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  • Award goes toward study of wood-derived lignin for eco-friendly sunscreen

    Olena Sevastyanova in a lab.
    “I feel truly grateful for the recognition of my work,” Olena Sevastyanova says about receiving the Competence Development Award. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published May 21, 2025

    KTH researcher Olena Sevastyanova believes that trees and plants can serve as a source for sunscreen – an idea she is researching with a recent grant of 700,000 Swedish crowns.

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  • Thomann in collaboration between Nordic Ministries of Finance and academia

    Man in the library
    Christian Thomann
    Published May 07, 2025

    INDEK’s Christian Thomann will play an important role in a new collaboration between the Nordic Ministries of Finance.

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  • Kick-starting brain research synergies at KTH

    Group of people
    Clever brains gathered from all over KTH for Brain Day.
    Published Apr 29, 2025

    On April 29, KTH researchers from a variety of disciplines came together for Brain Day to explore how their collective focus on brain research could spark new collaborations.

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  • Oestrogen in the gut affects immune response to cancer

    Researcher in lab.
    Cecilia Williams is a professor in proteomics at KTH. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Apr 29, 2025

    According to a recent study published by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the effect of oestrogen in the gut affects how immune cells penetrate colon tumors.

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  • KTH researcher Zahra Kalantari Frontiers Planet Prize 2025 national champion

    A photo of Zahra Kalantari in front of a photo of a clouded forest
    Photo: Frontier Planet Prize, David Callahan/KTH
    Published Apr 22, 2025

    Zahra Kalantari, professor in environmental science and engineering for sustainability in the Anthropocene at KTH, has today on Earth Day 2025 been named Frontiers Planet Prize 2025 national champion....

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  • Symposium for heat and power collaboration

    Heat and power symposium at KTH 2 April 2025
    Published Apr 17, 2025

    The Heat and Power Technology (HPT) division at KTH hosted a full-day symposium in April focused on advancing industrial decarbonization. The event brought together researchers, students, industry rep...

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  • The dream: an economically sustainable fusion reactor 

    Mathias Hoppe fusion research
    Published Apr 16, 2025

    Fusion is the sustainable energy source of the future. However, there are still complex obstacles to this technology that can damage reactors. Researcher Mathias Hoppe is developing advanced computati...

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  • KTH physicists among the winners of the Breakthrough Prize

    Published Apr 15, 2025

    KTH scientists Jonas Strandberg and Christian Ohm are among the group of researchers that have been awarded the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as part of the ATLAS collabo...

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  • Hatef Madani becomes Principal Scientist at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

    Three people at a table in an energy lab.
    Hatef Madani (to the left) will keep his position at KTH, but will also spend time in the supervision team at AIT, supervising students at KTH in Stockholm and in Vienna.
    Published Apr 15, 2025

    Hatef Madani is researching the development of the next generation of sustainable heating systems for use in European urban areas at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and KTH. In a part-time po...

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  • KTH researchers make progress in cell cultivation

    Researcher in lab.
    KTH researcher Johanna Pechan has been working on growing MSCs more efficiently. Photo: KTH
    Published Apr 09, 2025

    Researchers at KTH and the company Cellcolabs have successfully cultured a special type of stem cells in a bioreactor at KTH. These cells inhibit inflammation and restore balance between the immune sy...

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  • Can robots truly engage in meaningful conversations with humans?

    a robot and a person talking
    Published Apr 04, 2025

    Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, are breaking new ground in Human-Robot Interaction. Dr. Bahar Irfan, Assist. Prof. Sanna Kuoppamäki, and Prof. Gabriel Skantze, latest studies tackle ...

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  • Beyond technology: A holistic approach to electrifying heavy trucks

    Lastbil som laddar
    Published Apr 02, 2025

    A new study examines the system-level effects of electrifying road freight transport. Using a multi-layer dynamics model, it offers various stakeholders a comprehensive framework to analyse impacts, b...

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  • Ulfvengren on the future of aviation at the Swedish parliament

    Smiling woman in the Riksdag
    Pernilla Ulfvengren at the Parliament's research day.
    Published Apr 02, 2025

    On March 27, the Swedish Parliament hosted its annual Research Day, with KTH among the invited participants. Pernilla Ulfvengren, researcher at INDEK, was invited to speak to members of the Committee ...

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  • Scania and KTH continue research on circular manufacturing for trucks

    Truck
    Photo: Scania.
    Published Mar 24, 2025

    Following the success of the Vinnova-funded iReGear project, Scania and the Circular Manufacturing Systems team at IPU continue to explore new ways to enhance the circularity of trucks. Earlier this y...

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  • SPP instruments celebrate 10 years in space on MMS

    Space-MMS
    Published Mar 13, 2025

    The NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission celebrates 10 years in space since its launch.

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  • Prize boost for researchers at the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Awards

    The SIGCHI logo accompanied by profile pictures of the five KTH researchers who whon an award.
    The award winners. Top left: Jooyoung Park, Anupriya Tuli and Katerina Stepanova. Bottom left: Kristina Höök and Nadia Campo Woytuk.
    Published Mar 10, 2025

    Five interaction design researchers from KTH celebrated for their contributions to human-computer interaction research, practice, and impact.

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  • Researchers develop holes 60,000 times smaller than human hair

    Picture of researcher, dressed in lab protection gear, holding a petri dish.
    KTH PhD student Fabio De Ferrari pictured with samples from his research on DNA sensing. He believes this has potential to advance personalized medicine worldwide. Photo: Cecilia Aronsson
    Published Mar 05, 2025

    New process offers extreme precision that could revolutionize medical diagnostics and beyond.

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  • Winner of the 2025 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

    Portrait picture of Björn Ottersten.
    Björn Ottersten.
    Published Mar 03, 2025

    KTH visiting professor Björn Ottersten awarded for his contributions to array processing and its applications in wireless communications.

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  • How Can Large Language Models Make Network Configuration Human Friendly?

    Researcher team
    To the left: Changjie Wang (centre) with his co-supervisor Dejan Kostić (left), and the main supervisor Marco Chiesa (right). Picture taken by Jonatan Langlet. Right side from the top: Mariano Scazzariello, Alireza Farshin, and Simone Ferlin.
    Published Feb 14, 2025

    This is the central question explored in the research team's award-winning paper "NetConfEval: Can LLM Facilitate Network Configuration?" which earned the prestigious IRTF/IETF Applied Networking Rese...

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  • Milestone for lead-cooled reactors

    Elina Charatsidou, Pär Olsson and Janne Wallenius
    KTH staff at the event in Oskarshamn: Elina Charatsidou, Pär Olsson and Janne Wallenius.
    Published Feb 07, 2025

    This week, Oskarshamn was the scene of an important step for nuclear power with the start of construction of an electrically heated prototype for a future nuclear reactor. The company Blykalla and KTH...

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