A recent article in Nature Nanotechnology by NanoLund researchers show that a quantum dot-based heat engine can convert heat into work with an efficiency similar to that of similar machines with moving parts. As quantum dot-based engine has no moving parts it may be useful in applications such as nanotechnology and remote sensing. To Chemistry World, Heiner Linke explains: We have shown that we ca

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/quantum-dot-heat-engine-works-without-moving-parts - 2025-08-31

Calle Preger was awarded with ”Best Poster Award” at the conference Aerosol Technology in Bilbao for his poster “Using COMSOL Multiphysics as a Tool to Predict Aerosol Deposition Spot Size of an Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP)”

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-calle-preger - 2025-08-31

NanoLund PhD student Mohammad Karimi has been selected to receive the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, an educational not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based science, engineering, and technology.Read the SPIE press

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mohammad-karimi-receives-spie-scholarship - 2025-08-31

NanoLund researcher Jesper Wallentin has been granted an ERC starting grant. His project will investigate whether semiconductor nanowires can be used as high resolution X-ray detectors. Wallentins group have some initial results that show that they can get a measurable electric current from single nanowires that are exposed to X-rays. Long term, the hope is that nanostructured X-ray detectors coul

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-erc-starting-grant - 2025-08-31

Ohövlighet på arbetsplatsen ska tas på största allvar. Det visar tre Lundapsykologer som låtit närmare 6000 personer svara på frågor om det sociala klimatet på arbetsplatsen. Deras studier visar att upplevd ohövlighet är en stark anledning till att man inte trivs på jobbet och att otrevlig jargong sprider sig om man inte gör något åt den. Ohövlighet på arbetsplatsen ska tas på största allvar. Det

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/ohovligt-pa-jobbet-sprider-sig-latt - 2025-08-31

“Zero emissions are what counts if we are going to be able to live up to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming,” says Lars J. Nilsson. Photo: Unsplash. In connection with a new report on measures to mitigate climate change, researchers at Lund University in Sweden see some hopeful signs. Among other things, Lars J Nilsson, Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems at Lund Univers

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-april-4th-what-matters-now-zero-emissions - 2025-08-31

Henrik Smith. Photo: Johan Persson. The Swedish Government has today appointed Henrik Smith, professor in animal ecology at Lund University, as a new member of the Climate Policy Council. Henrik Smith works at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) and the Department of Biology in Lund. He will take up his position at the Climate Policy Council on 1 July. “The Swedish Climate Polic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-new-member-swedish-climate-policy-council - 2025-08-31

The BIOPATH consortium consists of a carefully composed team of research specialists in sustainable finance and biodiversity as well as influential partners from industry, the financial system and public authorities. The research programme ”Pathways towards an efficient alignment of the financial system with the needs of biodiversity (BIOPATH)”, with Lund University as host, has been granted fundi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/50-millions-research-about-finance-and-biodiversity - 2025-08-31

The sympsoium will focus on climate change in a Swedish context. What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on 16-18 May 2022, the Swedish Climate Symposium. The conference means that Sweden's largest players

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2025-08-31

In a new report IPBES consider what values that can be put on nature, and what methods exist to calculate such a values. Photo: Istock. Is it possible to put a value on nature and the vital ecosystem services it provides for us? What are the pros and cons of different valuation models? These are the key questions addressed in a new report by IPBES, the UN’s biodiversity panel, to be published on 1

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-nature-be-valued-new-report-way-ipbes - 2025-08-31

A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on the profile area ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Photo: Kenneth Ruona. A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on five profile areas for Lund University. One of the areas is ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Thirty researchers from over a dozen departments at Lund University were behind the profile area applic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-says-yes-climbiosis-profile-area - 2025-08-31

Photo: Hans Ott/Unsplash. New data by the research infrastructure ICOS confirms that natural carbon sinks such as the ocean and forests are not stable. Climate change makes these sinks more vulnerable, in some cases even turning them into carbon emitters. This compromises current climate targets and action plans, reserachers say. Fluxes, the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, is a new publication b

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-makes-carbon-sinks-more-vulnerable - 2025-08-31

Urban forests have less bird diversity compared to forests in the countryside – even if the forest areas are of the same quality. Photo: Tariq Sulemani/Istockphoto. A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside – even if the forest areas ar

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-08-31

Adrian Gustafson doing fieldwork in the Arctic. Photo: Private. Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the resu

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-08-31

The clear-cutting shown from above. Please observe that the clar-cut is shown at a higher speed in the video than in reality. Video: ICOS Norunda. The machines have started rolling in at Norunda and are cutting down trees, one by one. Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases and it is unique. Following several decades of being surrounded by a hundred-year-old forest, it wi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-provides-essential-information-climate-research - 2025-08-31

Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Kennet Ruona The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such as climate finance, loss an

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-08-31

Coastal engineer Caroline Hallin teaches doctoral students from the interdisciplinary ClimBEco Graduate Research School at Knäbäckshusen in Skåne, Sweden. Photo: Sara Håkansson The coast is changing. The sea is encroaching further inland, and the shoreline of childhood memory no longer looks the same. Climate change is impacting beaches and the sea, but time is also a factor. Someone who knows a l

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/interdisciplinary-research-school-skanes-beaches - 2025-08-31

Just over two weeks after the climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world’s countries are meeting again, this time to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. The issue is less well-known than the climate crisis and no framework corresponding to the Paris agreement is in place – something that many people hope the December summit in Montreal will rectify. It i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/it-time-put-biodiversity-agenda-five-lund-researchers-challenges-cop15 - 2025-08-31

Newly hatched baby birds - the study investigated how they were affected by various effects of the urban environment. Photo: Caroline Isaksson, Lund University. Life in the city is tough – if you are a baby bird you are markedly affected by a certain type of air pollution and by which trees are close to the nest, new research from Lund, Sweden shows. Underlying the study is a new more detailed way

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nestling-birds-city-clearly-affected-air-pollution-and-which-trees-surround-them - 2025-08-31

António Guterres, Secretary-General of United Nations, at COP15 in Montréal, Canada. Photo: Maria Blasi The COP15 summit is over, and the world has received a sister deal to the "Paris Agreement", a global framework to protect biodiversity on the planet.  – It is a great moment for biodiversity. We needed this set of goals and hope. But there is lots of work to be done and only a few years left, s

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cop15-key-outcomes-biological-diversity - 2025-08-31