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The Faculty of Science announces 15 PhD positions

Are you a curious person who’s driven to learn and know more? Do you thrive in the university environment? PhD studies give you the opportunity to ask questions, find answers and start to understand a subject to its core. 15 PhD positions are now available in science.

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New public printers coming soon - here's how to print

The new Printomat printers will soon be installed in public areas such as the Stockholm University library, Studenthuset and Albano. To print on the new printers, you need to connect your university card to the system.

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Liane Rossi outside the Arrhenius lab. Belén Martín-Matute behind them

Creating value from carbon dioxide emissions

It is possible to create value based on carbon dioxide emissions by, for example, producing methanol as a cleaner-burning alternative fuel for marine transportation. Liane Rossi, holder of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s professorship in Environmental Science 2023–2024, presented her research to King Carl XVI Gustaf and invited research colleagues on September 30.

Forskare vid Tarfala forskningsstation på Storglaciären

Record shrinkage of Swedish glaciers

The four Swedish reference glaciers continue to shrink. The results of the annual measurements of the glaciers' mass balance show that Storglaciären, Rabots Glacier, Rivgojiehhki, and Moarhmmáglaciären have shrinked significantly. These are the largest losses since systematic measurements began.

Climate and Environment - Theme page
Department of Environmental Science

The art of sustainability: How STAGES is transforming theatre’s environmental footprint

In the heart of Sweden’s theatre scene, an ambitious EU-funded experiment involving fourteen European theatres and academic institutions is reshaping how the performing arts engage with one of today’s most pressing issues: sustainability.

Climate and Environment - Theme page Culture and Media - Theme page Sustainable Chemistry - Theme page Social and economic sustainability - Theme page

Festive celebrations in the City Hall

The Stockholm City Hall was filled to the brim when Stockholm University’s new doctors, professors, jubilee doctors and honorary doctors were celebrated at the end of September. The Inauguration and conferment ceremony is a joyful academic tradition and this year it gathered around a thousand guests.

CIVIS BIPs

A new wave of Blended Intensive Programmes is available for all students of CIVIS Universities. BIPs enables you to learn alongside students from across Europe. These programs blend online education with brief periods of in-person mobility. Registrations are open until 31st October.

ForskarFredag 2024 med utställning i AlbaNovas ljushall
Department of Physics

Fysikum's interesting lessons, demonstrations and tours attracted many students and teachers

Several thousand pupils and their teachers came to this year's Researcher's Friday at Vetenskapens hus and AlbaNova on September 27, 2024. Fysikum had a packed programme with scientists giving lessons, demonstrations and tours of our laboratories. Researcher's Friday is part of the European Researchers' Night science festival with events across Europe on 23-28 September 2024. In 2019, European Researchers' Night reached 1.6 million visitors in 27 countries. 433 cities participated and 36,000 researchers were involved.

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Gia får pris
Department of Physical Geography

Gia Destouni Awarded Baltic Sea Hero for Research on Eutrophication

Professor Georgia (Gia) Destouni, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, has been honoured with the prestigious Baltic Sea Award for her groundbreaking contributions to addressing one of the most pressing environmental challenges facing the Baltic Sea: eutrophication.

Geology, Geography and Landscapes - Theme page Oceans and Lakes - Theme page Climate and Environment - Theme page
The aerial photos needed to be reviewed

Old aerial photos provide a new outlook on 20th century history

Aerial photos from 60 countries across the developing world are now becoming a gold mine for researchers in various fields. This is thanks to a research project in which a large and previously inaccessible archive is digitised and made freely available.

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The recruitment process for new Vice President has begun

Stockholm University Vice President Clas Hättestrand’s term of office expires on 30 June 2025. The University Board has therefore decided to begin an open recruitment process to appoint a new Vice President to take up office from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2031.

Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Baltic Sea Centre's eutrophication model can provide knowledge about greenhouse gases

The BALTSEM model is a well-used tool for studying the effects of nutrient inputs to the Baltic Sea and has been used in the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan. The modelling tool has now been further developed to include methane fluxes, which can provide important knowledge about the climate impact of the Baltic Sea.

