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Hanna Ardéhn outside Linköping University.

LiU-student plays lead in Netflix series

Hanna Ardéhn is a fourth-year student of psychology at Linköping University. At the same time, she is in the news as lead actor in Sweden’s first Netflix production, “Quicksand”, which premières on Friday 5 April.

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Peter Wallenberg awarded honorary doctorate

Peter Wallenberg Jr. is one of those awarded an honorary doctorate by Linköping University in 2019. He will receive the honour together with six international researchers at the Commencement Ceremony on 25 May.

Students to organise conference on humans and technology

For 25 years, students taking the Cognitive Science programme have organised an annual conference about humans and technology. The topic this year is assuring the quality of the future by understanding both human and machine. 

Major investment in bioelectronics against serious diseases

Magnus Berggren, director of research in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, has been awarded a personal European Research Council Advanced Grant of around EUR 3 million, for research in the borderland between medicine and electronics.

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Learning transistor mimics the brain

A new transistor based on organic materials has been developed by scientists at LiU. It has the ability to learn, and is equipped with both short-term and long-term memory. The work is a major step to creating technology that mimics the human brain.

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Environmentally minded students start company in Kenya

A group of LiU students with a strong interest in green issues has started a company focussed on electric safari vehicles. Now they’re pausing their studies and moving to Kenya.

Why you lose hearing for a while after listening to loud sounds

When we listen to loud sounds, our hearing may be impaired for a short time. Researchers at LiU have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain how this happens.