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Hello there Åsa Kassman Rudolphi, head of the newly established Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1 January 2020. At the turn of the year, the former Department of Engineering ...

To research or not to research – that is the question many doctoral students ask themselves as the end of the studies approaches. The exit course for doctoral students at the Evolutionary Biology C...

Peter Stoica, Professor of Systems Modeling at the Department of Information Technology, has been awarded the 2019 IEEE SPS Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award.

On 8 January the Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) celebrates its 10th anniversary. A series of events have been planned to celebrate the occasion during the year 2020. CNDS is ...

An international team of researchers have used publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as the 1950s to detect and analyse objects that have disappeared over time. They hav...

Materials researchers at Uppsala University have made a breakthrough in the understanding of energy storage in sodium ion batteries by using ultra-high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy. These findings...

Relevant research infrastructure is crucial for being able to collect, process and access data. But advanced technology is expensive and then there is the question of who should bear the costs. ...

Uppsala University has a long-standing tradition of inviting new Nobel laureates to visit Uppsala in conjunction with the Nobel Prize ceremonies. On 13 December a number of the 2019 laureates will ...

International climate summits come and go, with hopes of reaching agreement on climate undertakings. But how is collaboration around social challenges faring among our higher education institutions...

Per Ahlberg, Professor of Evolution and Developmental Biology at the Department of Organismal Biology, and Lars Holmer, Professor of Historical Geology and Palaeontology at the Department of Earth ...

8 January is the last day for registering publications published in 2015 to 2019 that are to be included in the annual report for the university.

This year’s Uppsala Student of the Year is in his seventh semester of the Master’s Programme in Sociotechnical Systems Engineering. Alongside his studies, he has been a powerful driving force, on a...

Uppsala researchers have developed a new method for investigating dynamic processes in large genetic libraries. By using this method to study cell cycle regulation, they help paint a clearer pictur...

In species with sexual reproduction, no two individuals are alike and scientists have long struggled to understand why there is so much genetic variation. In a new study published in Nature Ecology...

This year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, have been working closely with Uppsala University for a quarter century. The next collaboration is already in the works, and ...

Jonas Bergquist, Professor of Analytical Chemistry/Neurochemistry at the Department of Chemistry - BMC, has been awarded the Qilu Friendship Award 2019 by the Shandong provincial people's governmen...

Ambuj Varshney, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Information Technology has been awarded the ABB Research Award 2019 for his research into more sustainable network-based built-in syste...

An exceptionally rare fossil jaw from a giant Jurassic pliosaur has been found in Switzerland, and recently identified by an international team of scientists. Pliosaurs were huge marine reptiles th...

Hello there Petter Elgh, President of the Uppsala Union of Engineering and Science Students, which traditionally organises the Utnarm careers fair on 7 November. What is on the programme for this y...

Hi there Maria Strømme, Professor in nanotechnology, and participating in the Kvalitetsmässan, a conference on AI, nanotechnology and cyber-attacks among other topics, on 12 – 14 November in Gothen...