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KTH is strengthening future roads through the Swedish Transport Administration's major investment
Photo: Pexels Published Mar 06, 2023The future road network faces major challenges. Roads are worn out as a result of increasingly heavy traffic and climate change. Electric and self-driving vehicles require new road solutions. Now, the...
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Involving students a major goal of ongoing library energy research exhibition
The energy research exhibition area in the KTH Campus library. Photo: L. Berggren Published Mar 06, 2023On 23 February, KTH Energy Platform and the KTH Library held a vernissage of the exhibition “Towards the energy of the future - the invisible revolution behind the electrical socket”. An inaugural pop...
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Improved wireless communication can boost launch of autonomous vehicles
Published Mar 06, 2023Collaboration with Princeton University merges machine learning with cellular networks, making cars safer and more energy efficient. Together with experts in machine learning and wireless communicatio...
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New research centre shaping the future of food
Francisco Vilaplana and Rebecka Milestad have worked on starting KTH FOOD for several years. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Mar 02, 2023KTH FOOD is a new research centre for sustainable and healthy food systems which aims to engage and align the education, research, and outreach competences at KTH towards a sustainable and healthy foo...
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Professor G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy gives a talk at KTH in September
G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy. Published Feb 28, 2023On 14 September 2023, G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Professor at Clemson University, will attend the KTH Digitalisation & Energy Platforms workshop “Data driven methods with energy applications”. The tent...
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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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Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg inducted IVA Fellow
Lina Bertling Tjernberg. Photo: Håkan Lindgren Published Dec 20, 2022KTH Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg has been inducted as a new Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). She is also a Professor in Power Grid Technology at K...
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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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