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Pathologists and coroners are now commonplace in crime novels and TV crime series and are often depicted as slightly odd people. Elisabet Englund has worked at the Division of Pathology in Lund for over 40 years. She has often been told that she is a little ‘too happy’ to be a pathologist. “Yes, there is a stereotype of people who work with dead people, which perhaps contributes to the mystificati
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/death-our-textbook-life - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 means, Charlotta Turner managed to get them back to Lund unharmed. Now they have written a book togeth
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2026-05-01
Att äta ost och grädde med hög fetthalt kan ha ett samband med en lägre risk för att utveckla demens. Det visar en ny stor studie vid Lunds universitet. Forskarna analyserade kostvanor hos drygt 27 000 personer och kopplade dessa till förekomsten av demens under en uppföljningstid på upp till 25 år. Debatten om fettsnåla dieter har länge format våra hälsoråd och påverkat hur vi ser på mat och häls
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/fet-ost-kopplas-till-lagre-risk-demens - 2026-04-30
The SNIC Large Fall 2021 and LUMI Sweden Fall 2021 calls are open. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2021 at 3 PM CEST. Please note that there are three calls–one each for Large compute, Large storage, and LUMI Sweden. SNIC Large compute call The call for compute at the SNIC website: https://snic.se/allocations/compute/large-allocations/ The call for compute in SUPR: https://supr.snic.se/
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/snic-large-and-lumi-sweden-fall-2021-calls-are-open - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Odeum welcomes all new and old students! Hälsningsgillet, which takes place every semester in the AF castle, is an old cherished tradition in Lund. This year, Hälsningsgillet changes its format and becomes digital. Take the chance to meet people, associations, unions, nations and companies and visit Hälsningsgillet's
https://www.odeum.lu.se/en/article/digital-halsningsgillet - 2026-05-01
What should you do when the urge to buy just rolls over you? The sale will end shortly, stock is running low and the “Buy Now - button” screams your name. Leading up to Black Friday, consumption researcher Carys Egan-Wyer from LUSEM has some advice for you. It's all about convincing us that we have short-lived access to a special price, which in reality might not be true at all. Pushy patterns are
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/black-friday-ultimate-pushy-pattern - 2026-04-29
On Saturday 16 September, there will be Lund Culture Night with a lot of activities from Lund University open for everyone. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme. Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of the activities i
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-16-september - 2026-04-29
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. Meet Stig Steen, a post-retirement professor of thoracic surgery, who is driven by an unshakeable belief that the greatest things in life are on the other side of the mountain. If Stig Steen had f
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cardiothoracic-innovator - 2026-04-30
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Hälften av oss har en genetisk mutation som utvecklades när människan började odla marken och tillreda mat. Mutationen gör att vi bättre klarar av den kolhydratstinna och sockerrika maten som jordbruket erbjöd. Hälften av oss har inte den mutationen, modern kost pressar upp blodsockret och med det ökar risken för ty
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/mutation-gjorde-oss-battre-att-tala-modern-sockerrik-mat - 2026-05-01
LU researchers Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant each, for their research on innovation and knowledge dynamics and automated vehicles respectively. The ERC Starting Grant is aimed at researchers in the early stages of their career, and scientific excellence is the only selection criterion. This year, more than 4,000 researchers in Europe applied for t
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-lu-researchers-receive-erc-starting-grants - 2026-05-01
That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps unexpected. Health economics is a way of evaluating the potential health benefits of different interventions, setting them against the economic cost and their impact on society. Over two million people in Sweden are currently living with cardiovascular
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2026-04-30
At the turn of the year, the Department of Gender Studies became the Division of Gender Studies alongside the Divisions of Social Anthropology and Sociology in a new larger Department. The work with the merger include reviewing all system technical aspects so that the transition will take place as smoothly as possible. “We have also set up a committee with representatives from the various discipli
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-year-new-department - 2026-05-01
CMES researcher and physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be significant if, once the fighting between Israel and Hamas is over, questions of possible war crimes are raised at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Lina Eklund, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosys
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2026-05-01
The current interdisciplinary research groups at Pufendorf IAS offer a palette of inspiring events. All events are free of charge, but you need to register for them. Greyzone Genomics - 7 May7 May Theme Greyzone Genomics which will take Pufendorf IAS on a road trip to Stockholm and hold their event at (and with) the Swedish Defence University. Topics during the day: Risk assessment of targeted bio
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pufendorf-themes-invite-you-their-end-events - 2026-04-30
A newly started project is to produce a web solution to support potential students in the process of choosing courses and programmes. The decision to implement the project “A unified web experience for education” was taken at the Vice-Chancellor’s decision-making meeting on 30 November. The aim of the “a unified web experience for education” project is to create a modern service website that provi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-web-solution-will-focus-prospective-students - 2026-04-30
"The Econometric Game" i Amsterdam är en tävling som kallas världsmästerskap inom ekonometri. 2021 vann Ekonomihögskolan denna tävling och i år är det dags igen! Ekonomihögskolan representerades av fyra deltagare: två doktorander i nationalekonomi, Christina Maschmann och Tilman Bretschneider, samt två masterstudenter Ida Haggren och Benjámin Olivér Maday som strax avslutar sina masterutbildningar
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ekonomihogskolan-vinner-econometric-games - 2026-05-01
Simon Boas, who wrote a candid account of living with cancer, passed away on July 15 at the age of 47. In a recent BBC interview, the former aid worker told the reporter: “My pain is under control and I’m terribly happy – it sounds weird to say, but I’m as happy as I’ve ever been in my life.”It may seem odd that a person could be happy as the end draws near, but in my experience as a clinical psyc
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/why-are-some-people-happy-when-they-are-dying - 2026-05-01
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 - 2026-04-30
