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 - 2025-08-23

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

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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 - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

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

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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 - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

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

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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 - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

“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 - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

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

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Larry W. Swanson was among 100 most cited researchers in the world, all categories, between 1980 and 2000. In mid-May, he was invited as this year’s Segerfalk Lecturer to Neuroscience Day, organized by the Segerfalk Foundation. Larry W. Swanson has developed the so-called four-component model of how the brain works. Larry W Swanson ”Humans have been thinking about how the nervous system works sinc

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USI, Universities and Swedish Institutes in Collaboration for Internationalisation, has held its annual meeting in Athens. Collaboration with partner universities in the host countries around the Mediterranean is intensifying. The new thematic seminars initiative has proved fruitful and it is hoped it will become a permanent feature. The Acropolis watches over the Swedish Institute’s roof terrace

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fieldwork-across-disciplines-and-borders-inspires-new-research - 2025-08-23

“The state sold us for 49 years.” These are the words of one of the farmers that doctoral student Mine Islar has interviewed in Turkey. Her recently completed thesis is about the conflicts that have arisen when the government gives private companies the right to the water in several Turkish rivers. Mine Islar. “The rivers are ‘leased’ to the companies for 49 years. However, the fact that the lease

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-community-protests-against-leasing-rivers - 2025-08-23

Cross-disciplinary collaborations, the development of new technology and investment in a technical laboratory are key success factors, according to Professor Susanne Åkesson, coordinator of CAnMove, which is now preparing for its mid-way evaluation. The research in CAnMove was awarded a Linnaeus grant in 2008. Susanne Åkesson, the programme coordinator, is pleased with how the project has progress

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cross-disciplinary-approach-factor-canmoves-success - 2025-08-23

Two full-time technicians help biology researchers to realise new ingenious ways of gathering data on how animals move. Thanks to computer chips, wireless communication and nanotechnology, the researchers can achieve groundbreaking results. Johan Bäckman and Arne Andersson sort out the technology for CAnMove projects.Photo: Lena Björk Blixt We walk along one of the corridors on the second floor of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-facilitators - 2025-08-23