In your role as an external expert, your commitment and expertise are crucial for our efforts to create strong research environments. Your assessments affect our direction, our decisions, and who we welcome as new members of our teams. Hence, the role of the external expert is central to our continued success and development.
Below, you will find the information needed to carry out your assignment. Please do not hesitate to contact the HR specialist if you have any questions.
Antoine Bordas, PhD, tell us about your previous work
– I am currently 3rd year PhD student, under the supervision of Pascal Le Masson and Benoit Weil at Mines Paris - PSL, France, I hold an engineering degree from Mines Paris - PSL, specialized in engineering design and innovation management.
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» Specfic 2021
Specfic 2021 takes place on December 1–3 at Karlstad University. The conference features keynotes by Professor Edward James (University College Dublin), Dr. Merja Polvinen (University of Helsinki), and Professor Jonas Linderoth (University of Gothenburg). See the program and a presentation of the keynote speakers below.
The next board meeting is coming up soon. As usual, we compile a report for the board with the latest updates. One thing hits me.
Since the last meeting, we have had three ministers visiting our university or planning to visit us, we have welcomed an astronaut, 2,500 upper-secondary school pupils, met with the Ministry of Education and Research, organised one of Sweden’s largest job fairs and, of course, many other exciting activities as well.
2019-12-17
Can an app help visitors at the Central Hospital in Karlstad find the way? This is what a new research study will investigate. The study is a breakthrough for research in real-world environment within DigitalWell.
The study is a part of DigitalWell Research, a sister project to DigitalWell, and is linked to the case: “Find the way”.
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This course focuses on digitalisation and how businesses and organisations can work with digitalisation and digital transformation.
About the course
The aim of the course is to acquire increased knowledge and understanding of central concepts, theories and models in the area of digitalisation and digital transformation, which in turn constitute tools for managing and working systematically with digitalisation in order to improve efficiency and innovation in organisation
Simone Fischer Hübner, Professor of Computer Science at Karlstad University, has received a prestigious research assignment on European level.
2019-10-29
On 9-11 October the yearly competition, European Cyber Security Challenge, was held and 20 teams of young cyber security talents from 20 European countries solved security-related problems. Simone Fischer-Hübner, professor of computer science at Karlstad University was a member of the jury.
“There is a great need of more people working with IT related security problems,” says Simone Fischer-Hübner.
2023-05-26
Edge computing is one of the drivers for future industries and a fundamental component in 5G networks, says Professor Javid Taheri. He has recently published a reference book on the subject, Edge Intelligence: From Theory to Practice.
2013-12-20
Erik Wästlund, Lecturer in Psychology and researcher at CTF, appears in the latest issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American. The article talks about how people easier understand and remember text on paper compared to text on a screen.
- As a part of my Ph D thesis I conducted a study where I compared reading comprehension between paper and screen. The results showed that text on paper was easier to understand.
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VIBRANT MATTER, NETWORKED PRIVACY, AND LEAKY DATA
Against the backdrop of current discussions of GDPR, privacy rights, and data protection, this presentation engages with questions of privacy and agency in networked publics of humans and nonhumans.
September 27, is the last day of Global Week for Future, a global climate week organised by the school strike movement Fridays For Future. The week ends with a global climate strike where adults are invited to participate to pressure politicians to act in the ongoing climate crisis. Researcher Helén Williams will give a talk at Stora torget in Karlstad to show her support.
"It is important to me to be on site and show my commitment.
2024-10-01
On 9-12 September, the conference BERA/WERA was held in Manchester. One of the participants was Christina Olin-Scheller, professor of literary studies education and educational work at Karlstad University.
2021-06-24
We often hear about the importance of a strong brand. But how does a brand really affect the customer's experience of a service? Results in a new study show how customers’ experiences in service encounters are affected differently by the characteristics of a brand, store and consumer factors.
2016-09-17
Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, associate professor in Computer Science, was presented with Best Paper Award at the 2024 International Conference on Technologies & Organization for his work, "Symbiotic Nexus between Social Sustainability and Large-Scale Agility in Nordic Technology Enterprises." The conference was held in Paris on 27 June 2024.
SQuaD Group at Department of Computer Science conducted the research as part of NODLA project, in collaboration with three Swedish ICT
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This article, by CTF-researchers Fredrik Wikström, Helén Williams and Jakob Trischler, aims to analyse the most important packaging functions that affect food waste in households for different products, as the reason for wastage can be expected to differ between different products.
The United Nations sustainability goal SDG 12.3 is to reduce the amount of food that is wasted by half, due to environmental and social reasons.
2024-02-27
Firms frequently collaborate with universities to access novel scientific knowledge and technological expertise with an aim to develop superior new products. While previous research has highlighted the innovation potential of so-called university-industry-collaborations, a recent Journal of Marketing paper by Maier et al. highlights a so far neglected marketing potential of said collaborations.
2020-05-12
Users make heavy demands on cloud-based services such as Dropbox, Spotify, and Netflix. With the existing technologies, however, users experience notable service disruption, especially when they move. Kyoomars Alizadeh Noghani, who recently completed his Ph.D.
Karlstad University offers support in research ethics matters. Each of the faculties (HS and HNT) has an ethical advisor tasked with providing advice to researchers/research groups who have to manage the ethical requirements set by funders. The ethics advisors can also help assess whether the research falls under the Ethics Review Act and thus needs to be dealt with by the Research Ethics committee.
Form for ethical review (Inslaget)
We are happy to welcome Jasenko Arsenovic, new Ph. D student in Business Administration to CTF. He will conduct his doctoral studies at CTF and is also linked to MIT, the Swedish Research School of Management and IT.
Jasenko Arsenovic has a Master’s of Science in Business and Economics from Linnaeus Univeristy and a Master´s degree in Informatics from IT, Management and Innovation program at Jönköping International Business School.
2015-09-09
Our choices as consumers are governed by various factors. At the restaurant one of them is the appearance of the person serving us - if the person has a look that is perceived as healthy, we choose the healthy options from the menu. These are the findings from a study made by researchers Poja Shams and Anders Gustafsson.
The health trend is growing and we are becoming increasingly aware of what kind of food we should consume to maintain good health.
Towards a public value-based media policy for the datafied Swedish welfare state.
The Swedish government's Digital Strategy (2017) outlines plans to use digital technology to create a sustainable society, but digitalization and datafication of economic, political, and social processes widely rely on resources of private companies whose commercial priorities may not align with universal values.
This project aims to analyze how the digital media infrastructure affects the
Adrian Muntean, Professor of Mathematics at Karlstad University, has been awarded funding by the Swedish Research Council to study the transport of matter through thin heterogeneous layers, that is, thin barriers preventing the free movement of particles.
