Faculty of Science and Engineering (Institute of Technology) (LITH)

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Department of Mathematics (MAI)

The department conducts research in computational mathematics, mathematics and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics, and optimization. We provide courses to students in most degree programmes in mathematics, science and engineering.

Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM)

Undergraduate teaching and research in the areas of biology, chemistry, materials and applied physics and theory and modelling are conducted at this department.

Department of Science and Technology (ITN)

We research and teach in several technical and scientific disciplines in which our main areas are organic electronics, media, communications and logistics.

Diplomas to New Docents at TekFak

Thirteen researchers at Linköping University have advanced in their academic careers by becoming associate professors (docents) at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Interdisciplinary research on IVA’s 100 List

Five research projects from LiU are on the 100 List of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). The list pulls together projects with great potential to create value in society.

LiU receives SEK 232 million from the Swedish Research Council

The Swedish Research Council has now decided on the allocation of research grants in four areas. At Linköping University, the area of natural and engineering sciences is to receive the most funding.

Improving Alphafold to predict very large proteins

The AI tool Alphafold has been improved so that it can now predict the shape of very large and complex protein structures. Linköping University researchers have also succeeded in integrating experimental data into the tool.

Creating the flexible X-ray technology of the future

Professor Feng Gao has been granted SEK 31 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation over five years to develop a new type of X-ray technology. The goal is a flexible material that can improve X-ray detector image quality.

Enjoyment and creativity – key words for Agnes Larsson

With over 100 million users each month, the Swedish game Minecraft is the world’s best-selling computer game. Agnes Larsson, Linköping University Alum of the Year, is the creative director of the ever popular and imaginative world-building game.

Filipa Cunha Oliveira - Variation in heart rate according to dive depth in captive common bottlenose dolphins

Filipa monitors the heart rate of dolphins in her master's thesis at Applied Ethology and Animal Biology.

Leonor Gomes Fernandes - How changes in magnetic fields affects the behavior and physiology of turtles

Leonor is one of the Master´s students at Applied Ethology and Animal Biology. Her research focuses on loggerhead turtles behaviour and physiology.

Research for a sustainable future in ten new projects

Photosynthetic materials, two-dimensional noble metals and sustainable semiconductors are some of the projects at LiU that have been granted funding from the research programme Wallenberg initiative materials science for sustainability – WISE.

An AI look into the future

Humming supercomputers, robot dogs on rescue missions and plenty of future opportunities with AI and the research programmes WASP and WISE. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson got many impressions from his visit to Linköping University.

Machine learning can give the climate a chance

Machine learning can help us discover new patterns and better tackle the climate crisis. Researchers from all over the world meet at Linköping University with the goal of finding and deepening collaborations in this area.

Collaboration between humans and AI - focus for conference

In November 2024, the Japanese-European EJEA conference will come to Sweden and, for the first time, to Linköping University. The conference's theme is future knowledge and competence for AI-driven innovation in Europe and Japan.

Bay Area expedition for future collaborations

Forum Scientium's annual study visit is designed to broaden the academic and professional networks of its students. This year's focus was on the Bay Area - one of LiU's strategic areas for collaboration.

New PhD thesis in Computer Science about social media interactions

In June, Alireza Mohammadinodooshan at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) successfully defended his thesis on understanding user engagement with news on social media platforms.

A new doctor in Computer Science: George Osipov

On the 3rd of June, George Osipov successfully defended his thesis in the intersection of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on parameterized complexity of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs).