Magnus Gudmundsson and Göran Sandberg. Photo:Kennet Ruona On 1 January 2020, a new law will come into force that means that cases concerning research misconduct are to be forwarded to a new national board exclusively dedicated to this. At Lund University, this will involve two or three current cases that will not be finalised in time.  "The purpose of the act is good, however, the allocation of re

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-national-board-take-over-cases-research-misconduct - 2025-08-23

Stephan Reber with two of the alligators he works with. Photo: Kennet Ruona “Toke is shy but does the most exploring of all of them, while Siggi is relaxed and friendly. But you have to know them to be able to work with them”, says cognitive scientist Stephan Reber. He is not talking about his colleagues but the alligators now on site in Ystad zoo, where the researchers have a specially adapted fa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/alligators-are-key-world-dinosaurs - 2025-08-23

Pictured left to right: Blerim Emruli, Erik Påander, Jordina De Sousa, Iván Ortiz Del Noval & Alfriyadi Rafles. Photo: Carla Böhme. Students on the Master's Programme in Information Systems have the opportunity to earn valuable business analytics certificates to boost their resumes. The international Master's Programme in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/students-empowered-industry-recognised-certificates - 2025-08-23

“My goal is to complete the southern Swedish tree chronology. However, there is a lot of work remaining. So I should be busy until I retire”, says Johannes Edvardsson: Photo:Kennet Ruona By analysing the growth rings from trees that are several thousand years old, preserved in peat bogs, geologist Johannes Edvardsson is creating a unique timeline of Sweden’s historical climate. The buried time cap

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chainsaw-geologist-studies-historical-climate-change-growth-rings - 2025-08-23

Airtravel to Stockholm decreased 2019 among Lund University staff. Photo: Eugene Sergeev/Mostphotos In 2019, the number of flights for business travel decreased by nearly 10 per cent at the University. At the same time, train travel increased by 20 per cent.   “There are many deliberate individual decisions behind this. We are on the right track!” says the head of sustainability Claes Nilén. When

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-flights-lund-university-staff-2019 - 2025-08-23

Nerve cells created from stem cells. Photo: Janko Kajtez /Parmar Group Thanks to stem cell research, we now understand much more about the earliest stages of human development and what underlies many of our diseases. In recent years, the field has been revolutionised by several discoveries that have completely changed the landscape of stem cell research. Since its establishment as a strategic rese

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/twenty-years-revolutionary-stem-cell-research - 2025-08-24

Derek Logan, Ulf Nilsson and Karin Lindkvist are all adding bits to solve the protein puzzle. Photo: Tove Smeds Research is like solving a puzzle, some might say. One of the biggest of these is the body’s proteins – with over 90,000 pieces to keep track of. LUM meets three professors of protein to understand what makes the subject so fascinating and how they are working to understand when proteins

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-professors-puzzle - 2025-08-24

Fredrik Tufvesson, a professor of Communications Engineering at LTH, is in the midst of developing 6G technology for use in the 2030s. Photo: Jessika Sellergren Everyone is familiar with the frustration that comes when otherwise excellent mobile phone reception suddenly drops out. The moment when all mobile communication becomes impossible. But why does this happen and what is really behind the nu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/energy-efficiency-key-future-6g-technology - 2025-08-24

Sverre Spoelstra is currently doing research on gamification in high-performance organisations and algorithmic leadership. Photo: Louise Larsson In just a few years, artificial intelligence has gone from horror film bogie man to a tool integrated into every phone and computer. From spell check to shopping recommendations – and now to allocating tasks at work and measuring performance. LUM met with

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/will-your-next-boss-be-artificially-intelligent - 2025-08-24

Annika Olsson, dean of LTH, Magnus Genrup, head of the Department of Energy Sciences, and Karolina Isaksson, Head of Finance at LTH. Photo: Kennet Ruona, Johan Persson and private Lund University’s researchers are good at applying for and obtaining external research grants. But many funding bodies require faculties and departments to co-fund research projects, something that is becoming a major fi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/co-funding-increasingly-difficult-challenge - 2025-08-24

Illustration: Axel Brechensbauer One of the biggest perks of teaching at university? Supervising students and seeing them grow into their role. That is at least according to senior lecturers Olof Hallonsten and Anna Jonsson. Detectives with magnifying glasses and catching and preparing a fish. Those are two of the metaphors that Anna Jonsson and Olof Hallonsten use to explain the relationship betw

