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Linköping University is a public research university based in Linköping, Sweden. Originally established in 1969, it was granted full university status in 1975 and is one of Sweden's largest academic institutions.

History
The origins of Linköping University date back to the 1960s. In 1965, The Swedish National Legislative Assembly (Riksdag) decided to locate some programmes within the fields of technology and medicine to Linköping. A branch of Stockholm University was placed in Linköping in 1967, offering education within humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Two years later in 1969, a unit for medical training and the Institute of Technology were established, marking the founding of the university. In 1970 all activities were brought together in three faculties within the Linköping University College: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Technology. Linköping University College was granted full university status in 1975 and renamed Linköping University. In 1977 the teacher training colleges in Linköping and Norrköping were transferred to Linköping University. The Faculty of Health Sciences was formed in 1986 based on the faculty of medicine and regional funded education in health care professions. In 1997 a campus was opened in the neighbouring city of Norrköping. The renowned Carl Malmsten School of Furniture — officially Malmstens Linköping University (MLU), and most often referred to as Malmstens — has been part of Linköping University since 2000; after almost 60 years at the city centre, in 2009 Malmstens moved into new premises on the outskirts of Stockholm. ==Campuses==
Campuses
Education and research are conducted at three campuses in the cities of Linköping and Norrköping — Campus Valla, Campus US and Campus Norrköping — situated approximately 200 and 160 kilometers southwest of Stockholm, respectively. The Campus Bus (free of charge for students) connects the three campuses in Linköping and Norrköping. A fourth campus, Campus Lidingö, is located in Lidingö, a city in the inner Stockholm archipelago. Campus Valla Campus Valla, three kilometers from the city centre of Linköping, is the university's largest campus and where the majority of students and researchers study and work. Campus Valla is sandwiched between Linköping Science Park and Linköping Golf Course to the west, and Valla Wood — a 200 acres large nature reserve — to the east. Campus Valla also houses several government research institutes, such as the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI). File:Campus valla from sky.jpg|Aerial view of Campus Valla. The edges of Linköping Golf Course and Linköping Science Park is on the right. File:Studenthuset LiU outside.jpg|Studenthuset on Campus Valla opened in 2019. Houses the library, student services and many study areas. File:Studenthuset LiU inside.jpg|Study areas inside Studenthuset on Campus Valla. File:Studenthuset-corson.jpg|The southern part of Campus Valla. Left: Studenthuset and Key Building; right: B, D and Zenit Buildings. File:Corson aerial.jpg|Aerial view of the Corso (the main walkway) on Campus Valla. File:Campus-Valla-hT2022.jpg|The Corso outside B Building on Campus Valla, with one of the self-driving campus minibuses in the back. File:Key new corson.jpg|Key Building on Campus Valla. The main building for the Faculty of Educational Sciences. File:Karallen-LiU.jpg|Student union building Kårallen on Campus Valla. File:Permamens liu.jpg|University Park on Campus Valla with an exhibit of Permanens, the permanent art exhibition in the park. File:Stadion vallastaden.jpg|The sports stadium on Campus Valla. Campushallen — housing indoor sports facilities — is on the left. File:Campusbuss-Valla.jpg|The Campus Bus at Campus Valla (connects Campus Valla, Campus US and Campus Norrköping). File:Valla wood.jpg|Hiking and running trail in the nature reserve Valla Wood next to Campus Valla. [Image:Studenthuset-2019-LiU.jpg|left|Studenthuset on Campus Valla opened in 2019. It contains the library, student services and many study areas.] [File:Corson from key.jpg|The main walkway ("Corson") seen from the Key Building on Campus Valla.] [Image:Linköping University Campus.jpg|The main walkway on Campus Valla.] [File:Kakenhus night.jpg|Kåkenhus building on Campus Norrköping at night.] [Image:Linköping University CRAY X-MP.jpeg|A retired Cray X-MP/416 supercomputer was first used as a bench, but now sits in the foyer of the B building on Campus Valla.] Campus US Campus US (the University Hospital campus) in Linköping houses the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The Department of Biomedical Engineering, which is part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, is also housed at Campus US. Campus US is located next to Linköping University Hospital and Linköping City Park (The Garden Society, ), and only a few hundred meters from the city centre. File:Atrium of Building 511, Linköping University.jpg|The atrium of Building 511 on Campus US. File:2-campus-us-huset-511.jpg|Building 511 on Campus US. File:Deans office campus US.png|Dean's Office, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences on Campus US. File:Entrance 65 liu.png|Entrance 65 on Campus US — the entrance to the Medical Library. File:Gamla länslasarettet Clinicum.jpg|The Old Hospital on Campus US. Houses Clinicum, the clinical