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  • We welcome Jan Kronqvist, new member of the faculty at the Department of Mathematics

    Published May 27, 2021

    We welcome Jan Kronqvist, who joined the Department of Mathematics on the 10th of May as an assistant professor with specialization in Optimization and Systems Theory.

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  • Interview with Ali Elshaari, associate professor in applied physics

    Published May 27, 2021

    Ali is an associate professor at KTH, who recently started in this position after having held a research position at KTH. During the pandemic, the work environment has changed for most professions inc...

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  • Meet the new members of the SCI newsletter team

    Published May 27, 2021

    Danai Deligeorgaki, Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics, and Elina Charatsidou, Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics, will edit and write articles for the School's newsletter.

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  • We welcome Denise Adorno Lopes to the SCI school

    Published May 27, 2021

    Denise Adorno Lopes is a physics material science engineer, working for Westinghouse, Västerås, Sweden, who recently took in the role of affiliated faculty at KTH. During her work at Westinghouse, Den...

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  • We welcome Gunilla Svensson, guest professor of Fluid Mechanics

    Published Apr 28, 2021

    Gunilla Svensson, Professor of Meteorology at Stockholm University, joined the faculty on half time as a Guest Professor of Fluid Mechanics with specialization in Climate Modelling first of May. She w...

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  • Prizes to young researchers

    Published Apr 21, 2021

    Congratulations to Alexander Edström and Mats Persson for receiving the Göran Gustafsson big prize for young researchers and to Kathlén Kohn, Liam Solus and Maciej Dendzik for receiving the small priz...

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  • Inventory of gender equality problems at the SCI School

    Published Apr 01, 2021

    As part of the Plan for Gender Mainstreaming of KTH (JIKTH), the School's management group decided in 2019 to send out a survey of problem areas within the organization, from an employee perspective, ...

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  • NanoVIB project

    Published Mar 31, 2021

    A new H2020 project, coordinated by KTH, has recently been granted by the European Commission, within the call “Disruptive photonics technologies” (ICT-36-2020), under the Photonics Public Private Par...

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  • David Rydh has been awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize

    Picture of  Professor David Rydh, Department of Mathematics. Photo: KTH
    David Rydh, Department of Mathematics. Photo: KTH
    Published Mar 16, 2021

    The Göran Gustafsson Prize in Mathematics 2021 for young researchers up to the age of 45, has been awarded to David Rydh, Professor of mathematics at the Department of Mathematics.

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  • Diversity in student recruitment

    Borggården KTH. Photo: Anne Marie Girtz
    Published Feb 25, 2021

    The Swedish Higher Education Ordinance (Högskoleförordningen) decrees that universities should actively work to ensure diversity in student recruitment. This requirement was introduced in 2001. The Sw...

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  • To work on a quiet and empty campus

    Published Feb 22, 2021

    Most people at KTH work from home during the pandemic. We have met three people at the SCI school who have tasks which require their physical presence on campus

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  • Applied Physics gathering on the Albano campus

    From left: House 3, Albanova mainbuilding and Functional & Nano lab. Photo: Sofia Nyström
    From left: House 3, AlbaNova mainbuilding and Functional & Nano lab. Photo: Sofia Nyström
    Published Feb 22, 2021

    The two divisions within Applied Physics, the Materials and Nanophysics division and the Photonics division that contain approximately ten research groups and 70 persons in total, moved to the new bui...

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  • Interview with Johan Nordstrand

    Johan Nordstrand. Photo: Sofia Nyström
    Published Jan 26, 2021

    We have met Johan Nordstrand, a Doctoral student from the research group Functional & Nano Materials (FNM), Department of Applied Physics for an interview. Johan has recently participated in the confe...

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  • Digital virtual lab

    Ulrich Vogt
    Published Jan 26, 2021

    Ulrich Vogt, Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, who usually has physical labs in his course. During the pandemic he had to transition to digital labs. In this interview, he tells us about...

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  • Mathematics of Data and AI

    Published Jan 26, 2021

    Interview with Katharina Jochemko, Kathlén Kohn Martina Scolamiero and Liam Solus, who are Assistant Professors at the newly established division "Mathematics of Data and AI" which is funded by WASP a...

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  • Electric powered aircraft to KTH

    The electric powered aircraft the Windex 1200 (left). Head of SCI school Sandra Di Rocco is testing the plane at KTH (right). Photographer: Saab and Helene Rune.
    Published Dec 22, 2020

    KTH has recently received an electric powered aircraft from Saab in Linköping.  The aircraft type, known as the Windex 1200, was originally developed by a small team involving KTH Professor Sven-Olof ...

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  • Mats Wallin is the new Director of AlbaNova

    Mats Wallin, the new Director of AlbaNova, monitors the growing Albano campus from his office window. Photographer: Sofia Nyström
    Published Dec 17, 2020

    Mats Wallin, professor of theoretical physics, Department of Physics, is from January 2021 the new Director of AlbaNova.

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  • Quantum system solves problem remarkably fast

    Val Zwiller, Department of Applied physics.
    Published Dec 17, 2020

    Val Zwiller, division of Quantum nano photonics, Department of Appleid physics, who collaborate with University of Science and Technology of China research group, was interviewed this week on Chinese ...

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  • Tens of thousands of written examinations during the pandemics puts the administration to the test

    Helene Rune, Head of administration at the SCI school (here at KTH's national exam conference). Photographer: Sofia Nyström
    Published Dec 17, 2020

    Annually about 90,000 written examinations are conducted at KTH, with a third taking place at SCI. Because of the pandemic, the examinations take place digitally and requires extra effort of the organ...

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  • Superconductors can revolutionize how we use electricity

    Oscar Tjernberg and his model of superconducting train that hovers above magnetic rails. Photography: Oscar Tjernberg
    Published Dec 15, 2020

    For the first time, American researchers have succeeded in creating a so-called superconductor that works at room temperature. This technology has the potential to revolutionize how we use electricity...

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