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2018 Alumni of the Year speak at LiU

The 2018 Alumni of the Year, Rebecka Le Moine and Eva Uustal, received their awards on 11 October. Both have fought to raise awareness of important issues – biodiversity and birth injuries respectively – in order to make change possible.

Discovery of inner ear function may improve diagnosis of hearing impairment

Results from a research study published in Nature Communications show how the inner ear processes speech, something that has until now been unknown. The authors of the report include researchers from Linköping University. 

Autonomous sea rescue tested

The major research programme WASP provides arenas in which researchers and companies can meet and test their technology and results. The WASP arena for public safety, WARA PS, is the first to demonstrate an autonomous search-and-rescue system.

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An app to cross language barriers in medical care

Two LiU master’s students from India have developed a tool to cross language barriers between personnel and patients in the medical care system. Their language apps are now being tested in several clinics.
An array of semitransparent organic pixels on top of a ultrathin sheet of gold. The thickness of both the organic islands and the underlying gold is more than one-hundred times thinner than a single neuron.

Organic printing inks may restore sight to blind people

A simple retinal prosthesis is being developed in collaboration between Tel Aviv University and LiU. Fabricated using cheap and widely-available organic pigments it consists of tiny pixels like a digital camera sensor on a nanometric scale. 

Higher citation rates for LiU research

Research at Linköping University is being increasingly noticed by researchers all over the world. This is shown by a recent global ranking list, in which LiU has risen significantly when measured by the number of citations per employee. 

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