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Welcome to ABE Research and Impact Day!

This is a half day event with parallel sessions for researchers at the ABE School. The objective is to highlight and discuss our research and its impact on society.

Karin Ekdahl Wästberg from the City of Stockholm will deliver the keynote address “Creating Impact Together: Reflections on the City of Stockholm–KTH Partnership,” offering insights into collaboration between the city and academia. The sessions that follow will focus on the school’s research, with Tina Karrbom Gustavsson and Cecilia Hermansson as moderators.

Time: 28 May at 13:00-17:00

Venue: Teknikringen 1

Organizer: Impact Committee

“Don’t miss registering if you’re curious about the school’s research and how it contributes to changing society,” says Fredrik Johansson, Impact leader at the ABE Impact Committee.

Mentors sought for the leadership programme Partners-In-Learning

In September 2026, a new cohort of the Partners in Learning (PIL) leadership program for assistant professors will begin. The programme aims to strengthen participants’ understanding of the conditions of academia, academic merit and progression, and strategic career choices, and to support their development as future academic leaders.

Mentorship is a central component of the programme and offers participants the opportunity to engage in reflective discussions with a senior colleague with broad experience in academia. It represents a valuable contribution to the long-term development of both the individual and the institution. The assignment includes approximately eight meetings during the period September 2026–April 2027.

Do you have the opportunity to participate as a mentor in the programme? Please contact ledningsstod@abe.kth.se no later than 14 May.

Mentorer sökes till ny omgång av ledarskapsprogrammet Partners-In-Learning

Information from the school

New director for the Lab for a Digital Built Environment (DiSa)

Head of School has appointed Mustapha Habib as new director for the Lab for a Digital Built Environment (DiSa) from 1 April 2026.

Ny föreståndare för Digitala samhällsbyggnadslabbet (DiSa)

New colleagues

More than 20 persons have begun working at the ABE School since December. Here are your new colleagues.

Department of Architecture

Thérèse Kristiansson, doctoral student
Einar Rodhe, doctoral student

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Nan Hu, researcher
Bingming Yan, doctoral student

Department of Philosophy and History

Felicia Fahlin, doctoral student
Tarja Knuuttila, visiting professsor
Ingvar Mattsson, affiliated faculty

Department of Real Estate and Construction Management

Elisabeth Ahlinder, researcher
Yiling Fan, doctoral student
Ida Ayu Agung Faradynawati, researcher

Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED)

Louise Bartek, postdoc
Sebastian Fältström, research engineer
Julia Gutke, doctoral student
Minh Phú Lù, doctoral student
Nandini Mazumdar, doctoral student
Jesica Page, postdoc
Lucia Piron, doctoral student
Hanna Steinum, doctoral student

Department of Urban Planning and Environment

Xuran Hu, doctoral student
Yuzhu Wang, doctoral student

University Administration

Emma Fossum, financial administrator
Dennis Lindevall, financial officer

Photo opportunity on 5 May

In 2026 the ABE Schools employees, including the university administration, will be offered several photo opportunities. The next occasion will be on Tuesday 5 May.

Time:10–12

Location: Osquars backe 5, floor 6 in the stairwell next to the conference room A608

Apply for research funding

Welcome to apply for research funding from the Leif Blomkvist Research Foundation. The foundation is particularly aimed at those who have ideas within the areas of “innovative and sustainable solutions related to urban development, construction, design, and infrastructure, and that demonstrate how we can work in a climate-adapted and circular way at both larger and smaller scales.”

Application deadline: 30 April.

"Kampen om resurserna - välkomna till boksamtal"

Välkommen till ett boksamtal där den globala kampen om åtråvärda naturresurser står i fokus. På plats finns Eva Krutmeijer, som nyligen utkommit med boken "Litium: Den osannolika berättelsen om vår tids viktigaste metall", och Per Högselius, som skrivit boken "Gräv upp, hugg ned, pumpa ut! Människan och naturresurserna under 5000 år".

Hur kan det komma sig att vissa material i naturen har fått en så ofantlig betydelse för våra samhällen och våra liv? Och hur kan historien hjälpa oss att förstå vår tids resurskamp och geopolitiska förvecklingar?

