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We welcome Denise Adorno Lopes to the SCI school
Published May 27, 2021Denise 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, 2021Gunilla 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, 2021Congratulations 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, 2021As 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, 2021A 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
David Rydh, Department of Mathematics. Photo: KTH Published Mar 16, 2021The 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, 2021The 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, 2021Most 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 Published Feb 22, 2021The 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, 2021We 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, 2021Ulrich 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, 2021Interview 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, 2020KTH 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, 2020Mats 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, 2020Val 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, 2020Annually 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, 2020For 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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Mansour and Alfredsson share their teaching
Rami Mansour and Bo Alfredsson, Department of Engineering mechanics. Published Dec 15, 2020Rami Mansour, researcher, and Bo Alfredsson, Director of undergraduate studies, Department of Engineering mechanics, share their experience with developing teaching.
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Rami Mansour
Rami Mansour. Published Dec 10, 2020How can teachers assess the benefits of a combined physical and virtual learning environment? As a course responsible and supervisor of both undergraduate and graduate students, I am particularly inte...
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GE buys Swedish start-up Prismatic Sensors
Mats Danielsson. Photography: Prismatic Sensors Published Nov 27, 2020American General Electric acquires the KTH spin-off company Prismatic Sensors founded in 2012.
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