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“To carry on researching has been my lifeline”
Krystyna Heti came from UKraine one year ago and is now a researcher at KTH. Published Feb 24, 2023As the sirens howled, the windows in her apartment smashed and the university was bombed, Krystyna Heti and her mother fled Ukraine in early March last year. She is now a researcher at KTH in the fie...
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Saving energy – a mission for everyone at KTH
Borggården, KTH Campus. Photo: Fredrik Persson. Published Feb 17, 2023KTH needs to save energy. KTH’s energy-saving measures and electricity consumption must also be reported to the Swedish Energy Agency on a regular basis, as per the government’s mandate in October 202...
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"Without the Electrum lab, we would never have been able to start"
Published Feb 16, 2023The increasing electrification of various parts of our society goes far beyond securing electricity supplies. It is also about minimising losses and developing an infrastructure that, among other thin...
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KTH builds sensor network for earthquake early-warning system
Earthquakes are one of Earth’s most harmful natural disasters. The KTH-led project ArtEmis is developing systems technology that can forecast earthquakes at an early stage. Photo: Mostphotos Published Feb 15, 2023Future predictability of severe earthquakes – the goal of the KTH-led European research project ArtEmis. “By combining several measurement parameters simultaneously, we hope that research into earthq...
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Reducing global misuse of antibiotics with digital dipsticks
Published Feb 08, 2023Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health today, but we still overtreat many infections with antibiotics—urinary tract infections being one of the most common. A digital dip...
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New project on digital solutions for value recovery in manufacturing
Photo: This is engineering, Unsplash. Published Feb 07, 2023A four-year research project involving KTH and partners from 9 countries kicked-off in January 2023. The project will focus on the development of an open access platform for lifecycle information mana...
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KTH-led project develops next-generation biorefineries
Efthymios Kantarelis, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at KTH. Published Jan 31, 2023Researchers from KTH and Lund University will develop an integrated alcohol biorefinery for the production of industrially important chemicals (IIC) and energy carriers from Swedish biomass.
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Flow research for an energy-efficient future
Shervin Bagheri, Professor of Fluid Mechanics at KTH, receives the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants 2023. (Photo: Erik Thor) Published Jan 31, 2023Shervin Bagheri is conducting research into how flowing fluids and gases interact with surfaces and materials. He now has funding from ERC Consolidator Grants 2023 to study what are known as self-lubr...
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Earlier diagnosis of cancer with Lucky Loop
Published Jan 25, 2023If you have a cyst, you want the doctor to be able to tell you how severe it is. But until now, this has been more complex than it sounds. The new start-up Lucky Loop will help diagnose pancreatic can...
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INDEK researcher granted 5.1 million SEK for project about CO2 emissions
Published Jan 24, 2023New grant worth SEK 5.1 million by Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse for the project"Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on firm behavior and CO2 emissions".
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KTH and Alstom in joint effort for a sustainable European railway system
KTH and Alstom are collaborating to develop train traffic in Europe as part of the EU's commitment to sustainable transport. (Photo: Alstom / KBD Bilder AB) Published Jan 16, 2023The EU is focusing heavily on sustainable travel. With Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), the vision is to introduce a high-capacity, highly reliable integrated European railway system in orde...
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Replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa could save half a million lives every year
A new study assigns actual value to the negative aspects of traditional cooking methods in the developing world, including lost time due to collecting wood or other burnable biomass. Pictured, women carry firewood for cooking at home in Kenya. (Photo: Youssef Boulkaid) Published Jan 12, 2023Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.
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Nanoparticles in emissions on researcher’s radar
Published Jan 05, 2023Nanoparticles are everywhere, but we don't know how many or how toxic they are to humans and nature. The nPETS project involves researchers from all over Europe who visit road tunnels and airports to ...
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CBH team receives prize for environmentally friendly sanitary products
Björn Birdsong, Mercedes Bettelli and Antonio Capezza. Photo: Patrik Lundmark, KTH. Published Dec 14, 2022Antonio Capezza, a postdoc researcher at the Division of Polymeric Materials at CBH, has, together with his team at start-up SaniSOLE, won Stora Ingenjörspriset Innovation sponsored by Vattenfall. The...
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Converting research into climate action
Photo: Margot Richard, Unsplash. Published Dec 13, 2022Climate Action Centre's multidisciplinary research team has written a comment piece on how interdisciplinary research can be brought together and contribute to climate action on a larger scale in soci...
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They won the Ebbe Lyths scholarship 2022
Published Dec 13, 2022Two students at the Energy Technology department, Julia Almebäck and Rebecka Magnius, have received a scholarship from Kylbranschens samarbetsstiftelse for their MSc thesis work.
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Electric hydrofoil boats beat diesel boats for climate sustainability
An electric hydrofoil boat. The hydrofoil lifts the boat’s hull out of the water, thus reducing drag and reducing energy consumption. Image: Candela. Published Dec 13, 2022Two KTH students have completed a master’s thesis comparing the carbon footprint of electric hydrofoil ferries to that of traditional diesel ferries. The study shows that the hydrofoil ferries emit 97...
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Course takes a critical look at assumptions about sustainability
"The sustainability discourse both in research and the public domain is usually dogmatic, often picturing sustainability as a black-and-white issue,” says Emrah Karakaya. Published Dec 12, 2022A new PhD course examined how common assumptions about sustainability feed into research and what can be done about it.
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He works for increased innovation through procurement
The visualization shows a preliminary design of the Ostlänken, part of the new main lines, in the Boksjö area in Norrköping. It shows the tunnel mouth through the Kolmården escarpment and the E4 highway is visible on the left hand side. Illustrationen by the Swedish Transport Administration Published Dec 08, 2022With order volumes of 60 billion annually - around 1 percent of GDP - the Swedish Transport Administration is one of Sweden's largest procurement organizations. Per Erik Eriksson collaborates with the...
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“We provide tools and methods to make a sustainable impact on society”
Antonius Van Maris, Head of the department of Industrial Biotechnology. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Dec 08, 2022The department of Industrial Biotechnology does research and teaching on sustainable biotechnological production of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. ”Sustainability is...
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