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Students from all over the world are now arriving at Lund University. During Arrival Day they receive a warm welcome and practical help with everything from SIM cards to bed linen and their new everyday life in Sweden. The reception for international students for the autumn semester was on 19 August. The students come from over 100 countries, with the largest groups from Germany, China, the USA, N

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/1415-international-students-were-welcomed-during-arrival-day - 2026-07-16

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 - 2026-07-16

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-07-15

The street in front of the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) in Malmö is named after Professor Jan Waldenström. Who was he really? In a new biography, Professor Emeritus Frank Wollheim describes his life's work. "Jan Waldenström was an associate professor in Uppsala who, in 1943, described two blood diseases named after him, one called 'Macroglobulinemia'. In 1950 he became the first professor of med

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/biography-jan-waldenstrom-legendary-teacher-ahead-his-time - 2026-07-15

Following several years of project work, a unified education website has finally been published at lu.se and lunduniversity.lu.se. Students looking for summer courses and autumn programmes will find new and redesigned education pages where programmes and courses are presented step by step based on the prospective student’s decision-making process. A unified education website (Swedish abbreviation

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unified-education-website-now-live - 2026-07-16

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Oskar Hansson is professor of neurology at Lund University and us author of one of the most cited articles in geriatrics in the last 10 years, the The list of “Classic Papers” was produced by Google Scholar. The article, which was published in Lancet Neurology in 2006, came in fourth with nearly 1,400 citations. It is

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/congratulations-oskar-hansson-author-one-most-cited-articles-geriatrics-last-10-years - 2026-07-15

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. Read full newsletter here!Season's greetings from the team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies!CMES organised several major events during the latter part of the autumn semester. A topical public seminar was co-organised with Peace and Conflict Studies, focusing

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-55-0 - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Thursday 23 March 2017, 16.00 Ida Sofie Matzen held a lecture entitled: "Extremists of Love: Cosmological Activism among Pakistani Sufi Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The lecture was jointly organised by the Center for Middle Eastern St

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/extremists-love-cosmological-activism-among-pakistani-sufi-muslims - 2026-07-15

Region Skåne's biobank is part of Biobank Sweden. On July 1 2023, the new biobank law came into force, and in connection with this, the procedures for how you apply to gain access to the biobank's samples were updated. If you plan to use biobank samples for your research project where Lund University is the research principal, a biobank agreement with Region Skåne's biobank is required. A biobank

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/how-make-your-biobank-application - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In 2009, homosexuality was decriminalised in India. Gender studies scholar Maria Tonini happened to be there and decided to write a doctoral thesis on how decriminalisation affected LGBTQ people in everyday life. Maria Tonini recently defended her thesis in Gender Studies . “Many of the young people I interviewed belo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/demanding-family-relationships-pressure-lgbtq-youth-india - 2026-07-15

Last fall, Lund University's first course in research coordination started at the Faculty of Medicine. Course leaders Cecilia Lenander and Peter Svensson have all reasons to be happy about the number of applicants to the course in research coordination: 109 applicants, of which 74  first-hand applicants, shows that there is a high demand for education in the field.Last fall, Lund University's firs

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/high-number-applicants-popular-course-research-coordination - 2026-07-15

Anton who has been doing his research at the Department of Economic History recently nailed his dissertation: "Aging, Work, and Family", here at LUSEM. He is preparing his defense for 21 May, but we had a chance to ask him a few questions during these busy days. Anton is practically a local, having grown up in Hörby, just a half hour drive from Lund. He came to the university straight out of highs

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-thesis-three-questions-anton-svensson - 2026-07-16

Digitala trygghetslarm, medicinrobotar och digitala lås är vanliga lösningar på äldreomsorgens växande resursutmaningar. Men hur upplever användarna själva tekniken de får i sina hem? En ny avhandling från Samantha Svärdh, doktorand i forskargruppen Tillämpad Gerontologi vid Lunds universitet, visar att välfärdsteknik framför allt bidrar till deras trygghet. I en enkätstudie med drygt 400 hemtjäns

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/valfardsteknik-ger-trygghet-men-inte-alltid-ett-aktivt-och-delaktigt-liv - 2026-07-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. 119 000 personer har på torsdagen laddat ned och använt appen COVID Symptom Tracker. Appen används i en forskningsstudie på Lunds universitet för att förstå och kartlägga covid-19 i Sverige. - Våra preliminära beräkningar är att 1,5-3,5 procent av den svenska befolkningen i åldern 18-70 år just nu har en symtombild

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/forsta-berakningarna-fran-forskningsstudie-om-covid-19-klara - 2026-07-15

Digitala trygghetslarm, medicinrobotar och digitala lås är vanliga lösningar på äldreomsorgens växande resursutmaningar. Men hur upplever användarna själva tekniken de får i sina hem? En ny avhandling från Samantha Svärdh, doktorand i forskargruppen Tillämpad Gerontologi vid Lunds universitet, visar att välfärdsteknik framför allt bidrar till deras trygghet. I en enkätstudie med drygt 400 hemtjäns

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/valfardsteknik-ger-trygghet-men-inte-alltid-ett-aktivt-och-delaktigt-liv - 2026-07-15

For the 10th time, Lund University is organising Sustainability Week together with Lund Municipality. With over 70 events over six days, sustainability topics will be highlighted in different ways within social, ecological and economic sustainability. It is a week of discussion and action, serious issues and hopeful visions of the future. LTH organizes its own events and participates in those orga

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/sustainability-week-2026-lths-program - 2026-07-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Ett internationellt forskningssamarbete lett från universiteten i Helsingfors och Oxford har identifierat en biologisk mekanism som skyddar mot typ 2-diabetes. Studien som publiceras i tidskriften Nature Genetics visar att en mutation i en gen som kodar för zinktransportörer minskar risken för typ 2-diabetes genom a

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/genmutation-som-skyddar-mot-typ-2-diabetes-kartlagd - 2026-07-15

https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-coat-arms-and-cognitive-warfare-52000-readers-reached-conversation - 2026-07-15

Den 31 oktober samlas representanter från världens alla hörn i Glasgow för att delta i FN:s stora klimattoppmöte COP26 som ska pågå i två veckor. Förväntningarna är skyhöga efter fjolårets inställda konferens och den alarmerande rapport som FN:s klimatpanel IPCC släppte i augusti. Men vad kan vi egentligen förvänta oss av mötet? Vad står på spel och vad har utkomsten för betydelse? Fem Lundaforska

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/klimattoppmotet-i-glasgow-vad-handlar-det-om-och-vad-spelar-det-roll - 2026-07-15

“My stay here has not only given me practical access to sources and libraries. Being in a different academic environment has also given me new ideas and perspectives on what we do in Lund.” These are the words of historian Marie Cronqvist, who moved to Berlin with her husband and children last summer. Now it will soon be time to go home, but before that LUM had time to meet them and find out about

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finding-new-inspiration-berlin - 2026-07-15