SRS Conference 2026, Stockholm



Svenska Rymdforskares Samarbetsgrupp (SRS) holds a national conference every year. The SRS Conference 2026 will be be hosted by the Department of Meteorology (MISU) at Stockholm University. 130 participants have registered for the conference this year.


Information Summary

A summary of the practical information and program can be found in this PDF. Some updates were made and the most recent version of the schedule and posters can be found in this PDF.


The SRS Conference 2026 covers a large range of space science related areas carried out by scientists and technicians working at various Swedish universities and institutes.

The format includes invited talks, an open poster session, the formal SRS annual meeting as well as information from The Swedish National Space Agency, SNSA. The conference is open to everybody, and there is no registration fee. All who register before the deadline are invited to the free conference dinner on the evening of the first day, sponsored by SNSA.

Photo: Sรถren Andersson/ Stockholm University

Lotta Edholm, Minister for Upper Secondary School, Higher Education and Research, will visit the SRS Conference on March 25. She is responsible for Space within the Swedish government. Please find below a form that we have created to collect questions from the Swedish Space Research Community to Lotta Edholm. Deadline for submitting questions is March 1, 2026.


Presentation Slides from the SNSA presentation during the conference can be found here

The conference will be held at Stockholm University, Frescati campus, in building Aula Magna. Subway station: Universitetet. Find Aula Magna on Google maps. The dinner will take place at campus Nya Albano, 10-15 minutes walking distance from Aula Magna (link to restaurant).

The SRS Conference will take place at Stockholm University in Aula Magna. The sessions will start on Wednesday at 12:00 and finish on Thursday at 12:10. You get to the Universityโ€™s Frescati Campus by the Subwayโ€™s red line (Line 14 towards Mรถrby Centrum, getting off at โ€œUniversitetetโ€) or by bus 50 (from Odenplan towards Stora Lappkรคrrsberget, getting off at โ€œUniversitetetโ€). Once at the university, follow the red arrow on the map to the main entrance of Aula Magna (address Universitetsvรคgen 11). If you come by taxi, the address is Frescativรคgen 6 and you will arrive at the backside of the
Aula Magna building.

Note that no lunch will be served at the SRS conference. So make sure to eat some lunch in town or at the University campus before arriving at the conference. A list of lunch places at the Frescati Campus can be found on this university website. You will enter the Aula Magna building on the 4th floor. Here you can pick up your name tag. (In case you wonder about the different colours of the tags: The speakers have yellow tags, which helps us attaching microphones to the right persons. Green tags identify people who work with the local organisation and who might be able to help with practical questions.)

The posters will be on display on the 5th floor. If you have a poster, we recommend to set it up before the start of the conference. The spots for putting up the posters are numbered. Please check the number of your poster in the poster list!

You can enter the lecture hall both from the 4th floor and from the 5th floor. Note that it is not allowed to take luggage (suitcases or large bags) into the lecture hall. Luggage can be stored on both days in a room on the 6th floor (Mezzanin). That room is locked with a code that we will hand out. There is an elevator to the 6th floor. Apart from the luggage storage, we also recommend the 6th floor for the nice view.

SRS Conference 2026

Draft Programme (status: 2025-12-02)
Location: Stockholm University, Frescati campus, Aula Magna


Wednesday, March 25

12:00-12:05 Practical information (Jรถrg Gumbel)


12:05-12:45ย Session: Astronomy (chair: Linn Boldt-Christmas)

    • Nikki Miller, Uppsala University: Cool exoplanet host stars with PLATO
    • Kelley Hess, Chalmers/Onsala: Galaxy evolution with the SKA

12:45-13:25 Session: Solar System (chair: Hayley Williamson)

    • Moa Persson, IRF Uppsala: The Dynamic Magnetosphere of Mercury
    • Nicol Latsia, Luleรฅ University of Technology: Listening to thermal fatigue in chondrites

