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According to a travel survey conducted last autumn, better public transport and secure bicycle parking at the workplace are the main measures needed to reduce car commuting. There are also differences in travel patterns between faculties. "The travel survey provides a valuable insight into the commuters’ wishes on what can facilitate sustainable travel in their everyday lives. Now we can weave thi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/depth-report-employees-commutes-lund - 2025-12-18

Set a goal for your training for one to four months and pay in SEK 1,000. You get your money back if you achieve your goal. Crazy? Perhaps, but in a study by Professor of Economics Erik Wengström and his colleagues, the incentive proved to be quite effective compared with the control groups. “I’ve had a long-standing interest in how people behave in strategic situations and if you look at it from

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/achieve-your-training-goals-and-get-money-back-it-works - 2025-12-18

What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understanding and explaining the mysteries of nature was Vanya Darakchieva’s dream during he

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-12-18

Investigating air pollution is not for researchers afraid of heights. One of the fearless is Erik Ahlberg, a combustion physicist at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH). His working days are often spent far above ground – currently on the roof of Malmö Town Hall, where the instruments that capture air particles are located. There are many stairs in the town hall. The last staircase to the top of the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-high-altitude-when-air-under-scrutiny - 2025-12-18

With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the blueprint for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts’ future co-location. “Imagine creating a campus area in Heleneholm where the Malmö Academy of Music is already located. It would be something completely new in Scandinavia, and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2025-12-18

He has designed a transport box that keeps hearts alive outside the body and developed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device. But during a visit to nuns in Africa, he was suspected of being a spy. Meet Stig Steen, a post-retirement professor of thoracic surgery, who is driven by an unshakeable belief that the greatest things in life are on the other side of the mountain. If Stig Steen had f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cardiothoracic-innovator - 2025-12-18

What has been the main option for a long time – i.e. relocating basically all physics and chemistry to Science Village – is no longer relevant. The costs would be too high and the logistics of providing first and second-cycle education in particular would be difficult to organise. “This was crucial. The costs plus the fact that everything indicated that if we had relocated first and second-cycle e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-scraps-plan-relocate-chemistry-and-physics-science-village - 2025-12-18

As part of the work with Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE), Lund University is announcing four calls for funding to stimulate collaboration and activities that strengthen our international impact in research, education, innovation and cooperation. Deadline for application is 17 April and funded activities should be completed no later than 31 July 2026. A fifth call with deadline 31 March is already

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-impact-actions-current-calls-2025 - 2025-12-18

Lund University's holding company is changing its name from LU Holding to LU Ventures. The new name aims to better reflect the company's mission: to build companies that transform research into new products and services creating global impact. "We are third best in the world, but we should not be satisfied – more research must lead to innovations." said Rector Erik Renström and highlighted a repor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-holding-becomes-lu-ventures-new-chapter-universitys-venture-builder - 2025-12-18

In this winter’s and spring’s major exhibition at Skissernas Museum, Gunilla Klingberg's latest artistic commissions for two renowned public spaces in Stockholm are presented, along with a selection of her international projects. For the exhibition Klingberg has also created new works generated from the material she has saved during her processes. Klingberg’s work Virvelvind (Whirlwind) at Sergels

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-wringwrenchwhirlweave-0 - 2025-12-18

An artwork based on the MAX IV Laboratory control system is about to land on the Moon. Filip Persson, Assistant Head of Accelerator Operations at MAX IV, has created the ’MAX IV Control System’ – a digital artwork visualising the connections within the MAX IV control system. By transforming data into imagery, Filip has produced an art piece that resembles galaxies and star clusters – as a tribute

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/max-iv-artwork-heading-moon - 2025-12-18

According to our Platform for Strategic Work, we are to endeavour to be an international university and strive to recruit the best staff from all over the world. However, recruiting staff from other countries is complicated. There are many rules and laws to consider if everything is to be done correctly, particularly in the area of migration. I am therefore proud that we offer much appreciated sup

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/our-university-wide-support-international-recruitment-much-appreciated-and-unique - 2025-12-18

Many of the University’s researchers are publishing fantastic research that has been done with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). Many are curious to test out AI to improve, simplify or speed up at least a part of the research process. At the same time, many are asking “what am I allowed to use AI for?” The starting point when using AI in research is to follow the basic principles of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yes-i-want-use-ai-what-right-way-do-it - 2025-12-18

Universitetets administrativa pris 2026 går till digitaliseringssamordnare Håkan Håkansson och biblioteksassistent Tomasz Lesniak vid Universitetsbiblioteket. Genom ett långsiktigt och nyskapande arbete med Ravensbrückarkivet har de utvecklat en unik forskningsresurs som uppmärksammats internationellt och utsetts till UNESCO världsminne. Universitets administrativa pris delas ut årligen för utmärk

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/det-administrativa-priset-2026-uppmarksammar-arbetet-med-ravensbruckarkivet - 2025-12-18

Eating cheese and cream with a high fat content may be linked to a lower risk of developing dementia. This is shown by a new large-scale study from Lund University. The researchers analysed the dietary habits of more than 27,000 people and linked these to the occurrence of dementia over a follow-up period of up to 25 years. The debate about low-fat diets has long shaped our health advice and influ

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/full-fat-cheese-linked-lower-risk-dementia - 2025-12-18

How can research results be communicated beyond academic texts? Gender researchers Elin Lundell and Mia Liinason have chosen a new approach: translating their research into an animated film. Theoretical starting pointThe article on which the film is based analyses how boundaries between religion and secularism are constructed and maintained in contemporary Sweden. The study takes its starting poin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-becomes-animated-film-theory-and-method-moving-images - 2025-12-18

Hur kan forskningsresultat kommuniceras bortom den akademiska texten? Genusvetarna Elin Lundell och Mia Liinason har valt ett nytt sätt: att översätta sin forskning till en animerad film. Teoretisk utgångspunktArtikeln som ligger till grund för filmen analyserar hur gränser mellan religion och sekularitet konstrueras och upprätthålls i samtida Sverige. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i feministisk te

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/forskning-blir-animerad-film-teori-och-metod-i-rorlig-bild - 2025-12-18

Stiftelsen Promobilia satsar 25 miljoner kronor på ett nytt, storskaligt forskningsprojekt mot Parkinsons sjukdom. Donationen gör det möjligt för fyra forskargrupper, varav en vid Lunds universitet och tre vid Karolinska Institutet, att kraftsamla kring utvecklingen av nya behandlingsstrategier som angriper sjukdomens grundorsaker. Med hjälp av innovativa metoder, såsom avancerade genterapier och

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/stiftelsen-promobilia-satsar-25-mkr-mot-parkinsons-sjukdom - 2025-12-18

Christopher Douse, Associate Professor at Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine and group leader at the Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF). The five-year, SEK 11 million award will support his team’s research into how repetitive DNA sequences linked to neurological diseases are controlled in the development of the human

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/decoding-repetitive-genome-christopher-douse-awarded-consolidator-grant-ssmf - 2025-12-18

For the last three years, middle-school classrooms in Lund and Staffanstorp have been getting a special visit during the autumn: scientists walk in with stories about their favorite research topic and what it is like to work in a lab. This is the Science to Schools program, an initiative that began as an idea from PhD student Abigail Altman and has now grown into a collaboration involving Lund Ste

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bringing-science-classroom-taking-science-middle-schools-lund - 2025-12-18