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16 April 2026
In the new remote control for Google TV, batteries have been replaced by printed organic solar cells powered by indoor lighting. The solar cells were developed through research at Linköping University and brought to market by the spin-out Epishine.
Ziliang Xiong is pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Computer Vision, and is currently in his fourth year. During his doctoral studies, his focus has been on enhancing the safety and reliability of autonomous systems.
Linköping University will host a new research centre that, in collaboration with Lund University and Örebro University, will develop technologies for autonomous swarms of drones.
14 April 2026
Elmira Zohrevandi at the Department of Science and Technology (ITN) has been awarded SEK 400,000 from the Gunnar Sundblad Research Foundation. Her research focuses on developing AI-based decision support for the pulp and paper industry.
Meet Xinyi Zhao, a researcher that investigates how globalization and digital transformation reshape social inequalities, with a particular focus on gender, mobility, family life, and knowledge production.
What is data? How is it created? What does it consist of? These are theoretical questions that interest Professor Miriah Meyer. As AI development accelerates, she also wants to contribute practical knowledge that enables us to shape a better future.
13 April 2026
The Department of Electrical Engineering has been awarded two Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships. The grants are part of the EU’s research programme Horizon Europe and fund postdoctoral research in international competition.
Sometimes there is a before and an after. Such as the mobile phone that changed our lives. Or supercomputers that help scientists in their everyday lives. Calculations that were impossible before are now being done around the clock.
09 April 2026
A LiU team led by Professor Henrik Pedersen has shown that switching from continuous to pulsed electron driven CVD sharply reduces carbon contamination in iron films.
The cybersecurity lab on Campus Valla is a specially designed environment where students can practise ethical hacking as well as protection against attackers.
07 April 2026
He began studying for a master’s degree in engineering but dropped out.Then he enrolled on the psychology programme. Yet something still felt wrong. Now he is studying both at the same time and feels he has finally found his place.
02 April 2026
Wind farms rising like the Eiffel Tower, data centres consuming as much power as entire regions and municipalities feeling like pawns in a global game. The large-scale investments are creating conflict: who has priority access to our electricity?
01 April 2026
Senior Associate Professor Yang Liu is coordinating a European project in which, together with several cities, he aims to develop a framework for how an urban district can generate its own positive energy balance.
31 March 2026
The AI Academy Partnership Program at Linköping University will support companies and organisations in developing the skills needed to use AI effectively. The first partner in this new form of collaboration is Länsförsäkringar Östgöta.
The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) at LiU has been granted extended funding until 2039 by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. This makes it possible to build on ten years of success and to recruit new physician-scientists.
Family life came early for PhD student Petter Alsén. Shortly after finishing upper secondary school, he became a father, and he began working as an apprentice painter in the construction industry. Nine years later, he called his boss.
30 March 2026
At the Sociology Days in Växjö in 2026, Josef Ginnerskov, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, was awarded the Swedish Sociological Association’s prize for the best doctoral thesis in sociology 2024–2025.
27 March 2026
Suleman Khan, PhD student at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA), is awarded the Lawson Scholarship in recognition of his outstanding research quality and significant international impact.
26 March 2026
How can artistic practice contribute to research on a just transition? This is what the artist Birthe Jørgensen will explore together with researchers at Linköping University.
LiU professor Anders Ynnerman is one of ten Swedes to have had an asteroid named after them. His visualisation research takes us out into space through the software OpenSpace, which opens up the entire known universe to the public.
Diana Pamela Moya Osorio was recently interviewed by the strategic research environment ELLIIT, where the upcoming focus period and 6G were in the spotlight.
25 March 2026
Where parents live influences housing choices and segregation for their adult children. This is shown by new research from Linköping University. Early decisions about housing and municipal services can affect long-term patterns of segregation.
24 March 2026
Teachers face challenges when it comes to sparking students’ curiosity and getting them to understand science and technology. This is something the Graduate School FontD has addressed over the past two decades.
HIV exhausts the body’s immune system by overactivating it, despite effective antiviral treatment. Researchers from Linköping University have conducted cell studies showing that an existing medication restores immune cell function.
