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In the shadow of rockets, satellites and billionaires’ space projects, a new field of research is emerging. It is about understanding space also as an arena for culture, politics and ethics.
Meet Simon Walo, new postdoc specialising in sociology of work, sociology of culture, and sociology of science. Besides his interest in research, he also has a soft spot for music.
On 16–17 October 2025, 130 group members from the four Wallenberg Centres for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) Gothenburg, Linköping, Lund, and Umeå, gathered in Stockholm for the first-ever national WCMM Group Member Meeting.
Not enough is being done, and not fast enough. That is the harsh assessment made by LiU researchers Mathias Fridahl and Maria Jernnäs ahead of this year’s major international climate summit in Brazil.
LiU receives SEK 16.7 million from AFA Försäkring for research in the field of work environment and health. The projects concern exoskeletons, cleaning staff, part-time managers and digital work environments in health and social care.
Meet Sabrina Mai, a researcher whose field of expertise include disasters and risk, and social networks. Her research focuses on organisational behavior in the context of risk and disasters. In her free time she enjoys smoking meat Texas-style.
Researchers at Linköping University and the National Quantum Office in Singapore are now deepening their collaboration in quantum technology. The aim is to jointly achieve both scientific and industrial breakthroughs.
Sociologists from Linköping University analyse Spotify data to learn about the spreading of music and cultural change more generally.
The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Advanced Electron Microscopy, ARTEMI, has secured funding from the Swedish Research Council for another two years. It is crucial for advanced research in materials science, inorganic chemistry and physics.
A lab in Tema Building houses a slightly different form of mushroom cultivation. The person responsible for this is Amanda Selinder. The result will be part of the artistic design of Corson, to be completed in 2027.
Greenhouse gas emissions from many wastewater treatment plants may be more than twice as large as previously thought. This is shown in a new study from LiU, where the researchers used drones with specially manufactured sensors to measure emissions.
In October 2025, Marc Keuschnigg presented his research on combating online misinformation at the Centro de Estudios Públicos in Santiago de Chile.
The Swedish Excellence Center for Computational Social Science and the Institute for Analytical Sociology hosted the 11th International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping, Sweden, on July 21-24, 2025.
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grants over SEK 23 million to research projects in the humanities and social sciences at Linköping University. These include the significance of names, the consequences of uranium mining, political polarisation, and robots.
The LiU-lead team won the Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathon 2025, winning over more than 1,000 participants.
At a time when the values of democracy are under threat, municipalities need to resist authoritarian tendencies. Certain reforms can contribute to a more resilient local democracy. The introduction of municipal parliamentarism is an example.
A collaboration between Linköping University and NASA has led to a new three-day workshop about managing the unexpected. The aim is to provide knowledge, and some experience, of decision-making in tough situations.
New research from Linköping University shows that words in the U.S. Congress don’t just reflect politics – they predict it. Hendrik Erz reveals how speech and voting together shape American democracy.
Jenny Arpe’s master’s thesis at LiU presents a new method for determining the time of death using AI. For this she has now been awarded a master of science in engineering thesis prize awarded in memory of Christopher Polhem.
Another digital system in EU border control was launched on October 12. In her research, assistant professor Anna Bredström, REMESO, can see how technology is developed at a tremendous rate and how EU policy enables unprecedented surveillance.
The Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts has awarded Dr. Eleni Stavrinidou ”The Young Scientist Award”.
LiU is introducing a new action plan to AI-proof all its programmes and courses.“AI is already changing the way we learn. We need to ensure high quality and remain relevant in an AI-driven future,” says Deputy Vice-Chancellor Karin Axelsson.
LiU researcher Jendrik Seipp has been awarded SEK 15 million to develop an AI planning system that uses multi-core processors for parallel computation. This could lead to more efficient logistics and large-scale energy optimisation, among much else.
The pulp and paper industry consumes large amounts of energy. But despite stricter EU requirements for efficiency improvements, there has been no way to compare energy consumption between different companies. Now there may be a solution.
