GRAND
CHALLENGE
GRAND
CHALLENGE
Ultimately our vision is about
using science to make a
difference in the world.
GRAND
CHALLENGE
GRAND
CHALLENGE
GRAND
CHALLENGE
GRAND
CHALLENGE
Our Driving forces:
ENTREPRENEURSHIP ･ INNOVATION ･ SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
BASIC SCIENCES
(The roots of scientific understanding)
Information &
Communication
Technology
Materials Science
Built Environment
Production
Life Science
Nanoscience &
Nanotechnology
Transport
Energy
[Chalmers’ terminology]; an area of interaction
between research, innovation and education at
Chalmers resulting in scientific excellence and
a potential to improve sustainability.
SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE
VISION FOR
EXCELLENCE
•
•
•
INFORMATION &
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
MATERIALS
SCIENCE
•
•
ENERGY
PRODUCTION
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
LIFE SCIENCE
NANOSCIENCE &
NANOTECHNOLOGY
TRANSPORT
International alliances
Impact on society
Interaction across the knowledge
triangle
Meetings across boundaries
Visibility and focus
INNOVATION
INTERACTION
ACROSS THE
KNOWLEDGE
TRIANGLE
This form of interaction provides
Chalmers with a vital and
continuous supply of knowledge,
competence and partners.
RESEARCH
EDUCATION
A UNIQUE
MODEL
AREA OF ADVANCE
STRATEGIC
STEERING
The Chalmers model is a powerful
instrument facilitating both
operational and strategic working
processes. This freedom enables
each Area of Advance to perform to
its greatest potential.
MEETINGS
ACROSS
BOUNDARIES
Each Area of Advance is an open
meeting place where various
parties can work together for a
common solution – crossing the
boundaries of academia, industry
and society.
INTERNATIONAL
INTEGRATION
With excellence in research
and education as our currency,
the Areas of Advance reinforce
the university’s collaboration with
partners all over the world.
Attracting further opportunities
to excel.
HOW THIS WORKS:
Each area provides a hub of competence
to achieve a common goal.
Department
Competence
Department
Department
Department
AN AREA OF ADVANCE OVERVIEW
Active
field
Excellence
profile
Projects
Excellence
profile
Excellence
profile
Active
field
Projects
Active
field
Active
field
Active
field
Active
field
Projects
Projects
Projects
Projects
Projects
LEADERS
Vice President,
Areas of Advance
Anne-Marie Hermansson
Nanoscience &
Nanotechnology
Information &
Communication
Technology
Jari Kinaret
Jan Grahn
Transport
Materials Science
Life Science
Production
Energy
Built Enviroment
Anna Dubois
Krister Holmberg
Jens Nielsen
Rickard Söderberg
Thore Berntsson
Nina Ryd
BUILT ENVIRONMENT OVERVIEW
ACTIVE FIELDS
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
INFRASTRUCTURE
ENERGY IN
BUILDINGS
Infrastructure for
sustainable
mobility & transport
The building as
a system
Infrastructure for
water and energy supply
Management and
organization of large
infrastructure projects
EMERGING PROFILES
STRATEGIC PLANNING
AND PROCESSES
SMARTGEOMETRY
HEALTH IMPACT
Regional and
Urban planning
Parametric Design
Multi-scale
Demography
modeling
Energy use and
technology integration
in buildings
Project management
Advance construction
Indoor climate
Value driven
design and briefing
Building physics
BASIC SCIENCE
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
Built Environment has links to several
of the other Areas of Advance, in
particular Energy, Production, and
Transport.
A prime example is the profile Energy
in Built Buildings which is shared with
the Area of Advance - Energy.
Another example is the initiative of
Future Urban Transport taken by the
Area of Advance -Transport.
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
LIFE SCIENCE
TRANSPORT
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
MATERIALS
SCIENCE
ENERGY
PRODUCTION
NANOSCIENCE
AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
ENERGY OVERVIEW
ACTIVE FIELDS
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
HEAT AND POWER
GENERATION
COMBUSTION
AND GASIFICATION
Smart Grids
Biomass gasification
Wind Power
Carbon capture
technologies
Energy Storage
Combustion and
corrosion using
biomass and
waste fuels
Solar Heating and
heat pump
Technologies
MATERIALS FOR
ENERGY
CONVERSION/
APPLICATION
TRANSPORT
SYSTEMS AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
BUILDINGS –
ENERGY USE AND
EFFICIENCY
INDUSTRY –
ENERGY USE AND
EFFICIENCY
Materials for energy
production
and transfer
Combustion engines
research
The building as a
system
Energy efficiency
and process integration
Materials for energy
storage
Electric and hybrid
vehicles
Construction and
management processes
Industrial biorefineries
Materials for energy
conversion
Renewable fuels
Energy use and
technology integration
in buildings
Process technologies
ENERGY
SYSTEMS
Global sustainable
systems and bridging
technologies
Technology impact
assessment and
innovating processes
Local and regional
energy systems
planning
Sustainable transport
solutions
Nuclear Physics &
Chemistry
Fusion
Applied Mechanics
BASIC SCIENCE
Applied Mathematics
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
Energy efficiency and
energy technologies in
buildings
Energy efficient wireless
communication
Smart Grids
Research on high temperature corrosion for efficient
energy production and industrial processes.