Climate and Environment - Theme page Oceans and Lakes - Theme page
Greta Thunberg wall painting Photo: Håkan Bergqvist © Mostphotos
Stockholm Center on Global Governance

Lisa Dellmuth: "Since Greta's protest in 2018, climate awareness has increased worldwide"

In around 110 locations in Germany, people protested on September 20, 2024 as part of the global 'climate strike' by 'Fridays for Future.' Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg once made the climate movement big. But what role does she still play today? German public broadcaster asked professor Lisa Dellmuth, SCGG.

Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page Climate and Environment - Theme page
Department of Environmental Science

Department scientists to showcase climate research at ForskarFredag

ForskarFredag 2024 returns this week with the theme of "Research in Everyday Life," and the Department of Environmental Science, a long-term partner of this yearly event, will have a significant presence. On September 27, with a strong focus on climate science, the Department will present displays with researchers involved in the ARTofMELT (AoM) research expedition in the Arctic, as well as feature talks by prominent scientists Associate Professor Paul Glantz and Professor Kevin Noone.

Climate and Environment - Theme page Atmosphere and Weather - Theme page
Ludvig Doeser, årets vinnare av Magnus Axelsson-priset. Foto: Gunilla Häggström
Department of Physics

Ludvig Doeser is the winner of Magnus Axelsson Prize 2024

Ludvig Doeser studied Engineering Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in parallel with hosting exhibitions at Tom Tits in his spare time. During his master programme he was an exchange student in the USA. In 2021, he did his thesis with Jens Jasche and collaborated with Magnus Axelsson at Fysikum. Since January 2022 he is a PhD student at the division of Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics and String Theory - COPS. He teaches and is responsible for the outreach event FysikShow. Ludvig is awarded this year's prize because he intends to introduce FysikShow's experiments into physics teaching.

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Installations- och promotionshögtid. Foto: Ing-Marie Andersson
Department of Physics

New professors at Stockholm University

The President has recently decided to promote several new professors, including Eddy Ardonne to Professor in Condensed Matter Theory specialising in strongly correlated quantum systems, Maria Hermanns to Professor in Theoretical Physics and Markus Hennrich to professor in experimental quantum optics.

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Flags from all countries outside of the UN building in NYC. Photo: Andrew Kazmierski © Mostphotos
Stockholm Center on Global Governance

SCGG recommends these partner events

Learn about other events related to global governance that our partners, such as The Hans Blix Centre or the Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice (SCILJ), are hosting.

Research in focus at the university’s annual celebration

On the 27th of September it is time for Stockholm University’s annual inauguration and conferment ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall – the most traditional of our academic ceremonies. The ceremony celebrates new doctors and new professors as well as honorary doctors.

SUBIC - Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre

SweCog 2024 in Stockholm

The 19th conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society will be held in Stockholm. The conference is free of charge and will take place between Thursday October 10th and Friday October 11th.

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Eleonora Svanberg, boksläpp: Study with me
Department of Physics

Eleonora Svanberg, releases the book Study with me

Eleonora Svanberg studied on the Bachelor's programme in Physics at Fysikum when she was also our student ambassador for social media. She then took her master's degree at Cambridge and will do her PhD at Oxford University in England. Today she releases the book ‘Study with me - how to build mathematical confidence’.

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Eleonora Svanberg - mottagare av Nordic Pioneers 2024
Department of Physics

The Nordic Pioneer Prize 2024: Eleonora Svanberg is one of four winners

The prize was established in 2021 by Nordic Safe Cities, which works to strengthen democracy and counter extremism in the Nordic region. Eleonora Svanberg, alumna of Fysikum, is one of the four prize winners. ‘I am incredibly honoured by the prize, which shows how important it is to work for gender equality in STEM,’ says Eleonora, who founded Girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). The award ceremony will take place on 19 September in Denmark.

