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Five future research leaders at LiU

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has selected 20 young researchers as Future Research Leaders. Five are active at LiU. Each receives SEK 12 million in a five-year period and the opportunity to participate in a leadership programme.

Artificial intelligence finds disease-related genes

An artificial neural network can reveal patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data, and discover groups of disease-related genes. The scientists hope that the method can eventually be applied within precision medicine.

Research in children’s medicine at LiU to receive record donation

A private donation of SEK 100 million will strengthen research into children’s medicine at Linköping University.

Difficult to create sustainable transport chains

Both transport companies and trading companies have high ambitions with respect to sustainable transport. But researchers at LiU and Linnaeus University have shown that several challenges remain before the entire transport chain becomes sustainable.

Norrköping home to world’s first professor of exploranation

Ben Shedd, winner of several awards for his scientific films for dome cinemas, is LiU’s first guest professor in visual scientific communication. The guest professorship has been financed by a donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Important differencies in industry's energy work

Investing in energy conservation can give significant additional benefits to a company, sometimes as significant as the energy saving itself. At the same time, the work companies carry out to reduce energyconsumption differ greatly.

Skin-to-skin contact does not improve interaction between mother and preterm infant

Researchers have studied the relationship between mothers and infants who have continuous skin-to-skin contact during the entire period from birth to discharge from the hospital.

Creating a new generation of contrast agents

Peter Eriksson has defended a thesis at LiU showing that integrating gadolinium into the crystal structure of cerium oxide creates a contrast agent that is less harmful to the body and also gives better contrast in magnetic resonance imaging, MRI.

NSC and SMHI contribute to global climate research

Starting in the autumn of 2019, climate data has been delivered to the global climate research programme CMIP6 from the NSC at Linköping University. This is the result of a long-standing collaboration between SMHI and the NSC.

Sustainable markets must be created and defended

Creating sustainable markets poses particular obstacles: a sustainable market must be continuously shaped and reshaped. This is the conclusion of three LiU researchers in business administration, who have used the Swedish biogas market as a case.

Are security stores the answer to antibiotics shortages?

Set up national storage facilities for antibiotics, to solve problems with shortages of these vital drugs in hospitals, an expert group proposes. Professor Håkan Hanberger has long been active in the issue of antibiotic management.

Robots pose new demands on safety

Large industrial robots have thus far worked in isolation, in clearly defined areas without people nearby. A newly presented thesis at LiU, however, shows that such robots can very well work together with people – and how safety can be ensured.

New method gives robust transistors

A new method to fit together layers of semiconductors as thin as a few nanometres has resulted in not only a scientific discovery but also a new type of transistor for high-power electronic devices. The result, published in Applied Physics Letters.

Diet has rapid effects on sperm quality

Sperm are influenced by diet, and the effects arise rapidly. This is the conclusion of a study in which healthy young men were fed a diet rich in sugar. The study, published in PLOS Biology, gives new insight into the function of sperm.

New models to reduce risk on financial markets

New models to measure and manage risk can improve decision-making in financial markets. A newly presented thesis at LiU shows how risk can be reduced and prices set more accurately than by traditional methods.

New method gives hope in understanding Alzheimer’s disease

Scientists are now able to label proteins in the brains of mice who have a disease similar to Alzheimer’s disease. The new method allows the researchers to observe how harmful protein aggregates develop over a longer time period.

Swedish Research Council grant for secure quantum communication

The Swedish Research Council has awarded SEK 1.4 million to SECRET, a European collaborative project to increase security in quantum communication. The project, with a budget of EUR 340,000, will be coordinated by LiU researcher Guilherme Xavier.

A tireless voice

LiU researcher Per Frankelius doesn’t hold back from participating in debates. With his broad expertise in business administration and innovation, he is active in several important societal issues, not least within healthcare and agriculture.

Having to defend one’s sexuality increases fear of childbirth

In order to help people with fear of childbirth, there must be trust between the patient and the healthcare staff. But for many lesbian and bisexual women and transgender people, this trust never develops.

17.8 million Swedish crowns to Kajsa Uvdal

Kajsa Uvdal has been awarded SEK 17.8 million from the Swedish Research Council for an interdisciplinary research environment combining physics, medicine and image sciences. The objective is to obtain improved treatments for heart disease and cancer.

A huge microscope helping LiU researchers design new materials

Researchers can use the most intense microscope in the world, the MAX IV synchrotron facility in Lund, to see how atoms bind to each other. Scientists from LiU were first to use the new beamline, investigating new materials with exciting properties.

Creating switchable plasmons in plastics

Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting polymer. The antennas can be switched on and off, and will make possible a completely new type of controllable nano-optical components.

Research rolling on the roads

Five years ago, LiU and VTI signed a strategic collaboration. One concrete result can now be seen rolling around Campus Valla – the autonomous buses of the Elin project.