Efficient batteries/energy storage and solar cells
Catalysis and catalysts for sustainable energy systems
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
MATERIALS
SCIENCE
LIFE SCIENCE
Biofuels and biochemicals
Co-operation in Swedish Hybrid Vehicle
Centre - efficient engines, new power trains
and technology for electric vehicles
Alternative fuels with regard to production
and use
Development of sustainable energy
efficient products and production
systems for manufacturing and process
industry
ENERGY
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSPORT
PRODUCTION
NANO SCIENCE
AND
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Basic photovoltaic research for
efficient technology and materials
LIFE SCIENCE OVERVIEW
ACTIVE FIELDS
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
SYNTHETIC
BIOLOGY
MATHEMATICAL
BIOLOGY
FERMENTATION
TECHNOLOGY
FOOD AND
NUTRITION
BIOENGINEERING
Metabolic
Engineering
Metabolic Models
Biofuels and
Biochemicals
Bioactive Foods
Medical Technology
Macromolecular
Interactions
Bioinformatics
Biopharmaceuticals
Food Processing
and Bioavailability
Tissue Engineering
Synthetic Organelles
Evolution
Enzyme Technology
Nutrition
Pathway Modeling
Basic science
Food Availability
Applied mathematics
Applied chemistry
BASIC SCIENCE
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
TRANSPORT
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Medical Technology
Tissue Engineering
PRODUCTION
MATERIAL
LIFE SCIENCE
Biofuels and biochemicals
ENERGY
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
Macromolecular Interactions
Synthetic Organelles
NANOSCIENCE
AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
OVERVIEW
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
ANTENNA
SYSTEMS
MICROWAVE
TECHNOLOGIES
PHOTONICS
COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS
PARALLEL
& DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEMS
SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING
& TECHNOLOGY
ACTIVE FIELDS
Transport & vehicles
Telecommunications
Energy & environment
Space & defence & security
Infotainment,media
Infotainment,media
Life science
Software tools & production
Component suppliers
Component suppliers
BASIC SCIENCE
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
Bottom-up nanoelectronics
Smart buildings with ICT
Packaging and production
for electronics & photonics
New materials
PRODUCTION
MATERIALS
SCIENCE
for electronics
and photonics
NANOSCIENCE
AND
NANOTECHNOLOGY
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSPORT
ENERGY
Smart grid
Green wireless
Energy-efficient computing infrastructures
Low-power electronic components and design
Safety critical
automotive
software
ENERGY
LIFE
SCIENCE
Sensors,
communications,
and signal
processing
for vehicles and
transportation
eHealth
Antennas for
medical diagnostics and
treatment
TRANSPORT OVERVIEW
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY
& CUSTOMER ADAPTED
LOGISTICS
ACTIVE FIELDS
SUSTAINABLE VEHICLES
AND FUELS
Efficient
powertrains
Vehicle operation
and control
Vehicle concept
development
Interplay and
interfaces
Demand for
transport services
TRAFFIC SAFETY
Traffic analysis
Supply of
transport services
BASIC SCIENCE
Injury prevention
Accident
prevention
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
Future Urban Transport
Intelligent transport
systems
Production Logistics/
Demand for transport services
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
LIFE SCIENCE
PRODUCTION
TRANSPORT
ENERGY
ENERGY
MATERIALS
SCIENCE
NANOSCIENCE
AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Sustainable Vehicles and Fuels
MATERIALS SCIENCE OVERVIEW
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
ACTIVE FIELDS
MATERIALS FOR
HEALTH
MATERIALS FOR
ENERGY
APPLICATIONS
SUSTAINABLE
MATERIALS
EXPERIMENTAL
METHODS
THEORY AND
MODELLING
Tissue and cell
engineering
Energy supply and
energy transfer
Materials from
renewable raw
materials
Advanced
characterization tools
and methods
Multi-scale
Ab-initio modelling
modeling
Materials for
pharmaceuticals and
personal care
Energy storage
Recycling and
long term behavior
of materials
Instrumentation
projects at
large scale facilities
Multi-scale
Nano-scale modelling
modeling
Materials for
biosensing
Energy conversion
Reduction of
environmental impact
through materials research
Infrastructure for
new materials
synthesis
Macro/meso
Multi-scale
scale
modeling
modelling
Materials for
food technology
BASIC SCIENCE
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
TRANSPORT
Materials for Energy Applications
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
PRODUCTION
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
MATERIALS
NANOSCIENCE
AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
ENERGY
LIFE SCIENCE
NANOSCIENCEAND NANOTECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
NANOPHYSICS
NANOBIOPHYSICS
NANOCHEMISTRY
Quantum nanodevices
Nanocatalysis
Nanofluidics
ACTIVE FIELDS
Nanoelectronics
Molecular nanoelectronics
Molecular nanoelectronics
Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials
Nanoelectromechanics
Nanosensors
Nanooptics
Nanoimaging
BASIC SCIENCE
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
PRODUCTION
TRANSPORT
Nanomaterials
MATERIAL
NANOSCIENCE
AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Nanoelectronics
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
LIFE SCIENCE
ENERGY
Nanocatalysis
Nanosensors
PRODUCTION OVERVIEW
EXCELLENCE PROFILES
SUSTAINABLE
SUSTAINABLE
SUSTAINABLE
MANUFACTURING
PROCESSES
PRODUCTION
SYSTEMS
PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
Human and automation
Sustainable product
optimisation
lifecycle platforms
Production system
performance
Environment strategic product
and production development
and recycling
Virtual production systems
Virtual assembly and
disassembly simulation and
planning methods
ACTIVE FIELDS
Components manufacture
Process modelling and
materials behaviour
Micro-fabrication
Virtual robust design and simulation
BASIC SCIENCE
LINKS TO OTHER
AREAS OF ADVANCE
Our research is fundamentally
based on science in
mathematics, physics and/or
chemistry and reaches across
other Chalmers Areas of
Advance:
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
LIFE SCIENCE
TRANSPORT
MATERIALS
SCIENCE
PRODUCTION
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
ENERGY
NANOSCIENCE
AND NANOTECHNOLOGY