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08 January 2026

Electric motors are transforming hydraulics

Electrifying hydraulics on, for example, an excavator can significantly improve efficiency. However, it requires major technical changes. Electric machines have different characteristics compared to combustion engines.

22 December 2025

Digitalisation in focus at the scientific salon

Digitalisation is rapidly transforming how we live, work and understand the world. It also affects our health, our relationships, and the ways we seek information and express ourselves.

22 December 2025

Tomorrow’s urban planners solve real challenges

Students on master’s programme in Strategic Urban and Regional Planning do more than study how cities develop. They step straight into reality. By working on real cases in Norrköping, their ideas could help shape the city’s future.

19 December 2025

Letterstedt Author’s Prize awarded to Boel Berner for book on medical mystery

In her interdisciplinary book, Boel Berner traces how researchers spent more than a century trying to understand the deadly disease pellagra. She has now been awarded the Letterstedt Author’s Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

19 December 2025

Researchers urge greater role in child policy debate

Researchers in Sweden’s field of children and youth studies want to play a more active role in public discourse and contribute research based knowledge on topical issues such as lowering the age of criminal responsibility.

19 December 2025

Roadmap to strengthen LiU:s role in Europe

LiU is increasing international presence by launching the Roadmap to Europe initiative. The aim is to deepen the university’s collaboration within Europe so as to strengthen education, research and collaboration with various stakeholders.

19 December 2025

National initiative to protect AI systems from cyberattacks

LiU will host a new national centre aimed at developing resilient AI systems. The funding of SEK 60 million comes from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and its director will be LiU Professor Fredrik Heintz.

18 December 2025

SEK 40 million from the Swedish Research Council for clinical therapy research

A reduction in infection risks during hip replacement surgery and improved care for people with opioid dependence can lead to safer surgery and more effective addiction therapy.

18 December 2025

Full inclusion generates knowledge for organisations

A new study from Linköping University shows that deaf employees in an organisation do not only adapt to a work environment shaped by hearing norms. Fully included, they can also drive change.

18 December 2025

Abhijeet Behera's public defence of doctoral thesis

Abhijeet Behera successfully defended his doctoral thesis, with the title " “Performance and Safety Assessment of Articulated Heavy Vehicles using Traffic Data and Simulation" on December 12th.

18 December 2025

Persecuted scholars gain protection at LiU

Researchers are being targeted in many countries around the world. Through the organisation Scholars at Risk (SAR), LiU is helping to protect some of these researchers.

16 December 2025

What happens when social media replaces health care?

More and more women are choosing Instagram and Tiktok over doctors and local health centres for advice on health issues.  What happens when?

15 December 2025

Electrodes created using light

Visible light can be used to create electrodes from conductive plastics completely without hazardous chemicals. This is shown in a new study carried out by researchers at Linköping and Lund universities.

11 December 2025

Greater risk that the political right falls for conspiracy theories

People who lean politically to the right are more likely to fall for conspiracy theories. But regardless of ideology, we tend to accept political claims that align with our own beliefs. This is shown in a doctoral thesis from LiU.

10 December 2025

The memory of the oil crisis keeps Danish energy policy awake

Denmark has become a pioneer in biogas and biomethane. Behind this lie clear strategies and political stability on energy issues following the oil crisis of the 1970s.

09 December 2025

Artificial turf in the Nordic climate – a question of sustainability

Artificial turf football pitches are better than natural turf from a sustainability perspective – with some reservations. This is demonstrated by researchers at LiUy in a new study using life cycle analyses.

09 December 2025

The future of healthcare starts in your mobile

Imagine your smartphone becoming a diagnostic tool that helps you detect early signs of illness or monitor your health between doctor’s visits. That is the vision behind the ECIU University course “Health in Your Hands”.

08 December 2025

Master students constructing drones

Designing and building an autonomously flying aircraft to document weather conditions in an Arctic climate. The master’s students in Aeronautical Engineering received a substantial boost in applying their theoretical knowledge.

08 December 2025

LiU Student’s Thesis Awarded: “Provides Valuable Insights”

Kerlos Marouki, a graduate from the master’s programme in Strategic Urban and Regional Planning, has received the Property Owners’ thesis scholarship for his study on how Swedish cities use the BID model (Business Improvement Districts).

08 December 2025

25 years with Language and Culture – Nigel Musk was there from the start

The research environment Language and Culture was established in 2000. Nigel Musk, who left London for Sweden in his youth, has been a part of it from the beginning. Here, he reflects on the development of the environment and the challenges ahead.

