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Visualisation

LiU conducts world-leading research within the field that encompasses both advanced image processing and conversion of enormous amounts of data into understandable images. The results are also used for augmented reality and immersive environments.

Product Development

Important reseach areas are model-based design automation in which computers solve repetitive and non-creative tasks, product development for sustainability, resource efficiency and manufacturability and product development for 3D-printing.

Industrial Design

The research at LiU focusses on the design of products – how they can be designed in a sustainable and resource-efficient manner, and how the design of a product influences behaviour. 

Artificial intelligence

Research into AI has been carried out at LiU since the early 1970s. The current areas of focus are intelligent decision-support systems, machine learning, and robots, drones and other machines that collaborate with each other and with humans.

Economics

Economics looks into the approaches chosen by individuals, families, organisations and nations, in order to pursue various objectives using their resources, and what the consequences are.

Electronics

Excellent electronics research is conducted at LiU within several important areas for society: energy supply, future health care and the internet of things. At Campus Norrköping, there is a fully equipped EMC lab for testing electronic equipment.

Law

Research at Linköping university has two areas of specialisation: commercial law and welfare law.

Organic electronics

The world's first organic transistor and the world's first chemical chip were developed at LiU. Research groups are working in areas as diverse as energy storage and energy recovery, LEDs and solar cells, electronic plants and bioelectronics.

Art and Visual Culture

In art history we study objects of art, as well as architecture and design, but also visual culture, advertising and fashion, for example.

Gender

Gender research is conducted at LiU, both from a multidisciplinary approach and within different subjects. It is a broad, international and dynamic field.

Literature

At Linköping University we study literature primarily from two perspectives: the history of European literature and the history of media and technology. 

Culture and social change

In cultural research, we study people's ways of living and of viewing the world. It is a multidisciplinary field which spans popular culture and media research, as well as studies of the relationship between culture and other fields.

Ethnicity and migration

International migration and ethnic relations is a large multidisciplinary field of research at Linköping University.  

Sociology

Within sociology, researchers attempt to understand society's character, how society changes and how this influences people.

Politics

History

At Linköping University it is primarily the last centuries of history that is being explored but there are also representatives of older periods.  

Business administration

Fundamental questions concern how organisations that engage in economic activities utilise, develop and create new resources such as financial resources, material, knowledge and skills, in order to co-create value with customers.  

Engineering materials

Research focus is mainly on metallic materials but also ceramics, composites and polymers. This includes high temperature materials such as Ni-based superalloys and coatings, austenitic stainless steels, cast iron and aluminium and titanium alloys.

Language and communication

Language is the primary means of human communication. At Linköping University, we study both the structure and usage of language. 

Psychology

Psychology is an academic discipline that revolves around human behaviour and mental processes. 

Informatics

We collaborate actively with the surrounding society regarding education as well as research. 

Social anthropology

In social anthropology we compare how people live in different social and cultural contexts on earth. 

Religion

Throughout time and in all corners of the earth, religion has had an important function in people's lives and societies. At Linköping University we conduct research into the history of religion, Christianity and biblical studies. 

Ageing and later life

Human ageing is a constant, on-going process that is a part of everybody's life. At Linköping University, we study what it is to be elderly, as well as aging itself. 

Ethics

Ethics research is about what is right and what is wrong and how we should act. Should we allow surrogacy, for example? Should western countries compensate for injustices in their former colonies? 

Cognitive science

Cognitive science studies these processes from several different scientific perspectives. The researchers study people's thoughts, develop machines that carry out cognitive tasks and study cognition in other animal species.

Design for Service

We are surrounded by an ever-increasing number of services, and we participate ourselves in many of them to create value. The multidisciplinary research investigates how the design of services affects our experiences and changes our behaviour.

Interaction Design

Work within interaction design focus on user experience. The research also studies how visualisation of huge quantities of data can be experienced as reliable decision-support information, and how the expertise of the user can be exploited.

Photovoltaics and Thermoelectricity

LiU carries out world-leading research into printed organic solar cells. These cells open completely new possibilities for husbanding the energy of the sun.

Chemistry

Life is chemistry. Research into all principal fields of chemistry is conducted at LiU, including materials science and the study of biological molecules.