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KTH researcher Zahra Kalantari Frontiers Planet Prize 2025 national champion
Photo: Frontier Planet Prize, David Callahan/KTH Published Apr 22, 2025Zahra 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 2025Published Apr 17, 2025The 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
Published Apr 16, 2025Fusion 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 Researchers Take Leading Roles in the International Solar Energy Society
Published Apr 14, 2025A strong delegation from the Department of Energy Technology at KTH is helping shape the global solar energy agenda through active leadership roles in the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) – a...
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KTH researchers make progress in cell cultivation
KTH researcher Johanna Pechan has been working on growing MSCs more efficiently. Photo: KTH Published Apr 09, 2025Researchers 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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Divers and robots working together: AI-driven underwater collaboration could create safer missions
Published Apr 08, 2025How can we make diving missions in defence, rescue and law enforcement safer and more efficient? KTH is currently leading the SHARCEX project, which aims to develop new technologies that will enable h...
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KTH technology to map fire risk at the square meter level
Now the risk of fires in forests and fields is increasing as last year's grass is easily ignited. Foto: Mostphotos Published Apr 07, 2025Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are working to reduce the risk of grass and forest fires in Sweden. As part of the FIRE project, they are developing a sensor platform for forestry mac...
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Can robots truly engage in meaningful conversations with humans?
Published Apr 04, 2025Researchers 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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New Swedish initiative to integrate research and healthcare
The researchers behind PROMISE aim to establish a national database to facilitate access and integration of research and healthcare data. Photo: Mostphotos Published Apr 03, 2025A groundbreaking national initiative, Precision Omics Initiative Sweden (PROMISE), aims to connect research with healthcare and establish Sweden as a world leader in data-driven precision medicine. Th...
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Beyond technology: A holistic approach to electrifying heavy trucks
Published Apr 02, 2025A 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
Pernilla Ulfvengren at the Parliament's research day. Published Apr 02, 2025On 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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The scientists who want to help us sleep better
Researchers Miriam Akkermann, Sandra Pauletto and Kira Vibe Jespersen are studying sleep and sound. Published Mar 21, 2025Music can help you fall asleep – but which music works best? That’s one of the questions an international consortium on sound, music and sleep are looking at.
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Leather bag made of fungus
Researchers hope that products made from fungal leather could be available in stores, within a few years. (The bag pictured is made from traditional leather) (Photo: Mostphotos) Published Mar 20, 2025From crummy food scraps to a stylish leather bag. In a new project, researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and other institutions will investigate how biotechnology can be used to produce ...
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KTH researchers contribute to more sustainable student accommodation
Students testing co-living in an experimental apartment at the Live-in Lab, KTH's residential lab. (Photo: Fredrik Persson) Published Mar 17, 2025More sustainability and less loneliness. This could be the result of the new building regulations for student accommodation that are proposed to be introduced on 1 July and where KTH has contributed w...
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Light chemistry could lead to better medicines
Tove Kivijärvi has developed the new method together with researchers from KI and Uppsala University. Photo: KTH Published Mar 13, 2025By combining hydrolysis and light chemistry, researchers at KTH, KI and Uppsala University have developed a new method for controlling the functionality of medical biomaterials. The results may ultima...
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Mapping unexplored areas in Greenland could provide new insights into ice-melting
Published Mar 11, 2025A recent study published in the scientific journal Nature shows that the world's glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. Between 2012 and 2023, the world's glaciers lost about 36 per cent more i...
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Developing nuclear fuel for future reactors
Published Mar 11, 2025Maria Giamouridou works with a most interesting material. The PhD student is fabricating the more advanced type of nuclear fuel uranium nitride, which can be used for small modular reactors (SMR).
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Charging the future: transforming body heat into sustainable energy
Published Mar 10, 2025Jose Serrano, a postdoctoral researcher in applied physics, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship* from the EU to develop more sustainable thermoelectric hybrid gen...
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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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Bringing computation to brain health research
Arvind Kumar is leading a new initiative which aims to unite and improve the scientific understanding on brain disorders. Published Mar 04, 2025A new brain health initiative at KTH will bring together expertise from across disciplines to pave way for better diagnosis, and treatment of brain disorders. Meet the initiator, researcher Arvind Kum...
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