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When it was time for Kamiar Radnosrati to defend his thesis, there was a risk that everything would be postponed because of the new coronavirus. But instead he got to write history at the Department of Electrical Engineering.

The government’s investment in strategic areas of research has been evaluated by an international panel of experts. LiU’s three initiatives all get the thumbs up, and it has been proposed that materials research receive increased funding.

We can use sensors attached to the body to capture patterns of motion, and the results can for example be used in the gaming and film industries and in medical rehabilitation. Manon Kok’s doctoral thesis deals with inertial sensors.

The objective of Agtech 2030 is to make eastern Götaland a world-leader in agricultural technology. The programme is selected by Vinnova as a Vinnväxt programme. It has a total budget of nearly SEK 200 million, of which SEK 70 million from Vinnova.

Reports from Imperial College regarding the spread and the effects of Covid-19 had considerable policy impacts in several European countries. But the models that informed the reports have considerable flaws, according to LiU-researchers.

Someone’s lost in the Kolmården Forest and around 40 students must find him before he wanders into the elephant enclosure. They are using the electronic footprints he has made. Can they manage it? Indeed they can – and it doesn’t take them long.

Machine learning and smart cameras will be used to make it easier to monitor the large animals in African nature reserves. The technology has been developed by scientists and students at Linköping University.

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.

The black market in rhinoceros horn is worth billions of dollars, and poaching is driving the species towards extinction. However, the drive against poaching is now to be given new impetus with the aid of the most recent technology.

Three innovations from Linköping University are included on the IVA Top 100 List: Translating Knowledge to Competitiveness. “An important signal and a great honour”, says one of the prize-winners.