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There has been great and broad interest in the University’s international assistant professor (associate senior lecturer) positions and visiting professorships. In total, the University received 1,326 applications and the first selection phase has been completed. In October the top candidates began to arrive in Lund to present their research in tough competition. The call for applications referred
The most important mineral in today's electric car batteries is lithium. China completely dominates the market, with no extraction taking place in Europe. However, a new study shows that there is great potential for European lithium production, which would bring improvements in competitiveness, the climate and security. The study also points out that there are complex international trade dependenc
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-lithium-mines-could-cut-eu-imports-half - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “High-tech companies have fantastic support from the Taiwanese education system, which provides companies with competent staff. The link between industry and academia is impressive”, says Professor Lars Samuelson from the Nanometre Structure Consortium. Per Eriksson, Lars Samuelson, Anders Robertsson and Per Tunestål
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reconnaissance-taiwan-new-strategic-collaborations - 2026-05-01
PhD student Valentina works in the FORMAS-funded project Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation. She hopes her research will contribute to an understanding and visibilization of the transformative role that Environmental Human Rights Defenders can play within multiple crises, focusing not only on their experi
By studying how materials build themselves and by mimicking those processes, it is possible to create materials with new structures and properties. This is what Wallenberg Scholar Kimberly Dick Thelander, professor of materials science at Lund University, is doing. At the nano scale, which is measured in billionths of a meter, phenomena occur that do not otherwise exist. Thelander and her colleagu
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/were-trying-make-materials-are-more-sustainable-economically-well-environmentally - 2026-05-01
At the end of October Laura Duran Lozano successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Motivated by the idea of helping patients and families impacted by cancer, and as part of the EU CanFaster Program, she has spent the past four years working to identify predisposing genes for a type of bone marrow cancer known as Multiple Myeloma. In this interview, we learn how her collaborative research efforts hav
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 19-21 April 2017, the British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) will hold its annual conference in Nottingham. The conference is hosted by Nottingham University’s Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial Studies Centre. The keynote speaker is Urvashi Butal
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/basas-annual-conference-2017-nottingham - 2026-05-01
I meet Catarina Lindén on a rainy October morning at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. When we meet, she is still juggling two roles: her current position as acting Administrative Manager at the Department of Physics and her new role as Administrative Manager at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. In November, she will step into the new position full-time, ready to take on the task with full
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Två journaliststudenter kommer i sommar att leda en redaktion med 30 tonåringar från Malmö. Projektet som drivs av Malmö Stad i samarbete med Journalistutbildningen vid Lunds universitet ska ge ungdomarna nya kunskaper och möjligheter att visa upp sitt Malmö. Ung i Malmö är ett projekt som syftar till att föra fram
https://www.journalistik.lu.se/artikel/ny-plattform-ung-journalistik-leds-av-studenter-fran-lund - 2026-05-01
Rheumatologist Robin Kahn’s focus in research is children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Together with his research team, he is trying to find the answers to two questions: why certain children get this condition – and how can it be cured. “These two questions actually triggered me, and an entire team, to start doing research.” Robin Kahn is a senior consultant in paediatric rheumatology at S
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/children-always-ask-why-did-i-get - 2026-05-01
Have you always wanted to visit the cleanroom Lund Nano Lab? Or are you curious about how researchers separate cancer cells from the blood with lab-on-a-chip technique? Or – maybe you just want to make your own pH indicator out of red cabbage. We hope that you haven’t missed LTH’s Christmas calendar filled with exciting experiments. Each day a short film is being published, where students at LTH s
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/christmas-calendar-lth-gift-keeps-giving - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Christmas and New Year holidays did not turn out the way Caroline Nilsson intended. Instead of taking time off from her job as a research nurse in the POInT study, she had to step in and help out in a COVID-19 ward at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. For six weeks, Caroline Nilsson and two other colleagues from
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-nurse-caroline-her-time-covid-19-ward - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sara Nolbrant, from the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology lab, will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 31st of January. Researching in the group led by Malin Parmar, Sara has been directing and dissecting the fate of dopaminergic neurons with the aim developing cell replacement therapy for the treatment o
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-sara-nolbrant - 2026-05-01
The University has started a new initiative that involves inviting its new staff from far and wide to joint activities during the year. New international staff members and their families were recently welcomed to the new academic year at an event in the Main University Building. Specially invited staff members enjoyed a get-together and refreshments with music by Albin Rickman’s Trio and students
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-international-staff-members-were-welcomed-new-academic-year - 2026-05-02
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The interdisciplinary Pufendorf Institute has received excellent reviews in an international evaluation. The way people there think, experiment and collaborate across boundaries is impressive. According to the evaluators, the institute is now ready to also play a strategic role as the engine of interdisciplinary resea
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pufendorf-institute-ready-become-interdisciplinary-engine - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new epidemiological study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden shows that there is a connection between high levels of the gastrointestinal hormone GIP in the blood, and an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. It is well known that the intestinal hormones GIP and GLP-1 are important for i
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gut-hormone-can-increase-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new epidemiological study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden shows that there is a connection between high levels of the gastrointestinal hormone GIP in the blood, and an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. It is well known that the intestinal hormones GIP and GLP-1 are important for i
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gut-hormone-can-increase-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they ga
https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2026-05-01
A World War II pilot has been laid to rest in his hometown in Maine, following a complex recovery mission led by Lund University archaeologist Brendan Foley. US Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Ernest N. Vienneau was on a B-17 bomber that came under attack in 1944, and sank off the coast of Croatia. 77 years later, he has been brought home. WATCH VIDEO STORY “It was an honor to participate in this recovery
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-marine-archaeologist-leads-wwii-pilot-recovery - 2026-05-01
