At the end of January, the second round of ten Chalmers master’s theses awarded scholarships from the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers’ Environmental Fund was announced. In total, 16 Chalmers students will share SEK 500,000.
The collaboration between Chalmers and the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers means that the university each year recommends master’s theses for consideration. The Association then decides which students will receive scholarships, as encouragement for the student. In total, this concerns 30 master’s theses and SEK 1.5 million over three years. The scholarships come from the Environmental Fund, with donations from Swedbank.
The scholarship holders will work on their environmentally related master’s theses for six months and present their results at the end of the autumn semester 2026.
On 21 January, this year’s scholarship holders and their preliminary thesis titles were announced:
- Walther Ahl & Daniel Jinneryd:
Sustainable lightweight structures: Efficient simulation of crack propagation in adhesive bonds. - Josefina Skoglundh & Alice Lundh:
Att utveckla staden med naturen – hur fastighetsutvecklare kan integrera biologisk mångfald i urbana miljöer och säkerställa naturpositiva materialflöden. - Oliver Andersson & Ebba Nilsson:
Support property owners in making climate-smart decisions by developing a decision-support framework that integrates technical, environmental, and management perspectives. - Yushanjing Subi:
Environmentally friendly nitriding for valves in hydrogen internal combustion engine. - Elin Lager:
Low-temperature structural battery electrolytes for sustainable multifunctional energy storage. - William Olofsson Maronen:
Experimental validation of an embedded hardware-in-the-loop system for DC vehicle-to-grid (V2G). - Alev Yusein & Nikola Makelja:
Design and evaluation of a HRE-free PMSM rotor for heavy-duty applications. - Regina Makhmutova:
Beyond numbers: Assessing the value of material reuse. - Upasana Nandagiri & Anirudh Sreeram:
Energy management control strategy for parallel hybrid systems. - Jacob Norgren & Axel Solhall:
High-performance and AI-driven framework for distributed service stacking in battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Facts: The environmental fund
The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers’ Environmental Fund was established in 1993 to support projects, student work and research that contribute to improving the physical environment in Sweden and its surrounding region. The scholarship funds are donated by Swedbank.
In autumn, Chalmers students will have a new opportunity to apply for scholarships in an internal Chalmers call for master’s theses to be carried out in spring 2027.