skills and simulation centre. File:Örat2 liu beskuren2.png|Örat on Campus US, the student union building for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. File:Framtidens-US-1-1.jpg|Main entrance of Linköping University Hospital on Campus US (north entrance). File:Framtidens-US-akut.jpg|ER entrance of Linköping University Hospital on Campus US (west entrance). File:US-sodra entren.jpg|South entrance of Linköping University Hospital on Campus US, with the city centre in the background. File:Tinnerbäckshuset Campus US.jpg|Tinnerbäckshuset on Campus US. Houses the psychiatric clinic. File:Linköping park LiU.jpg|Aerial view of Linköping City Park with the edge of Campus US and Linköping University Hospital on the top. Campus Norrköping Campus Norrköping is a city campus in central Norrköping, 40 kilometers northeast of Linköping. Approximately one-fourth of the students are enrolled here. The campus is located in the historical Industrilandskapet district, with campus buildings on both sides of the river Motala ström connected by Campusbron, a footbridge. Image:Campus-Norrkoping-2017-LiU.jpg|The west wing of Kåkenhus building on Campus Norrköping. Houses student services, the Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Clinicum. File:Norrkoping-campus-east.jpg|The east wing of Kåkenhus building on Campus Norrköping. Houses the campus library and the student union Trappan. File:Visualiseringscenter-exterior2.jpg|Visualiseringscenter C on Campus Norrköping. Houses C-Research. File:Kopparhammaren river.jpg|Kopparhammaren building and Motala Ström on Campus Norrköping. Houses the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS). File:Footbridge norrkoping liu.jpg|Campusbron, the footbridge over Motala ström on Campus Norrköping connecting Visualiseringscenter C, Kopparhammaren (left) and Kåkenhus (right). File:Täppan liu.png|Täppan building on Campus Norrköping. File:Spetsen.png|Spetsen building on Campus Norrköping. File:Footbridge kakenhus.jpg|View from the elevated footbridge connecting Kåkenhus (right), Täppan (left) and Spetsen (left/middle) on Campus Norrköping. . Campus Lidingö Campus Lidingö houses the Carl Malmsten School of Furniture (Malmstens Linköping University), which has been part of Linköping University since 2000. After almost 60 years in Stockholm, in 2009 the school moved into new premises in Lidingö in the inner Stockholm archipelago. Image:C Malmsten school front 2.jpg|Carl Malmsten building on Campus Lidingö, main entrance. File:Malmstensskolan Lidingö back.jpg|Carl Malmsten building on Campus Lidingö. ==Organization and administration==
Organization and administration
Faculties Linköping University is organized into four faculties: • Institute for Analytical SociologyDidacticum LiUCenter for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV)National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden Student organizations Several student unions and nations exist at the university. Membership in a union or nation is voluntary. Unions Students are organized into different unions (and union sections) based on their field of study. There are three student unions charged with monitoring education at Linköping University: • Consensus: Student union for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, organized into 9 sections • LinTek: Student union for the Faculty of Science and Engineering, organized into 15 sections • StuFF: Student union for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Educational Sciences, organized into 19 sections Nations There are three active student nations at the university: • Wermlands nationVästgöta nationVargtass - Norrlands nation ==Academics==
Academics
Education Linköping University offers education at the basic and advanced levels via 120 study programmes, 550 single-subject courses and specialised as well as interdisciplinary postgraduate studies. A large number of the degree programmes lead to qualified professional degrees in fields such as medicine, business and economics, teacher education and engineering. Many of the programmes are interdisciplinary, combining for example industrial management and engineering, medicine and engineering, or integrating economics, law and languages. In 1986 the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences became the first faculty in Sweden to put problem-based learning into practice within medical training and health-care programmes. In 2000, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with three Swedish universities — Linköping University, Chalmers University of Technology and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology — formally founded the Conceive Design Implement Operate (CDIO) Initiative, a framework for engineering education. CDIO developed into an international collaboration, with universities around the world adopting the same framework. In 2007, the Medical Programme and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Control systems were recognized as Centres of Excellence in Higher Education by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education. Linköping University was awarded two out of eight Centres of Excellence recognized at Swedish universities, with the recognition based on a thorough quality assessment by a panel of experts. Research Linköping University pursues research and postgraduate studies within the fields of technology, medicine, and