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Agreeing on how to collide
Do we and the self-driving cars understand each other? Photo: Samuele Errico Piccarini, Unsplash Published Sep 14, 2021Autonomous vehicles (AV) are expected to improve road safety and avoid serious accidents significantly. But do the autonomous systems and humans understand each others reactions in a tense traffic sit...
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KTH hosts “the Olympic Games in production engineering”
Published Sep 13, 2021Sweden and KTH will host the CIRP General Assembly – “the Olympic Games in production engineering” in 2025.
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Entrepreneurship in the veins
Published Sep 08, 2021He’s got entrepreneurship in his blood since childhood, and research in this field has great impact on society. INDEK’s Terrence Brown, one of three new professors at ITM, tend to stay with his crew, ...
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Meet our new colleagues at Learning in STEM
Published Sep 02, 2021We have three new colleagues at the Department of Learning/Learning in STEM who will be part of the research group HEOS (Higher Education Organization Studies). Here is an overview of their talents. W...
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KTH develops the future aircraft engine
Foto: Artturi Jalli på Unsplash Published Aug 23, 2021KTH participates in a project that develops the future aircraft engine. "H2Jet" has received SEK 15 million from the Swedish Energy Agency to develop critical components for hydrogen propulsion with g...
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Marcus Angelin takes over House of Science
Published Aug 18, 2021The project manager for Researchers' Friday, Marcus Angelin, is the new director of the House of Science (Vetenskapens Hus). The premises will re-open in the autumn.
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Francesco Fuso-Nerini receives teacher award
Published Jun 16, 2021He conducts extensive and pioneering sustainability-related education and research, and has started international collaborations spanning over many research areas. For that Francesco Fuso-Nerini at th...
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The staff will return to campus starting August 16th
Department of Energy Technology Published Jun 03, 2021President Sigbritt Karlsson welcomes all staff back to campus in the autumn
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The pandemic gave House of Science new ideas
Published Jun 02, 2021After the summer, The House of Science will re-open for school classes. But the digital activities during the pandemic have provided new lessons for the staff, and they have new ideas waiting to be de...
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Paper waste makes greener steel
Osmet started around the same time as Tova Jarnerud graduated from Bergs. Tova had not planned to do a doctorate, but was attracted by the Osmet project. Photo: Alexandra von Kern. Published Jun 02, 2021If the ideal sustainability project saves both the environment and money, and at the same time develops a research area, Osmet might be just that. Two of Sweden's largest basic industries join forces ...
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To the moon during a conference
Published May 26, 2021At her last conference, she arranged a visit to the moon, the Oval room in the White House and a guided tour through Copenhagen with her Nordic colleagues. Despite a pandemic. After Zoom and Teams co...
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From gardener at KTH to workshop manager
Published May 26, 2021Hi, Tomas Östberg, technician and responsible for the workshop at MMK, retiring after 48 years at KTH. What have you done all this time at KTH?
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They found a way to optimize recycling of cars – with torrefaction
Illustration: Katarzyna Jagodzińska Published May 26, 2021Hi Katarzyna Jagodzińska, who recently published the article together with Stena Recycling International AB: “Can torrefaction be a suitable method of enhancing shredder fines recycling?”
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Three new publications from HEOS
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KTH Live-in Lab's presents its annual report for 2020
Published May 07, 2021"2020 has once again been a very exciting year for KTH Live-In Lab as a research center", writes CEO Jonas Anund Vogel in the newly released annual report.
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Energy students present their work at the Legionella information day
Published Apr 30, 2021Jennie Lindblom and Linnea Persson, our 2020 KEX Students, have presented their work at Legionella information day hosted by Säker Vatten (an organization with focus on safe water installations in bui...
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Schools supported by KTH research
Photo: Chuk Yong from Pixabay Published Apr 28, 2021Three Stockholm municipalities have been given the chance to both contribute to and take part in research that KTH's teacher students do in their degree projects. The "KULF" project at the Department ...
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Findings offer ‘recipe’ for fine tuning alloys for high-temperature use
A piece of alloy is stress tested in Levente Vitos' lab at KTH (photo: courtesy of Levente Vitos). Published Apr 26, 2021Superalloys that withstand extremely high temperatures could soon be tuned even more finely for specific properties such as mechanical strength, as a result of new findings published recently.
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PECA starts educating Swedish industry
Study when, and how, it suits you - that's crucial in modern pedagogy for complementary education. Photo: Magnet.me, Unsplash Published Apr 21, 2021Swedish industry lack updated knowledge in many technologies. Now, KTH's industrial network ICES is about to change that when launching its pilot project, PECA. Here, professional educators are able t...
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Being relevant is key to dissemination
Published Apr 07, 2021The energy field can make large contributions to a sustainable future – which is the reason why Björn Palm from Department of Energy Technology goes to work every morning. Being relevant to the indust...
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