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On Wednesday 27 May, the Faculty of Science officially inaugurated its new Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo) with music, panel discussions, seminars and an exhibition on minerals important for the green transition. Almost five months after the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Geology and the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sci
On Wednesday 27 May, the Faculty of Science officially inaugurated its new Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo) with music, panel discussions, seminars and an exhibition on minerals important for the green transition. Almost five months after the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Geology and the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sci
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. As researchers today, we face greater expectations than ever that our research should contribute to the benefit of society. Traditionally, to develop and commercialize ideas has not been an obvious career path for researchers. However, over the last couple of years we have seen an increased interest among researcher
https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/learn-how-commercialise-your-research-our-75-ects-phd-course - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A pioneering permafrost study has just been released in the online journal Nature Communications, showing that in all permafrost regions, soil temperatures rose by an average of 0,3 degrees Celsius between 2007 and 2016. Margareta Johansson, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at L
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/permafrost-soils-warming-global-scale - 2026-07-21
Over the summer, three articles from Lund University garnered record numbers of readers. An article by Inês Bramão and Mikael Johansson at the Department of Psychology is the most-read article from Lund University in years. The article, "The people we like can influence the connections our memory makes," was republished in a Greek journal, and it is these republications that help articles reach a
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/record-breaking-numbers-ines-and-mikaels-article-conversation - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Earlier this week SASNET received a message that the founder and former director of SASNET, Professor Emeritus Staffan Lindberg has died. It is with great sadness that we learned of Staffan’s passing. Staffan was to the very end very active in SASNET, not only as a mentor to current director Andreas Johansson, but als
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/staffan-lindberg-memoriam-1943-2019 - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are te
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2026-07-21
On Friday 13 December, Petra Östergren successfully defended her thesis ‘Sweden's Ban on Sex-Purchase: Morality politics and the governance of prostitution’ and can now call herself a doctor in social anthropology. The thesis examines Sweden's 1998 ban on buying sex. The material was collected between 2009 and 2019 and analyses the law from legal, political and social perspectives as well as withi
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/petra-ostergren-has-defended-her-thesis-swedish-sex-purchase-act - 2026-07-21
Mats Urde, brand researcher at Lund University School of Economics and Management, has been named Outstanding Case Teacher 2021. He has been a committed advocate of the case methodology throughout his professional life. Now, he is rewarded for his efforts. On “World Case Teaching Day” 5 February, he is named – as the first Swede – Outstanding Case Teacher. The 500 member organisations in the Case
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mats-urde-wins-prestigious-teaching-excellence-award - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden has shown robust performance upon clinical validation and application. The test detects antibodies in the blood targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, and determines in just 15 minutes whether a person has had COVID-19, regardless of
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-rapid-and-robust-covid-19-antibody-test-developed - 2026-07-21
A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden has shown robust performance upon clinical validation and application. The test detects antibodies in the blood targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, and determines in just 15 minutes whether a person has had COVID-19, regardless of whether they have had any symptoms. “Unlike other serological tests to determine
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-rapid-and-robust-covid-19-antibody-test-developed - 2026-07-21
Director Barry Ness and Deputy Director Torsten Krause are deeply honoured and proud of Lund University’s remarkable achievement of securing the top position in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026. The ranking includes around 2,000 higher education institutions from about 100 countries and measures how universities contribute to a sustainable future – through research, education,
Albert already had an active carreer when he decided to go back to school to study Culture and Creativity management. Today he is working with a big series of events as a lead producer for the 25th anniversary of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He looks back at his time in Sweden as a great experience! What did you do before you started studying the Master’s programme in Service Management? "I am
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-alumni-albert-montanez - 2026-07-21
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Hållbarhetsveckan är ett årligt event i Lund där universitetet, Lunds kommun, organisationer och andra intresserade fyller en vecka med aktiviteter kring hållbarhet! I år går veckan av stapeln den 8 till 13 april på temat "Transforming our World" - med fokus på de globala målen för hållbar utveckling. Forskare från
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/samhallsvetare-pa-hallbarhetsveckan - 2026-07-21
Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs. Using a uniquely well-preserved fossil, the team has also created the scientifically most up-to-date reconstruction of an ichthyosaur currently available. Fish lizards, or ichthyosaurs, were a very successful group of animals that, much like today's whales, migrated f
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-ancient-fish-lizard - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One wants to shed new light on mysterious dark matter. The other wants to understand how tendons are constructed and how they heal after an injury. Researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni and professor of biomedical technology Hanna Isaksson are now receiving SEK 40 million from the European Research Council
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grant-two-lund-university-researchers - 2026-07-21
For twenty years now, LTH has educated students in the programme Master of Science in Engineering Nanoscience. It’s an education that blurs the boundaries between traditional fields of knowledge such as biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, and electronics. “It felt very solemn and nice to celebrate 20 years. The students I talked to thought it was inspiring to hear alumni talk about the
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-longer-just-buzzword-science-fiction - 2026-07-21
Most researchers want to do things correctly and much of the time this is straightforward: you do not need instructions in order to understand that you are to write your own text and not plagiarise others. But not all rules and processes are as obvious and some change over time. In interviews with researchers connected to the HR Excellence in Research project, it emerged that many struggle to alwa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-guide-makes-it-easier-researchers-do-things-correctly - 2026-07-22
Lund University Press is Lund University’s own publishing house, and it aims to bring high-quality research to a global audience. From previously primarily focusing on the humanities and theology, Lund University Press is now open to book proposals from all subject areas at the University. Lund University Press publishes scholarly books with the aim of making research from Lund University accessib
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-press-seeking-book-proposals-across-university - 2026-07-22
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A forest management method different to those practised today would contribute to greater welfare and wellbeing for society in general, compared with current methods that mainly benefit the forestry industry. This has been shown in a new study by two researchers from Lund University in Sweden. There is an intensive de
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-values-society - 2026-07-21