Tid: Måndag 4 maj kl. 16.00

Plats: Salongen, KTHB, Osquars backe 31

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"Climate in Therapy"

What happens when a handful of climate researchers find themselves in a group-therapy session, confronted with their own emotions?

Warmly welcome to the film screening of "Climate in Therapy" by Nathan Grossman, followed by a panel with climate scholars Nina Wormbs (KTH), Elina Eriksson (KTH) and Kevin Noone (SU).

Time: 29 April, 18:00-20:00, followed by a mingle

Venue: F2, Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28

Organizers: KTH Climate Action Centre & KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory

Drone Defense Hackathon in coloured letters

Knowledge for action: searching for wisdom in a world of noise.

An Open Lecture with Heather Campbell, Professor and Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC

Time: 28 April 14:00-16:00

Venue: K2

Language: English

Organizer: Transplace

Slutkonferens för DelA & Dela bostad – hem för fler

Sverige står inför tydliga bostadsutmaningar – det behövs fler bostäder till rimlig kostnad samtidigt som det är dyrt att bygga. Kan vi tänka nytt kring det som redan finns? Dela ytor, bo mer gemensamt och skapa lösningar som stärker både ekonomi och sociala nätverk. Och om nya bostadshus byggs – hur ska de utformas för att möta framtidens behov? Välkommen på denna slutkonferens som samlar forskare, praktiker och behovsägare för att presentera innovativa boendeformer som förenar gemenskap, prisvärdhet och hållbarhet.

Tid: 5 maj 13:30-16:00

Plats: Lindstedtsvägen 3 och via videolänk

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News from KTH

Email service disruption due to a DDoS-attack

On Friday, a Denial-of-Service (DOS) attack was launched against the infrastructure supporting KTH’s email system.

Denial-of-Service attack on KTH's email system

Problem att nå e-posten var en överbelastningsattack

Patents: Why, what and when?

Why should you file a patent, when should you start thinking about the process, and what can you actually protect? Hear from KTH Innovation's Patent Engineers and KTH professor Niclas Roxhed, co-founder of several start-ups and inventor of over 40 patent families.

Learn more

Meet Swedavia’s innovation team

If you are working on solutions in energy, autonomy, multimodality, or logistics, Swedavia, Scandinavia’s largest airport operator, wants to meet you. Get direct feedback from industry and explore collaboration opportunities.

Request a meeting

Join KTH Innovation Launch!

Launch your startup with KTH Innovation, one of Europe’s leading startup hubs.

Join a diverse founder community of students and researchers and get the the support, networks, and resources you need.

Apply by 4 May

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Lovable credits for KTH startups

Teams supported by KTH Innovation can now get 10 000 Lovable credits.

Step 1: book a meeting about your idea

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For a safer and more secure study environment

New rules of conduct for students and staff have been introduced. The term “premises” has been broadened to include both physical and digital environments.

New rules of conduct in place

Photo: KTH

A new model for research infrastructure at KTH

KTH is launching a new, university‑wide model to strengthen coordination, prioritisation and long‑term sustainability of research infrastructure.

New model for research infrastructure

Sarah Hamilton

6 May: Lunch seminar with Sarah Hamilton, University of Bergen

Welcome to a lunch seminar with Sarah Hamilton, University of Bergen. Her talk is on governance of groundwater, focusing on California's San Joaquin Valley. A seminar co-hosted by the KTH WaterCentre and KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory.

When: 6 May, 12:00–13:00

Where: Climate Action House, Teknikringen 43

12 May: Lunch seminar with Clemens Deutsch

This seminar summarizes nearly one decade of activities at the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre (SMaRC), Sweden’s leading research centre for marine robotics and ocean observation platforms.

When: 12 May, 12:00–13:00

Where: Sahara, Teknikringen 10B

Zotero – reference management in LaTeX, Word, VS Code

Welcome to KTH Library's workshop on Zotero which will help you manage your references and citations. It also integrates well with many word-processors (for example LaTeX, Word, IDE:s like Rstudio and VS Code).

