Royal Institute of Technology

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Motto	Vetenskap och konst
Motto in English	Science and Art
Type	Public Research University
Established	1827
Budget	SEK 4.124 billion
Chairman	Börje Ekholm
President	Prof. Sigbritt Karlsson
Academic staff	500
Administrative staff	4,600
Students	14,500 (FTE, 2009)
Doctoral students	1,700
Location	, Sweden
Campus	Urban
Colors	Blue
Affiliations	CLUSTER, CESAER, EUA, TIME network et al., PEGASUS
Website	www.kth.se/en

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Swedish: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. The King of Sweden established the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1827. It has since served as one of Europe’s key centers of innovation and intellectual talent for almost two hundred years. It does so today as well, based on both its strong research, awarded by 4 of the Great Prizes: 2 Nobel Prizes and 2 of the two Nobel equivalent prizes in Mathematics: 1 Abel Prize and 1 Fields Medal, but also based on KTH Royal Institute of Technology being the academic driving force of the world's cell phone infrastructure development (4G/LTE) at its Kista Science City - the world's foremost telecommunications research area, home of the Ericsson Corporation.

Recognized as Sweden’s most prestigious technical university, KTH is also the country’s oldest and largest. It was founded as Sweden's first polytechnic and is the foremost institution of higher learning in engineering science in northern mainland Europe. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all the branches of engineering and includes architecture, industrial management and urban planning. KTH Royal Institute of Technology has a strong history of groundbreaking research by its professors, for instance that of the 1970 Nobel Laureate in Physics Hannes Alfvén, that of the 1981 Nobel Laureate in Physics Kai M. Siegbahn who was employed at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1951, as well as by the Laureates of the two Noble Prize equivalences in Mathematics, the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal; the 2006 Abel Prize Laureate was Lennart Carleson and the 2010 Fields Medal Laureate was Stanislav Smirnov who was employed at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1998 after his 1996 PhD, California Institute of Technology. Sweden´s NASA astronaut Christer Fuglesang is at the same time an associate professor of physics at KTH and was awarded with the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2010. Other NASA recipients have in history been Buzz Aldrin and other notable astronauts.