Cross-disciplinary and world-leading
In close collaboration with business and society, Linköping University has quickly become a university with international impact. Courage, innovative thinking, and the ability to execute have created a platform for world-leading research in areas such as materials, IT, and hearing.
It was here that the world’s first digital hearing aid was developed. Today, the revolutionary digital hearing aid technology is standard worldwide. The university is also a global leader in medical imaging and visualization. When the British Museum sought to determine how the mummy “Gebelain Man” died thousands of years ago, it turned to Linköping University.
Time and again, the university’s approach to interdisciplinary research has proven to be an excellent method for tackling complex problems. For example, when the research team in organic electronics managed to get rose petals to change color by integrating electronics into the plant. This breakthrough opened up an entirely new field of research that might one day enable us to harness photosynthesis to generate energy.
Materials research at Linköping University is of the highest caliber, both nationally and internationally. In fact, researchers at Linköping University solved the material shortage for the super microscope ESS, which is currently being built in Lund. During the multibillion project, a shortage of the essential noble gas helium-3 was discovered. ESS turned to the thin-film researchers at Linköping University, who managed to find a way to replace the helium gas with ultra-thin layers of boron carbide.
For decades, Linköping University has worked across disciplines and in close collaboration with industry. This has generated successful research environments and groundbreaking discoveries. And many more are yet to come.
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Researching agencies in East Sweden
• NFC – conducts forensic investigations using the latest methods. Through its own research, it develops these methods for even more accurate forensic examinations.
• RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden – an independent, state-owned research institute driving innovation development in Sweden. With five offices, RISE is well established in Östergötland. Several parts of RISE ICT are represented here through Acreo, SICS, the Interactive Institute, and eHealth. RISE Biosciences and Materials are also present through SP Food and Bioscience.
• VTI – internationally recognized research on infrastructure, transport, and traffic is conducted at VTI in Linköping.
• Swerea SICOMP – one of Europe’s leading research institutes in the field of polymer fiber composites. In close collaboration with industry, Swerea SICOMP conducts research and development within the composites sector.
• SMHI – climate change, its effects, and societal adaptation are among the research areas at SMHI in Norrköping. The agency also conducts research in meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography.
• CMIV – world-leading medical imaging and visualization. The research center has, among other achievements, gained significant attention for the world’s first visualization table that enables autopsies to be performed without cutting into the body. CMIV is a collaboration between Region Östergötland, Linköping University, and the Linköping-based company Sectra.
• KMC, the Centre for Disaster Medicine – has a long tradition of disaster medicine research and education. It focuses on areas such as traumatology, disaster medical management and quality assurance, information support, and information transfer, among others.
• FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency – conducts extensive research in defense and security. One of its offices is located right next to Linköping University.
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