The School of Architecture and the Build Environment (ABE) PhD student council is the PhD chapter official body for PhD students in the educational programs within ABE school at KTH. ABE PhD school council gets its legitimacy from the PhD Chapter/THS and acquires henceforth a legitimate representational status for the school’s PhD students therewith. The ABE Council social page can be found at: https://www.kth.se/social/group/kth-abe-doctoral-rep/.
ABE PhD school council is guided by the PhD Chapter Statutes and Bylaws and subject to THS statutes and bylaws.
As per PhD chapter by-laws, the objectives of a PhD Student Council are to promote more effective and higher quality PhD education and research, to promote a stimulating working environment and to improve the general conditions for the PhD students, at the given KTH School.
A PhD Student Council shall work towards a greater unity and fellowship among the PhD students at the given and shall maintain good contacts with the PhD Chapter members working centrally at KTH or at the other KTH Schools.
A PhD Student Council activities shall cover students in all the educational programs of the given school at postgraduate level.
ABE Council Board (Jan/2025 – Dec/2025)
| Name | Position |
| Elina Merdymshaeva | Chairperson |
| Boel Berg Wincent | Vice Chairperson |
| Zoé Barjot | Treasurer |
| Jens Bergenudd | Web and Communication Manager |
| Juan Camilo Avendaño Castillo | Event Manager |
| Sigvard Bast | Educational Manager |
| Sara Brolund Fernandes De Carvalho | Representative at the Faculty Board |
PADs (Jan/2025 – Dec/2025)
| Name | Program |
| Seren Dincel | Architecture |
| Vacant | Art, Technology and Design |
| Seyed Amin Hosseini Tehrani, Giorgos Aspetakis | Civil and Architectural Engineering |
| Peter Nezval | Geodesy and Geoinformatics |
| Sigvard Bast, Elina Merdymshaeva | Land and Water Resources Engineering |
| Elise Perrault | Planning and Decision Analysis |
| Liubov Timonina | Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences of Technology, Science and the Environment |
| Loris Mazzaferro | Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering |
| Andrii Kozlov | The Built Environment and Society: Management, Economics and Law |
| Anastasio Skoufas, Francesco Bruno | Transport Science |
| Vacant | Urban and Regional Studies |
Permanent Contacts
| Description | |
| abe-chair@dr.kth.se | Council Chair |
| abe-vicechair@dr.kth.se | Council Vice Chair |
| abe-presidium@dr.kth.se | Presidium (i.e., Chair and Vice Chair) |
| abe-board@dr.kth.se | All Board Members |
| abe-pad@dr.kth.se | Representatives in PhD Program |
| abe-ff@dr.kth.se | Representatives in Future Faculty Program (not active) |
| abe-social@dr.kth.se | Social Activities |
| abe-council@dr.kth.se | All council members, including board, representatives and functionaries. |
