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News | LTH Profile Area: The Energy Transition

16 December 2024

Adam Kristensson, senior lecturer at Combustion Physics and member of the profile areas Aerosols and Energy Transition, has been awarded the 2024 NOSA Aerosologist Award. The award is given for his excellent contribution to aerosol research and as an active promotor for aerosol science as both a previous NOSA board member, but also within ACTRIS.

22 October 2024

LTH researcher Elna Heimdal Nilsson started her lecture at Framtidsdagarna with just that question – ‘How many of you are afraid of batteries?’ – and it turned out that the audience was not particularly afraid. In her presentation ‘Batterisation - the safety of future Li-ion batteries’, she shared the latest research on battery technology and gave [...]

12 December 2024

Electrified transport is an important key to society's green transition – but can it also strengthen our electricity system and make it more robust in times of crisis? A new project, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and led by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute in collaboration with RISE and LTH, is investigating just that.

4 October 2024

In mid-September, Professor Martin Andersson held a lunch seminar presenting the Competence centre AdTherM, of which he is also Deputy Director. The seminar attracted 25 participants from the Energy Transition profile area and focused on how the competence centre was created and how it is organised.

12 September 2024

At the end of August, Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE) and researchers from the LTH profile area Energy Transition hosted a charged event. Invited to the day were Trelleborg Municipality, the Swedish Energy Agency and the regional energy companies Trelleborgs Energi AB, Öresundskraft AB and Kraftringen. The event marked the conclusion [...]

8 July 2024

A discussion on semiconductors was on the agenda in Almedalen. The dialogue, hosted by LTH at Lund University, addressed how Sweden can contribute to the efforts being made in Europe. One of the conclusions of the discussion was "the crisper the proposal – the more policy influence".

10 June 2024

Last year, Lund University, in collaboration with Uppsala University and Chalmers, received nearly SEK 50 million from the Swedish government for battery research under the strategic initiative Compel. This initiative is set to receive the same amount annually until 2029, enabling the hiring of researchers and teachers specializing in [...]

11 June 2024

The collaborative platform Compel is announcing six PhD positions in battery research and electrification, with more on the way. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of battery technology.

1 May 2024

A special government investment is now being made in research and education in electrification and battery technology. This means that Lund University and the Faculty of Engineering, Uppsala University and Chalmers University of Technology will be allocated SEK 270 million over the years 2024-2029. The strategic initiative is part of the [...]

27 May 2024

On 17 May, the Energy Transition profile area organised a lunch seminar with colleagues from the Nanoscience and Semiconductor Technology profile area. The aim was to learn more about nanoscience and the work that the profile area does to identify potential collaboration opportunities between the two groups.