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Jasmine Bray was advised against travelling but is very happy to be in Lund. Photo:Maria Lindh Despite the pandemic, the mood is good among those working with international students. Richard Stenelo and Louise Corrigan think it is fantastic that so many of them have managed to arrive in Lund. “They have defied obstacles such as closed airports and vacated embassies. The most creative students seem

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-students-managed-arrive-lund - 2025-09-13

Heleneholm as a campus area for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts has gained momentum. Photo: David Castor/wikimedia commons With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the blueprint for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts’ future co-location. “Imagine creating a camp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2025-09-14

The year 2024 was a record year for Lund University in terms of the number of articles published in The Conversation. Fifty-five articles by 50 researchers amassed a total of 1.6 million reads. Mikael Roll, a researcher at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, topped the list with an article about the brain and reading. The Conversation is an international news website that gives researc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-breaks-record-conversation-2024 - 2025-09-14

Earning money on the book is not an incentive for either of them. Charlotta Turner intends to donate her share to Nadia Nurad’s initiative to rebuild the villages destroyed by ISIS. Former doctoral student Firas Jumaah and supervisor Charlotta Turner have had a special bond since 2014, when Jumaah and his family got caught up in the first ISIS lightning offensive in Iraq.  Employing far-reaching m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2025-09-13

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Apply for your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleagues can easily find them

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2025-09-14

The graduating students of the new MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice are working intensively on their final projects this Spring. On April 9 - 16 they invite you all for a preview of what is to come, when they present work-in-progress showings both at Malmö Theatre Academy, Skånes Dansteater and Community Kultur Centrum. This is not their final showings, those will take place in May at Malmö

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-work-progress-showings-2025 - 2025-09-13

Photo: Mikael Stiernstedt The National Molecular Medicine Fellows Program - NMMP - is a collaborative program between the four Wallenberg centres and SciLifeLab that was established in 2017. The aims of the program is to improve scientific networks and collaborations across Sweden, as well as to increase the awareness and accessibility of the cutting-edge infrastructure at SciLifeLab.  Over the ye

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nmmp-annual-scientific-conference-2023 - 2025-09-13

The research team from LTH and Tetra Pak - Mathias Wallin, Sara Johansson and Johan Tryding. Photo: Kennet Ruona There are many requirements on the food packaging of the future. They must be better and safer than today, while also environment-friendly, cost-effective, and aesthetically pleasing. In the product development race, Tetra Pak has teamed up with the Faculty of Engineering in Lund – LTH.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-better-packaging - 2025-09-13

Sociologist Ingrid van Dijk. Photo: Louise Larsson They come from different academic disciplines but have all ended up at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University. Join Ingrid van Dijk, Finn Hedefalk and Björn Eriksson in a conversation about the conditions for early-career researchers, learning from senior colleagues, and passing the torch on. “One of the most enjoyable parts of our

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/knowledge-transfer-way-forward-early-career-researchers - 2025-09-14

Vanya Darakchieva is a professor of solid state physics at LTH. Photo: Jenny Leyman What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-09-14

Isabel Gonçalves and Andreas Edsfeldt have analysed atherosclerotic plaques from patients who have type 2 diabetes and patients who do not have the disease. Photo: Petra Olsson People with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease and dying prematurely due to atherosclerosis. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has now identified molecular mechanisms that may

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-explanation-dangerous-atherosclerotic-plaques-type-2-diabetes - 2025-09-13

If Stig Steen had followed his childhood dream, he would have become a speed skater. Instead he became a thoracic surgeon and researcher in physiology and medical technology. Photo: Kennet Ruona He has designed a transport box that keeps hearts alive outside the body and developed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device. But during a visit to nuns in Africa, he was suspected of being a spy. M

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cardiothoracic-innovator - 2025-09-14

Eva Nordmark comes to Humlamaden three times a week to help look after the horses. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Eva Nordmark was 62 when she received her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. But rather than life ending, it gave her the chance to reclaim parts of her life that she had not previously had time for. It is a sunny autumn day at the Humlamaden rehab centre outside Veberöd, and the stable is full of life and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-memory-fails - 2025-09-13

We are seeing dramatic growth in forest-based carbon offsets, even though carbon stored in trees cannot compensate for continued fossil fuel emissions. Photo: Marita Kavelashvili Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain largely absent. The COP26 a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2025-09-13

Katrine Skovgård defends her thesis 19 January 2023. Katrine Skovgård’s Ph.D. project sheds light on the dysfunctions in the brain through which dopaminergic pharmacotherapies for Parkinson’s disease affect motor behaviors. January 19, she defends her thesis. She explains how better experimental models might improve future translational research on dyskinesia. You presented your research at the Mu

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/why-dopamine-receptor-type-matters-phd-interview-katrine-skovgard - 2025-09-13

Data from more than 400 000 patients in different countries will be used to increase knowledge and improve treatment of prostate cancer. This is all taking place within the international big data for better outcome (BD4BO) project PIONEER, in which Lund University has a prominent role. Despite intensive research, there are many unanswered questions concerning prostate cancer – one of the most comm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prostate-cancer-questions-could-be-answered-through-big-data-project - 2025-09-13

On May 29th, the Helsingborg Innovation District, a collaboration platform and catalyst for innovation, research, and development, will be inaugurated. On May 29th, the Helsingborg Innovation District, a collaboration platform and catalyst for innovation, research, and development, will be inaugurated. The innovation district is initiated by the City of Helsingborg, Lund University, Region Skåne,

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/new-innovation-district-increase-regions-innovative-capacity - 2025-09-13

Labubu, the main figure in one of Ming Gao's most-read articles in The Conversation, shows how China's soft power can emerge spontaneously. Photo: Unsplash Geopolitical issues, medical breakthroughs and cultural history topics have dominated the first eight months of the year. Researchers such as Ming Gao, Tabita Rosendal, Martin L Olsson and Jill Storry are behind some of the most read articles o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-million-readers-conversation-so-far-year - 2025-09-14

Jason Diakité. Photo: Jenny Leyman The next-door neighbour whose home you’ve never been inside. That was how Jason Diakité, also known as hip hop artist Timbuktu, felt about the University while growing up in Lund. Today, he feels differently – having been awarded an honorary doctorate and now taking his seat as one of LU’s external Cultural Council members. Inside the historic Old Bishop’s House,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/timbuktu-universitys-cultural-council-glimpse-under-bonnet - 2025-09-14

William Agace, Professor at Mucosal Immunology at Dep. of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University. Photo: Agata Garpenlind He was selling carpets on Mårtenstorget in Lund, applying for all kinds of jobs and answered an advert from the Department of Clinical Immunology, Lund University, for a lab technician job. He didn´t get the job. Instead he was asked if he wanted to start a Ph.D. A few

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/carpets-market-academy-professor - 2025-09-13