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  • Chemist and mathematician appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows

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    Helena Lundberg and Aron Wennman receive prestigious grants for basic research. (Photo: Wallenberg Foundations)
    Published Dec 03, 2025

    Helena Lundberg and Aron Wennman have been awarded grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for groundbreaking basic research. The funding will enable them to further their research projec...

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  • Study shows potential for more affordable and efficient hydrogen gas production

    Woman fueling her car with a hydrogen fuel pump.
    A recent advance in the science of hydrogen fuel production could lead to faster, more efficient and more sustainable ways to produce clean fuel.
    Published Dec 03, 2025

    A recent advance in the science of hydrogen fuel production could enable higher output and more sustainable production of this renewable energy source, researchers with Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute...

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  • KTH Strengthens Water Research Through Water Wise Societies Membership

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    Photo: Petter Karlberg
    Published Dec 02, 2025

    KTH is now a member of Water Wise Societies, one of five impact innovation programmes in Sweden. These are 100-MSEK initiatives funded by agencies such as Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency...

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  • Camilla Lo Giudice Wins Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025

    Camilla Lo Giudice receives the Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025.
    Camilla Lo Giudice receives the Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025.
    Published Dec 02, 2025

    The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) organizes every year, since 2007, a conference on energy modelling, climate change, and resource assessment. This year, the conference was held fro...

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  • Researcher Anna Furberg featured in Ellevio podcast on AI, data centers, and the energy system

    Published Dec 01, 2025
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  • Innovating Thermal Energy Storage: Insights from the KTH–Kyoto Group Collaboration

    Published Nov 28, 2025

    KTH and Kyoto Group, a Norwegian leading thermal battery company, have maintained an ongoing research collaboration since 2022, with the latest milestone of the industrial partner being the inaugurati...

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  • Female enrollment in master’s programmes hits all-time high

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    “Given the numbers of qualified students, KTH is in higher demand – it’s more competitive to get in,” says Åsa Andersson, who leads the university international student recruitment team in the Education Office.
    Published Nov 28, 2025

    Enrollment figures for 2025 show the KTH master’s programme has increased female enrollment by 10 percentage points over the last seven years, while becoming even more attractive in terms of the numbe...

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  • Major research grant awarded to project on productivity and climate transitions

    Christian Thomann
    Published Nov 28, 2025

    A big research grant is awarded to the research project: “The effect of climate policy and financing on firms’ green transition”

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  • KTH dES in COP30 in Belém

    The photo shows the convention center in Belem, Brazil in which COP30 was held in November 2025.
    COP30 was held at the Hangar Convention Centre in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. Photo: Åsa Persson
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    At the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP30) in Belem, Brazil, the Division of Energy Systems (dES) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology highlighted how rigorous energy systems analysis can supp...

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  • ‘Build AI that supports collective well-being’

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    Amir H. Payberah works at the Division of Software and Computer Systems at KTH. He also leads the WASP cluster on Legal, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of AI, and runs several courses and initiatives on technology, feminism, and decolonialism. (Photo: KTH)
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    On a quest to create more inclusive AI systems, the KTH researcher Amir H. Payberah explores equity and justice in the development of large language models. His goal is to challenge the structural sil...

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  • KTH Students and NIBE Drive New Circular Heating Concept

    The winner - group of students
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    A student team from KTH has developed a winning concept for NIBE that rethinks the heat-pump industry through a circular, service-based model. The project, created by third-year energy-system students...

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  • Trends and challenges at this year’s COP30

    People in the street
    Protesters during COP30. Photo Åsa Persson.
    Published Nov 25, 2025

    COP30 delivered no major breakthroughs to keep the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target within reach. Yet there were signs that global climate action continues to move forward, even against the current. Åsa...

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  • Dynamics of pedestrian timber bridges

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    Jens Bergenudd
    Published Nov 24, 2025

    Jens Bergenudd at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering will publicly defend his doctoral thesis on 15 December 2025.

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  • From Italian Dolomites to Swedish Archipelago: Interview with Soroush Zarghami

    Soroush Zarghami and some of his colleagues in dES, on the rooftop of the M building.
    Soroush (middle) and some of his colleagues in dES. Photo: Francesco Gardumi
    Published Nov 24, 2025

    Soroush Zarghami, a PhD student at the University of Trento (UNITN), recently finished a 6-month research visit in the Energy Systems division. In this piece, Maryna Henrysson and Francesco Gardumi ta...

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  • AI servers could use ten percent of U.S. electricity by 2030

    Francesco Fuso-Nerini
    Francesco Fuso-Nerini is part of the international research team behind a study on AI's environmental impact.
    Published Nov 21, 2025

    A study recently published in Nature Sustainability warns that, by 2030, AI servers in the U.S. alone could consume up to ten percent of the country’s current electricity use, an amount comparable to ...

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  • Understanding Society to Reduce Food Losses and Waste

    Published Nov 20, 2025

    Reducing food loss and waste is not only a technical challenge — it requires seeing the food system as a whole. Within PLENTY, Work Package 3 Society (WP3) examines the social, ethical, and health-rel...

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  • Few differences between green and conventional funds

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    How green are your green funds? Photo: Mostphotos
    Published Nov 19, 2025

    Are funds that market themselves as green actually investing in something different? A new study from researchers at KTH and Stockholm University suggests the answer is more complicated than many inve...

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  • ETT’s Anton Julin Wallén Named Ebbe Lyth Scholarship Winner 2025

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    Anton with his supervisor from KTH/ETT – Samer Sawalha,
    Published Nov 17, 2025

    The Ebbe Lyth Scholarship 2025 was announced on November 6th during KVP-dagen, where Anton Julin Wallén from ETT, Energy Technology, KTH received the University category award for his thesis on heat r...

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  • Feeling safe at the station – a question of fairness

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    If certain groups feel that they cannot travel safely, it becomes a question of equality, says Vania Ceccato, professor of urban planning. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)
    Published Nov 17, 2025

    The feeling of safety at Swedish railway stations varies significantly between different groups. Women, LGBTQI people and people with disabilities more often feel unsafe in station environments, which...

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  • How she reveals hidden norms

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    The design of technical products often signals narrow ideas about who the user is expected to be, according to Karin Ehrnberger. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)
    Published Nov 17, 2025

    The design of technical gadgets influences more than we think – from our behaviour to who is welcomed or excluded. Researcher and industrial designer Karin Ehrnberger shows how design can reveal norms...

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