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”I have my hobby as a job”
Anders Cajander is one of CBH's many committed teachers. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH. Published Nov 09, 2022Anders Cajander is lecturer and Head of the Division of Health Informatics and Logistics at campus Flemingsberg. He worked for many years in the business sector until he, in 2014, became a teacher at ...
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"The whole picture is our motto"
Mats Johansson. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Oct 27, 2022The Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology is relatively large and its operations occupy almost two buildings on Teknikringen. The department was formed about 20 years ago by the merging of the de...
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Royal visit at SciLifeLab
The King and Queen of the Netherlands, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Maxima, and The King and Queen of Sweden, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia visiting the national research infrastructure SciLifeLab. Charlotte Stadler, SciLifeLab/KTH is Head of the National Spatial Proteomics Facility and presented the facility together with Tony Ullman, research engineer. Photo: SciLifeLab Published Oct 19, 2022On 12 October, the Swedish Royal couple visited the national research infrastructure SciLifeLab together with the King and Queen of the Netherlands, to learn more about technologies to study cells and...
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Jonas Garemark, Fibre and Polymer Technology
Jonas Garemark. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH. Published Oct 19, 2022The wood aerogels can be used as thermal insulation in buildings and for energy harvesting from water in order to create materials for self-sustained systems. Even though it’s a pure wood material, th...
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New centre for sports-related research at KTH
Andreas Chrysanthou, Joakim Dalfors and Jonas Willén in the lab in Flemingsberg. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Oct 19, 2022The KTH Center for Sports Engineering is a newly started centre with that aims to improve sports training and equipment at all levels. The centre will be inaugurated next year and will be a point of c...
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István Furó: Our department is very heterogeneous
Professor István Furó. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Oct 11, 2022For the Department of Chemistry, the research evaluation RAE was decisive for the merger with the then Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, even though the idea had already been there befo...
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”He put a six-pack of beer on the table, then we talked chemistry”
Professor Mårten Ahlquist. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Oct 11, 2022Barry Sharpless is, together with Morten Meldal and Carolyn Bertozzi, this year’s Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Mårten Ahlquist, professor and head of the division Theoretical Chemistry and Biology...
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”That he alone receives the prize shows his greatness”
Peter Savolainen. Photo: KTH Published Oct 05, 2022Peter Savolainen, Head of the department Gene Technology, did his postdoc in Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo’s lab at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. Here, he remembers his time there and comm...
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Grand slam at Grand Prix for KTH researchers
Tomas Rosén won first place in the Researcher's Grand Prix in Stockholm. Photo: Vetenskapens hus Published Oct 05, 2022It went well for KTH in the Researcher’s Grand Prix in Stockholm – robotics researcher Sanne van Waveren came in second place and Tomas Rosén from Fibre processes claimed victory. ”Now, it feels very...
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Awarded doctoral student studies biofuels from inedible crops
Teun Kuil, doctoral student at the department Industrial Biotechnology, has been awarded for his abstract and presentation. Photo: Jon Lindhe. Published Oct 04, 2022Teun Kuil, doctoral student at the department Industrial Biotechnology, has received the 2022 ESBES award for the combination of best abstract and presentation. “It was a big surprise and I feel hono...
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Algae waste to become food and cosmetics in circular EU project
Amparo Jimenez Quero, researcher at the Division of Glycoscience at KTH. Published Sep 28, 2022Each year, large amounts of macro and microalgae are produced over the world, but the waste from the production is discarded and not made use of. A new EU project coordinated by KTH aims at finding wa...
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MTH is gaining momentum
Sebastiaan Meijer, Head of department at MTH. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH Published Sep 22, 2022The major part of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems is situated in its own building by the Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge and has around 110 employees. One division,...
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CBH’s Tomas Rosén competes in research presentation
Tomas Rosén is competing in Researcher's Grand Prix on September 30. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Sep 22, 2022Researcher’s Grand Prix is a Swedish competition that has been running annually since 2012, where researchers compete by presenting their research in the most captivating way. On September 30, the com...
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Chemical engineering works with society's challenges
Carina Lagergren, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering. Published Sep 15, 2022The research at the Department of Chemical Engineering spans the fields of energy, environment and chemical engineering towards new processes – work that has recently received increased relevance and ...
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The practices and effects of involving older people in technology development
Björn Fischer. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Sep 13, 2022In his dissertation, Björn Fischer investigates the practices and effects of involving older people during technology development.
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Summer school at KTH gave students the research bug
High school students Mathias Chang and Klara Wagenius in the lab at KTH. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Aug 17, 2022High school students Klara Wagenius and Mathias Chang got to try out being KTH researchers for a couple of summer weeks. An experience that gave them a taste for more – they both want to become resear...
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Rewarding being a mentor to future researchers
Antonio Capezza is a postdoc researcher in polymeric materials. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Aug 17, 2022During the summer, postdoc researcher Antonio Capezza has mentored two unusually young KTH researchers - high school students Klara Wagenius and Mathias Chang. Together, they have researched the use o...
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New catalyst can provide cheaper and more efficient production of hydrogen
Hao Yang and Mårten Ahlquist. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi and Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Jun 22, 2022Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have participated in developing a new, very effective catalyst for the oxidation of water into oxygen and hydrogen. The results, which have recently be...
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New Horizon Europe project aims at reducing emissions from the agricultural sector
Assistant Professor Shareq Mohd Nazir. Photo: Åsa Karsberg: KTH Published Jun 15, 2022Researchers at the Department of Chemical Engineering are collaborating with other European partners to develop and implement technologies that could significantly reduce emissions of methane and nitr...
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Secondary school pupils learn programming at campus Flemingsberg
Two of the pupils from Vistaskolan in front of the computer. Photo: Mikael Sjöberg Published Jun 15, 2022During five Tuesdays this spring, ten Secondary school pupils (ages 10 to 12) from the Vista school (Vistaskolan) in Huddinge have been learning programming in one of the computer rooms at campus Flem...
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