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Cheerleaders tell of psychological abuse

Of current and former cheerleading athletes, 29 per cent reported being subjected to psychological abuse in the sport, according to a new study from Linköping University.

3 October 2024

Body weight important in pregnancy – regardless of country of birth

2 October 2024

Research for a sustainable future in ten new projects

27 September 2024

AI may boost society's cybersecurity

24 September 2024

Moa Martinson visiting professor will get new perspectives of the world

18 September 2024

Machine learning can give the climate a chance

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The Impact of AI in Education

The Brazil-Sweden working group on AI, automation, and digitalization invites everyone to a webinar on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education and the importance of AI literacy and gamification on making better education. During the w
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Inaugural lectures visiting professor in the name of Tage Danielsson and Moa Martinson

Welcome to attend the installation ceremony of Athena Farrokhzad, visiting Professor in the name of Tage Danielsson, and Neferti X. M. Tadiar, visiting Professor in the name of Moa Martinson. During the ceremony, the guest professors will be welcomed
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EJEA Conference 2024

The EJEA conference 2024 will be in Linköping, Sweden November 5-7, 2024 with the title:"Future Knowledge and Competence for AI-driven Innovation in Europe and Japan".
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Game at work - for your health

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Photographer: Anna Nilsen

Public lecture from European Researcher's Night

Humans are hunters and gatherers. But in today’s modern society, we are sitting more than ever, which is bad for our Stone Age body.

“We’re one of the countries in Europe where people sit the most, easily up to ten hours a day. Not only do we get back, shoulder and neck problems. There’s also research showing that the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and several common cancers increases, and that life expectancy decreases by 34 per cent. Sitting is dangerous for us!” says Aseel Berglund, researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Science.

This is something she and her research partner Erik Berglund want to change - by using computer games at work. Together, they have created Liopep, a digital gaming gym available on your computer, and soon on your mobile phone, around the clock.

Further reading: Game at work - for your health

 

The drivers of progress

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With pain as a driving force – from refugee to professor

After a childhood marked by displacement, Bijar Ghafouri came to a place where she could stay. “In Sweden I got the opportunity to study what I wanted. Age or gender didn’t matter,” she says. Today, she is a professor researching long-term pain.
Magnus Gålfalk.

The astronomer who turned his eyes towards Earth

Magnus Gålfalk was ten years old when he became fascinated with space. His doctoral thesis was about how stars are formed. But now he is doing climate research at Linköping University instead.
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Studying how reuse can be good business

Taking over things that someone else has used can also be business. This is what Marianna Lena Kambanou studies in her research.
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Björn-Ola Linnér: I am a frustrated optimist

Climate researcher Björn-Ola Linnér never imagined an academic career. Here you can hear him talk about the road to  becoming a professor and, as a researcher, active in the environmental debate.
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Pioneer with animals’ best interests at heart

What do animals do? What do they think? Do they have feelings? These are questions that have fascinated people through the ages and represent a field of research of their own. In ethology, Linköping professor Per Jensen is one of the leading figures.
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The new Tage Danielsson professor is a researcher, poet and artist

She is a cultural theorist with an interest in philosophy, politics, media theory and art. In addition to this, she is also a writer and an artist. Keti Chukhrov is the new holder of Linköping University’s Tage Danielsson visiting professorship.

Research initiatives

WASP at LiU

WASP - Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

The fourth industrial revolution is upon us, as automation becomes autonomy. LiU conducts outstanding research in several of the fields that are central to the Wallenberg AI Autonomous Systems and Software Program, WASP.
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Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at LiU

WCMM at LiU focuses on the medicine-technology interface, and build upon our existing strengths in research within medical technology, materials science and bioengineering.
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Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability - WISE

A research program to enable sustainable technologies with impact on our society by understanding, creating, and controlling complex materials with a precision down to the single atom level.

Advanced Functional Materials - AFM

Advanced Functional Materials, AFM, is an interdisciplinary research environment conducting studies in advanced functional materials. The initiative is based on a government investment with strategic research areas as its foundation.

Strategic research areas

The strategic research areas (SRAs) are an initiative of the Swedish government to foster world-leading research in Sweden, in selected areas. Linköping University receives funding in five of the designated research areas, and in three of these Linköping University is the main applicant. In addition, LiU researchers participate actively in the fields of e-science and transport research.

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IT and mobile communication

Traditional mobile telephony is changing towards systems and platforms with unimagined capacity. The aim of ELLIIT (Excellence Center at Linköping – Lund in Information Technology) is to meet these challenges in a broad and effective way.
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Materials Science

We have a vision that application-inspired basic research focused on the design of new materials at the atomic/molecular scale will solve societal problems within energy, the environment, health and employment.
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Security and emergency management

Our vision is to establish a world-leading platform for strategic interdisciplinary research in crisis management, security and the protection of public infrastructure.