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Sweden's first Master's programme in Environmental Humanities inaugurated

The university's exhibition space Accelerator was at capacity when the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities was inaugurated on 5 September. Students, visitors, colleagues and researchers from several departments and other universities came together.

Climate and Environment - Theme page Culture and Media - Theme page Gender and Equality - Theme page History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage - Theme page Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page Social and economic sustainability - Theme page Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy - Theme page Plants, Animals and Nature - Theme page
GRULAC (Ambassadors from the Group of Latin America and the Caribbean)
Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies

Open lecture at NILAS, ‘Climate Change and Water Challenges in Latin America’

On September 3rd, a seminar titled "Climate Change and Water Challenges in Latin America" was held at the library of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies. The event addressed critical water issues in Latin America, such as the lack of infrastructure, insufficient support from the international community, and the risks involved in planning across the region.

Climate and Environment - Theme page Health and Living Conditions - Theme page Geology, Geography and Landscapes - Theme page Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page Oceans and Lakes - Theme page Social and economic sustainability - Theme page
Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German

New podcast on heritage Latvian addresses diaspora families

The recently launched podcast "Vārti" (in Latvian) reaches out to Latvian families around the world to help maintain their heritage language in the diaspora. It features interviews with experts in multilinguality, family language policy and heritage language maintenance, along with insights from diaspora parents and children.

Children and Young People - Theme page School, Education and Learning - Theme page Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page Language, Literature and Culture - Theme page
Fotot visar Josefine Carlsson och Ulrika Nilsson, Institutionen för material och miljökemi.
Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry

New Method Aims to Eliminate Harmful Chemicals in Clothing

Hazardous chemicals in our clothes may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a groundbreaking method developed by researchers at Stockholm University. Under the leadership of Ulrika Nilsson, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, a new screening method has been developed that is proposed to become the European standard for controlling hazardous content in textiles.

Chemistry - Theme page Sustainable Chemistry - Theme page Health and Living Conditions - Theme page
Cover, new book. Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
Department of Romance Studies and Classics

New Book Release: "Comparing the Place of Experts during the First Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic"

The editors of the book, Christophe Premat, Jean-Michel De Waele, and Michel Perottino, bring together contributions from researchers exploring how experts were mobilized to justify difficult political decisions.

Corona Research - Theme page Health and Living Conditions - Theme page Economy and Society - Theme page Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page Language, Literature and Culture - Theme page
A smiling boss with a tablet, outside discussing with his collleagues.
Department of Public Health Sciences

Home environment has an impact on who becomes a boss

The fact that managers often come from families with high socio-economic status is well recognised in leadership research. But the home environment and attitudes in families also play an important role. This is shown by a new study from researchers at the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University.

Health and Living Conditions - Theme page Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page
Andrea Gallo Rosso, Postdoc fellow, the Department of Physics
Department of Physics

Turning the ghostly substance into actual light

Postdoctor Andrea Gallo is a researcher in astroparticle physics at Fysikum, Stockholm University. He was born in Turin, Italy, and in 2019 he did his PhD at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila. In March 2021 he came to Stockholm and Fysikum. He's now working in the ALPHA experiment. Together with Jan Conrad he will be working on a project developing a framework for the simulation and analysis of axion experiments (dubbed ASSAI). The project is funded by a grant of the Olle Engkvist foundation.

Physics - Theme page
Group study room in the library
Stockholm University Library

Renovated group rooms

The group rooms and resource rooms in the university library have been renovated and are now available for booking.

Scientists worked out how single gravitons can be detected. Igor Pikovski Group
Department of Physics

How to catch a graviton

Gravitons, the quantum particles of gravity, were thought to be impossible to observe. Scientists have now worked out how they can be detected by using quantum sensing technology.

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Fyr i havskum vid Östersjön
Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Views ahead of the UN Ocean Conference 2025

Next summer, the third UN global ocean conference will be held in Nice, France. The organizers are asking for proposals for measures needed to reach the goals for the sea. The Baltic Sea Center has responded and highlighted the themes and measures compiled by researchers and experts at Stockholm University in our new publication "Important measures for the Baltic Sea".

