In Chalmers podcast – Verapodden – you will hear personal conversations with researchers, students, teachers and alumni. What are their experiences, driving forces and visions? What will become of the knowledge from Chalmers?
Latest Podcasts from Chalmers’ Verapodden
Baking to Batteries: An Energy Engineering Chat with Rosie Barnes
A personal and insightful conversation with Dr. Rosemary (Rosie) Barnes—an internationally recognized energy technology expert and host of the popular Australian YouTube channel Engineering with Rosie.
The podcast explores her journey as a young female engineer, her choice to pursue practical engineering over continued research after her PhD, and the vital role that engineers and industry play in solving global energy challenges, including how a blackout in Australia sparked a groundbreaking battery solution.
Flying Machines with Flapping Wings – A Historic Idea Returns
In this episode, Assistant Professor Arion Pons discusses the fascinating intersection of engineering, biology, and simulation in his research on insect flight. Originally from New Zealand and trained as a bioengineer, Pons builds digital twins of insects to investigate one of nature’s most complex motions. The conversation revisits the idea of flapping wings—from early visions like Leonardo da Vinci’s ornithopters to modern biomimetic UAVs—and explores how and why such concepts might make a comeback in current aviation technology.
Note: This episode has a short introduction in Swedish, but the main conversation is in English.
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Project leaders: Cecilia Hillman & Maria Saline, Genie
Original music by Stefan Karlsson
Programme manager, technology & editing: Malin Avenius
Producer: Anne-Christine Nordin
Art Director: Carina Schultz
Vera Sandberg became Sweden's first female engineer in 1917. She studied as the only woman among 500 men. Today, Chalmers University of Technology has 10,500 students and one third are women.