humanities, natural, educational, social and behavioural sciences. It is particularly noted for its openness to multidisciplinary research and, in 1980, was the first Swedish university to introduce interdisciplinary thematic research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a cross-subject, interdisciplinary perspective in graduate schools for PhD students. Linköping University receives research grants from the Swedish government within five strategic research areas: IT and mobile communication, materials science, security and emergency management, e-Science and transport research. Research centres • Control, Autonomy, and Decision-making in Complex Systems (Linnaeus Centre CADICS) • Gender Excellence (GEXcel), The Swedish Research Council Centre of • Hearing and Deafness (Linnaeus Centre HEAD), Research on • The National Supercomputer Centre, a provider of national supercomputing resources • Novel Functional Materials (Linnécentrum LiLI-NFM), Linköping Linnaeus Initiative for • Organic Bioelektronics (OBOE), Strategic Research Centre for • Norrköping Visualization Center C, in cooperation with the City of Norrköping and Norrköping Science Park and Interactive Institute. The Dome Theatre, constructed in 2009, is the most technically advanced dome in northern Europe. • The Center for Disaster Medicine and Traumatology (KMC). A National Research Center for Traumatology assigned by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. For a complete list of centres, see Organisation Image:Ångströmhuset-2021.jpg|Ångströmhuset on Campus Valla is a laboratory housing Arwen, one of the world's sharpest transmission electron microscopes. [File:Dome visual liu.jpg|thumb|The Dome in Visualiseringscenter C.] [File:Berzelius AI.jpg|thumb|The supercomputer Berzelius at the National Supercomputer Centre (NSC), Sweden's fastest supercomputer.] File:Berzelius supercomputer.jpg|Sweden's fastest supercomputer Berzelius — specialized for AI — at Linköping University's National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) on Campus Valla. File:WASP-Gränsö-2019.jpg|Autonomous aerial and surface drone rescue exercise using AI within WASP, Sweden's largest research program ever, hosted by Linköping University. File:Linkoping katastrofmedicinsktcenter.jpg|The Center for Disaster Medicine and Traumatology (KMC) on Campus Valla. File:CMIV+Research+school+seminar+Wranne.jpg|Research school seminar at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) on Campus US. File:Visualiseringscenter-1440x960.jpg|The Dome Theatre in Visualiseringscenter C on Campus Norrköping, as of 2019 the world's best dome for 3D image quality. File:Elektromagnetisk-styrning-av-vingklaffar-2021.jpg|The Iron Bird on Campus Valla, used for aeronautical engineering research, such as fighter jets. Donated by Linköping University's strategic partner SAAB. Rankings Linköping University has an emphasis on engineering and technology, and in the 2022 ARWU ranking it places in the top 100 in the following engineering subjects: Telecommunication Engineering 51–75, Electrical & Electronic Engineering 76–100, Materials Science & Engineering 76–100, Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 76–100 and Energy Science & Engineering 76–100. In the 2022 THE ranking, Linköping University places in the top 125 in the following broad categories: Engineering & Technology 101–125, Business & Economics 101–125 and Psychology 101–125. In addition, it places in the top 200 in: Computer Science 151–175 and Social Sciences 176–200. Linköping University Hospital places 192 in Newsweek's 2025 ''World's Best Hospitals'' ranking. In the TOP500 ranking of the world's supercomputers, as of June 2022, Sweden's two fastest supercomputers are at Linköping University's National Supercomputer Centre: • Berzelius in place 102 (specialized for machine learning and artificial intelligence) • Tetralith in place 183 ==Science parks and business incubator==
Science parks and business incubator
Two science parks — Linköping Science Park and Norrköping Science Park — are closely connected to Linköping University. The university's business incubator LEAD is also housed in these parks. LEAD - business incubator LEAD (acronym for LiU Entrepreneurship and Development) is Linköping University's business incubator. In 2023, LEAD was selected as a Sweden's incubator in NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA). The CEO of LEAD (currently Catharina Sandberg) was selected as a member of the Council for Defence Innovation (Swedish: Försvarsinnovationsrådet), launched by the Swedish Ministry of Defence in 2024, with the Minister for Defence serving as its chairman (currently Pål Jonson). Linköping Science Park Linköping Science Park is a multi-site science park, with four sites throughout Linköping and the surrounding region. As of 2023, Linköping Science Park hosts approximately 600 companies, from start-ups to multinationals, with a total of 14,000 employees. The largest residents are Ericsson, IFS, Infor, Sectra, Combitech, Releasy and CGI Group. Major multinationals such as ARRIS Group, Flextronics, Autoliv, Toyota Industries and Beyond Gravity are also represented. Linköping Science Park's four sites are: • Mjärdevi is the first and main site, located next to Campus Valla (Linköping University's main campus), Linköping Golf Club and Malmen Airbase. Mjärdevi is the main