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When Liesbeth van Heel joins the Theme Next Generation Healthscapes at the Pufendorf IAS, she does so with a rare combination of long-term hands‑on experience and research. Liesbeth has spent more than three decades at Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, and her journey into research has grown directly out of practice. This interview was conducted during her stay in Lund in December 20

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/practice-research-meet-international-fellow-liesbeth-van-heel - 2026-06-21

Huntington’s disease is hereditary, genetic and usually begins between the ages of 30 and 50. In Sweden, around 1,000 people have the diagnosis and several thousand live with the risk of getting the disease. Even more people have a connection to the disease as its symptoms also affect those close to the patient to a high degree. The disease leads to premature death and there are no treatments that

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/huntingtons-complex-brain-disease-affects-movement-thoughts-and-feelings - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "Mastery of the law gives you power. And I want to use that power to support the vulnerable" says Sofia Åkerman, doctoral student at the Department of Law with personal experience of vulnerability and self-harming behaviour. She survived, but several of her friends did not. The Lego bricks occupy a central position in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/using-law-fight-vulnerable - 2026-06-19

Laura Elo at University of Turku is awarded the Leif C. Groop Award for outstanding research on type 1 diabetes. The mathematician from Finland has developed methods which have helped increase the understanding of how type 1 diabetes develops at molecular level. She hopes her research will help prevent and delay the progression of the disease and individualise the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Jus

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/laura-elo-awarded-leif-c-groop-award-outstanding-research-type-1-diabetes - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet LUCSUS new postdoctoral researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa. Salvatore's research focuses on connecting social and climate movements, civil society organisations and NGOs in Sweden and Europe to better understand their relation with the knowledge generated by climate science and their engagement with legal framewo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/salvatore-paolo-de-rosa-explores-interactions-climate-movements-science-and-law - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researcher Emma Johansson is currently in Cambodia to study linkages between land, water and food. The field trip marks the start of a new post doctoral research project aiming to investigate changes in water use and food production linked to land grabbing. The post doctoral studies are funded by the Crafoord F

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-challenges-surrounding-land-are-facing-population-emma-johansson-sets-out-field-trip-cambodia - 2026-06-19

Early in the morning there was the sound of explosions and the sky lit up. Since 24 February 2022, Lund University has stood in solidarity with Ukraine’s universities. Are there lessons to be learned from the period when Kiev’s largest university had to rapidly adapt to war and a humanitarian crisis? This is an article from LTHIn (the Faculty of Engineering). LTH and Lund University recently recei

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lessons-ukraine-running-university-while-war-rages - 2026-06-20

SOCIOLOGIDAGARNA 2018: The Swedish Sociological Association's bi-annual conference titled "Sociology in a Polarized World" took place in Lund last week and was hosted by the Department of Sociology. This year's conference, March 7-9, was among the largest in the history of the association, with a peak of 268 delegates attending on International Women’s Day, March 8th. It was also among the first o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hundreds-sociologists-came-lund-discuss-divided-world - 2026-06-19

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn In KHM1 gallery IreneMargrethe Kaltenborn´s MFA exhibition Choreographies towards loss set the stage for the audience to enter artworks which echoed loss and a void, full of wonderment and poetics. The gallery was dimly lit and kept minimal, leaving room for the viewer to enter the web of interconnectedness between animals, humans and nature.       What has the process b

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-viii-irene-margrethe-kaltenborn-and-karolina-bergman-engman - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With enthusiasts plus technological developments, a lot of progress can be made in quite a short space of time. This is shown by developments in cancer genetics advice, which is now a natural part of the health service, but which was questioned 20 years ago. The primary enthusiasts were Professor of Oncology Håkan Ols

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strong-progress-cancer-genetics - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Stortorget, the main square in the centre of Malmö, has looked the same for the past 35 years or so but the way in which the city’s inhabitants use the space has changed. These changes provide a picture of the development of the city and community, from an industrial society to a society based on services and consumpt

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-malmo-city-dwellers-take-break-stortorget - 2026-06-19

In 2025, the Faculty of Science launched a new doctoral programme in computational science to meet the growing demand for advanced computational methods in research. This initiative aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and train doctoral students in handling and analysing large datasets across fields such as medicine, environmental science, and engineering. The doctoral programme was cr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/faculty-invests-computational-science-new-doctoral-programme-meets-growing-demand-advanced-analysis - 2026-06-19

A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdisciplinary research in the fields of health, climate and the environment. COSHE works with machine learning, statistical learning methods, physical system modeling and quantum computing. The research groups behind COSHE already have parti

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2026-06-19

Lund University has been sliding down the lists of the three main university ranking organisations for several years. Today, we make only one of the top 100 lists, and even then with a mere five places above the 100 cut-off. Daniel J. Guhr is an expert on the importance of these rankings and knows what the consequences can be if the downward trend continues. “Losing a top 100 position in all three

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consultants-warning-major-consequences-falling-outside-top-100 - 2026-06-20

It’s a new role and we got to ask her a few questions about it, and also a little more about Emelie. How long have you worked at Lund University, and how did you become the faculty’s data steward?I have been working as a librarian at the LUSEM Library at Lund University since 2022. Becoming the faculty’s data steward was likely a matter of timing and duties, as is often the case. I was asked becau

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/emelie-estling-data-steward-lusem - 2026-06-19

With a presentation focusing on how research using chicken embryos can help cure an unusual form of childhood cancer, researcher Sofie Mohlin took home the win in this year's final of the Forskar (Researcher) Grand Prix held in Stockholm on November 23rd, 2023. In October, she competed against seven other researchers from Lund University - to see who was the best at presenting their research in ju

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/research-chickens-and-childhood-cancer-takes-center-stage-forskar-grand-prix - 2026-06-19

Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, political scientist and expert in intelligence analysis, reflects on in two highly read articles on the news platform, The Conversation. One of Tony Ingesson’s articles, on military conscription, has 26,000 reads and the other, about Morse code, has over 40,000 reads. The

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The presence of the glorious tulips, which have captivated so many of the visitors to the garden and spread to the Instagram accounts of the residents of Lund, is in no way guaranteed. Neither are the coming summer flowers currently being planted in the flower beds, which last year were left bare and brown. “We depend

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/botanical-garden-temporarily-flourishing - 2026-06-19

In October, all Lund University School of Economics and Management’s (LUSEM) doctoral students were invited to an afternoon dedicated to exploring career opportunities outside academia. To explore career opportunities outside academia, the doctoral students were presented with information from potential employers, from Lund University School of Economics and Management’s (LUSEM) Professor of Pract

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/exploring-non-academic-career-paths - 2026-06-20

Lund University School of Economics and Management works strategically to strengthen the connection between academia and industry. Through various initiatives, meeting points are created where companies have the opportunity to connect with the talent of the future and contribute their expertise, while students gain a clearer understanding of the opportunities within professional life. A close and

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/studies-professional-life-deloitte-partnership-lusem - 2026-06-20