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02 February 2026

AI and simulation lab equips teachers

Teachers and students are given tools to use AI wisely in education. In simulations with avatars, they practise dealing with teaching challenges. This and much more is going on in the AIST Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative at LiU.

28 January 2026

Foundations for type 1 diabetes may already be laid during pregnancy

Researchers have identified a protein pattern that, already at birth, looks markedly different in those who later go on to develop type 1 diabetes. The findings show that a combination of several factors during pregnancy affects disease risk.

27 January 2026

"We have so much to learn from each other"

On 8-9 december 2025, it was once again time to bring together the WCMM/DDLS affiliates for a retreat.

27 January 2026

Cutting‑edge IT and mobile communications research grows

Efficient 6G, advanced robotics and human-machine interaction are some of the themes of the 25 new research projects that have been awarded funding within the ELLIIT initiative. The projects share a total of SEK 255 million over five years.

26 January 2026

Higher costs for green hydrogen transport in the Nordics

Green hydrogen produced using solar and wind power would be cheaper to produce at more southerly latitudes than in the Nordic region. This is shown in a study from Linköping University.

23 January 2026

Six new SciLifeLab group leaders appointed at Linköping University

In the autumn of 2025, it was announced that Linköping University has six new SciLifeLab Group Leaders: Linda Bojmar, BKV, Johanna Ungerstedt, BKV, Martin Hallbeck, BKV, Mika Gustafsson, IFM, Claudio Mirabello, IFM and Colm Nestor, BKV.

21 January 2026

Migrants will be the purveyors of change

There is nothing new about human movement. Still, across the world ’migration’ has become a policy obsession. Professor Bridget Anderson challenges the concept with her research and encourages other scholars to do the same. This is why.

21 January 2026

Customer confidence is crucial to how new technology is received

As customers, we can become both satisfied and more interested when a company offers digital, innovative services, such as an AI-based solution. At the same time, this can make us reject those services.

20 January 2026

American poets society

Literary scholar Elin Käck is probably the only person who has done her work experience programme with a poet. She enjoys spending her summers in various archives and has recently presented her research on American poets’ travels in Europe.

19 January 2026

Arman Mohammadi's public defence of doctoral thesis

Arman Mohammadi successfully defended his doctoral thesis, with the title "Machine Learning for Fault Diagnosis of Industrial Systems" on December 18th.

15 January 2026

Political polarisation blocks more sustainable transport

Trains and planes have become part of our polarised social climate one is often set against the the other. This political gridlock hinders progress towards a more sustainable transport system. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis at LiU.

12 January 2026

Digital services can increase exclusion

When public agencies introduce digital services, one goal is to improve accessibility for citizens. But for residents in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, this may create new barriers to integration. This is shown in a doctoral thesis from LiU.

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?

02 February 2026

Open Positions at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics

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

02 February 2026

PhD summer course 2026 (online with one campus-based week)

Listening to Children: rights, participation, and voices of children in research and politics.

02 February 2026

Tema T Fellowship Programme

Technology and Social Change's visiting fellowship programme provides guest researchers the opportunity to spend between one–two months at the vibrant interdisciplinary research environment of our department.

02 February 2026

Turning migration studies into practice – and back to research

From refugee housing and emergency response in Germany to academic research: Hanna Reichelt turned migration studies into practice and back again and is now pursuing a PhD in Political Science after gaining hands-on leadership experience.

02 February 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.

02 February 2026

Programme Board for Mechanical Engineering and Design

This Board manages education programmes in mechanical engineering, energy/environment, product development, construction technology, wood technology, and furniture design.

30 January 2026

Algebra seminar

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

30 January 2026

Docent lectures at the Faculty of Science and Engineering

Here we are announcing docent lectures at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

30 January 2026

Alumni portraits

What happens after graduation? Meet our alumni, our former students, and learn about their careers, what they work with today and how they got there! Follow their career choices in the alumni portraits here.

30 January 2026

In focus: The war in Ukraine

Russia has invaded Ukraine. Here we have gathered Linköping University’s news and other information relating to the war.

29 January 2026

SwedNMR

SwedNMR is a distributed national infrastructure where the Linköping Univeristy node is hosted at ProLinC. Through SwedNMR scientists within academia and industry can access state-of-the-art NMR equipment and expertise.

29 January 2026

European Documentation Centre

Since 1995, Linköping University Library has been a European Documentation Centre (EDC). EDC’s are collections of official documents from European Union institutions and agencies.

29 January 2026

Support medical treatment with materials that mimic nature

Imagine being able to test cancer drugs on artificial tumours or creating wound dressings that prevent infection. Daniel Aili’s research is about creating artificial materials with the same precision as life itself and using them in medical contexts.

28 January 2026

The Hub of Interaction Research

The Hub of Interaction Research is a forum for interaction researchers targeting the interface of linguistic and bodily behaviour in social interaction.

28 January 2026

Programme Board for Industrial Engineering & Management and Logistics

This Board manages education programmes in industrial engineering and management, and logistics.

28 January 2026

Programme Board for Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology

This Board manages education programmes in biology, chemistry, ethology, ecology, and protein science.

28 January 2026

Programme Board for Computer Science & Engineering and Media Technology

This Board manages education programmes in computer science, media technology, programming, and graphic design and communication.

28 January 2026

Professors installed at IKOS

Do you want to know more about LiU:s research in the humanities and social sciences? Here are the new professors at IKOS presented. You are welcome to attend the next inaugural lecture, and to read about the research in the IKOS publication series.

27 January 2026

Support research on addiction treatment

Alcohol and drug dependency causes enormous suffering for those affected and large costs to society. Markus Heilig investigates methods that can be the key to effective treatment.

27 January 2026

Make the world wiser with decision-making research

By understanding how decisions are shaped, we can create changes that make a real difference, e.g. for the climate and in healthcare. Gustav Tinghög and Daniel Västfjäll seek new knowledge on human behaviour.

27 January 2026

WCMM Retreats

Since 2022, the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) at LiU goes on a yearly Retreat where WCMM affiliates engage in group activities. Look at our programs, ideas, and pictures!

26 January 2026

Graduate courses at IFM

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

23 January 2026

Third-cycle courses at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Here you will find information about all our third-cycle courses (PhD courses) and general information regarding prerequisite and admission demands.

22 January 2026

Research just around the corner

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