08 December 2025

Better care of expectant mothers in focus for new research centre

It should not matter where in the country a woman gives birth. Nor should her background. A new research centre is therefore being set up, to make the entire care chain for expectant and new mothers more equal and based on their individual needs.

04 December 2025

Sociologist by chance

Sociologist Maria Brandén studies society from a bird’s eye perspective. As head of the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University, she wants to create research that influences important political decisions.

03 December 2025

New Wallenberg Academy Fellows researching 6G and AI

LiU researchers Jendrik Seipp and Zheng Chen have been appointed as new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. The funding gives promising researchers the opportunity to tackle challenging research questions that require a long-term approach.

02 December 2025

New research centre meets challenge of longer working lives

More and more people are working later into their lives – but what happens when health fails and this leads to sick leave? A new research centre at LiU is to find solutions for returning to work later in life and for a sustainable working life.

09 January 2026

Linköping University´s EU Office

The Linköping University EU Office connects the university with European institutions, networks, and partners — amplifying LiU’s voice in EU research, fostering transnational cooperation, and supporting societal transformation.

09 January 2026

Forms for doctoral studies

Here you can find forms for doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

09 January 2026

eisp-elektroniska-individuella-studieplaner

The ISP system is a web-based system used to manage the individual study plans of PhD students.

09 January 2026

Docent Application to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Find out about the requirements and the process if you want to apply for appointment to docent at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

09 January 2026

New PhD student

Support from the Library can make your journey as a doctoral student easier.

09 January 2026

Soon PhD

Are your doctoral studies approaching the finish line? The Library has a lot to offer to help you on your journey to your PhD.

09 January 2026

Clinicum steering group

Clinicum is led by a steering group where the Faculty of Medicine and Health's deputy dean for education is the chairman.

09 January 2026

Thesis defence or licentiate seminar at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Read more about thesis defence and licentiate seminar and the structure of the doctoral thesis.

09 January 2026

Open science for PhD students

Open science strives for an open and transparent scientific community where knowledge can be used by everyone. In this course, library staff support you as a doctoral student in developing important skills related to this.

09 January 2026

Evidence on Yoga – Future for Health & Care conference 2026

The conference is organized by Linköping University (LiU) in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Medical Yoga (SIMY).

08 January 2026

Tisus

Tisus is a Swedish language proficiency test that is required for higher education in Sweden if you intend to study at a Swedish university but have no final upper secondary grade for the Swedish language.

07 January 2026

A Degree in English

English consists of three parts: language, literature and culture. There is a clear focus on developing one’s own language proficiency, and an increasing emphasis on the American and British social, cultural and historical context.

07 January 2026

English

Do you want to improve your skills in written and spoken English? Do you want to read English literature and learn about the cultures tied to the English language? Learn more about our English courses and our research environment.

07 January 2026

Algebra seminar

Algebra Seminar is a seminar series at the Department of Mathematics.

07 January 2026

Graduate courses at IFM

Here is a presentation of second and third cycle courses given for IFM's doctoral students.

07 January 2026

University Board

The University Board is the highest decision-making body at the university. It is responsible to the government for ensuring that Linköping University meets its objectives.

07 January 2026

Checklist for starting a course at LiU

How to register for your course, how to set up your LiU-ID and LiU-Card, and getting set up to study at Linköping University.

07 January 2026

Research into the role municipalities play to promote sustainable development

Sustainability strategies in municipalities are increasingly important in the work to meet the societal challenges of today. Research at LiU makes it easier to effectively implement the UN global climate objectives of Agenda 2030 at local level.

31 December 2025

Eating time management

A growing number of wet feed suppliers now offer advanced systems that integrate sensors to monitor and measure pig appetite.

23 December 2025

Innovations from LiU

Did you know that the first digital hearing aid was developed at LiU? So was the visualisation table, which is today used all over the world. And without data compression originating from LiU, we would have no streaming services.

19 December 2025

Research just around the corner

Democracy and academic freedom is the theme for the lecture series Research just around the corner in 2026.

19 December 2025

How to pay your tuition fees

Tuition fee payments are paid in advance instalments, one semester at a time. Pay-online or via bank transfer. Check our chart for your first instalment amount in Swedish kronor (SEK).

18 December 2025

Open Positions at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics

Learn more about open PhD, Postdoc, Masters, Scholarship, and other positions at LOE.

18 December 2025

Unit of Health Care Analysis

The Unit of Health Care Analysis conducts research in three main areas: health economic assessment, decision making in health care, and priority setting in health care and social services.