Friday 24 April 10.30–12.00

May

Choosing a journal – how to evaluate a journal

Welcome to this KTH Library webinar on how to make well-informed choices of which journals to submit to and publish in and how to avoid sending your manuscript to a predatory journal.

Thursday 7 May 10:30–12:00

Photo: Sabina Fabrizi

Doctoral salary agreement to be time-based

KTH’s controversial collective agreement for research students is being revised. The new agreement will come into force in October and means that doctoral students' salaries will be increased annually rather than on a performance-related basis.

Read the article

Doktorandstegen blir tidsbaserad

Open Call: Unite! Visiting Professorships at TU Darmstadt

TU Darmstadt invites applications for two Unite! Visiting Professorships for the winter semester 2026/27 (or alternatively summer 2027).

The programme offers a six‑month full‑time appointment for researchers and lecturers from Unite! partner universities, with a focus on innovative, interdisciplinary and internationally oriented teaching.

Expression of interest deadline: 15 May 2026.

Learn more and apply (PDF)

Fulbright Graduate Student/Research Program 2027/2028

The Fulbright Commission hereby announces the Fulbright Graduate Student/Research Program for studies or research at the master’s or doctoral level at U.S. universities for the 2027–2028 academic year. The application deadline is April 27, 2026.

The Fulbright Program is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious international exchange programs and aims to increase mutual understanding between people in the United States and people in other countries through the exchange of ideas, knowledge, experiences, and expertise.

Gunnar Engström Scholarship from ABB

The scholarship will be awarded to a doctoral student project in the field of energy technology at one of the mentioned Swedish Universities. The topic for 2026 applications is ”Innovations supporting green energy transition” with relevance and commercial potential for ABB:s business”.

The field of energy technology includes areas such as: physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, transport technology, environmental technology and also automation if the purpose of the research is energy-related.

Call: Strengthening Collaboration between KTH and SAAB through Staff Mobility

Opportunity for researchers and teachers at KTH to apply for a temporary stay at SAAB. The grant may be used to fully or partially cover salary costs during the mobility period. The mobility period may range from 3 months up to 12 months and must start no later than spring 2027.

Register for the Storträffen Meetup

Storträffen Meetup spring 2026 is on 19 May, 12:00-16:45 in the Q building. The main theme is A Decade of Storträffen Meetups - Lessons for the Future.

The registration form is now open

Sign up for the discussions you wish to take part in. The discussion topics with the highest number of votes will be included in the Storträffen Meetup programme. Please register by Thursday 5 May so that your votes are counted.

At the Spring Storträffen Meetup, English is spoken in the plenary sessions. The language for each activity will be stated in the program.

19 May

More information about the Storträffen Meetup

Mentor high school students in research projects (RAYS 2026)

RAYS for Excellence, a four-week science research camp for driven and motivated high school students, will take place at the European School in Strängnäs this summer and is seeking mentors.

A key part of the program involves students conducting a two-week research project at either KTH, Karolinska Institutet, or Stockholm University under the guidance of a research supervisor.

The mentorship program runs from 22 June to 3 July.

”Audience Choice” with Brahms violin concert

Welcome to a concert with KTH's Academic Orchestra and Sigurd Jørgensen Eide, soloist!

Time: Sun 2026-04-26 15.00 - 17.00
Location: Kungasalen KMH, Valhallavägen 105

Information for teaching staff

Photo: Jonathan Richard

Survey on digital education

KTH is currently conducting a survey on how teachers and students perceive digital education at KTH. The survey takes 10–15 minutes to complete, and we hope to use your experiences as a foundation for KTH’s continued work on digitalization and education.

Survey on digital education

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Fika chat on digital game-based learning

How can AI-driven adaptation, feedback and assessment be integrated into the game to support learning? Professor Bruce McLaren from Carnegie Mellon University and KTH doctoral student Elias Hedlin discuss what the research says about digital game-based learning (DGBL) with Joakim Lilliesköld and Marcus Lithander.

Listen to podcast #78, 29 April at 15:00