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  • Two SEED researchers receives the Formas Career Grant for Early-career Researchers

    Published Oct 27, 2025

    Two young researchers from Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) receives the Formas Career Grant for Early-career Researchers. The funded researchers are...

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  • KTH professor receives prestigious geoscience award

    Picture of Prosun Bhattacharya (centre) receiving the award next to two colleagues.
    Prosun Bhattacharya (centre) works at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering at KTH. Photo: R. Olsson KTH
    Published Oct 22, 2025

    Thanks to research developed by KTH, more than one million people have gained access to safe drinking water with life-saving health benefits. Professor Prosun Bhattacharya has now been awarded one of ...

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  • KTH initiative paves the way for new nuclear energy lab

    Man in front of lab machine.
    Pär Olsson, Professor of Physics and Nuclear Materials and Head of the Department of Physics at KTH. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Oct 21, 2025

    One of KTH's strategic research initiatives has paid off in the form of substantial research grants from the Swedish Energy Agency. Two projects have secured the entire SEK 50 million grant – and a bi...

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  • The idea that got Sweden moving

    Portrait
    Carina Haak, founder of Fritidsbanken, wants to enable more people to find joy in sports and outdoor activities. (Photo: Private)
    Published Oct 21, 2025

    From a small premises in Deje to a movement that has spread throughout Sweden. Today, Fritidsbanken lends out millions of sports and leisure items – and has become a natural part of life for many. Now...

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  • Opinion piece in SvD

    Photo: Pixabay
    Published Oct 20, 2025
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  • Björn Glaser new professor in Experimental Kinetics of Metallurgy

    Björn at his office
    Björn Glaser was appointed professor at the department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2025.
    Published Oct 17, 2025

    Earlier this year Björn Glaser has been appointed as professor at KTH in Experimental Kinetics of Metallurgy.

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  • The winner of the Energy Management course project announced

    Presenting students, jury members and course teachers.
    Published Oct 15, 2025

    KTH students have designed a smarter and more sustainable Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Team Nyarugenge 3 came through as a winner in the annual competition.

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  • KTH in three minutes

    Published Oct 10, 2025

    President Anders Söderholm and Dean Sofia Ritzén will provide a snapshot of developments at one of the world's top 100 technical universities. KTH is taking the lead for a sustainable society.

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  • Film screens: The Future Planet Film Series

    Recycling Colony
    Film still from ”Recycling Colony” a film that explores the complex reality of sustainability. © Korean Broadcasting Service
    Published Oct 09, 2025

    This autumn, the KTH Climate Action Centre will screen a series of newly produced films from around the world on climate-related themes. The ”Future Planet Film Series” explores the impacts of climate...

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  • New course on sustainability and gender equality in funding applications

    Two women in black shirts in front of a stone wall.
    Karin Larsdotter, project manager for research at KTH Sustainability Office, and Klara Folkesson, strategist at KTH Equality Office. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi
    Published Oct 06, 2025

    Researchers seeking funding may need to consider both sustainability and gender equality. There is now a course on Canvas that supports KTH researchers in this regard.

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  • Scania x KTH Research Day

    Scania x KTH Research Day speaker
    Karl Henrik Johansson, professor at the Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH, led a workshop at the event.
    Published Oct 06, 2025

    On Thursday, October 2, KTH and Scania hosted the Scania x KTH Research Day as part of the strategic partnership. The event brought together researchers, engineers, and strategists from both KTH and S...

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  • Prosun Bhattacharya awarded by the GSA

    Published Sep 29, 2025

    The award ceremony for the GSA International Distinguished Career Award 2025 will take place during the GSA Connects 2025 event in San Antonio, the United States, on 19 October.

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  • “We want to develop digital solutions that work for people”

    Erik Flores-García
    Erik Flores-García.
    Published Sep 25, 2025

    How can research help solve real-life problems? Mobility programmes give researchers the opportunity to find out. Working closely with Scania, Erik Flores-García aims for better understanding of trend...

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  • New grant for establishing a Swedish Citizen Science Lab for Urban Biodiversity

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    Published Sep 25, 2025

    How can we work together with citizens, actors from the public sector, civil society organizations, academia and private sector to develop knowledge about citizen science and urban biodiversity? Sara ...

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  • The bag that carries fruit and conflicts

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    Nisse Johansson, sustainability researcher, is writing a book about the history of plastic bags. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)
    Published Sep 24, 2025

    The controversial plastic bag is to get its own history. Researcher Nisse Johansson delves into the history of the plastic bag, which was invented by a KTH engineer and later criticised as an environm...

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  • How IRIS strengthened research at ITM

    Two women with a report in their hands, smiling to the camera.
    Anna Jerbrant, project manager for IRIS, and Isabel Werner Runebjörk, project manager for the printed report, are delighted to have reached the goal.
    Published Sep 23, 2025

    The IRIS research initiative at ITM resulted in cross-disciplinary collaborations and more than SEK 168 million in external funding. A final report, now being released, highlights the many outcomes of...

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  • Nils Johansson Awarded Natur & Kultur Grant

    Nils Johansson, researcher at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) at KTH.
    Published Sep 19, 2025

    Nils Johansson is one of eight recipients of the 2025 Natur & Kultur popular science work grant.

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  • Climate research projects receive funding for feasibility studies

    Grant recipients
    Grant recipients: Anja Moum Rieser, Katarina Larsen, Sara Borgström, Rebecka Ericsdotter Engström, Jens Ergon, Markus Larsson and Emma Riese, together with Francesco Fuso-Nerini, Director of the KTH Climate Action Centre, and Deputy Director Karin Larsdotter – in front of the Centre’s building (on the left). Photo: Ingenjören.
    Published Sep 17, 2025

    Four research groups at KTH have each been awarded SEK 250,000 to carry out feasibility studies for climate-related projects. The funding comes from Engineers of Sweden’s Environmental Fund, which in ...

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  • Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Günter Blöschl visits KTH

    KTH Climate Action Centre's Director Francesco Fuso-Nerini, WaterCentre@KTH's Director Zahra Kalanta
    KTH Climate Action Centre's Director Francesco Fuso-Nerini, WaterCentre@KTH's Director Zahra Kalantari, Professor Günter Blöschl and KTH's President Anders Söderholm
    Published Sep 10, 2025

    Professor Günter Blöschl, Vienna University of Technology and University of Bologna, held a seminar at KTH Campus on 28 August, the day after he received this year's Stockholm Water Prize from HM the ...

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  • Where the Wind Blows

    A man in a pink short sleeved shirt in front of a building with asiatic signs on it
    Published Sep 08, 2025

    Thomas Harbøll Schrøder, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, will defend his doctoral thesis on Wednesday 10 September 2025.

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