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Prize boost for researchers at the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Awards
The award winners. Top left: Jooyoung Park, Anupriya Tuli and Katerina Stepanova. Bottom left: Kristina Höök and Nadia Campo Woytuk. Published Mar 10, 2025Five 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
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, 2025New 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
Björn Ottersten. Published Mar 03, 2025KTH 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?
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, 2025This 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
KTH staff at the event in Oskarshamn: Elina Charatsidou, Pär Olsson and Janne Wallenius. Published Feb 07, 2025This 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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Yue Wang has received an IAWS award for excellence in PhD research
Published Jan 14, 2025Dr. Yue Wang, KTH Building Materials, was recently awarded by the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS) with third place in the 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Prize. This is a prestigious award giv...
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Three SEED researchers have received the Formas Career Grant for Early-career Researchers
Pexels Published Nov 14, 2024Three 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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KTH helps Nepal shift to cleaner cooking fuels
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, 2024KTH is part of a collaboration to make Nepalis to use cleaner fuels when cooking.
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Ultra-High-Speed Wireless Communication
Published Oct 15, 2024Have you ever wondered how we might achieve ultra-high-speed wireless communication or next-level radar systems? The answer lies in the terahertz (THz) frequency range.
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Two CBH projects receives funding from NordForsk
Zeynep Cetecioglu Gurol and Helene Lundberg. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Jun 19, 2024NordForsk has decided to fund ten research projects on the green transition in the Nordic and Baltic States. Two of the projects involves KTH and the CBH School: COLDREFINERY and AGRIWASTE2H2. Both pr...
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From idea to implemented bridge concept in public space
Bifrost wooden bridge in Uddebo, Tranemo municipality Published Jun 19, 2024In Norse mythology, Bifrost is a bridge or rainbow that leads from Midgård, where humans live, up to heaven, where the gods reside. Today, it is the name of an innovative, implemented bridge concept w...
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Citizens' Assembly on Climate presents its results
Published May 20, 2024Sweden's first Citizens' Assembly on Climate, initiated by Fairtrans, a multidisciplinary research programme funded by Mistra, has completed its work. Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental Histor...
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A humanized electricity grid
Lorenz Payonga, doctoral student at KTH’s Department of Energy Technology, is involved in the PARMENIDES project. Published May 06, 2024Can you combine the requirements from the electricity grid and the needs from the consumers? Researchers at KTH will combine multiple energy storage technologies with insights from human behavior, the...
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Saman wants to save the climate – with flexible energy storage
Saman Nimali Gunasekara explores how flexible sector coupling between thermal energy and electric power can be designed for different realities. Published Apr 30, 202450 percent of the world's final energy is used in cooling and heating. Yet little attention is paid to the technologies behind it, the role thermal energy storage plays in it, and its connection to el...
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Biochemicals from wastewater – a gamechanger
Isaac Owusu-Agyeman is one of the researchers who want to use bioreactors to produce volatile fatty acids from wastewater. Photo: KTH Published Mar 13, 2024Researchers at KTH aim to produce chemicals from wastewater as an alternative to fossil-based chemicals. The researchers in the project named NEEDED, which is funded by Åforsk, will design a group of ...
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New EU funding boosts thermal systems research
Rafael and Silvia visiting Exheat Ltd’s electric heater manufacturing facilities. Published Mar 06, 2024New funding for KTH’s experts in thermal systems paves way for new experiments and brand new rigs in the lab at the energy department. We sat down with researchers Rafael Guedez and Silvia Trevisan to...
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Solar simulator enhances testing and training
Published Feb 13, 2024The sun has reached KTH in the form of a second test rig for sunlight simulation. The new solar simulator will transform the landscape of PV solar energy testing and training.
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The logistics future in an uncertain world: NOFOMA 2024 lands in Stockholm
At the forefront of the arrangements are KTH Associate Professor Luca Urciuoli and Per Skoglund, Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University. Published Feb 05, 2024The 36th edition of the NOFOMA conference will be hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Swedish Defence University in June 2024. We caught up with organisers Per Skoglund and Luca Urciuo...
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Curbing threats from forest and grass fires
Photo: Caleb Cook, Unsplash Published Feb 05, 2024Forest and grass fires have become increasingly common. The research project FIRE is working to reduce the threats posed by these fires and is analyzing complex societal changes caused by climate, ele...
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New project aims to make the extraction of battery metals more sustainable
Kerstin Forsberg, professor in chemical engineering at KTH. Photo: Jon Lindhe Published Jan 10, 2024A research project at KTH will make the extraction of nickel, cobalt and manganese for battery production more sustainable by investigating new crystallisation methods.
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