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Francisco Vilaplana: “I have always had a soft spot for the underdogs”
Photo: Pavel Matveev Published Jun 20, 2023Francisco Vilaplana, new professor in glycoscience, became fascinated by the molecular diversity of polysaccharides as a postdoc. A love story that is still going strong. “Polysaccharides are in the...
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KTH researcher develops first wood xerogel
Professor Qi Zhou and postdoc Shennan Wang. Photo: KTH Published Jun 13, 2023Researchers 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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Anselme Payen Award to Lars Berglund
The Anselme Payen Award is awarded every year by the American Chemical Society. Photo: KTH, ACS Published May 31, 2023Lars Berglund, professor at the Division of Biocomposites at KTH, receives the prestigious chemistry prize Anselme Payen Award. “It's nice to be noticed and to receive international recognition fro...
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"It's an incredible freedom to do what I find fun!"
Magnus Johnson in the surface chemistry lab. Photo: Jon Lindhe Published May 11, 2023He is fascinated by surface chemistry and dreams of spending more time in the lab. The microscope that makes it possible to study surfaces at the nano level was a turning point in the career of Magnus...
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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, 2023At 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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KTH researcher rewarded for new type of cellulose pulp
Yuanyuan Li receives the Gunnar Sundblad Research Foundation Competence Development Award from Carl XVI Gustaf. Photo: Carl Moser, Swedish Forest Industries Published Apr 21, 2023Yuanyuan Li, Assistant Professor at KTH, receives this year's Competence Development Award from the Gunnar Sundblad Research Foundation. The prize of SEK 700,000 goes to her research into a new type o...
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New opening of 2MILab
Matthew Fielden, director of 2MILab, is satisfied that the entire operation is now located in Kemihuset at Teknikringen. Published Apr 13, 2023April 25 is the time for the new inauguration of the laboratory 2MILab, which has been located in Kemihuset since the turn of the year. “We welcome all users to come and mingle with us!” says Matthew...
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New head of department wants to invest more in EU funding
Daniel Söderberg is the new Head of Department at the Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology. Published Apr 11, 2023From 1 April, Daniel Söderberg is the new Head of Department at the Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology: “I look forward to a dynamic period and have high expectations for the new management...
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Linnea Hjelm has always been interested in the brain
Linnea Hjelm in the lab at the Department of Protein Science. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Apr 11, 2023Linnea Hjelm is a recent PhD in protein science at KTH. Her thesis deals with the development of new proteins that could be used as biological drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. ”I have always bee...
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Yi Yang, Division of Applied Physical Chemistry
Yi Yang, doctoral student at the CBH-school. Published Mar 16, 2023Yi Yang’s doctoral thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of cost-effective catalysts used in fuel cells and water electrolyzers. “The electrolyzers and fuel cells are responsible for hydrogen pr...
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Finally time for an Open House in Flemingsberg
Photo: KTH Published Mar 15, 2023On March 29 it’s time for an Open house in Flemingsberg for the first time since 2019. Then the whole campus opens up, with Open House also at Karolinska Institutet, Swedish Red Cross University, Söde...
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New research centre shaping the future of food
Francisco Vilaplana and Rebecka Milestad have worked on starting KTH FOOD for several years. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Mar 02, 2023KTH FOOD is a new research centre for sustainable and healthy food systems which aims to engage and align the education, research, and outreach competences at KTH towards a sustainable and healthy foo...
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Scalable Production of Spider Silk Nanowires
Droplets of soluble spider silk proteins. Published Feb 27, 2023Researchers from KTH have successfully up-scaled the process for producing and releasing spider silk nanowires. They used liquid bridge-induced assembly to create over 12 million of 10 μm long nanowir...
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KTH-led project develops next-generation biorefineries
Efthymios Kantarelis, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at KTH. Published Jan 31, 2023Researchers from KTH and Lund University will develop an integrated alcohol biorefinery for the production of industrially important chemicals (IIC) and energy carriers from Swedish biomass.
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Hydrogel based on food waste can protect the colon
Researchers at KTH have invented a gel based on corn fibers. Photo: Jesse Gardner, Unsplash Published Jan 23, 2023A third of the raw material used in global food production is wasted each year. Researchers at KTH have found a new use for the part of the food that would otherwise be wasted. The invention is a gel ...
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CBH team receives prize for environmentally friendly sanitary products
Björn Birdsong, Mercedes Bettelli and Antonio Capezza. Photo: Patrik Lundmark, KTH. Published Dec 14, 2022Antonio Capezza, a postdoc researcher at the Division of Polymeric Materials at CBH, has, together with his team at start-up SaniSOLE, won Stora Ingenjörspriset Innovation sponsored by Vattenfall. The...
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“We provide tools and methods to make a sustainable impact on society”
Antonius Van Maris, Head of the department of Industrial Biotechnology. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Dec 08, 2022The department of Industrial Biotechnology does research and teaching on sustainable biotechnological production of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. ”Sustainability is...
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"Our success is based on scientific curiosity"
Peter Savolainen, Head of Deparment at Gene technology. Photo: KTH Published Dec 01, 202212 research groups with different focus work at the Department of Gene Technology. The common denominator is their way of working with method development, mainly in medical problems. ”One of the ...
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”I want everyone in my class to feel included”
Sara Sebelius, photo: Michail Magkos Published Nov 23, 2022As a doctoral student, Sara Sebelius discovered how fun it is to teach. Despite being a very successful researcher, she found that it was even more fun to teach than to conduct research and be in the ...
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The research engineer who realised that teaching that was her thing
Sara Naumann remembers all the students that have passed through the institution over the years. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Nov 17, 2022The department of Engineering Pedagogics, led by Sara Naumann, is an odd bird among KTH’s departments. It deals almost exclusively with education and has the overall responsibility for the qualifying ...
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