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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 to show a bit of attitude in front of the camera. David Gissel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2025-10-02

What would it take for people living 100 000 years from now to be able to understand a message from people living today? Language historian and exegete Ola Wikander has, on behalf of the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), outlined some of the linguistic challenges. The question of how to warn people in the future was raised in connection with the decision made in January this

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-language-eternity - 2025-10-02

Can fashion ever become sustainable? How do we transition to environmentally smart e-commerce? What role will universities play in future society? These are some of the subjects to be discussed during the research festival Our Future City on 7-10 June at Campus Helsingborg. The event is organised in collaboration with the daily newspapers Helsingborgs Dagblad. Our Future City can most simply be de

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-cities-and-communities-focus-research-festival-our-future-cityh22-7-10-june - 2025-10-02

Yulia Vakulenko grew up in a small Russian town north of the Arctic Circle, today she works at Lund University. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, her world was turned upside down. The first thing Yulia Vakulenko says when she meets me on the staircase of her workplace at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, IKDC, is that her sorrow is nothing compared to what the people of Ukraine are being

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yulia-russia-helps-refugees-ukraine - 2025-10-02

“True crime” has exploded in popularity and crime and punishment dominates the headlines. Linnea Wegerstad, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, opposes the tendency to label people who have committed crimes as monsters. Linnea Wegerstad researches sexual offences and has a background as a judge in training. She was about halfway through this training when she chose to return to academia. A seni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mind-legal-scholar - 2025-10-02

A heated discussion under the hashtag Swedengate erupted on social media last spring. Swedes were accused of being strange as they did not invite their children’s friends to eat with them when the family was having dinner. The phenomenon was upsetting and ethnologist Håkan Jönsson was quickly inundated with questions. Are Swedes stingy? Swedengate came about when someone on the news and discussion

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedengate-disrespect-or-being-stingy - 2025-10-02

In late May–early June, Lund University will hold a Nobel Symposium in Physics and Chemistry where newly discovered super-heavy elements will be discussed. The possibility for a Nobel Prize looms on the horizon, but the road ahead is not straightforward and competition between countries and researchers is fierce. Dirk Rudolph in front of the updated nuclide chart. The yellow fields indicate alpha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-elements-be-discussed-lu-nobel-symposium - 2025-10-01

New research at Lund University shows that the biological parents’ genes affect the child's insulin function and capacity to regulate blood sugar levels and blood lipids in different ways. Such knowledge may be used to to develop preventive treatments that reduce the child's risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Previous research by diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad has sh

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-parents-metabolic-traits-can-affect-childs-health-over-time - 2025-10-01

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have conducted a clinical study to show how a woman’s genetic profile provides information on which hormone treatment is most effective for in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The researchers have now developed a simple oral swab test that shows which hormone therapy is the best option for IVF treatment About 15 per cent of all couples of reproductive age are inv

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/higher-success-rate-using-simple-oral-swab-test-ivf - 2025-10-01

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease that is intended for use in primary care. “This digital test, which patients perform on their own with minimal involvement from healthcare personnel, improves the primary care physician's ability to determine who should be further examined by blood tests for Alzheimer's pathology ear

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-digital-cognitive-test-diagnosing-alzheimers-disease - 2025-10-01

This year’s largest grant from the IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse goes to Vinay S. Swaminathan at Lund University. He is awarded five million SEK for his research on how healthy breast tissue develops into tumors and spreads. Vinay S. Swaminathan’s research group has developed 3D models that mimics the tumor microenvironment in the laboratory. The technology opens new opportuniti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/healthy-sick-3d - 2025-10-01

On 2 April, it was time for the the annual FEK Table Tennis Tournament again, and this year also marked its 10th anniversary! The competition first started in 2013 but has had three breaks over the years, which is why the 10-year celebration is taking place this year. (See the fact box for more details on past years and winners.)A total of 22 players battled fiercely until the very end, and this y

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/who-made-it-podium-years-fek-table-tennis-tournament - 2025-10-01

The coronavirus pandemic has not put Lund University in any financial difficulty. There is money in the University's coffers, assures the head of planning Tim Ekberg. The agency capital currently amounts to SEK 1.7 billion. "It is money that could be useful to support affected areas of activity", he comments. The agency capital currently amounts to SEK 1.7 billion. The University will primarily lo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/no-threat-lund-universitys-finances-thanks-agency-capital - 2025-10-01

Getting important information out fast to the right target group has been a challenge for the crisis management group, which has now entered a calmer phase after an intensive spring. “Now it is mostly a question of coordination and we are also considering opening the group up to representatives of education and research”, says Susanne Kristensson, who manages the group. When the University directo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-successful-quick-digital-restart - 2025-10-01

Lund University has a world-class art collection worth hundreds of millions of Swedish crowns. But many of the less valuable paintings are currently hidden in attics and cellar storage rooms. “With the initiative entitled ‘When collections come to life’ and a new open warehouse, we want to highlight the art collection and make it more accessible”, says Annie Lindberg, archivist and acting director

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/art-treasures-taken-out-hiding - 2025-10-01

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 together about the rescue. The new authors expectantly open a large cardboard box full

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2025-10-01

By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air travel is the biggest CO2 villain. The number of flights booked between April and October 2020 fell by 97 percent compared with 2019. Based on average emissions of previous travel, this me

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2025-10-01

Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologist and media studies researcher Mia-Marie Hammarlin, who is in the early phase of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2025-10-01

Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed by the start of the new year. There are five such panels divided into recruitment, leadership and organisation, infrastructure, major an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-10-01

The packing crates are emptied, new furniture is in place, the art is hung, and the tech is working. The Offices of the Vice-Chancellor and staff have moved into the King’s House. The new entrance opens onto the University Square and the fountain. Behind the doors of the University’s oldest building, there’s a definite air of new and modern. You are greeted first by an exhibition about the buildin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-beginning-kings-house - 2025-10-02