct 01, 2024

    Researchers at KTH are using AI to tackle youth gang crime. By bringing together knowledge, contacts, and expertise in a database, they aim to boost cooperation between different societal actors.

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  • How to reduce the energy use of buildings

    Energideklaration för fastighet
    iStock: Khanchit Khirisutchalual
    Published Oct 01, 2024

    “In the DigiCityClimate project, we are trying to reduce citizens’ energy use with the help of AI. We will also help condominium associations balance and optimize their properties’ operation and make ...

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  • The ocean's smallest creature is mapped

    Scientists in lab
    Anders Andersson, professor, and Karin Garefelt, PhD student, studying microscopy images of marine plankton analysed and identified with image recognition software (Photo: Magnus Glans)
    Published Oct 01, 2024

    How will a warmer climate affect the ecosystem? Genetic researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are mapping changes in marine plankton to get closer to the answer. Using AI-based image analys...

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  • Researchers granted 4 million SEK in funds by Trafikverket

    Published Sep 24, 2024
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  • The enzymes that can reduce emissions

    The Rubisco enzyme fixes carbon dioxide in algae and plants.
    The Rubisco enzyme, the key enzyme for fixing carbon dioxide in algae and plants, is now the target of AI-based protein design in Paul Hudson’s laboratory at KTH/SciLIfeLab.
    Published Sep 23, 2024

    With the help of advanced AI technology, KTH researchers are developing completely new proteins to contribute to a more sustainable world. These include accelerating the uptake of carbon dioxide by ...

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