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Soo-hyun Lee har studerat på tre kontinenter, arbetat för en handfull FN-organisationer, varit konsult åt megakoncerner och drivit eget företag. Nu är han den första av Forskarskolan Agenda 2030:s doktorander att disputera. Allt startade i Sydkorea där hans mamma var leksaksuppfinnare, men fick sin framgångsrika idé stulen av en mäktig amerikansk leksakstillverkare. – Jag tillbringade många timmar

https://www.lu.se/artikel/soo-hyun-lee-forst-ut-att-disputera-fran-forskarskolan-agenda-2030 - 2025-10-06

The increasing demand of minerals, oil, and agricultural goods have severe negative social and environmental impacts. The extraction of resources leads to land dispossession of small-scale farmers and indigenous communities. It also generates social and political conflicts at the local level. For decades large scale agri-food production and mineral extraction have caused severe social and environm

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/achieving-more-sustainable-value-chains-are-crucial-preventing-deforestation-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-10-05

LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they gained from the LUMEs programme and what career advice they have for future LUMES g

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2025-10-05

Fast fashion has shrunk the fashion production cycle from three months to an unbelievable two weeks. New ideas are snapped up from the catwalk, interpreted and made into trendy clothes with a low price-tag, available in shops and online. Economists attribute the success of fast fashion to innovative large companies, but anthropologist Christina Moon maintains that the background to the phenomenon

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/korean-efficiency-behind-fast-fashion - 2025-10-05

Curiosity, openness and compassion are words to live by for Sylvia Schwaag Serger, who will become the new deputy vice-chancellor as of next year. She believes that we all have a civic duty to be proactive but must also be aware that we might, actually, be wrong. Sylvia Schwaag-Serger, new deputy vice-chancellor at Lund University. Sylvia Schwaag Serger currently works at Vinnova, as the director

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaving-her-comfort-zone-lund-university - 2025-10-05

Offshore wind power is presented as one of the solutions to solve the energy crisis in southern Sweden. But the issue has been met with a "not in my backyard” attitude, as many municipalities say no to the government's decision. LUCSUS researcher Henner Busch, shares his thoughts on how to involve local communities and create a more just energy transition. Earlier this autumn, the Swedish governme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/conflicts-between-national-climate-targets-and-local-communities-jeopardize-renewable-energy - 2025-10-05

A simple urine test that can assess the risk of kidney cancer recurrence at an early stage could spare patients from frequent imaging scans, e.g. CT-scans, and thus reduce the associated radiation, anxiety and costs. This has been shown in a new international research study led by Lund University in Sweden. The results have now been published in European Urology Oncology. Globally, about 400,000 p

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/urine-test-can-assess-risk-kidney-cancer-recurrence - 2025-10-05

Frontotemporal dementia begins relatively early compared to other forms of dementia. We still know relatively little about what causes the disease, however, new research from Lund University in Sweden shows that the folds in the brain that are formed in the latter stages of pregnancy could have an impact on the age at which the disease takes hold. Those affected by frontotemporal dementia usually

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/brain-folds-formed-during-foetal-stage-could-affect-onset-dementia - 2025-10-05

In our course Contemporary South Asian Societies we have the pleasure of having one of our former students, Emilija Zabiliute, as a lecturer. Emilija was a student on our masters programme between 2008-2010 and received her PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2016.  Could you please tell us a bit about yourself?I have started studying South Asia, namely India, since my BA studies in classical

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumna-emilija-zabiliute - 2025-10-05

Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and Sparbanken Skåne are founding a joint centre for sustainable enterprising at Lund University. Together, they are investing several million SEK in the centre, which will start welcoming new doctoral students across a variety of research collaborations this autumn. The focus is on the transition to a mor

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/major-investment-new-interdisciplinary-centre-sustainable-enterprising-lund - 2025-10-05

Threats and hate speech from outside are certainly very trying. But could they be even worse when they come from within the organisation? What if you barely dare to go to work because you get threatened – or you are not even allowed in to work because you are accused of threatening someone else? The vice dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Jimmie Kristensson, has dedicated a great deal of energy to m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/its-hard-deal-threats-within-ranks - 2025-10-05

