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For the second year in a row, a researcher at the Division of Optoelectronics at Linköping University, has been awarded the prestigious scholarship from Stiftelsen Konung Carl XVI Gustafs 50-årsfond för vetenskap, teknik och miljö.
Starting in autumn 2025, Linköping University (LiU) will host two international leadership programmes within the framework of the Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP).
Research into planning, reuse and renovation in the construction sector receives substantial grants from Formas, a government research council for sustainable development. Seven projects share a total of just over SEK 63 million.
Olaf Hartig, Dept of Computer and Information Science, has won the Best Research Paper Award at the ESWC 2025 conference, which is one of the top conferences on knowledge graphs and semantic web technologies, a subfield of artificial intelligence.
A stateless person is not a citizen in any country. However, the phenomenon of statelessness extends far beyond this legal definition. In his doctoral dissertation Haqqi Bahram exposes the complexity of living this reality and its lasting legacy.
Watercourses release soil carbon that can be thousands of years old into the atmosphere. This runs counter to the prevailing view that it is mainly carbon from newly decomposed organic material that is released from watercourses.
The latest upgrading of the supercomputer Berzelius at LiU has now been completed. Its doubled capacity enables researchers across Sweden to tackle current and future challenges in areas such as materials science, bioinformatics and machine learning.
Making research accessible to those it affects is a strong driving force for Kristin Alfredsson Ågren, senior lecturer in occupational therapy and researcher at Linköping University. Her work focuses on participation for people with intellectual...
“It is such an honor, and I am truly proud to have been appointed honorary doctor.” That’s what Professor Gillian Einstein said when she visited Campus US for her honorary doctorate lecture and a couple of intense days at Linköping University.
If Linköping University is to be a leading player in self-driving vehicles, we need to gear up. This is according to Theodor Westny at the Division of Vehicular Systems who is the initiator of a new research and teaching platform.
Speaker of the Riksdag Andreas Norlén and Professor Angela Woods praised their collaborations with Linköping University when they were conferred honorary doctorates at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
This is the story of the struggle between aesthetics and function and how Linköping University created a royal hunting stool, handed over as a gift to his Majesty The King in connection with LiU’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
When LiU turns 50, the whole county joins forces and gives a present of one Swedish krona per inhabitant. The money will be awarded to selected research projects with the aim of contributing to a better society.
Almost 50 years to the day since he inaugurated Linköping University, His Majesty The King returned to attend the festivities on Campus Valla. The day was filled with lectures, meetings, speeches and music.
Master goldsmith Margareth Sandström has been part of LiU’s history since 1975. 24 years old at the time, she was given the prestigious assignment to create LiU’s Vice-Chancellor’s chain.
Dr. Anastasia Menshikova defended her PhD on May 19, exploring cultural change in immigration discourse through computational text analysis. Her thesis is the second completed within the Mining for Meaning research environment.
Tumour cells in colorectal cancer exploit an important signalling pathway that normally controls embryo development. Researchers have now shown how a protein that controls limb development make colorectal cancer cells more likely to spread.
By carefully placing nanostructures on a flat surface, researchers at LiU have significantly improved the performance of so-called optical metasurfaces in conductive plastics. This is a major step for controllable flat optics.
Researchers have discovered how an ion channel in the brain’s neurons has a kind of ‘molecular memory’, which contributes to the formation and preservation of lifelong memories.
On March 28, Emma Mainza Chilufya at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) successfully defended her thesis about human-computer interaction. "Being a PhD student at IDA has been eye-opening and inspiring", she says.
In 1970, Ulla Riis joined LiU as a new lecturer in education. She was encouraged to pursue doctoral studies by the first professor in the subject. At the Academic Ceremony, she will now, more than fifty years later, become a jubilee doctor.
This spring’s Academic Celebrations will take place on 23-24 May. Among the highlights are the performance of a new piece of music composed in honour of the university, and open lectures by thonorary doctors, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
LiU’s choir singers feature in the intro to the world-famous band Ghosts’ latest album Skeletá, which was released on 25 April. The album became part of music history by reaching number one on the US Billboard chart.
Snus users who stopped using snus experienced higher blood pressure and gained weight. This has been shown by a research group at Linköping University in a study on 33 people.
