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Can algorithms really be exciting? Sure, if they’re packaged properly. When David Sumpter, professor of applied mathematics, gave a lecture at Oxford Mathematics, he drew the largest ever audience ...

6–7 February will mark the start for the new centre of excellence for battery research – Batteries Sweden–- which will be coordinated by Uppsala University. The centre will support cutting edge bat...

It is said that many career doors open after an engineering degree. For alumnus Caroline Bastholm, that’s just what happened. A Degree of Master of Science in Engineering Physics laid the foundatio...

On Thursday 6 February, physicist, engineer and materials researcher Zhong Lin Wang and structural biologist Angela M. Gronenborn will be speaking at this year’s Celsius-Linnaeus lectures in Siegba...

How are we going to be able to achieve the UN’s 17 global sustainable development goals? According to Malgorzata Blicharska at the Department of Earth Sciences, biodiversity is an indispensable par...

An improved method for reading and interpreting genomes from organisms that are difficult to investigate has been developed at Uppsala University. A team of researchers, led by Dr Anna Rosling, has...

The Ångström Laboratory is getting a new attraction. Students, teachers, researchers and others will soon be able to marvel at a special device in one of the new buildings currently under construct...

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...