Centres of Excellence

The dominant Swedish research backers invest some of their funds in centres of excellence - bigger groups of world-leading researchers that receive five to ten years’ funding for their research programmes. There are currently ten such centres at LiU.

Materials science
Research in advanced surface technology, about new functional materials, and industry-related research in materials science is carried out at three research centres: LiLi-NMF, Fun-Mat and FUNCASE.

Control engineering, autonomy and decision support
Research in control engeineering, autonomy and decision support is carried out at two different research centres: LINK-SIC and the Linnaeus Centre CADICS.

Gender Studies
Gendering Excellence (GEXcel) is one of the Swedish Research Council’s three Swedish centres of excellence in gender research.

Knowledge integration and innovation
The Knowledge Integration in Transnational Enterprise (KITE) research group studies innovation and knowledge integration in internationally competing companies.

International migration
The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity, and Society (REMESO) works to develop the knowledge base for sustainable multi-ethnic inclusion in Sweden and an enlarged EU.

Mobility in working life
Research at HELIX - Managing mobility for learning, health and innovation is about the concept of “good mobility” in working life.

Cognitive hearing science
The Linnaeus Centre HEAD (Research on Hearing and Deafness) is an interdisciplinary research programme on hearing impairments and deafness pioneering the new scientific field of cognitive hearing science.