The University building. Photo: Kennet Ruona The main University building is to become a hub for the organisation! That is the vision proposed by project manager Louise Pierce, who is responsible for repurposing the now almost empty building in Lundagård park. In only three years, it is to be buzzing with activity in the form of students, employees and visitors. Since early last autumn, Louise Pie

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-plan-university-building-materializes - 2025-08-27

Diana Mulinari, professor at the Department of Gender studies. Recurrent threats via telephone, email and letter – often in conjunction with being published. That is part of everyday research for gender researcher Diana Mulinari and many of her colleagues. “It is almost systematic. Those who hate and make threats are aggressively sexist and racist. Their hate ideology is based on who I am – a woma

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gender-researcher-threats-and-hate-are-part-everyday-life - 2025-08-27

Acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson. Photo:Jenny Loftrup Threats against researchers are increasing, according to acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson, who received 16 reports of threats last year. The rise is in online threats, whereas the number of disruptive or violent people on campus is dropping – probably thanks to more locked doors. “But the hidden figures are high when it co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/online-threats-against-researchers-are-rise - 2025-08-27

Photo: Jonas Andersson In brilliant sunshine, the new doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors walked in procession from the main University building to the Cathedral for the most important event in the academic calendar – the doctoral degree conferment ceremony. The ceremony took place on 24 May and the flags on the roof of the main University building flapped against a clear blue sky. Peopl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/happy-doctors-escaped-rain - 2025-08-27

Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Researchers at Lund University have developed a new method to determine how the composition of proteins in blood changes in response to disease or organ damage. This could provide a deeper understanding of how diseases affect the body and be used to discover new biomarkers in the blood to aid in diagnosing complex medical conditions. Our organs consist of a variety of specifi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/protein-changes-reveal-diseases - 2025-08-27

Heiner Linke Photo:Kennet Rhona The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring.  LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-research-leader - 2025-08-27

Experimental scientist Ilknur Özen and Niklas Marklund, professor at Lund University and neurosurgical consultant at Skåne University hospital have in collaboration with Uppsala investigated brain tissue from 15 patients. Photo: Tove Smeds A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta — a hallmark

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-08-27

Stefanos Athanasopoulos, Samuel Staines and Emanuel Larsson collaborated on the project to develop future beamlines at the ESS research facility. Photo: Noomi Egan Using a torch, a camera, a water bottle and pieces of Lego, Emanuel Larsson built a scanner now used as a prototype to develop future beamlines at ESS. It was late on a Friday evening in December three years ago that Emanuel Larsson, a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/home-built-scanner-helps-construct-beamline-ess - 2025-08-27

Pär Svensson. Foto: Gabriella Gut There is a great deal of interest at the University in welcoming researchers from Afghanistan. The University Management and all the faculties consulted are prepared to contribute what is needed to receive these researchers. At the International Office of LU’s External Relations Division, Pär Svensson is in charge of coordinating work with vulnerable researchers a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interest-welcoming-researchers-afghanistan - 2025-08-27

The report confirms the importance of working with purchasing and procurement, according to Claes Nilén, environmental manager at Lund University. Photo: Gunnar Menander For the first time, the University has investigated the collective climate footprint of the entire organisation. Emissions of greenhouse gases fell sharply during the pandemic, almost exclusively due to the suspension of travel. H

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/goods-and-equipment-affect-environment-most - 2025-08-27

Oliver Scharbrodt is the new professor in islamic Studies at Lund University. Photo: Ulrika Oredsson The Islamic presence in Europe is becoming normalised. But integration also leads to increased conflict, according to Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University’s new professor of Islamic Studies. Oliver Scharbrodt came to the University last spring after taking up Sweden’s only professorship in Islamic St

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integration-can-lead-conflict - 2025-08-27

Karin Aggestam och Ronny Berndtsson, director and deputy director at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. Photo: Jan Olsson Swedish universities and higher education institutions condemn the violence in Iran in which security forces have opened fire on protesting students. Collaborations and exchanges with Iranian universities, researchers and students may be in jeopardy. So argue Karin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-collaboration-iran-far-certain - 2025-08-27

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.staff.lu.se/article/interdisciplinary-research-school-skanes-beaches - 2025-08-27

Pro Vice-Chancellor Kristina Eneroth can be described as the force behind the platform. Photo: Kennet Ruona It can take a long time between words and action at the University, sometimes a little too long. This is one of the reasons the University management has developed a platform for strategic work. It speaks to what is most important to the University right now and will help it to act much fast

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/changing-world-requires-agile-university - 2025-08-28

Skin cells have been reprogrammed into brain cells. The process takes a couple of weeks. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter It is Thursday morning and time for the miniature brains to have lunch. The temperature in the cell incubator is a comfortable 37 degrees, perfect for a tiny brain. Anna Falk prepares the nutrient solution that the cells need to grow. These are cells that have made the remarkable transfor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/feeding-time-miniature-brains - 2025-08-28

Lund University is close to fall out of top 100 on the three really important ranking lists. Lund University has been sliding down the lists of the three main university ranking organisations for several years. Today, we make only one of the top 100 lists, and even then with a mere five places above the 100 cut-off. Daniel J. Guhr is an expert on the importance of these rankings and knows what the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consultants-warning-major-consequences-falling-outside-top-100 - 2025-08-28

The PhD student and climate activist David Alcer gets on the stage during Loreen's performance at the Swedish Melody Festival. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT Should climate researchers let their findings speak for themselves, or does the state of the planet mean that it is a duty to take to the barricades? How can science get its message across in the best way and does climate activism by researchers imp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-and-activism - 2025-08-28

There are a number of regions and countries in the world of particular interest to the University, and we are keeping a keen eye on them in order to increase international collaborations. One of these countries is Singapore. Last week, I had the privilege of being part of the Swedish business delegation and Swedish state visit to Singapore. Singapore is a strategically important country for Lund U

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/artificial-intelligence-and-co-intelligence-during-trip-singapore - 2025-08-28

To ensure that everyone has their say and that no one feels attacked when debating loaded and sensitive topics, it is important to establish the ground rules from the outset. This applies to society at large and in the lecture hall. This is the opinion of Christer Mattsson, Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Director of the Segerstedt Institute at the University of Gothenburg, who has been invite

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/risk-polarisation-lecture-hall - 2025-08-28

Christmas is approaching and we’re all starting to look forward to some relaxation and Christmas spirit. But before you wind down, here are a few reminders. It is high time to apply for annual leave for the Christmas and New Year periodIf you are planning to take annual leave days in the Christmas and New Year period, it is high time to put in your application. Bear in mind that your manager must

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/christmas-coming-first-few-tips-ahead-break - 2025-08-28