Four minutes to present your research for an audience of high school students – that’s the premises for the research communication competition Researcher’s Grand Prix. WWSC researcher Tomas Rosén accepted the challenge in tough competition won the Stockholm edition. Now awaits the national final 1st of December.
Tomas Rosén the winner of Stockholm Researcher’s Grand Prix 2022 Read More »
WWSC researcher Francisco Vilaplana, Associate Professor at KTH, has been appointed as Head of Plant Structure and Health at Oatly Food Science. He will integrate his part-time appointments at both KTH and Oatly, in order to strengthen the research and collaboration towards sustainable and healthy plant-based food products and materials.
The week after Midsummer, WWSC hosted visits at KTH from the Austrian government and from the research management at Scania. Both visits included presentations, lab demos, and enthusiastic discussions on the possibilities for using forest raw materials to create material solutions for a sustainable future.
International and industrial visits to WWSC Read More »
This year’s WWSC Summer Workshop was held at Marstrand on the Swedish west coast and included invited lectures by internationally renowned researchers, and the traditional pitch- and poster session with the PhD students. Excellent presentations by all PhD students made the competition tough, but in the end three winners could be named.
Poster-prize winners WWSC Summer Workshop 2022 Read More »
WWSC researcher Mika Sipponen, Stockholm University, is one of the 16 selected researchers in the Foundation for Strategic Research’s program Research Leader of the Future.
Mika Sipponen appointed Research Leader of the Future (SSF) Read More »
A new method for the creating of insulating nanostructures in the pores of wood-based aerogels developed by WWSC researchers gives
materials with better insulation than conventional fossil-based insulation materials.
Wood-based aerogels prove better insulation properties than fossil-based materials Read More »
The cellulose material Papira is a bio-based and recyclable replacement for fossil-based foam materials such as polystyrene, in everyday speech is called styrofoam. What started as fundamental research within the research center WWSC has been further developed by Stora Enso, that recently inaugurated a pilot facility for the fibre-based foam material. On April 1, an event was held to highlight the journey from fundamental research to industrial pilot.
After two years of Zoom classes, WWSC Academy could finally be held in person. During the winter school the PhD students got to learn more about IPR and innovation processes, to get more insight in how to go from idea to the market, both in lectures and in study visits.
WWSC Academy Winter School 2022 Read More »
WWSC researchers Eleni Stavrinidou and Magnus Berggren, Linköping University, and co-authors receives the 2021 Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award with the article Biohybrid plants with electronic roots via in-vivo polymerization of conjugated oligomers.
Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award 2021 to WWSC researchers Read More »
Together with representatives from the central management of KTH, Peter Wallenberg Jr, Sara Mazur, and Axel Wallenberg from KAW visited WWSC KTH in March.
Visit by KAW at WWSC KTH Read More »
Due to the difficult situation in Ukraine, KAW, MMW and MAW have decided to announce support for the employment of Ukrainian researchers at Swedish universities. The support is a grant of 1 million SEK for a one year employment.
Wallenberg Foundations support Ukrainian researchers Read More »
Christian Müller, Professor at Chalmers and WWSC member, is awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for making electronic textiles with conducting plastics .
Christian Müller awarded the ERC Consolidator grant Read More »
WWSC is a joint research center between KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and Linköping University. The base is a donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The Swedish industry is supporting WWSC via the platform Treesearch.
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