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It is not every day that the inauguration of a toilet draws a hundred spectators. Such a toilet would have to be pretty special – and this one is. It is special because it is flushed using rain water gathered from the roof of Kemicentrum. LUM was able to follow the rainwater’s journey from parapet to porcelain. An ordinary toilet flush uses around five litres of water. The water used is the same a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rain-roof-restroom - 2026-08-16
Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything that exists. The rest is invisible dark matter and dark energy. Particle physicist Ruth Pöttgen is one of the Lund University researchers involved in the search for the mysterious dark matter of the universe. She is standing at her whiteboard in a small office at Fysicum. With the help of her pen, Ruth Pöttgen tries to pain
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-shadow-invisible - 2026-08-16
You are at the shop to buy food for the weekend. The shop’s security guard is keeping a close eye on you and you start to get nervous. He approaches you and you feel that you are starting to break out in a sweat. What the heck does he really want? This is not happening for real. It is just a situation in a virtual world, tailor-made for violent criminals to train them to control their aggression.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/captivating-vr - 2026-08-16
The results from the autumn travel habits survey show that a majority of the University’s staff (approx. 80%) get to and from work by walking, cycling or using public transport. This is a higher percentage than for other large organisations in Lund. However, there is potential for even more people to commute sustainably by investments in public transport and measures to promote cycling on campus.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-staff-are-best-sustainable-commuting - 2026-08-16
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you leave work full of energy and excited about what the rest of the day has to offer? If not – maybe it is worth trying to improve recovery during the working day. Lina Ejlertsson's thesis is about recovery of staff in one of the most stressful work environments – healthcare centres. She says we have a certain am
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recover-during-working-day - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Infertility is now a condition as common as diabetes. On the one hand, women are waiting until they are older to have children, which makes it more difficult to get pregnant, but some studies also indicate a drastic decline in sperm counts in men over the past 50 years. Repro Union 2.0 is a Danish-Swedish initiative t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-infertility-project-focuses-men - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RQ20, the new major research quality evaluation, is underway! It is based on self-evaluations and will involve around 5 000 members of staff. In contrast to the last time, in 2008, there is no extra money for the fields of research that come out best. There will be no grades or gold stars. “However, the evaluation wil
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-be-evaluated-without-grades-or-gold-stars - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz is convinced that leadership at the University is a momentous question. “If we are perceived as being incapable of making uncomfortable decisions, there is a risk that we will see the same changes here as in other places such as Denmark – that collegial leadership is replaced by pu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-its-important-managers-be-able-make-uncomfortable-decisions - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, e
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kidney exchange, refugee placements and choosing schools. Separate things but with the common denominator that, with digitalisation's new tools, it is possible to save both time and money – and to save lives. "I don't like it when I see things that are wrong which research could solve. Then it is up to me to take my
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/algorithm-maker-saving-lives - 2026-08-17
Six researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center have been awarded SEK 13.4 million from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund, Barncancerfonden, in its latest funding round. The projects address key challenges in childhood cancer, from understanding how the disease develops to designing treatments that are more precise and less harmful for young patients. In total, Barncancerfonden is inves
WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment in materials science in Sweden and is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. WISE is now investing 500 million SEK (45 million Euros) for equipment and infrastructure at seven universities in Sweden to establish a national infrastructure for research into sustainable materials. Close
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2026-08-17
Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy metals in hedgehogs from other urban areas in Europe and
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-levels-environmental-pollutants-and-heavy-metals-hedgehogs - 2026-08-17
Recent developments in Iran highlight the complex interplay between domestic unrest, regional conflict and global geopolitics. At a CMES panel at Lund University, researchers and practitioners explored possible futures for Iran — emphasising uncertainty, internal dynamics and the limits of external intervention. The event opened with remarks by Lund University Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström.A compl
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/what-does-future-hold-iran-insights-cmes-panel-discussion - 2026-08-17
Migrant farm workers are some of the most vulnerable people within the global agricultural system. Now climate change is increasingly affecting their health and wellbeing, as well as agricultural production, exacerbating poverty and inequality for people making their living on farm labour. Ongoing research at LUCSUS is studying how climate change, both extreme events such as droughts, floods and f
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-climate-change-affecting-lives-farm-workers-case-turkey-and-colombia - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Four months ago, Professor Moheiddin Homeidi came to Lund from Syria as the first researcher the University has received through the network Scholars at Risk. Despite the start not being as he imagined he sees exciting opportunities in his new research community. On the Ebla Private University website, there is a pho
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syrian-linguist-given-sanctuary-lu - 2026-08-17
Using fishing-rods laced with dental floss and the Nobel-prize winning Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology, Nathalie Feiner wants to reveal some of the deepest mysteries of evolution. At the root of it all: a heartfelt love of lizards. Lying on a thin branch in the terrarium on Nathalie Feiner’s desk in the Department of Biology is a grey-speckled anolis lizard, looking out over the empty coffee c
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lizards-key-evolutionary-mysteries - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. So say Mats Benner and Freddy Ståhlberg after having reviewed both self-evaluations and assessor reports. The RQ20 Research Quality Evaluation Project is now entering its final phase and, so far, the results are looking good. “But it would be out of the question for us to sit back now just because we’re known globally
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rq20-research-still-evaluated-despite-pandemic-obstacles - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He has advised management groups across the University for three decades. Now, the psychologist and leadership consultant Thomas Sewerin has defended his PhD – on leadership in academia. Among other things, he has looked at how disagreements can pave the way for both failure and success. In one of the four case studi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/many-constructive-disagreements-successful-research-group - 2026-08-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What do human remains really have to do with a museum? When Lund University closed the Department of Anatomy of 1995, its collection of human remains was transferred to the Historical Museum. Now, the museum wants to conduct a proper review of the collection in order to communicate more about it. Human remains in a mu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-want-shine-light-dark-chapter - 2026-08-17
