News

Quantum materials will be one of the cornerstones of future technology and thus a key component of engineering knowledge in our society. If Sweden is to play a prominent role in an international ar...

Five prototypes to improve work in the mining industry. They are the result of the EU project Smart Exploration, which has been led by Uppsala University. “The mining industry has a great demand fo...

There is a growing need to use supercomputers for modelling or data processing for use in high performance computer systems. However, to be able to make use of these kinds of computer systems, the ...

Swedish researchers from institutions including Uppsala University have spent four years gathering data from the areas affected by the major forest fire of 2014. In their study of how the ecosystem...

Uppsala University is a member of the new Horizon2020 network ChETEC-INFRA, or Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos – Infrastructures for nuclear astrophysics. During the nex...

The 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients at Uppsala University teach subjects related to archaeology, law, pharmacy and mathematics. The Independent Distinguished Teaching Award was awarded...

Hi there Carolina Wählby, professor at the Department of Information Technology, where a new research initiative focused on sustainability and security is now starting, with the appointment of five...

For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the entire genome from the skull of Peştera Muierii 1, a woman who lived in today’s Romania 35,000 years ago. Her high genetic diversity ...

In the quest for a circular economy and a sustainable society, we need to transform our waste into a resource. In the so-called waste package, the Riksdag and the Swedish Government have adopted ne...

Hello there! Lars Tranvik, Professor of Limnology at the Department of Ecology and Genetics, who recently penned an op-ed for the Swedish broadsheet Dagens Nyheter on the fact that greenhouse gas e...

AI is being used increasingly in medicine. To speed development, the EU project BigPicture is building a research platform for digital pathology. It securely collects digital images of tissue sampl...

A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis machinery – that are several billion years old. B...

It will soon be time at last for a doctoral degree conferment ceremony at Uppsala University again, after a break due to the pandemic. Though it may not be in the usual form, hopefully it will stil...

Populations that practice agriculture have higher frequencies of lactase persistence-associated alleles, which normally manifests as lactose tolerance. Especially the Beja people inhabiting the Sud...

While Peter Lindblad has served in many academic roles over the years, it is to research that he always returns. At the Ångström Laboratory, his research group is developing fuels that could contri...

The European Research Council (ERC) has now distributed the grants in its 2020 ERC Advanced Grants call and Uppsala University is one of the recipients. The grant of EUR 2.4 million goes to Per Ahl...

Meet Jonas Bergquist, Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry at Uppsala University, in a conversation in the series UppTalk Weekly about ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue ...

Hello there Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt, former Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Laboratory of Photomolecular Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), who has just ...

The International Science Programme (ISP) which has been providing assistance to developing countries in research and doctoral education is turning 60. For many years, the programme has been workin...

Uppsala University now also has an account on the new social media app Clubhouse. Under the club name ‘Uppsala University’, all affiliated with the university are welcome to start their own virtual...