Johan Jönsson at his ”spikning”, with Peter Svensson, Jens Rennstam and Charlotta Levay. Photo: Oleksandra Panashenko Doctoral education student Johan Jönsson will defend his thesis on 3 May. Get a quick glimpse of his thesis, experiences and near future. Hi Johan! You are about to defend your thesis “Performing Numbers”. In short, what is your thesis about?”It’s about the role of numbers in every

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“Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulations, Vinzent Ostermeyer! In his doctoral thesis, titled “Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institut

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/vinzent-ostermeyer-wrote-best-doctoral-thesis-lusem-2023 - 2025-08-29

A former student had heard that our senior lecturer in statistics, Pierre Carbonnier was about to retire after this semester. Would we do a feature on him? The student remembered him fondly and added that his mother had also had Pierre as a teacher and thought he was pretty awesome. Few, if any statistics teachers can claim to have reached and inspired more students than Pierre Carbonnier, who has

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/44-years-carbonnier-stats-dont-lie - 2025-08-29

The current platform for strategic work applies until the end of this year, but a decision on an updated version for the period 2025-2027 has already been taken. The revised platform retains its original structure, with four prioritised areas and three general watchwords: innovative, digital and sustainable. The content has however been adjusted in order to better address current issues in the wid

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/platform-strategic-work-2025-2027 - 2025-08-29

Regarding the setting up of a tent camp in Lundagård and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lund

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/tent-camp-lundagard-0 - 2025-08-29

In connection with Pride Week in Lund, the University invites you to join us in a pre-procession get-together, after which we can participate in the Pride parade together. The LundaPride parade takes place on 18 May and the University wishes to take part and highlight the event. All students and employees are welcome to go together in the Pride parade. We start at 11.30 in the Main University Buil

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/join-us-lundapride-18-may-0 - 2025-08-29

”I would like to express my gratitude to my many professional colleagues and students with whom I have had the pleasure and fun of working,” says Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics. Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics, Lund University School of Economics and Management and University of Wroclaw, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Professor Malgo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/statistics-professor-malgorzata-bogdan-named-ims-fellow-2024 - 2025-08-29

According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement applications.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2025-08-29

A COIL involves two different courses at two universities in different countries where students collaborate digitally during a part of the course. Each course follows its own syllabus, and the teachers grade their respective students.For several years, Lund University has offered seed money to support teachers who, in collaboration with colleagues from EUGLOH, want to develop new courses or progra

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/do-you-want-take-opportunity-develop-coil - 2025-08-29

This year’s doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University’s ceremonial highlight and the faculties’ most important academic celebration, will break the record for the number of conferees. It is time to celebrate the faculties’ doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors.Record number of conferees at doctoral degree conferment ceremony – LU Staff Pages

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The Department of Business Administration has appointed Burak Tunca as the new Director of AI Integration. Burak Tunca, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at LUSEM, is set to lead the department's efforts in incorporating artificial intelligence into our academic framework. "Anxiety or worries about cheating made us lose valuable time in the implementation of AI at the University, but AI is here to stay

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-position-department-business-administration-director-ai-integration - 2025-08-29

Photo: Kennet Ruona The war between Israel and Hamas may awaken both anxiety and commitment among students and staff.Lund University is committed to ensuring a secure work environment and study environment for everyone. The University does not accept any form of harassment of staff or students. Should this occur, it is taken very seriously, and the University will act in accordance with existing p

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/secure-environment-everyone - 2025-08-29

Since joining us at LUSEM in January Maria makes sure our alumns are up to date with the goings on at the School through our external newsletter, events and by keeping in touch with them through LinkedIn and of course though the Alumni Network. Joining the Alumni network is easy. After your studies at LUSEM, you basically sign up and stay in touch for as long as you like. Some are really active an

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/maria-johansson-our-alumni-relations-manager - 2025-08-29

The thesis in statistics is titled ”Optimization and Algorithms in Sparse Regressions: Screening Rules, Coordinate Descent, and Normalization”, but what is it about? "It is about statistical models for high-dimensional data, where the number of variables outnumber the number of observations, such as DNA microarray data where there may be hundreds of observations (patients) but millions of variable

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-johan-larsson - 2025-08-29

The new board had its first meeting on 5 June, and beyond our two external members it really is a brand new group. “We have a strong base to start from and from there we will try to be more relevant for the whole of LUSEM than ever before. For instance we have an aim set at establishing new stipends for our teachers, researchers and guest researchers besides those we already have in place for the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/presenting-our-new-partnership-board - 2025-08-29

The one year presidency of Simon Anderberg draws to a close and on 16 July he hands over the president’s club to Tova Mark. We had an opportunity to meet up with them both in Skånis and of course we leapt at it. Simon, how has the last year matched your expectations?I’m not sure what I expected, but we are at a good place as an organisation. We did not have any radical changes planned, instead we

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-president-another-lundaekonomerna - 2025-08-29

Lund University has risen to 75th place in the prestigious QS annual ranking. This is an improvement of ten spots on the previous year, placing Lund as the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. In addition, the University has been awarded the QS Sustainability Champions Award.Read more on LU Staff Pages

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Last week our Professor in Economic History, Sylvia Schwaag Serger was appointed as new president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).With an extraordinarily strong background in research and innovation her expertise has been called upon by the European Commission, the OECD, and the World Bank to name but a few.Congrats Sylvia!Read more on IVA's homepage 

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sylvia-schwaag-serger-new-president-iva-0 - 2025-08-29

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2025-08-29

Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) reached the Triple Crown status in 2021. This is the first reconfirmaton of the quality of the School, as both EQUIS (in May) and AMBA (in August) reaccrediated the School for another five years. Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) has now received its reaccreditation through both the European Quality Improvement Sys

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-reaffirms-its-triple-crown-accreditation - 2025-08-29