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/comic-strips-and-metaphors-help-students-reflect - 2025-08-24

The core samples of millennia-old ice bear witness of severe solar storms long ago. Photo: Raimund Muscheler Contained within Greenland’s millennia-old ice are the traces of gigantic solar storms. Geology professor Raimund Muscheler is now undertaking a major initiative to chart the storms back through time, to improve our knowledge of potentially dangerous solar flares. Our sun is currently in an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ice-stone-age-might-reveal-future-solar-storms - 2025-08-24

Tony Ingesson and David Gisselsson Nord. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with the help of methods from espionage and intelligence analysis. Tony Ingesson finds it fairly easy

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2025-08-24

Kerstin och Hans Persson hade länge funderat på att donera till välgörenhet men inte hittat något ändamål som kändes rätt. Det var inte förrän deras barnbarn, som vid födseln visade sig bära på den potentiellt dödliga Hirschsprungs sjukdom som de bestämde sig. Tack vare parets donation kan forskare vid Lunds universitet nu fortsätta bedriva sitt angelägna arbete och förhoppningsvis lägga grunden t

https://www.lu.se/artikel/donation-sprider-ljus-over-hirschsprungs-sjukdom - 2025-08-23

Anna Marseglia kommer att leda en multidisciplinär forskargrupp, med expertis inom geriatrisk epidemiologi, psykologi, medicinsk sociologi, neurovetenskap och ingenjörsvetenskap. Foto: Jesse Orrico/Unsplash SWEAH-alumnen Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå universitet, får Fortes etableringsbidrag och alumnerna Anna Marseglia och Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, får Fortes projektbidrag. Det stod klart i utdelningsbeslute

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/miljoner-till-sweah-alumners-projekt - 2025-08-23

Förs­ta tidskrif­ter­na på Publi­ce­ra banar väg för fler KB:s nationella plattform för öppet vetenskapliga tidskrifter har under sommaren publicerat sina första nummer. Det handlar om tidskrifterna Current Swedish Archaeology, Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap och Kulturella Perspektiv. Hur den här plattformen i framtiden kommer förhålla sig till LU:s lokala OJS-installation får vi anledning att

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-september-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-2 - 2025-08-23

Vombsjön i grönska. Foto: Karin Rengefors Miljövetaren Emma Enström är CEC:s första industridoktorand och hennes forskning syftar till att skapa en mer hållbar vattenförvaltning i Sverige. Nu deltar hon i Sweden Water Research-dagen och berättar om utmaningarna när det gäller den skånska dricksvattenkällan Vombsjön. Som industridoktorand är Emma Enström anställd både av Centrum för miljö- och klim

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/industridoktorand-pa-cec-soker-hallbara-losningar-skanes-dricksvatten - 2025-08-23

Juliana Dänhardt och Anna-Karin Poussart leder arbetet med Policylabb Storkriket. Bild: Anna Maria Erling Hur kan man bäst arbeta över kommun- och sektorsgränser för att stötta klimatanpassning genom naturbaserade lösningar på landsbygden? Det är en av flera frågor som Policylabb Storkriket, ett Formasfinansierat innovationsprojekt, ska ge svar på. Initiativet kommer från LU Land vid CEC på Lunds

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/policylabb-storkriket-klimatanpassning-over-granserna-genom-naturbaserade-losningar - 2025-08-23

Välkänt är att åldrande gör att blodkärlen blir mindre flexibla och mer sårbara. Med stelare kärl riskerar blodtrycket att öka. Påfrestningen av ett högt blodtryck kan om det vill sig illa orsaka aorta-aneurysm, bråck på pulsådern. Foto: iStock Genom att skapa ett konstgjort åldrande hos möss, har lundaforskare kunnat följa hur aneurysm – pulsåderbråck – utvecklas i blodkärlens väggar. Ett resulta

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-signalvag-skydd-mot-hogt-blodtryck-upptackt-av-lundaforskare - 2025-08-24

Åke Lernmark prisas för sin forskargärning inom diabetesforskning. Foto: Tove Smeds Åke Lernmark har lett forskargrupper i tre olika länder, handlett 33 doktorander till disputation och byggt upp TEDDY-studien som genererat mer än 150 publikationer. Han är rankad som en av världens främsta experter inom sitt fält, diabetes typ 1, med över 40 100 citeringar i vetenskapliga tidskrifter. I oktober to

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/prisad-sin-forskargarning-och-sitt-innovativa-ledarskap - 2025-08-23