Chalmers’s research ecosystem spans 13 departments and results in around 3,000 scientific articles published each year. Projects cut across fields — such as energy, health engineering, nanoscience and quantum technology, earth, space, and more. Every one of them contributes to building a more sustainable future, in Sweden and abroad.
This is an environment that makes things happen. For example, the “Digital Health Implementation” course, in collaboration with the Stanford Mussallem Centre for Biodesign, trains students to develop digital health solutions.
Students build online tools, such as mobile apps that extend healthcare beyond hospitals and bedsides. The problems they had to tackle were rooted in real-world scenarios, unlike the more theoretical ones in Svea’s physics bachelor’s. Here, at Chalmers, they were real, they were tangible, and they opened new doors.
Svea’s group project even won first prize in a competition, earning them a funded study trip to Stanford. “We joined different fairs and workshops, and presented our app at the Nordic Innovation House, which is a great institution in the Bay Area,” she says. “The Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign is where I’m writing my master’s thesis right now: ‘Modeling Behavioral Change Under Digital Interventions using Complex-Systems Approaches’.”
