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Seven BTH researchers are included in the list of world top researchers when it comes to their career-long citation impact, according to data recently published by Professor of Medicine and statistician John Ioannidis from Stanford University. Professor of Medicine and statistician John Ioannidis from Stanford University along with two other U.S. researchers, published a publicly […]

A delegation from BTH recently visited Ghana in West Africa. Niklas Lavesson, professor of software engineering at BTH, identifies several possibilities for collaboration regarding mechanical engineering, software engineering, and industrial economics and we will now lead the work to organise meetings between teachers and researchers from Ghana and Sweden. The BTH delegation visited Pentecost University, […]

The organisation, The Swedish AI Society, SAIS, has its annual conference at BTH. Researchers and industry representatives will discuss AI and present new AI research for two days. Martin Boldt, docent in computer science at BTH, is one of the organisers: “It is an honor that the Swedish AI Society returns to BTH with its […]

BTH has four researchers on a recently published ranking list within the subject of computer science where over 14,000 researchers worldwide have been reviewed. Research.com recently published its ninth edition of the best researchers in the world. The ranking is made in several areas. In computer science, 14,402 researchers have been reviewed and the list […]

A vaccine against Lyme disease is now being tested in Sweden, for the first time ever. A new vaccine will probably be on the market within a couple of years, says Johan Sanmartin Berglund, Professor of applied health technology at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Not all ticks carry Lyme disease, but about 20 per cent […]

BTH are happy to announce that two new collaboration agreements have been signed by BTH’s Vice-Chancellor Mats Viberg. One with the National Technological University in Argentina and one with Chang Gung University in Taiwan. The agreements open up for future student exchange and teacher mobility as well as collaborative research projects between BTH and the […]

Lindéngruppen extends its cooperation with Blekinge Institute of Technology on sustainable development. The collaboration with BTH began with Lindéngruppen’s founder Ulf G Lindén – born in Karlskrona, Blekinge – who had an important role in the establishment and early development of BTH. Long-term strategic collaboration on sustainability More recently, Lindéngruppen has cooperated with BTH on […]

A group of researchers, including Markus Fiedler at Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, has studied the phenomenon of video conference fatigue, or “Zoom fatigue” and concluded that both age, gender and personality play a role in how tired you get. For example, they note that young, introvert women are affected more than others. However, there […]

BTH researcher Henrik Ny urges Sweden’s transport politicians to initiate an independent rapid investigation that compares different future scenarios for high-speed ground transport. According to him, magnetic trains could provide the best customer benefit, be best for the national economy and give the least environmental impact. In addition, this could provide an export opportunity for […]

BTH researcher James Ayers was recently awarded the AASHE Sustainability Award for his licentiate thesis in which he investigates the efficacy of academic sustainability programmes in developing sustainability competencies among students. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) recently announced their Sustainability Awards winners. BTH researcher James Ayers is one of […]