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  • Sophia Hober proposed as Dean

    Published Jan 21, 2011

    Professor of Biotechnology Sophia Hober has been proposed as the new Dean for KTH. If she gets the assignment, she wants to work for greater cohesion among teachers and researchers at KTH. It will provide strength to face future challenges, she says. The road upon which we need to travel in order to get there is called ‘more support and better information work’.

  • Fewer schools at KTH

    Published Jan 03, 2011

    The school organization is given a green light in the evaluation that has been carried out. But the investigators believe that there should be fewer schools and that what they offer should be more diverse. The first phase proposes a merger of the Schools for Chemical Sciences and Biotechnology. In addition, the office of Director of education should definitely be a full-time occupation, the investigators believe.

  • KTH’s decision-making organization is being re-thought

    Published Dec 21, 2010

    The faculty committee will become faculty councils with overall responsibility for establishing the collegial system at KTH. The school boards are being replaced by strategic councils. These are some of the changes proposed by the President in KTH’s rules of procedure. A somewhat more extensive reorganization however, is not on the agenda - the school organization shall continue.

  • Straighter communication routes for business contacts

    Published Dec 09, 2010

    It will be easier for companies to find their way in to KTH. And the needs of researchers for business collaboration are to be given some attention: How will they collaborate and what support do they need for it?

  • President moving to the Red Cross building

    Published Nov 24, 2010

    It is KTH’s management and administration that will be taking over the Red Cross hospital building on Brinellvägen. The move is expected to take place in March 2012.

  • 300 km per hour – greatest moment

    Published Nov 24, 2010

    He is certainly not a train fanatic, Sebastian Stichel, newly appointed Professor of rail vehicle dynamics. But he is certainly interested in trains. Not so much that he waits with bated breath every time an old steam train puffs away from the train station. But his interest is strong enough for him to get a dreamy look in his eyes when he talks about the 30 track wide railway lines in his native Germany.

  • Popular researchers have more success

    Published Nov 23, 2010

    Talk like people do, researchers. Those who present their research in an understandable way have everything to gain. It will provide more research funding and promotes fresh internal growth.

  • KTH’s environmental profile to be strengthened

    Published Nov 15, 2010

    Work on the environment and sustainable development at KTH can be significantly improved. This applies to the daily work on campus as well as KTH’s sustainability profile in research, education and collaboration. This has been demonstrated in a recent evaluation report in which a series of measures are proposed, including a new unit: KTH Sustainability.

  • More practical sessions for students

    Published Nov 15, 2010

    To educate engineers who have a holistic view of technology, communication and who can work together in teams. In short, engineers who are better prepared for today’s professional life. This is the objective of the new educational model to be introduced on all of the programmes provided by KTH.

  • Toxic professor wants to find the worst offenders

    Published Oct 28, 2010

    Christina Rudén is a researcher who is driven by a love for life and nature. Her interest in environmental issues was first awakened in primary school, and since then it has gathered speed. In March this year she became a professor of toxicological risk assessment at KTH.

  • Marcus takes KTH’s ideas to Munich

    Published Oct 27, 2010

    Student exchange and internationalisation have everything to gain from a more efficient administration in the European universities. During an exchange week at KTH, European administrators exchanged good ideas with each other.

  • E-mails not hitting the mark

    Published Oct 14, 2010

    A social platform has opened up the doors on KTH’s web. In the autumn, some 20 teachers will be testing KTH Social during their courses. Stefan Östlund, school director at EES, thinks that KTH’s social web can be a success for those who want to improve communication with their students.

  • Emelie’s studies abroad widened her horizons

    Published Oct 04, 2010

    Volunteer work in South Africa, skiing in the French Alps and nosediving into Japanese culture. Studying abroad can mean much more than just swatting, this was evident following a reunion at KTH Campus.

  • “Mathematics is art”

    Published Sep 23, 2010

    Sandra Di Rocco is a newly appointed professor of mathematics at KTH. When she speaks about algebraic geometry, she does so with a passion that sends shivers down your spine, and it even affects those who know very little about the subject. Mathematics is about feeling and about language, says Sandra Di Rocco. Mathematics is the exact language which cannot be misunderstood.

  • Get to know KTH’s latest professors

    Published Sep 23, 2010

    In a series of articles, Campi will be drawing attention to eight of this year’s new professors at KTH. The climax will be reached on 18th November when the event “Professors for the Future” will take place at KTH. This is when all employees will be invited to mingle and listen to what the professors have to say about their research areas.

  • Universities invest in entrepreneurship

    Published Sep 17, 2010

    Eindhoven’s technical university is running a design programme where students are paid by trade and industry. The programme is very popular and provides the university with both financial revenues and valuable direct contacts with industry.

  • New regulation counteract e-mail chaos

    Published Sep 03, 2010

    The chemistry researcher Peter Szakálos received a fright this autumn when someone requested all of his e-mails that he had received or sent over the past year which were public documents. KTH has now developed a clearer e-mail instruction to make all personnel aware of the principle of right-to-access.

  • ITM School invests in leadership

    Published Aug 17, 2010

    The development of leadership at all levels is regarded by ITM as a way of dealing with stress among its employees and thereby improving the working environment. “It is a good thing when we have managers that are aware we have such committed employees,” says Karin Kroon, Human Resources Manager at ITM.

  • Highly motivated sloggers at KTH

    Published Aug 17, 2010

    KTH’s employees are highly motivated and extremely committed to their work. At the same time many of them are working at a high tempo and often have, or very often have, high peak workloads. These are the results of the first KTH joint survey which looked at work environment and health.

  • Campi closes for summer

    Published Jul 09, 2010

    Campi editorial closes for the summer Monday, July 12. The editorial staff is re-occupied as of August 16.