LiU Alumni

New honorary doctors: one CEO, one furniture designer, three researchers

Lena Miranda, CEO of Linköping Science Park, is awarded an honorary doctorate. She will receive the award, together with furniture designer Åke Axelsson and international researchers Lucy Henry, Barbara Riegel and Arnold Tukker, in November 2022.

“All children have the right to know what they’re going to experience”

As a child, she ran and hid because she was afraid of an impending operation. For more than 25 years, nurse Gunilla Lööf has fought for the right of children and adolescents to prepare themselves for their interaction with the healthcare system.

Alumni of the Year: Improving children’s healthcare and the visibility of Afro-Swedish artists

Nurse Gunilla Lööf fights for the right of children to prepare themselves for their interaction with the healthcare system. Artist Salad Hilowle works to make people of African descent a natural part of Swedish cultural history.

“Art can’t save the world – but it can make us think in new ways”

In cultural history, who is visible and who is invisible? One of LiU’s two Alumni of the Year, Salad Hilowle, asks this question. With his art, he sheds light on people of African descent in Swedish cultural history.

From LiU to top job at Stanford: “It’s an exciting environment”

Gunilla Jacobson’s career has taken her from studying chemistry at Linköping University (LiU) to a top job at Stanford University. Having lived there for a few years as a child, Stanford is a place that has followed her on her life journey.

Walpurgis Night at Borggården – finally

Now, after two years of the pandemic, it’s finally time to gather again at Borggården for the donning of the hats, spring music and speeches – from, among others, the speaker of the Swedish parliament Andreas Norlén.

Pär Svärdson stands in front of a wall with prizes.

From LiU to “e-commerce king”

Pär Svärdson, took double degrees from Linköping University, and has since then started several companies, including Adlibris and Apotea.

Men in tailcoats against a dark background

Student choir turns 50 and looks to the future

From a small group of happy students who enjoyed singing together to a large, award-winning male university choir. Now the Linköping University Male Voice Choir is celebrating its 50-year anniversary.

Student wins award for degree project on faster machine learning

Dylan Mäenpää is one of this year’s Christer Gilén scholarship recipients. He receives the award for his degree project in computer science. Dylan developed a new machine learning method that can be of use in innovative areas within healthcare.

Best degree project rewarded with a prize

What are the obstacles to digitalisation for established companies? How can they overcome these difficulties? Sandra Sjöbäck and Amanda Spaak have answered these questions, and as a result have been awarded one of Christer Gilén scholarships.

Literature is at the core of a well-functioning democracy

How does literature affect us? And most importantly: if a society lacks literature, what happens? These are questions that occupy Elnaz Baghlanian, previously Alumna of the Year at Linköping University and now operational manager at Writers’ Centre.

Climate denialism dominated by men

Knowledge about climate change is not enough to stop global warming. One of the LiU Alumni of the Year is Martin Hultman. He leads the world’s first researcher network for the study of climate change denialism.

"Sexual violence is surrounded by wordlessness"

Putting words to one’s experience of violence is a first step in being able to move on in life, explains Cecilia Bödker Pedersen, one of LiU’s Alumni of the Year. She is secretary general of an organisation for people subjected to sexual violence.

Alumni of the year: climate denialism and sexual abuse

Cecilia Bödker Pedersen, general secretary of Storasyster, campaigns for a society free from sexual violence. Martin Hultman, docent at Chalmers, conducts research into why we do not act more forcefully against climate change.

Emil Axelsson and Tomas Forsyth Rosin outside an entrance to Linköping University in Norrköping

Friendship paved the way for their careers

Tomas Forsyth Rosin is a developer at Spotify; Emil Axelssonhas similar duties at Apple. They became inseparable friends while studying Media Technology and Engineering, an MSc programme at LiU.

Tidy up: Feel better

During the corona pandemic, we have had to get used to spending a lot of time within the four walls of home. But do we feel comfortable in our homes? Social worker and LiU alumna Clara Johansson changed her life in midstream and became tidying coach.

Technical Oscar for film industry improvements

Swedish company ftrack, with the three LiU alumni Fredrik Limsäter, Björn Rydahl and Mattias Lagergren at its head, has been awarded a scientific and technical Oscar for its project management system – a tool to improve the film industry.

Amanda Borneke is leading climate adaptation in the construction industry

The construction and demolition industry is facing many sustainability challenges. However, with communication and an impressive innovative spirit, alumna Amanda Borneke has shown that the industry is ready for climate adaptation.

Entrepreneur with an eye for diversity

He has won awards for his work with suburban adolescents and his international projects. Hamza Mostafa, political scientist, is driven by a social engagement, with a focus on entrepreneurship as a means to foster development.

Measuring muscle mass with neural network

Alexander Karlsson has been awarded the Christer Gilén Scholarship for 2020 in statistics and machine learning for a master’s thesis in which he uses a neural network to improve a method of measuring muscle mass.

Linnea Bergman’s life-saving solar cells

Around four million people die every year from diseases caused by the smoke they inhale when cooking over an open fire. This is a problem that this year’s Alumna of the Year, Linnea Bergman, hopes to solve.

Combatting an elusive coronavirus with patience

State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell stood in the centre of events when the novel coronavirus started to spread around the globe. He is one of the Alumni of the Year for 2020.

Fighting for sustainable electricity and against COVID-19

State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell is on the front line in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Engineer Linnea Bergman is marketing solar energy systems to Africa. These two are Alumni of the Year, 2020.

LiU alumna debuts as novelist

Suad Ali, LiU’s Alumna of the Year for 2016, is to publish her debut novel – about a woman who flees from Somalia to Sweden. “I want to change the narrative that displaced women are always helpless victims”, she says.

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