IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick have joined a group of international researchers to act as guest editors for a Special Issue on smart and sustainable cities in the Local Environment journal. The special issues brings together a diverse collection of papers that explore the relationship between urban sustainability and smart city development. Read more on the Local Environment,

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Research group at the IIIEE Photo: Håkan Röjder The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research has granted SEK 47 million for four years to Mistra REES. The aim of the programme is to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to a circular economy. Business and academia collaborate to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to more resource-effici

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-continue-funding-research-circular-economy-transition - 2025-08-25

Jonas Sonnenschein Photo: Blaž Samec New research implies that green growth climate mitigation policies are not sufficient for reaching the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to well below 2°C by the end of the century.Green growth policies dominate the climate change mitigation discourse but how much can they contribute to rapid decarbonisation? Jonas Sonnenschein a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/current-green-growth-policies-are-not-enough-reach-paris-agreement-climate-targets - 2025-08-25

Although Lund University’s 350th anniversary celebrations are drawing to a close, some projects will live on, along with the working method known as the jubilee model. Carina Jensen, soon to step down from her role as jubilee coordinator, talks about Sunday’s big kick-off for the future, which is open to all. “It will start with an open house event in the main University building, celebrating the

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Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities and research institutes. The agreement will be cancelled 30th of June. This means that employees and students at Lund University will not have access to journal articles published by Elsevier after June 30, 2018. However, one can still read Elsevier articles published between 1995 and 30 June 2018. LU researche

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sweden-stands-open-access-cancels-agreement-elsevier - 2025-08-25

Carita Håkansson. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter LUM managed to sneak in an interview with Carita Håkansson before she packs her bags for a hiking trip in Greece. For the first time in many years she has the chance once more to do what she loves the most – to experience nature and landscapes on foot. Thanks to a transplant, she is living a new life. Carita Håkansson fell ill around just 40 years of age. Wh

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-got-new-liver-and-new-life - 2025-08-25

Christian Hulteberg. Photo: Kennet Ruona The expression “Sweden’s green gold” has a new meaning. Forests are now not only to provide timber and paper – but also save the climate. Chemical engineering researcher Christian Hulteberg has managed to transform a residual product from pulp manufacturing into a liquid that is chemically identical to petrol. The plan is to have Swedish forest fuel availab

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-pumps-petrol-trees - 2025-08-25

Ill: Shutterstock Ninety thousand people die in Sweden every year. Despite 80 percent of Sweden’s population stating they would like to donate their organs after death, fewer than 200 people actually become organ donors each year. Why? This is due to, among other reasons, our limited legislation and organs not being made available because of a shortage of intensive care beds. Simply dying is not e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overstretched-intensive-care-leads-fewer-donations - 2025-08-25

Christine Blomquist. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “Superbosses” are exceptional at attracting talented people and getting them to perform at their best – while also developing them to become new, good leaders. Are superbosses to be found at the University? “I’m convinced that we would also find superbosses at Lund University if we looked”, says Christine Blomquist, who adds that there are many good leader

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/superbosses-make-others-become-good-leaders - 2025-08-25

Carl Borrebaeck. Photo: Apelöga Long ago, Carl Borrebaeck worked side by side with one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for chemistry, Sir Gregory Winter, on the publication of an innovative technology within what was then a hot new research field: antibody engineering. In 1989, within the same couple of weeks, both researchers published findings on the technology which has now resulted in a Nob

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hard-heels-nobel-laureate - 2025-08-25

Ill: Henning Larsen Arkitekter A social sciences centre in the Paradis quarter and a continued reinforcement of the Knowledge Highway are priorities in the new premises plan that presents the University’s intended renovations, extensions and new builds for the next five years. “It will be nice to complete the major projects that have been underway for a long time”, says Åsa Bergenudd, head of LU E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-premises-plan-reveals-universitys-future-building-projects - 2025-08-25

Aleksandra Popovic. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the thesis work, a view supported by a survey conducted by the Swedish Union of Civil Servants (ST). More tha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2025-08-25

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson. Photo: Kristina Lindgärde Lund University is investing SEK 64 million in a graduate school focusing on societal challenges and the 2030 Agenda. Kristina Jönsson, associate professor in political science, will be its coordinator. “This is a unique opportunity to achieve something really new and exciting”, she says. The graduate school is funded from 2019 to 20

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sek-64-million-leading-graduate-school - 2025-08-25

Mine Islar came to Sweden from Turkey to study a Master’s degree in sustainability. Today she is a lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and runs the Pufendorf IAS Migration Initiative. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Migration is a talking point everywhere – in politics, in the media, and not least in academia. It is often presented as problematic and demanding on resour

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-would-academia-be-without-migrants - 2025-08-25

Bringing together the three academies of music, art and theatre, and sorting out steering documents and routines are important tasks for Solfrid Söderlind, new Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Solfrid Söderlind is new Dean of Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Professor Söderlind has most recently worked on an inquiry for Uppsala University, and prior to that at the National Muse

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“Researchers and students are mobile in a completely different way from previously, but the regulations haven’t kept up. The EU needs to act to remove the most serious types of obstacle, for example between Sweden and Denmark, and urgently”, says Lund University’s HR director Ingrid Estrada-Magnusson. Sonja Meiby and Ingrid Estrada-Magnusson LERU stands for the League of European Research Universi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/europe-needs-improve-researcher-mobility - 2025-08-25

Lund University’s ‘critical friends’ and strategic advisors – the University Advisory Board – met over two intensive days in April the University Management to discuss LU’s development over the past year. The overall impression from the international experts was positive, especially with regard to research. On the education side, the university needs to put even more emphasis on the ongoing work t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-advisory-board-lund-university-needs-invest-education - 2025-08-25

“High-tech companies have fantastic support from the Taiwanese education system, which provides companies with competent staff. The link between industry and academia is impressive”, says Professor Lars Samuelson from the Nanometre Structure Consortium. Per Eriksson, Lars Samuelson, Anders Robertsson and Per Tunestål on a tour of the campus at Taiwan Tech in Taipei. In the background are Henrik Ho

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reconnaissance-taiwan-new-strategic-collaborations - 2025-08-25

The battle for real democracy in the Middle East will largely be decided in schools. The role of education in a democracy was also the theme of a workshop in Alexandria, where Swedish researchers met their Egyptian counterparts. The USI network organised the event on a hot topic in a country that needs to fight for democracy if it is to take root.   “Democracy in Egypt isn’t going to work unless p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/battle-democracy-decided-schools - 2025-08-25

Animal ecologist and pike researcher Anders Nilsson was the first doctor of the Millennium at Lund University. Now, 13 years later, he has just been appointed Professor of Aquatic Ecology. We caught up with him to find out what had happened since our last meeting, and had a long discussion on careers, creativity and the value of colleagues who provide a helping hand when times are hard. Anders Nil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/journey-doctor-professor - 2025-08-25