Previous Scholarships

We want to complement existing products in micro mobility with a vehicle adapted for those groups in society who due to age, illness or injury are not able to use a bicycle, electric scooter or other vehicles that require balance. Our solution also complements existing assistive vehicles by combining walking with electrical drive, which provides increased walking capacity, independence, health and at the same time reduces the number of car journeys.

To protect the next generations and our nature, we need to replace fossil-based products with new eco-friendly ones as fast as possible. Lubricants and coolants are one of these materials. The global eco-friendly lubricants market size will reach over 4.5 $ billion by 2027 (<3% of the total market). We challenge ourselves to formulate a new competitive biodegradable lubricant based on local plants with low production cost but great potential.

Breeding new crop varieties need screening for high yielding phenotypic traits under field conditions for thousands of genotypes at many locations. These screenings are time consuming, laborious, expensive, lack precision and consistency. Existing phenotyping techniques are expensive and lack precision because of the inability to take measurements inside the crop canopy. The proposed innovative technique will use robotic, spectral sensors, and artificial intelligence to solve these problems.

The purpose is to offer academic researchers in various subjects (in Sweden and internationally) training in how logic programming can be used to create more accurate theories, to draw more accurate conclusions and to generate new knowledge. In the long run, this is important because scientific theories are used to help people, improve societies and improve the natural environment. The idea is for researchers to be able to buy the training package at a reasonable price.

I want to help with my experience with climate conscious design to reduce the suffering of vulnerable population due to heat stress by offering an eco-cooling system that is healthy, user friendly, budget friendly and climate friendly for Swedish climate and Swedish market. Children will be unable to focus on studying or adults to be productive and mortality rate will increase among seniors and people with special needs who stay indoor majority of the time.

The project proposes a new conceptual framework for representing individual reactive and reflective behaviours in computer software. This meets the type of problems that arise when using ANN, where these networks contribute to reactive decisions, but lack support for deviating reflective decisions. The proposed conceptual framework fills the gap between these two aspects and contributes to new solutions with usefulness in academic problem areas, as well as industrial.

The purpose of the project is to study reactor design as well as rheological and warming conditions to streamline and optimize resource utilization in the processing of textile waste with an inorganic ionic liquid. This must be done with a kneading reactor that is capable of processing materials with very high viscosity under a wide range of process conditions. In this way, we can contribute to better utilization of a currently very underutilized and abundant waste, as well as a more sustainable society.

I want to develop an instrument for precise, fast, and easy-to-use time-resolved determination of particle densities with single cell resolution. I envision that this tool can be employed in basic biology and in the medical field to study cellular processes which in many cases affect cell density. Further, accurate information about the density at single cell level will become an important tool to me and others in my research environment where we work extensively on acoustic cell separation

Twice a year millions of birds perform spectacular migrations often moving from one continent to another and back. How birds select in which direction to fly during migration is still largely unknown. Traditional methods to study the orientation in birds are still mostly based on manual methods. The purpose of this project is to surpass the limitations of old manual methods by leveraging new digital technology and to foster new discoveries pushing forward our understanding of how animals migrate

Dapibuset aims to disrupt European dependency on soya imports for animal feedstock and replace it with a sustainable protein that is locally produced at the farm with an investment for the farmer that is comparable to a household investing on solar panels. Our ambition is to leverage on fungi and fermentation technology to create a soybean meal alternative that is directly produced at the farm by the farmer.

Pre-cut ready-to-eat (raw) leafy greens are a prized product but have caused major outbreaks of stomach illnesses. Such outbreaks cause suffering in the affected individual and have a major negative impact on society (healthcare, growers, food operators/trade). We suggest a blue light treatment stage during the processing stage to kill serious food pathogens and extend product shelf life. The technology can be integrated into existing processes in vegetable washers.

To develop polymer binders in assays that fulfill stringent precision medicine requirements in terms of robustness, reproducibility, scalability, affinity, multiplexing capability, and solvent compatibility. Using a special group of polymers called molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), we foresee this kind of imprinting approach to be broadly applicable paving the way for robust, low-cost multiplex assays of phosphorylated and methylated proteins compatible with clinical proteomics platforms.

The goal of this project is to establish a sustainable and economically defensible process for producing 5-HMF – a highly valuable platform chemical that can increase utilization and value in industrial by-products and agricultural waste. This leads to more environmentally conscious industries and societies.

Chemicals are used to control disease and fertilization in berry cultivation. I aim to develop sustainable berry cultivation that reduces crop protection chemicals that can persist in food and the environment and increase berry yield and shelf life. As a naturally occurring biochemical, the dsRNA will not leave residue, and using SIGS with a focus on climate change will reduce chemical pesticide use. The Swedish economy and environment will benefit from this reduced environmental impact.

In order to rapidly diagnose conditions raging from pregnancy to COVID-19, antibodies are being used for detection. However, antibodies have many limitations, such as being expensive to produce, having long lead times, being unavailable in larger quantities, having difficulties binding a variety of targets as well as being sensitive to changes in temperature. Hence, the industry is looking for novel detection technologies able to combat these issues. This is where our technology comes into play.

The purpose of this project is to enable the tool to become close to the market. Hip fractures in the elderly population are associated with both adverse outcomes for the patients and high costs for the health care system. Pharmacological treatments to prevent fractures exist but are not administered to those who need it due to the low sensitivity in fracture risk prediction. Our tool can identify more people at risk for hip fractures, with benefits for both patients and health care.

The ultimate goal is to solve the physical principles of how friction arises and changes under different conditions. The work will progress through studies and integration in different length ranges as well as verification with experiments. The results coupled with understanding may well affect how surfaces and coatings are developed, for example, to minimize energy consumption and increase the lifespan of various metallic components. This type of result will have a major positive impact on industry and society.

Novalysin has the ambition to develop safe and efficient antimicrobials against mycobacterial pathogens to overcome the spread of antimicrobial resistance. The focus on mycobacteria is due to the high morbidity and mortality associated with these pathogens. As the antibiotic pipeline has dried out, our purpose is to meet the need for novel measures for treatment that are not only effective but selective and safe without leading to side effects and have low probability of generating resistance.

We want to explore how we can use new innovative technical solutions to tell important stories in a completely new way. We also want to explore the questions: What is perceived as valuable at life’s end? What is valuable to the relatives? How is the right to a dignified death affected by external conditions and social structures? Our hypothesis is that the answers to these questions will vary depending on location, social status and religious beliefs.

We want to contribute to a solution to the pandemic and other diseases. We want to assess a new product area for Redstone Separations for this important and growing gene therapy industry. It is our target to break into the promising solid phase oligonucleotide support material market. For the gene therapy industry and for society, the benefit will be more effective tools to produce flu vaccines, cancer vaccines, antisense drugs, novel therapeutics and personalized medicine.