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New AI research strengthens privacy protection in healthcare
Published: 2026-09-30

How can we make use of sensitive data without revealing more information than is necessary?

Under stress, bacterial RNA and proteins tell different stories
Published: 2026-09-21

Researchers at Umeå University show when RNA and protein levels diverge in disease-causing bacteria.

Bacteria can help each other survive in persistent infections
Published: 2026-09-15

New thesis shows why stubborn infections may need to be understood as bacterial communities.

Tiny proteins in the spotlight at a Nobel Symposium in Umeå
Published: 2026-09-09

Leading researchers gather in Umeå for a Nobel Symposium on microproteins, tiny proteins with important roles.

Researchers receive doctoral students via MSCA Doctoral Network
Published: 2026-09-08

Nicolò Maccaferri, Aleksandra Foltynowicz and Katarina Wulff get doctoral student funding via EU programme.

New AI methods make medical image analysis more reliable
Published: 2026-09-03

New AI methods take into account the structures in medical images and provide more reliable results.

Metamaterials make the unexpected possible
Published: 2026-08-31

Who has not dreamed of an invisibility cloak? The potential of metamaterials inspires researchers worldwide.

A Few Minutes of Freezing Can Change the Fate of Iron in Nature
Published: 2026-08-27

Ice is not a passive freezer, it affects iron minerals in a warmer climate with frequent freeze-thaw-cycles.

Tiny microbes give big insights into the Baltic Sea
Published: 2026-08-25

In an interdisciplinary project, George Westmeijer is building an image library of microbes in the Baltic Sea.

Space physicist Asta Pellinen-Wannberg receives international award
Published: 2026-08-24

Recognized for her efforts to promote women in a male-dominated field.

Dissertations

Louise Vang Sørensen, Environmental Science
Today
2
Oct
Louise Vang Sørensen, Environmental Science
Time Today 09:00 - 13:00 Today 09:00 - 13:00
Place KBE301-Lilla hörsalen.

Defence of doctoral thesis. The Sound of S(o)ilence: a study into the sounds of the World beneath our feet.

Leila Methnani, Computing Science
Today
2
Oct
Leila Methnani, Computing Science
Time Today 13:00 - 16:00 Today 13:00 - 16:00
Place Hörsal HUM.D.230 - Hohaj. Humanisthuset, Floor 2.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Navigating the sociotechnical gap in Explainable Artificial Intelligence.

Daniel Per Gustaf Nilsson, Experimental Physics
Fri
9
Oct
Daniel Per Gustaf Nilsson, Experimental Physics
Time 09:00 - 13:00 9 October 09:00 - 13:00
Place BIO.A.206 – Aula Anatomica.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Democratizing biophysical instrumentation: development of open-source tools using additive manufacturing.

Sargam Gupta, Computing Science
Fri
16
Oct
Sargam Gupta, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 16 October 09:00 - 13:00
Place NAT.D.470.

Defence of doctoral thesis. On the Limits of Privacy in Federated Learning: Personalization and Adversarial Analysis.

Saeideh Ghanbari Azar, Computing Science
Wed
21
Oct
Saeideh Ghanbari Azar, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 21 October 09:00 - 13:00
Place KBE301 – Lilla hörsalen, KBC.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Generalization, Imbalance, and Data Generation in Machine Learning.

Arvid Krantz-Horned, Computing Science
Fri
23
Oct
Arvid Krantz-Horned, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 23 October 09:00 - 13:00
Place KBE301 – Lilla hörsalen, KBC-huset.

Defence of doctoral thesis. What looks difficult to navigate on a map? An analysis of perceived route difficulty from the perspective of a map reader.

Igor Ryazanov, Computing Science
Mon
26
Oct
Igor Ryazanov, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 26 October 13:00 - 17:00
Place NAT.D.440.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Computational Analysis of Linguistic Agency.

November

Jayalakshmi Baskar, Computing Science
Fri
13
Nov
Jayalakshmi Baskar, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 13 November 09:00 - 13:00
Place MIT.A.121.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Argument-based Person-Tailored Human-Agent Dialogues to Support Health and Well-Being in Older Adults.

Hanna Axén, Physical geography
Fri
20
Nov
Hanna Axén, Physical geography
Time 09:00 - 13:00 20 November 09:00 - 13:00
Place Stora hörsalen, KBC (KBE303).

Defence of doctoral thesis. Patterns and drivers of carbon cycling in old growth boreal forests.

Diego Alejandro Miranda, Chemistry
Fri
27
Nov
Diego Alejandro Miranda, Chemistry
Time 09:00 - 13:00 27 November 09:00 - 13:00
Place BIO.E.203 – Aula Biologica.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Biopolymers Inside and Out - Bacterial cell factories for biopolymers production from residual biomass.

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Latest update: 2022-11-03