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2026-10-28
Karlstad University to contribute to new competence centre for sustainable heating and cooling
The new HEAT-X competence centre, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, will bring together academia, industry and public-sector partners to accelerate the transition towards efficient, electrified and fossil-free heating and cooling systems. Researchers at Karlstad University will contribute expertise in policy, social innovation and citizen participation.
Heating and cooling account for around half of Europe's energy use, making them central to the transition towards a sustainable and resilient energy system. While much attention has been given to producing cleaner energy, researchers argue that equal focus is needed on how energy is used, governed and integrated into society.
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2026-10-26
Research for Better Prosthetic Solutions in Ukraine
How can we ensure that a 3D-printed prosthetic limb can withstand the complex loads encountered in everyday life? This is a question that researchers from France and Karlstad University are now working together to answer.
Associate Professor Dmytro Vasiukov, originally from Ukraine and currently based at Institut Mines-Télécom in France, is visiting Karlstad University as part of the MORPH project, in which Associate Professors Anton Tkachuk and Anders Biel, both from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Karlstad University, are involved. The project focuses on investigating how 3D-printed composite materials used in prostheses for people with limb loss respond to different types of mechanical loading.
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2026-10-21
Resilience in Focus as DAMI Brings Together Industry and Research
On 20 October, representatives from industry, business and academia came together for a day dedicated to the theme of resilience. How can companies and organisations build resilience in a time marked by geopolitical uncertainty, climate-related challenges and disruptions to global supply chains?
The day began with a welcome address from Anna Ericson Öberg, Director of DAMI, who emphasised the importance of collaboration in addressing the challenges of the future.
“I hope we will have a rewarding day together and leave here with renewed energy and new ideas,” said Anna Ericson Öberg.
She described DAMI as an interdisciplinary research centre that creates meeting places where research, knowledge and networks contribute to strengthening business development and competitiveness.
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2026-10-21
Conference on energy storage
The Swedish Electricity Storage and Balancing Centre (SESBC) brought together researchers, companies and public-sector representatives at a conference in Karlstad to discuss future energy solutions.
The Centre has recently been granted funding for a further five years, starting in 2027. During this new phase, Karlstad University will increase its involvement, with researchers in physics, electrical engineering, computer science and applied mathematics contributing to the Centre’s work.
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2026-10-19
Student Project Presented at Prestigious Conference in Rome
Students at Karlstad University have developed a method that enables more realistic simulations of how future 6G networks could be used for both communications and positioning. The study focuses on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), a technology that allows mobile networks to simultaneously transmit data and detect objects in their surroundings.
As part of the research project, students Ronahi Ali, Eric Lövås and Hampus Werner, in collaboration with Tieto Sweden AB, further developed the simulation tool NVIDIA Sionna RT to enable radio signals to be directed towards specific areas, much like in real-world antenna systems. This makes it possible to analyse how signals are reflected by different objects and, in turn, estimate their position and size.
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2026-10-14
Moyses Araujo Delivered Plenary Lecture at Leading Materials Science Conference in Brazil
Moyses Araujo, Professor of Physics at Karlstad University, recently participated as a plenary speaker at the Brazilian Materials Research Society Meeting (SBPMat), one of the leading materials science conferences in Latin America.
The conference brought together around 2,300 researchers, engineers and students from across the world to discuss the future of materials for energy, environmental and technological applications.
