In the spotlight: Eco-friendly travel

"It's a bit like playing Russian roulette"

As soon as a new online drug appears on the market, a race against the clock starts. Researchers collaborate to as soon as possible determine how the substance affects the body and how dangerous it is.

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15th Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power - SICFP17

The Division of Fluid and Mechatronic Systems, Flumes, at Linköping University and the Swedish Fluid power Association, IFS, is hosting the Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power 2017, SICFP’17, 7-9 June. 

19th Nordic Migration Research Conference 2018

New (Im)mobilities: Migration and Race in the Era of Authoritarianism. SAVE THE DATE: 15–17 August 2018.

2000 Researchers petition for AI investment

A broad investment in artificial intelligence is now required in Europe, an investment that places people in the centre. This demand has been made by more than 2,000 researchers. “The public sector is particularly important" says Fredrik Heintz.

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.

3D models from cheap video cameras

Hannes Ovrén shows in his doctoral thesis in computer vision how 3D models can be created from video films recorded with simple cameras. The research opens new possibilities for both robots and humans, not least for the police and rescue services.

A Feminist Analysis of Medical Screening

Medical screening is an expanding part of healthcare, and more and more diseases can be screened for. Because of this, we need to understand what screening means and does – and screening does more than just find disease. 

A Global Potluck

Collaboration on the climate must build on those measures proposed under the new guidelines in the Paris Agreement 2015. In the project here, the climate policy measures of different states are compared and set in relation to their preconditions.  

A camera for vizualizing methane sources

 The greenhouse gas methane is more powerful than carbon dioxide and has large effects on the climate. It is not clear where all methane emissions occur and how big they are. This could be changed with a sensitive infra red camera.

A dairy farm with its own climate-smart ecology

It is biogas that gets the ecological circulation going on Sweden’s largest dairy farm, Wapnö. “Using biogas is not a goal in itself: it’s a means to an end,” says Lennart Bengtsson, managing director at Wapnö. 

A demanding education led to employment for Painika

Just over 60% of the students who take the Supplementary Training for University Graduates programme at LiU find employment after completing the programme. Painika Bagge is one of them.

A gift for life?

In 2012 the world’s first systematic attempts of uterus transplantation were conducted at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. This unique project explores the sociocultural dimensions of the attempts by studying involved actors’ perspectives.

A major role for a small organ during pregnancy

The immune system of a pregnant woman is altered during pregnancy, but not in the way previously believed. A study from LiU shows that the thymus plays an important role in the immune response during a normal pregnancy.

A major step forward in organic electronics

Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, have developed the world’s first complementary electrochemical logic circuits that can function stably for long periods in water. A significant breakthrough in the development of bioelectronics.

A new theory to describe widely used material

Klas Tybrandt has put forward a theoretical model that explains the coupling between ions and electrons in the widely used conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS. The model has profound implications for energy storage in paper and bioelectronics.

A passion for protecting biological diversity

Optimism or pessimism? Rebecka Le Moine, conservation biologist and Alumna of the Year 2018, prefers optimism. With limitless energy she works to spread knowledge about everything that we can do to preserve biological diversity.

A shining example in a new country

When Kazem Bahadori arrived in Sweden six years ago, he couldn’t speak a word of Swedish. Now he’s taking the third year of the programme in industrial engineering and management. A role model for the unaccompanied children for whom he is custodian.

A summer job with a salary to boast about

Beatrice Partain, studying industrial engineering and management at LiU, has had a very special summer job this year. With a salary of SEK 100,000 per month, she has worked as managing director and president of the Adecco Group.

A tricky job assessing the vulnerability of agriculture

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the vulnerability of our agriculture to climate change.  Current methods for assessing climate change vulnerability also have problems and require improvement. This is according to a doctoral thesis.

A view into a blood clot

What really happens inside a blood clot as it forms? To investigate this question in detail, researchers developed a method that enables 3-dimensional images of how blood clots form. Applications of the method include studies of how anticoagulant drugs work.

A week in the life of a design student

“Save the data from one week of your life and visualise it.” This was the task given to the seven students taking the elective course “Advanced Visualization Design” as part of the new master’s programme in design. 

ABB and LiU enter collaboration agreement

Twice as many graduation projects, more internships, and research collaboration within new fields with a new collaboration agreement between LiU and ABB Sweden.

ACSIS conference

Every second year ACSIS organises a broad international conference with themes related to cultural research. The next upcoming conference is preliminary taking place in 2019.