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Excuses we make for harming the climate
'You can fly if you are a vegetarian' is an example of 'budgeting', imagining a climate account where actions are weighed against each other. Photo: Syda Productions /Mostphotos Published Jan 30, 2024How do we excuse our own climate damaging actions? KTH Professor Nina Wormbs’ research project received media attention even before it started. “As a researcher, I have never seen such great interest ...
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New agreement with Akademiska Hus
Anders Söderholm, President of KTH and Caroline Arehult, CEO at Akademiska Hus signing a Memorandum of Understanding. Published Jan 26, 2024KTH's strategic and long-term cooperation with Akademiska Hus is being strengthened. This became clear through the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both parties on 17 January.
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KTH Energy Platform to focus on spreading knowledge that supports the climate transition
KTH Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg Published Jan 22, 2024The spring term gets underway with a string of events arranged within the framework of the KTH Energy Platform. Already in January, a lot of attention is being drawn to a new handbook for how technica...
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AI can detect infection before it’s too late
AI records babies' health data and gives doctors early signals when a risky infection is about to break out. "Small, premature babies are particularly vulnerable to injury if infection treatment cannot be started in time," says Saikat Chatterjee, principal supervisor of a research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology that is collaborating with Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in the project 'Explainable Machine Learning for Early Warning Systems'. Published Jan 18, 2024Artificial intelligence can detect an infection as early as 24 hours before healthcare providers see signs of it. "Since there are often no early clear symptoms of infection, sensor technology can sav...
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Tax effective in reducing emissions
The carbon tax is working as intended but may need to be complemented by state aid for some companies, says Christian Thomann, researcher in industrial technology (Photo: Christer Gummeson). Published Jan 17, 2024The climate tax works. Without it, emissions from industry would be much higher. But there is more to be done to further reduce emissions, according to a study from KTH.
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Rent your wash – a new spin on laundry business models
Photo: Pexels. Published Jan 16, 2024Ever wondered if you really need to own everything in your home? Well, the future might have us washing clothes without owning washing machines. Researchers at KTH are testing a business model, pay-pe...
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Equality work is constantly relevant
The President's Equality and Diversity Prize was awarded in connection to the graduation ceremony in the City Hall on 19 December by Deputy President Mikael Lindström. From left: Carlota Canalias, Linda Lundström and Lisa Prahl Wittberg. Published Jan 15, 2024Why do women, compared to men, not seem to have similar opportunities to pursue an academic career and reach a permanent teaching position? This is what Canalias, Lundström and Prahl Wittberg wanted t...
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KTH part of major Swedish investment in materials research
The investment aims to promote and activate a transition to a sustainable society while advancing the scientific frontier in materials science. Photo: Adam Af Ekenstam Published Jan 12, 2024Three research platforms from KTH Royal Institute of Technology are part of a significant investment in materials research for sustainability in Sweden. The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for...
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KTH hosts CDIO Regional Meeting: Transforming Engineering Education
Photo: KTH Published Jan 12, 2024Hosting the European/UK-Ireland CDIO Regional Meeting on the 8th - 10th January 2024, around 80 people attended the meeting at a snow covered KTH.
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New project aims to make the extraction of battery metals more sustainable
Kerstin Forsberg, professor in chemical engineering at KTH. Photo: Jon Lindhe Published Jan 10, 2024A research project at KTH will make the extraction of nickel, cobalt and manganese for battery production more sustainable by investigating new crystallisation methods.
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Project unites construction titans to revolutionize shared housing
During the workshop, participants discussed, among other things, regulatory changes to facilitate shared accommodation. Published Jan 10, 2024In a series of workshops, the Delbo project will bring together influential actors in the construction sector to open up more shared housing in Sweden.
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Equipping Stockholm for extreme weather
Flooding due to the extreme weather of the climate crisis costs Stockholm huge amounts of money every year. Photo: Pexels Published Jan 09, 2024KTH will assist the City of Stockholm in fortifying its defenses against extreme weather conditions. A new research project aims to identify strategies to mitigate the city's escalating costs associat...
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She wants to replace fossil-based binders at an industrial level
Maria Wennman. Photo: Hans Erik Nygren Published Jan 04, 2024Maria Wennman's thesis is about bio-based and biodegradable binders for paper and the textile material nonwoven, which can replace several types of the plastic-based binders currently used commerciall...
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Self-driving vehicles - Are we ready?
A self-driving bus travelling a route in Barkaby, northern Stockholm (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Dec 20, 2023With more autonomous vehicles on our roads, road deaths are predicted to decrease. At the same time, the risk of both increased emissions and seriously impaired public health rises. A new KTH study of...
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Student kicks off urban planning career with AI solution for cities
“I gained trust in myself to find new knowledge," says Linn Nordlund, who graduates this winter from the master's programme in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design. Published Dec 15, 2023Even before her winter graduation, Linn Nordlund has scored a big success in her chosen career of urban planning. Working in a local municipality, she developed an AI tool for digitalizing city planni...
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Frauke Urban in panel discussion at COP28
Professor Frauke Urban discussed the role of technology for achieving sustainable development. Published Dec 12, 2023Frauke Urban from KTH’s Department of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK) participated in a panel discussion at the recent COP28 climate summit to discuss the interaction between academia and ...
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“Grateful to work on sustainability”
“Throughout my professional life I have been interested in teaching, perhaps because I am a teacher's child”, says Eva Liedholm Johnson, winner of the KTH Pedagogical Prize. Photo: Magnus Glans Published Dec 12, 2023Eva Liedholm Johnson receives KTH's Pedagogical Prize 2023 for her persistent work on integrating sustainability and gender equality in the Civil Engineering and Urban Management programme. “For me, ...
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“Students' ideas can become spin-off companies”
“An important component of my teaching is that the students see a common thread in terms of what, why and how it is taught,” says Farazee Asif, winner of KTH's Pedagogical Prize. Photo: Magnus Glans Published Dec 12, 2023The course in Circular Manufacturing Systems (CMS) is described as unique in its kind. Now Farazee Asif, who developed it, has been awarded KTH's Pedagogical Prize 2023. “I feel happy and proud to b...
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New professor improves biomaterials by looking at the nanolevel
Professor Stephan Volker Roth. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Dec 07, 2023Stephan Volker Roth is a new professor for scattering-based characterisation in fibre and polymer technology at KTH. He shares his position between the Division of Fibre Processes at KTH and DESY in H...
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KTH climbs QS sustainability ranking
KTH jumps from 98th place to 58th in the latest QS World University Rankings on sustainability. Photo: M. Glans Published Dec 06, 2023KTH Royal Institute of Technology is now ranked 58th best university in the world in tackling environmental, social and governance issues, according to QS World University Rankings.
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