Climate and Environment - Theme page Oceans and Lakes - Theme page Plants, Animals and Nature - Theme page
Mörkret och människan av Jonas Enander
Department of Physics

Jonas Enander releases a book about darkness and mankind

Jonas first took a master's degree in physics at Fysikum and then went on to complete a PhD at the CoPS group and the Oskar Klein Centre. "Nowadays I'm a part-time research communicator at the Oskar Klein Centre. On 28 August, I'll be releasing my book Darkness and Man."

Physics - Theme page
Doctoral School in the Humanities

New research officer for the Doctoral School

The new research officer for the Doctoral School in the Humanities is Mikael Kalm, who will manage the activities and contribute to creating a stimulating environment for the university's doctoral students.

Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute

Mapping the sex life of Malaria parasites reveals the genetics underlying Malaria transmission

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the mosquito vector, the parasite has to differentiate to its sexual stage, referred to as the gametocyte stage. Unlike primary sex determination in mammals, which occurs at the chromosome level, it is not known what causes this unicellular parasite to form males and females. New research at Stockholm University has implemented high-resolution genomic tools to map the global repertoire of genes of gametocyte development towards the male or the female sexual fates.

Life Science - Theme page Plants, Animals and Nature - Theme page Health and Living Conditions - Theme page
Illustration of how malaria parasites are transmitted.
Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute

First spatial map of malaria infection in the liver opens up for more effective malaria treatments

For the malaria parasite to reach the blood of its human host, it must first enter the liver, where only a small number of parasites differentiate and replicate for upwards of seven days, making it a bottleneck in the parasite’s lifecycle. This bottleneck makes the liver stage an optimal target for effective and long-lasting vaccines against the disease. Using Spatial Transcriptomics and single-cell RNA-sequencing technologies, researchers at Stockholm University have for the first time managed to create a spatio-temporal map of malaria infection in the mouse liver. A study that was recently published in Nature Communications.

Life Science - Theme page Health and Living Conditions - Theme page
A hand holding a set of keys.

Beware of housing fraud

If you're looking for housing, please follow some advice from the Swedish Police.

Icebreaker Oden outside Stephenson Island entering the Victoria Fjord.

Arctic expedition has entered remote Greenland fjord

Icebreaker Oden has as the first vessel ever now reached the remote and uncharted Victoria fjord at northern Greenland. Read an update from the GEOEO North of Greenland 2024 expedition on its challenging battle against multiyear sea ice and pressure ridges.

Atmosphere and Weather - Theme page Climate and Environment - Theme page DNA Research - Theme page Geology, Geography and Landscapes - Theme page Oceans and Lakes - Theme page Plants, Animals and Nature - Theme page
Swedish Institute for Social Research

Marie Evertsson new Director at SOFI

Marie Evertsson, professor of sociology, will become the new director of the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI).

Yeast

Research on yeast can untap new lager beer flavours

Lager is the most widely consumed style of beer, dominating the world market. But lager flavours and aromas are strongly limited. This is because the yeast strains used for brewing lager are genetically nearly identical. In a new study, scientists from the University of Santiago (Chile) and Stockholm University created new yeast strains that could revolutionize the lager beer industry by offering new and exciting flavours and aromas.

Plants, Animals and Nature - Theme page
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When was the last time you updated Zoom?

Are you using an older version of Zoom? If so, it's time to upgrade. Starting Thursday, you will need to have at least version 6.1.0 to join a Zoom meeting.

Respiration från torra ekosystem är mindre känslig för temperatur.

Warming increases ecosystem carbon emissions – but only with sufficient rain

The emissions of carbon dioxide from ecosystems are known to be higher in warmer climates. Therefore, global warming can speed up emissions, causing a stronger greenhouse effect that worsens climatic changes. But only in sufficiently moist environments where plants and soil organisms are not limited by water availability, as shown in a Nature Ecology & Evolution article with four co-authors from Stockholm University.