ย  ย  Introductory Session

13:30-13:40 Welcome (Jane Reichel, Vice President at Stockholm University)
13:40-13:45 Introductory remarks (Maria Hamrin, SRS chair)
13:45-14:00ย Swedish Space Research (Lotta Edholm, Minister for Upper Secondary School, Higher Education and Research)
14:00-14:10ย Questions to Lotta Edholm


14:10-14:50 Session: Atmospheric Physics (chair: Jรถrg Gumbel)

    • Jonas Hedin, Stockholm University: The ORIGIN sounding rocket project – Old and new reaction schemes in airglow
    • Patrick Eriksson, Chalmers: Arctic Weather Satellite

14:50-15:20 Coffee break and posters


15:20-16:00 Session: Astrobiology (chair: Linn Boldt-Christmas)

    • Alef Dos Santos, Umeรฅ University: Life at the Limits: Microorganisms as Tools for Planetary Habitability and Biosignature Detection
    • Aline Novais, Lund University: Exocomets in planetary systems

16:00-16:40 Session: Space Plasma (chair: Emiliya Yordanova)

    • Tomas Karlsson, KTH: Small-scale structures upstream of Earth’s bow shock and their possible effect on the magnetosphere – Cluster and other results
    • Anja Mรถslinger, Umeรฅ University: Ion Dynamics in Cometary Magnetospheres: Insights from Hybrid Simulations

16:40-17:10 SRS Annual Meeting : The agenda can be found hereย and the minutes from the last meeting can be found here.

ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  17:10-17:25ย SNSA career scientists – Quick Talks

    • Sota Nanjo, IRF Kiruna: Multi-Scale Investigation of Aurora Dynamics Using
      SMILE Satellite and Ground-Based Observations
    • Santi Roca-Fabrega, Lund University: Shedding light on dark matter with
      ARRAKIHS

17:25-18:00 Poster pitches – 36 poster talks, 1 minute each


18:00-18:45 Poster session


18:45-19:00 Walk to campus Nya Albano
19:15-21:30 Dinner at Proviant Albano (https://proviantalbano.se)


Thursday, March 26

8:45-8:50 Practical information (Jรถrg Gumbel)


8:50-9:30 Session: Earth observation (chair: Susanne Kratzer)

    • Johan Nilsson, Uppsala University: Remote sensing of the cryosphere and terrestrial water sources
    • Anis El Youncha, University of Gothenburg: Observing air-sea fluxes from space: advances and challenges

9:30-10:10 Session: Space physiology and microgravity (chair: Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo)

    • Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, Uppsala University: The reproductive system in space
    • Victor Castro-Alves, ร–rebro University: Plant responses to microgravity and radiation aboard the International Space Station

10:10-10:25 Swedish Space Research School (Christer Fuglesang)


10:25-10:50 Coffee break and posters


10:50-12:00 SNSA session


12:00-12:10 Closing remarks (Maria Hamrin, SRS chair)

The deadline for registration was on February 15.

We invite you to present posters about your ongoing or planned research. Please provide a title for your poster when filling out the registration form.

SNSA will support travel and accommodation expenses for up to six PhD students who would like to participate in the conference. A condition for support is that the students must present their research results or research plans on a poster. It is important to note that no one can apply until January 2025, when next yearโ€™s call opens, due to budget reasons. Students who are interested can apply for support by replying to SNSAโ€™s call โ€œStรถd till resor och evenemangโ€ , with a deadline on February 15th. In case of questions or problems applying in the Prisma system, please contact Vilgot Claesson ([email protected]).

  • For general questions regarding the conference, please contact Jรถrg Gumbel ([email protected]).
  • For questions regarding SRS, please contact the present chair, Maria Hamrin ([email protected]).

The local organizing committee (LOC) are Jรถrg Gumbel, Jonas Hedin, Linda Megner and Henriette Valsjรถ. The scientific organizing committee (SOC) are Maria Hamrin, Linn Boldt-Christmas, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo, Jรถrg Gumbel, Susanne Kratzer, Hayley Williamson, Emiliya Yordanovaand and Erik Zackrisson.

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