We highlight prizes, awards, grants and other recognitions for SCI School staff as inspiration and celebration of our collective successes.
Göran Gustafsson Prize for Young Researchers
Congratulations to SCI researchers Kathlén Kohn and Maciej Dendzik, who have been awarded the prestigious Göran Gustafsson Prize 2025. This prize honors outstanding young researchers in engineering physics and mathematics, with recipients receiving a total prize amount of SEK 3 million distributed over three years.
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.
Mats Danielsson, who has developed groundbreaking medical technology enabling early detection of tumors and faster treatment of inflammatory diseases, has been awarded the KTH Innovation Award 2024.
"A strong belief in humanity is fundamental to success, both in research and business," Danielsson 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.
