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Researcher Anna Furberg featured in Ellevio podcast on AI, data centers, and the energy system
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Innovating Thermal Energy Storage: Insights from the KTH–Kyoto Group Collaboration
Published Nov 28, 2025KTH 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
“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, 2025Enrollment figures for 2025 show the KTH master’s programme has increased female enrollment by 10 percent over the last seven years, while becoming even more attractive in terms of the numbers of qual...
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Major research grant awarded to project on productivity and climate transitions
Christian Thomann Published Nov 28, 2025A 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
COP30 was held at the Hangar Convention Centre in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. Photo: Åsa Persson Published Nov 26, 2025At 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’
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, 2025On 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
Published Nov 26, 2025A 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
Protesters during COP30. Published Nov 25, 2025COP30 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
Jens Bergenudd Published Nov 24, 2025Jens 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 (middle) and some of his colleagues in dES. Photo: Francesco Gardumi Published Nov 24, 2025Soroush 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 is part of the international research team behind a study on AI's environmental impact. Published Nov 21, 2025A 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, 2025Reducing 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
How green are your green funds? Photo: Mostphotos Published Nov 19, 2025Are 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
Anton with his supervisor from KTH/ETT – Samer Sawalha, Published Nov 17, 2025The 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
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, 2025The 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
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, 2025The 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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Turning deepfake porn into a design challenge
Alejandra Gómez Ortega and Madeline Balaam present their photo booth, which generates implicit images of its subjects. Photo: Anna Gullers Published Nov 17, 2025It takes one photo and five minutes and your face could appear in a fake porn video. KTH researchers Madeline Balaam and Alejandra Gómez Ortega are investigating how generative AI fuels this form of a...
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Newly funded KTH projects reimagine public climate communication
KTH researchers Karin Bradley and Luigia Brandimarte. Published Nov 14, 2025KTH Climate Action Fellows Luigia Brandimarte and Karin Bradley have received project funding through Formas’ call “Effect! From Research to Impact.” Each project has been awarded nearly 4 million SEK...
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Finding abundant elements for greener batteries
Published Nov 13, 2025As the demand for greener energy storage grows, researchers are looking beyond traditional lithium-ion batteries toward more sustainable and abundant options like sodium- and calcium-ion batteries for...
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New web platform accelerates greener freight transport
The platform offers an interactive map that helps users plan routes primarily by rail. Photo: Michael Erhardsson, Mostphotos. Published Nov 12, 2025A web platform developed by researchers at KTH, among others, will facilitate planning and logistics for transporting goods by rail.
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