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Sol Agin has a PhD degree from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Karlstad University.

Sol's work was in media studies, dealing with the communication of climate action. She looked at message construction by, and about, social movements, and at the ways in which action and language combine into the message. You can find Sol’s thesis here. You can contact Sol about her research at [email protected].

Eva la Cour has a PhD from the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg. Her artistic research project explores different imaginaries of the Arctic. She uses artistic practices such as essayistic film experimentation with collaborative live editing and engages with the role of guide to pursue a shift away from the solitary author figure to a more collective vision of knowledge.

You can find Eva’s thesis here. You can contact Eva about her research at [email protected].

Silvia Trevisan has a PhD from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. You can find the episode about Silvia’s research here.

During her PhD she worked on building, characterizing, and optimizing devices for storing heat, or thermal energy. Her project focused on heat generated from renewable sources, and it also had a focus on making the storage device itself from sustainable materials. Research like this aims at paving the path for solutions to problems in today's industry.

You can find Silvia’s thesis here. You can contact Silvia about her research at [email protected]

Malachi Ochieng Arunda has a PhD from Lund university, from the Department of Clinical Science in the Faculty of Medicine. 

During his PhD he researched indirect factors connected to neonatal mortality, in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, looking in particular at how access to care influences neonatal outcomes.

You can find Malachi's thesis here. You can contact Malachi about his research at [email protected].

Lina Isacs has a background in Economics and holds a PhD degree in Planning and decision analysis from KTH, the School of Architecture and the Built Environment. During her PhD, she worked on questions about monetary valuation of nature, touching on broader meta-theoretical issues concerning neoclassical economics and ecological economics.

Ferran Planas has a PhD degree from Stockholm University, from the Department of Chemistry.  For his PhD he worked in computational chemistry, modelling reactions with the use of Density Functional Theory.

Brian Thorsbro has a PhD degree from Lund University, from the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics. During his PhD, he worked on stellar spectroscopy, studying stars in the Galactic centre.

Johannes Theodor Aalders holds a PhD degree from the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg. You can find the episode about Theo's research here. 

In his doctoral research, he worked within Environmental Social Studies, using artistic means to find out how people anticipate the future of a mega infrastructure project in Kenya.

Sreekanth Manikandan has a PhD degree from Stockholm University, from the Department of Physics.

During his PhD, he worked in the thermodynamics of microscopic systems, looking at non-equilibrium systems in particular.

NYFIKEN is a podcast about research in Sweden. It is a series of interviews with PhD students, who discuss both the results of their research and their evolution as researchers. New episodes every two weeks. Find us at our webpage nyfiken.co

Qiaoli Wang has a PhD degree from Karolinska Institute, from the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery.

During her PhD, she worked with the epidemiology of cancer, looking at the prevention and treatment of a particular type of esophageal cancer.