Recently, the EU parliament’s environmental committee proposed that crop-based biofuels should not be considered renewable, which would affect Sweden’s strategy for achieving a fossil-free transport fleet, among other things. According to two researchers from LUCSUS, it is a good thing that the EU is reviewing the legislation on biofuels. The far-reaching consequences of biofuels on land use – bot

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-new-proposed-eu-legislation-consequences-biofuels-land-use-must-be-considered-greater - 2025-10-05

Growing up in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, he knew that one wrong word could get you killed; as a forced recruit, he came close to death many times. But after three Master’s degrees, Dara Maghdid has earned a PhD with his investigation of cultural differences in the teaching of mathematics. Now he wants to thank Lund University. In the future, motivation among students of mathematics could increase – in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/phd-mathematics-against-all-odds - 2025-10-05

It is halftime for Vice-chancellor Erik Renström and his team. Three years of his term of office have passed, and three remain. Here in LUM, he sums up the first-half performance, looks ahead and explains how he approaches a job in which everyone wants a bit of his time. Word is that he is always on time to meetings, but almost never arrives early. Heading up the stairs to his office on the second

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/halftime-vice-chancellor-erik-renstrom - 2025-10-06

Dean Per Persson, Deputy Dean Karin Rengefors and Vice-Dean Charlotta Turner have now taken office. Get to know them better through the interviews below that were conducted in the spring of 2023, in connection with the election. In addition to the three mentioned, former Deputy Dean Karin Hall will have an assignment as Vice-Dean during 2024. Shortcuts to the interviewsInterview with Dean Per Pers

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/new-deans-have-taken-office - 2025-10-05

Dean Per Persson, Deputy Dean Karin Rengefors and Vice-Dean Charlotta Turner have now taken office. Get to know them better through the interviews below that were conducted in the spring of 2023, in connection with the election. In addition to the three mentioned, Karin Hall will have an assignment as Vice-Dean during 2024. Shortcuts to the interviewsInterview with Dean Per PerssonInterview with D

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-deans-have-taken-office - 2025-10-05

WithSecure besökte Institutionen för informatik under sin europeiska Cyber Tour, där studenter på kandidatprogrammet fick praktisk erfarenhet av att hantera IT-hot i en simulerad miljö. Den 30 oktober 2023 fick studenter som läser kursen IS och verksamhetsutveckling uppleva något som aldrig tidigare förekommit på kandidatprogrammet i design av informationssystem. Dagen inleddes med en gästföreläsn

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/cybertruck-en-it-sakerhetssimulation - 2025-10-06

Miljöskandalen i Teckomatorp ägde rum under 1970-talet. Nu femtio år senare har precis den tredje och sista etappen i saneringsarbetet avslutats. Under 2000-talet har Arbets- och miljömedicin vid Region Skåne och Lunds universitet, vid olika tillfällen undersökt rester av bekämpningsmedel i urinen hos saneringspersonal. Redan på 1980-talet var Arbets- och miljömedicin representerad i styrgruppen f

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/en-miljoskandal-gar-mot-sitt-slut - 2025-10-05

I takt med att fler svenskar väljer att delta i COVID Symptom Study och laddar ner appen har medieintresset för studien ökat. Från deltagare, journalister och allmänhet har forskarna fått frågor kring vilka personliga data som sparas, var de sparas och hur de delas. Paul Franks, professor i genetisk epidemiologi vid Lunds universitet och huvudansvarig för forskningsprojektet, reder ut vad som gäll

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/covid-symptom-study-vilka-data-sparas-och-vilka-delas - 2025-10-05

Typ 2-diabetes är en komplex sjukdom som kan leda till allvarliga hälsoproblem. Därför är det viktigt att förutse vem som är i riskzonen att utveckla sjukdomen. En stor tvärvetenskaplig studie som har letts av Lunds universitet har identifierat en biomarkör i blodet som kan förutse typ 2-diabetes flera år innan diagnos kan ställas. Diabetes är ett växande folkhälsoproblem, som kan leda till hjärt-

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/biomarkor-kan-forutse-typ-2-diabetes-flera-ar-innan-diagnos - 2025-10-05