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ERC grants to develop medicines and sustainable materials
Helena Lundberg, chemist, and Tobias Bensefelt, fibre and polymer researcher, have been awarded ERC Starting Grants. (Photo: Jon Lindhe) Published Sep 02, 2024One conducts basic research in organic chemistry, the other in fibre and polymer technology. Helena Lundberg and Tobias Bensefelt have been awarded ERC Starting Grants 2024 for projects in their respe...
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Newsmakers at KTH – August 2024
Top from left: Ann Legeby, Viktoria Martin and Monika Rolinska. Bottom: Tuuli Lappalainen, Shivam Mehta, Anna Deichler and Xin Bin. Published Aug 30, 2024Who 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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KTH Shares in €11.7 Million for Deep Tech
Published Aug 28, 2024The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme has awarded funding to several research projects, including four involving the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with topics ranging from fu...
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German exchange student arrives at KTH after bicycling 1,800 kilometres
1800 kilometres by bike in 13 days can help anyone realise how little they actually need in life. Published Aug 27, 2024He’s the exchange student who just bicycled all the way from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Stockholm and KTH. In just under two weeks, he pedalled 1,800 kilometres and arrived in Stockholm 6 kilograms lighte...
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KTH research behind the hexagonal table tennis racket
KTH alum Andreas Zandrén, CEO of Stiga Sports, came up with the idea to further develop the traditional shape of the table tennis racket. The angular racket was designed in collaboration with KTH researcher Mikael Karlsson (to the right in the photo). Published Aug 26, 2024The eyes of the world were on the hexagonal table tennis racket when Truls Möregårdh won Olympic silver in 2024. Behind the initiative for the new design is KTH alum Andreas Zandrén, CEO of Stiga Spor...
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New strategic cooperation in materials technology
Anders Söderholm, President of KTH and Tom Eriksson, Head of Research and Development at Alleima after signing of a new agreement on deeper cooperation (Photo: Magnus Glans) Published Aug 22, 2024KTH and Alleima AB have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly deepen cooperation in education, research and innovation, as well as in materials and chemical engineering.
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Method to separate microplastics from water could also speed up blood analyses
A microchip that could help reduce the process time for blood analysis is displayed by Selim Tanriverdi, a PhD student at KTH. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Aug 15, 2024Researchers demonstrated a way to speed up—and potentially scale up—the process for separating particles in fluids, which can be used for studying microplastics in drinking water or even analyzing can...
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Students' software would protect against counterfeit medicines
KTH students Fabian Forsberg and Kristina Hoang have developed a solution to check whether medicines are genuine or not. Photo: Magnus Glans Published Aug 14, 2024Two students from KTH Royal Institute of Technology have invented a solution to tackle the problem of counterfeit and substandard medications, which account for nearly half a million deaths annually i...
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KTH Robot exploring the melting ice caps of northern Greenland
Research activities on Oden will continue around the clock during the six-week expedition. The midnight sun means that it will be bright even during the night shifts. “The aim of the expedition is to help build reliable models of how sea levels might change in the future,” Peter Sigray says. Published Aug 02, 2024The icebreaker Oden is on its way to the difficult-to-access waters and glaciers of northern Greenland. The polar expedition to the Arctic Ocean includes about 40 researchers, including a team from KT...
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New method against summer plague
A new method to collect the algae and sanitize the water during algal blooms (Photo:Mostphotos) Published Jul 03, 2024A new method to combat algal bloom has been developed at KTH and will be tested this summer in the waters off Klintehamn and Tofta on Gotland. "We will trawl up accumulations of cyanobacteria ...
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Jan Ellenberg appointed Director for SciLifeLab
Professor Ellenberg is moving into his new responsibility from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. (Photo: Stuart Ingham/EMBL) Published Jun 28, 2024The SciLifeLab board has appointed Professor Jan Ellenberg as the new Director. Alongside this role, Professor Ellenberg will also be appointed as a Professor at Karolinska Institutet and Affiliated P...
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Will reduce emissions in cows farts
Initial laboratory tests showed a 92 to 99 per cent reduction in methane with the new feed additive. Photo: Kasper Nymann Published Jun 28, 2024KTH student Martin Blomberg and researchers have developed a new type of food additive that has the the potential to reduce methane emissions from cow burps and farts by about 90 per cent. The additiv...
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Tanzania is a model for a new educational initiative
Faith Hungwe is one of the twelve exchange students who participated in this year's Maggan Hub. Photo: Peter Asplund. Published Jun 26, 2024The need for new sustainable solutions to societal problems is great, and time is short. In a new initiative, the Maggan Hub, KTH students get the chance to engage in complex societal challenges linke...
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Professor's tip: Discussion is the best route to lasting knowledge
According to Hedvig Kjellström, the best way for teachers to meet students is to take them seriously, have high expectations of them and allow them to come into contact with current research and development at an early stage. Photo: Peter Asplund Published Jun 24, 2024Those who Google Hedvig Kjellström will soon realise that her educational work extends far beyond KTH's seminar halls and Zoom rooms. You'll find her in morning sofas and radio studios, confidently ex...
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KTH and UC Berkeley students switch places for eight-week research internship
“This research will hopefully make life easier for students in Sweden,” Nora Dunder says of the project she is working with in California this summer while enrolled in the Digital Futures Summer Research Internship. Seen here presenting her project to other students in the programme, Dunder is one of six KTH students at Berkeley for the summer. At the same time, six UC Berkeley students are working on research at KTH. Published Jun 19, 2024A dozen students from Sweden and California switched places last week for summer research internships focused on digital transformation, kicking off a new exchange between KTH Royal Institute of Techn...
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Space balloon with telescope provides new insights into black holes
The space balloon carrying the two-tonne XL-Calibur telescope collected valuable data at an altitude of 40 kilometres between Kiruna and Canada. During the flight, which lasted almost six days, the telescope was controlled around the clock via satellite communications by researchers in Japan and the United States and at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Published Jun 19, 2024A KTH team will explore neutron stars and black holes through a new, twelve-metre-long space telescope weighing about two tonnes - XL-Calibur. "We have lifted the telescope to an altitude of 40 kilom...
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Leading academics call for extending, reframing Sustainable Development Goals
“Achieving the social and economic goals can’t be done at the expense of planet,” says Francesco Fuso-Nerini, director of the KTH Climate Action Center. Published Jun 17, 2024A group of leading academics are calling for the UN Sustainable Development Goals to be extended past their 2030 target date and updated. In a paper led by KTH Associate Professor Francesco Fuso-Nerin...
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Water conflicts more frequent - how to solve them
- The trend in recent years is that conflicts over water have increased. We have not recognised this in time and have let things go in the wrong direction," says Zahra Kalantari. (Photo: Christer Gummeson) Published Jun 17, 2024Water is a scarce resource,causing an increasing number of conflicts. A project at KTH Royal Institute of Technology is exploring how nations and regions can better resolve the problems.
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Electrifying transport in the forestry sector
The forestry industry wants to reduce emissions from transport and aims to have half of freight transport electrified by 2030 (Photo: Scania) Published Jun 13, 2024The forestry industry has set an ambitious target – to electrify half of the transports by 2030. How to get there? KTH researchers will help to answer that question.
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More participants in THE's Impact Ranking - KTH in 72nd place
KTH has been ranked on eight of the 17 global goals in THE's latest Impact Ranking. Image: OTW Published Jun 12, 2024On June 12, Times Higher Education's (THE) Impact Ranking 2024 was presented. The results show that KTH was ranked 72 out of 1,963 universities.
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