site for Linköping University's business incubator LEAD. • Ebbepark, with game development, medtech and visualization among represented industries. • Cavok District is a new and developing site, focusing on aviation, space and advanced materials. Cavok District adjoins Linköping City Airport and Linköping University's strategic partner SAAB's main office, as well as its main site for development and manufacturing, including the development and manufacturing of fighter jets such as the Saab JAS 39 Gripen. SAAB's Generic Future Fighter is an ongoing project in collaboration with Linköping University, led by the Swedish Air Force to develop a fifth-generation low-observable fighter jet. • Vreta Kluster focuses on the green industry. Located in Ljungsbro, 8 kilometers outside Linköping. File:Mjardevi aerial.jpg|Aerial view of Mjärdevi — the first and main site of Linköping Science Park — located next to Campus Valla. File:Collegium back.jpg|Collegium — the main building in Mjärdevi — houses the university business incubator LEAD. File:Mjardevi center day.jpg|Mjärdevi Center, the tallest building in Mjärdevi. File:Ebbepark.jpg|The main buildings of the Ebbepark site of Linköping Science Park. File:Ima-one.jpg|IMA One building in the new Cavok District of Linköping Science Park. File:Vretakluster.jpg|Main buildings of Vreta Kluster of Linköping Science Park. Norrköping Science Park Norrköping Science Park in Norrköping hosts approximately 130 companies. Main areas for research and development are printed electronics, interactivity and visualisation. ==Notable people==
Notable people
FacultyGerhard Andersson, professor of clinical psychologyMagnus Berggren, professor of organic electronicsAthena Farrokhzad, Visiting professor in the name of Tage Danielsson (2024–2026) • Fredrik Gustafsson, professor of sensor informatics • Lars Hultman, professor of materials science Former facultyAnders Blomqvist, professor emeritus of pain research • Christian Berggren, professor emeritus of industrial managementBoel Berner, professor emerita of Technolog and Social Change • Pioneer of interdisciplinary science • Co-creator of Centre for Gender studies and Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research • Per-Erik Ellström, professor emeritus of educationStig Hagström, professor emeritus of materials science • One of the founders of Linköping University • Leading researcher in materials science • Olle Inganäs, professor emeritus of organic electronicsHarold Lawson, former professor of telecommunications and computer systems • Credited with the invention of the pointer in programming languages • ACM FellowLennart Ljung, professor of control theory • Pioneering research in system identification, leading researcher in control theory • Founding professor of the LiU Division of Automatic ControlRoyal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Large Gold Medal • Ola Larsmo, visiting professor in the name of Moa Martinson (2023–2024) • Ingemar Lundström, professor emeritus of applied physics • Leading researcher in biosensors and chemical sensors • Chairman for the Nobel Committee for PhysicsNina Lykke, professor emerita of gender studies • Leading researcher on feminist theory and intersectionality • Pioneer of Gender Studies in Denmark, and Chair of GEnder Studies at LiU • Vladimir Mazya, professor emeritus of mathematics • Known for his work on Sobolev spacesJan-Ove Palmberg, professor emeritus of mechanical engineeringHans Rådström, former professor of applied mathematics • Mathematician who made many important contributions • Jerker Rönnberg, professor emeritus of psychologyErik Sandewall, professor emeritus of computer science • Leading researcher in artificial intelligence • AAAI FellowCarl-Ulrik Schierup, professor emeritus of ethnicityÅke Öberg, professor emeritus of biomedical engineering • Leading researcher in circulatory physiology, bio-optics, biomedical instrumentation, sensors and clinical engineering AlumniCarl-Henric Svanberg, chairman of Volvo, former CEO of Ericsson and chairman of BPHenry Radamson, Swedish professor of microelectronics and semiconductor, member of Chinese Academy of SciencesAnders Flodström, professor of materials physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, former rector of the Royal Institute of Technology, former university chancellor of Sweden and head of the Swedish National Agency for Higher EducationGustav Fridolin, former minister for education in the Government of SwedenTherése Sjömander Magnusson, head of the Nordic Africa Institute • Jan Malm, former CEO, Ericsson China, 2000–2004 • Jan-Eric Sundgren, former rector of Chalmers Institute of Technology, now senior vice president, Volvo GroupOla Tunander, former research professor at the Peace Research Institute OsloÅke Svensson, director general of Teknikföretagen (employers' organisation for engineering companies), former president and CEO Saab ABBjörn von Sydow, former Speaker of the Riksdag and Minister for Defence 1997–2002 • Cecilia Widegren, member of the Riksdag and vice chairman in The Parliamentary Defense Committee and Group • Zhong Zhihua, rector of Tongji University, member of the Chinese Academy of EngineeringBertil Andersson, former president of Nanyang Technological UniversityStefan Thor, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia ==See also==
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