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  • Honorary doctor focuses on collaboration for a fossil-free future

    Portrait of Anders Brolin with a pine forest in the background.
    Anders Brolin, experienced Director of Group Innovation and R&D within the field of pulp, paper and packaging materials at Stora Enso, is one of two recipients of an honorary doctorate from KTH in 2022. (Photo: Private)
    Published Nov 10, 2022

    Anders Brolin, a director with many years’ experience of research in the forest industry, has played an important role in developing KTH’s research into pulp and paper. Recently, there has been a focu...

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  • “Driverless vehicles of the future could have an adverse impact on human health”

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    “As a society, we need to think about how we actually want to use autonomous technology. We can’t ban motor traffic, it does have a place after all. But pedestrian and cycle traffic has one too, and it has positive side effects,” says KTH researcher Erik Almlöf.
    Published Nov 09, 2022

    If autonomous vehicles become commonplace on our roads in the future, fewer people will walk or cycle while emissions will increase, according to a new research study. “More people will take the car ...

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  • KTH hosts hub during the UN climate conference

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    Karin Larsdotter, deputy director of KTH Climate Action Center. Photo: Alexandra Von Kern.
    Published Nov 08, 2022

    Hello there, Karin Larsdotter, deputy director of KTH Climate Action Center; what is happening at KTH's COP27 hub?

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  • HITS renewed for phase two

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    Elisabeth Hörfeldt, Project leader for HITS presents at last week's kick-off.
    Published Nov 02, 2022

    Last week the project kicked off its second phase. HITS 2024 now aims to continue to build knowledge and experience needed to develop the freight transportation system of the future.

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  • "The whole picture is our motto"

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    Mats Johansson. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi, KTH
    Published Oct 27, 2022

    The 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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  • Wood-based plastic may enable circular home furnishings and building materials

    a round sample of plastic is held up for view against some tree branches
    Peter Olsén, a researcher at KTH, holds up a sample piece of a new degradable plastic from wood. “These new materials, because of their high fiber content and degradable, matrix could be a game changer for a future circular material economy," he says. (Photo: courtesy of Peter Olsén)
    Published Oct 25, 2022

    Plastics used in home furnishings and constructions materials could be replaced with a new kind of wood-based degradable plastic with semi-structural strength. Unlike thermoplastic, the material can b...

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  • Environmental taxes make companies invest in research

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    Christian Thomann, associate professor and one of the researchers behind the study.
    Published Oct 24, 2022

    Companies with emissions affected by environmental taxes invest more in research and development. This is shown in a new international study by two Indek researchers.

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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Oct 24, 2022

    Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings, results and researchers have attracted attention outside KTH? Under the vignette Newsmakers, we provide a selection of the latest news an...

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  • Jonas Garemark, Fibre and Polymer Technology

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    Jonas Garemark. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH.
    Published Oct 19, 2022

    The 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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  • Researchers can help cut down global data center power consumption

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    Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Published Oct 17, 2022

    Researchers have discovered a way to reduce power consumption in data centres significantly. They offload computation by converting particular types of commodity Network Interface Cards into processor...

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  • COP27 hub on Campus

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    Published Oct 14, 2022

    During the UN's annual climate conference COP27 on November 8–17, KTH Climate Action Centre hosts a hub in Stockholm together with the organisation We Don't Have Time. A series of seminars and activit...

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  • KTH Great Prize 2022 goes to innovator behind solar powered water purifier

    Petra Wadström portrait outdoors in sunshine
    Petra Wadström, designer, artist and the innovator behind Solvatten receives the KTH Great Prize 2022. Today the technology is used in more than 20 countries, improving the lives of more than half a million people.
    Published Oct 13, 2022

    The Solvatten innovation is saving lives in refugee camps, war zones and other places where a lack of clean water has reached crisis proportions. Solvatten provides a container that users fill with c...

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  • Six tons of batteries in experimental student residence

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    Unloading the batteries outside KTH Live-In Lab. Photo: Einar Mattsson
    Published Oct 12, 2022

    A large group of batteries has been installed for a research project in KTH Live-In Lab, an experimental student residence where KTH, Northvolt and Einar Mattsson conduct research together. They’re te...

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  • Associate professors from INDEK with new publication in the Review of Financial Studies

    Published Oct 04, 2022
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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 abs
    Teun Kuil, doctoral student at the department Industrial Biotechnology, has been awarded for his abstract and presentation. Photo: Jon Lindhe.
    Published Oct 04, 2022

    Teun 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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  • New Report: Digital Reset. Redirecting Technologies for the Deep Sustainability Transformation.

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    Published Sep 29, 2022

    New report provides a comprehensive analysis of opportunities, risks and governance options regarding digitalisation and sustainability.

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  • KTH provides Valencia with sustainable energy plan

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    Published Sep 29, 2022

    Bio waste that generates biogas for public transport was one of the suggestions from the winning team that charmed the jury when master students from EGI competed about best proposal for a sustainable...

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  • Algae waste to become food and cosmetics in circular EU project

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    Amparo Jimenez Quero, researcher at the Division of Glycoscience at KTH.
    Published Sep 28, 2022

    Each 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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  • A “power bank” for renewables

    Foto: Kyoto Group - Heatcube
    Published Sep 28, 2022

    Imagine a factory with a giant "power bank" charged with renewable energy when the availability is good and electricity prices low. To be discharged as heat when sun and wind are scarce and prices hig...

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  • The film festival Crosscuts – another way to communicate research

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    Illustrations by happypocketknife Images: Jörg Bachmann
    Published Sep 27, 2022

    Artists, researchers and activists come together with a wide audience to share a diverse film repertoire within the field of environmental humanities at the annual Crosscuts Film Festival.

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