On 15 March Dimitrios Georgouvelas defended his dissertation “Modified and hybrid cellulose-based materials for water purification”. He has been working both with Stockholm University and KTH. Dr. Georgouvelas is the first Ph.D. to graduate within Mistra TerraClean. Opponent was Dr. Henrikki Liimatainen at Oulu University.
PhD student passed halftime evaluation
Zhaleh Atoufi, Ph.D. student at KTH, successfully passed her halftime thesis evaluation in December 2021. Her research within Mistra TerraClean is about cellulose aerogel-like adsorbents prepared by layer-by-layer assembly. You find more about her research in this article. Photo by Zheyun Wu on Unsplash
Meet our Mistra Fellow Johan Strandberg
Johan Strandberg has come back to Stockholm after being Mistra Fellow at WHO in Geneva. Mistra Fellow is a program that allows researchers to work for an international policy organisation, gaining personal experiences and acquiring knowledge that may come to use in the Mistra program or Sweden, in broader terms. ...
Kick-off for phase two of Mistra Terra Clean
Thank you all for participating and for your contributions to the kick-off consortium meeting last week! It was such a pleasure to meet you online/on-site and get to know all of you a bit better. What a strong team we are! Now the fun begins: working together in the many...
Mistra TerraClean får ytterligare finansiering för att eliminera föroreningar
Efter en utvärdering av en internationell expertpanel har Mistras styrelse beslutat att tilldela programmet forskningsmedel för en andra fas. Mistra TerraClean får upp till 57 MSEK över en fyraårsperiod (2021–2025). Utvärderingspanelen framhåller programmets förmåga att integrera intressenter utanför akademin och ser potential för att programmet i en andra fas kommer...
Annual Report 2020
Read about the highlights in Mistra Terra Clean during 2020 in the annual report.
“The VA award goes to world-class Swedish water research”
Mistra Terra Clean wins the the VA award for 2021. The award goes to research that can solve the water crisis in the world - and remove toxic substances from, for example, fire foam that have leaked into the Swedish drinking water. - The approach and results in Mistra TerraClean,...
Mistra TerraClean is a finalist to the VA-prize
Once a year, VA-fakta presents an award ”VA prize” to an organization or person who are contributing to the befit of the VA management in Sweden. Mistra TerraClean is nominated and now one of the finalists for the pilot at Hammarby Sjöstad that is a good contribution to VA and...
Mistra TerraClean forskare på KTH kan lösa problemet med PFAS i dricksvatten
De har haft fina resultat i labbet. Över 90 procent av miljögifter från PFAS-ämnen försvinner från vatten med en ny metod, utvecklad på KTH. Nu sätter tester i större skala igång i Hammarby sjöstadsverk. Läs hela artikeln på KTH:s webb.
Outreach – some examples
The Mistra TerraClean team has made extensive efforts in communicating smart, advanced materials as being part of the solution to the global challenges in general, and specifically as solutions to the challenges regarding clean water and clean air. Below are some selected initiatives. IVA’s “100 List” Mistra TerraClean was selected...