Research

Horizon 2020 grants to LiU

Screening for substances that affect hormones, digital solutions for active aging and infrastructure for climate simulation are three projects with LiU participation awarded funds from the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

New agreement brings hope for rhinos

A new agreement has been signed this summer to continue the collaboration to save Africa’s rhinos from poachers. “The number of rhinos is increasing in Kenya, the only country in Africa where this is happening", says Professor Fredrik Gustafsson.

Emotional scars increase the risk of sports injury

Active top-flight athletes who have experienced sexual or physical abuse at some time in their life run a greater risk of sports-related injury. This according to a new study from the Athletics Research Center at LiU.

Broad collaboration to give fossil-free transport

A broad research and innovation programme from universities, industry and government agencies is designed to lead to fossil-free freight transport by 2045. Magnus Blinge, adjunct professor in environmental logistics, is coordinating work at LiU.

Materials science – seeking new ways to reach people

“We’re not worried about getting the science right, but we must increase interest among students and find new ways to spread our results and ensure that they are used in practice”, said Igor Abrikosov, in the concluding discussion at AFM 2018.

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.

Colm Nestor gets the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences' Fernström Prize

Colm Nestor, Research fellow at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, is this year's recipient of the Eric K. Fernström Prize for young, highly promising and successful researcher at the Linköping University.

Wives who accompany husbands working abroad

Prof. Lundström has investigated the situation of women who return home after living abroad. These migrants are disadvantaged by two factors: the global economy and the Swedish welfare system. This is particularly clear in the matter of pensions.

Heritability explains fast-learning chicks

Both genetic and environmental factors explain cognitive traits, shows a new study. Researchers have shown that the ability of fowl to cope with a difficult learning task can be explained by genetic factors to a larger degree than simpler tests.

Movement across borders – not an option for everyone

By migration we normally mean people crossing borders, but for more and more people it has become the opposite. This immobility was in focus when 300 researchers got together for a three-day conference.

LiU researchers in communication systems.

Top 100 placing for LiU in more subjects

Linköping University is among the 100 foremost institutions of higher education in the world in five subjects, according to the Shanghai ranking, one more than last year. In the overall ranking, however, LiU has dropped to place 352.

Large group of muscular cycling triathlon competitors

Elite athletes miss cardiovascular screening

Elite athletes run a greater risk than others of suffering from cardiac arrest. Still, a study in Östergötland county shows that many sport clubs do not follow the Swedish Sports Confederation´s recommendations regarding cardiovascular screening.

Smart materials in focus

Researchers at Linköping University in Advanced functional materials, AFM, which is a strategic research initiative from the Swedish government, are arranging an international conference presenting the most recent results in materials science.

Hydrogen from water in iron nanotruss structures

Swedish researchers have discovered a new and efficient way to use electrocatalysis to produce hydrogen gas from water. Instead of using expensive platinum electrodes, the new method uses electrodes with nanotruss structures of iron oxide.

How to build efficient organic solar cells

Twenty-five researchers from seven research institutes have put their heads together to draw up rules for designing high-efficiency organic solar cells. The research, led by associate professor Feng Gao, have been published in Nature Materials.

From computers to cats

Robert Eklund has gone from trying to make computers mimic human speech to investigating how cats communicate. He wants to know how to interpret their miaowing. A common thread that unites all his research is an interest in sound of various types.

Vikas Gupta, Carl-Johan Carlhäll, Lilian Henriksson, Jonas Lantz, Matts Karlsson, Tino Ebbers and Anders Persson.

Blood flow in the heart revealed in a flash

Researchers at LiU have for the first time been able to use information from computer tomography images to simulate the heart function of an individual patient. Some of the modelling methods they use have been developed in the motor industry.

NTU in Singapore gives extra power to WASP

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is donating SEK 50 million to Nanyang Technological University. The donation will provide financing for 25 young researchers from all over the world to spend one year in Singapore and one year in Sweden.

Reward and unease are closely linked in the brain

Mice that lack a certain receptor in the brain are attracted to situations associated with discomfort, such as inflammation and nausea. The finding by researchers from Linköping University has been published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Industrial collaboration worth copying

Aline Kraemer and Marcelo Costa are Brazilian guest researchers at the Division of Automatic Control. Their six-month visit will soon come to an end. As they travel home, they take with them memories, insights and ideas about new ways of working.

LiU to host centre for Swedish aeronautic research

Swedish aeronautic research is now gathered in a common centre, SARC – the Swedish Aeronautic Research Center. The centre will be hosted by the Department of Management and Engineering. Top of of priorities is to establish a joint graduate school.

WASP doctoral student with a focus on safety

The many sensors with which cars are now fitted can be used to create active safety systems. In his licentiate thesis, Victor Fors examines how a car behaves when it is at the very limit of what it can achieve when avoiding a collision.

Major flaw discovered in widely used method

An error in one of the most widely used methods in epigenetics research can cause misleading results. This may have major significance in the research field. The findings by researchers at LiU are published in Nature Methods.

How we nag at our kids – and how they try to escape it

Parents can sometimes feel they don’t do anything but nag at their children. But when referring to the commands that Swedish parents give their children, LiU researcher Asta Cekaite uses the word “negotiate”.