Geology, Geography and Landscapes - Theme page Climate and Environment - Theme page
Fire spreading through a forest.
Department of Public Health Sciences

Public health researcher Sara Causevic engages in AI for sustainability research

Sara Causevic, you are researcher at the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University. But recently on LinkedIn you shared a perspective article on AI for sustainability that you have published together with three other researchers in the scientific journal Discover Conservation. AI for sustainability research is a bit out of your sphere as a researcher of public health. What are the reasons for you engaging in this?

Health and Living Conditions - Theme page Digitalization and AI - Theme page Climate and Environment - Theme page
Facade of Södra huset with the word Stockholm University on the roof

Stockholm University among the 150 best in the world

Stockholm University ranks 101–150 in the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), sharing the third place in Sweden with Lund University and University of Gothenburg. Highest ranked in Sweden is Karolinska Institutet followed by Uppsala University.

Madeleine Björnsdotter Orfanidou
Department of Public Health Sciences

Madeleine got a job as a public health strategist sraight after graduation

When Madeleine Björnsdotter Orfanidou studied the Bachelor's programme in Education and Public Health, she felt that it was the latter subject that interested her most. She went on to study the International Master's Programme. She graduated in May this year and immediately got a job as a public health strategist at Botkyrka Council in South Stockholm.

Health and Living Conditions - Theme page
Sreenath Manikandan
Department of Physics

Sreenath is a postdoctoral researcher at Nordita

Sreenath Manikandan is a researcher in Professor Frank Wilczek's group at Nordita. "My research is mainly about Q-ball which is a hypothetical form of matter in theoretical physics. Quantum connections is an amazing summer school for early career researchers like me. The school brings great lecturers from around the world on frontiers of quantum physics."

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Vendela Kennemyr, upper secondary school student taking courses at Fysikum
Department of Physics

Vendela Kennemyr came back for more courses at Fysikum

After doing practical work experience (Prao) at Fysikum in the spring of 2022, Vendela returned to us during the autumn holidays. "Since then, I have taken six courses - two at master's level and four on the bachelor's programme in physics. Physics and maths are incredibly fun and studying it at university is fantastic!"

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Professor Frank Wilczek
Department of Physics

Quantum Connections Summer School at Högberga for the thirteenth time

This year's summer school runs from 9 to 22 June at Högberga konferensgård on Lidingö outside Stockholm. About fifty participants will come there to deepen their knowledge. It is a summer school organized for PhD students and postdocs, both theoretical and experimental, in all aspects of quantum limits. Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, Professor at Fysikum and Professor Antti Niemi, Nordita are the initiators of the summer school.

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New interpretation of runes reveals pricing in Viking Age

A new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring (Forsaringen in Swedish), provides fresh insights into the Viking Age monetary system and represents the oldest documented value record in Scandinavia. The inscription describes how the Vikings handled fines in a flexible and practical manner. This is highlighted in research from the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University, recently published in the Scandinavian Economic History Review.

Economy and Society - Theme page History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage - Theme page Law, Crime and Justice - Theme page
Byst av Alfred Nobel
Department of Physics

Nobel laureates speak at Stockholm University

18 Nobel Laureates visit Stockholm University during this year's Nobel Week. Listen to this year's Nobel Laureates in Aula Magna on Thursday at the KVA's official Nobel Lectures. Three of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2020 and 2021, Professors Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez and Giorgio Parisi, will be at AlbaNova on 7 December. On December 12 in the morning, the workshop From Bell and Beyond will take place for experts, PhD students and postdocs in all aspects of quantum limits. In the afternoon, there will be a panel discussion with the 2022 Nobel Laureates in Physics.

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Hands writing on a keyboard

You can now activate your university account with BankID

If you have a Swedish personal identification number ("personnummer") you can now verify yourself with BankID at su.se/activate. This will give your university account the higher assurance level needed to log into certain systems such as Ladok.

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