We highlight prizes, awards, grants and other recognitions for SCI School staff as inspiration and celebration of our collective successes.
Quantum researcher takes next step towards superconductors
Superconductors can make computers significantly faster and green energy technology even more environmentally friendly. But first, we need a deeper understanding of how superconducting materials actually work. Oscar Tjernberg, Professor of Quantum Materials at the Department of Applied Physics, has now received funding from the ERC to investigate properties and mechanisms using a new method. “If we can create superconductors that can be used at room temperature, it could revolutionise many areas, including electronics, electrical power and medical diagnostics,” says Oscar Tjernberg.
SCI physicists among the winners of the Breakthrough Prize
KTH scientists Jonas Strandberg and Christian Ohm are among the group of researchers that have been awarded the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as part of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The prize was established in 2012 to honour those who have significantly advanced our understanding of the world through their contributions to human knowledge.
ERC Consolidator Grant for research on faster fluid mixing
Outi Tammisola, Professor of Fluid Mechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million for a five-year period for the project “INTER-ET”.
“We hope to enable better mixing in small-scale flow. We want to achieve faster mixing of components and chemical reactions, for example in microfluidics for drug manufacturing,” she says.
The Borelius Medal was established in 1998, with the support of the Department of Engineering Physics. The medal is named after Gudmund Borelius, Professor of Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, who initiated the Master of Science in Engineering Physics programme in 1932. The medal is awarded by the School of Engineering Sciences and recognises outstanding contributions to the development and success of engineering sciences at KTH.
Why do women, compared to men, not seem to have similar opportunities to pursue an academic career and reach a permanent teaching position? This is what Canalias, Lundström and Prahl Wittberg wanted to find out. They all work at the School of Engineering Sciences and are recipients of the President's Equality and Diversity Award 2023 for their inventory of equality problems at their school.
