By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 31 October 2018 Carl Borrebaeck. Photo: Apelöga Long ago, Carl Borrebaeck worked side by side with one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for chemistry, Sir Gregory Winter, on the publication of an innovative technology within what was then a hot new research field: antibody engineering. In 1989, within the sam

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hard-heels-nobel-laureate - 2025-04-27

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 31 October 2018 Ill: Henning Larsen Arkitekter A social sciences centre in the Paradis quarter and a continued reinforcement of the Knowledge Highway are priorities in the new premises plan that presents the University’s intended renovations, extensions and new builds for the next five years. “It will be nice to co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-premises-plan-reveals-universitys-future-building-projects - 2025-04-27

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 31 October 2018 Aleksandra Popovic. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2025-04-27

By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] kansli [dot] lth [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 31 October 2018 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson. Photo: Kristina Lindgärde Lund University is investing SEK 64 million in a graduate school focusing on societal challenges and the 2030 Agenda. Kristina Jönsson, associate professor in political science, will be its coordinator. “This is a unique opport

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sek-64-million-leading-graduate-school - 2025-04-27

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] rektor [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 31 October 2018 Mine Islar came to Sweden from Turkey to study a Master’s degree in sustainability. Today she is a lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and runs the Pufendorf IAS Migration Initiative. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Migration is a talking point everywhere – in poli

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-would-academia-be-without-migrants - 2025-04-27

Published 2 May 2013 Bringing together the three academies of music, art and theatre, and sorting out steering documents and routines are important tasks for Solfrid Söderlind, new Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Solfrid Söderlind is new Dean of Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Professor Söderlind has most recently worked on an inquiry for Uppsala University, and prior to that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-bring-together-our-campuses-malmo - 2025-04-27

Published 2 May 2013 “Researchers and students are mobile in a completely different way from previously, but the regulations haven’t kept up. The EU needs to act to remove the most serious types of obstacle, for example between Sweden and Denmark, and urgently”, says Lund University’s HR director Ingrid Estrada-Magnusson. Sonja Meiby and Ingrid Estrada-Magnusson LERU stands for the League of Europ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/europe-needs-improve-researcher-mobility - 2025-04-27

Published 2 May 2013 Lund University’s ‘critical friends’ and strategic advisors – the University Advisory Board – met over two intensive days in April the University Management to discuss LU’s development over the past year. The overall impression from the international experts was positive, especially with regard to research. On the education side, the university needs to put even more emphasis

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-advisory-board-lund-university-needs-invest-education - 2025-04-27

Published 2 May 2013 “High-tech companies have fantastic support from the Taiwanese education system, which provides companies with competent staff. The link between industry and academia is impressive”, says Professor Lars Samuelson from the Nanometre Structure Consortium. Per Eriksson, Lars Samuelson, Anders Robertsson and Per Tunestål on a tour of the campus at Taiwan Tech in Taipei. In the bac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reconnaissance-taiwan-new-strategic-collaborations - 2025-04-27

Published 2 May 2013 The battle for real democracy in the Middle East will largely be decided in schools. The role of education in a democracy was also the theme of a workshop in Alexandria, where Swedish researchers met their Egyptian counterparts. The USI network organised the event on a hot topic in a country that needs to fight for democracy if it is to take root.   “Democracy in Egypt isn’t g

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/battle-democracy-decided-schools - 2025-04-27

Published 2 May 2013 Animal ecologist and pike researcher Anders Nilsson was the first doctor of the Millennium at Lund University. Now, 13 years later, he has just been appointed Professor of Aquatic Ecology. We caught up with him to find out what had happened since our last meeting, and had a long discussion on careers, creativity and the value of colleagues who provide a helping hand when times

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/journey-doctor-professor - 2025-04-27

Published 21 May 2013 Larry W. Swanson was among 100 most cited researchers in the world, all categories, between 1980 and 2000. In mid-May, he was invited as this year’s Segerfalk Lecturer to Neuroscience Day, organized by the Segerfalk Foundation. Larry W. Swanson has developed the so-called four-component model of how the brain works. Larry W Swanson ”Humans have been thinking about how the ner

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/renowned-researcher-offers-new-brain-model - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 USI, Universities and Swedish Institutes in Collaboration for Internationalisation, has held its annual meeting in Athens. Collaboration with partner universities in the host countries around the Mediterranean is intensifying. The new thematic seminars initiative has proved fruitful and it is hoped it will become a permanent feature. The Acropolis watches over the Swedish In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fieldwork-across-disciplines-and-borders-inspires-new-research - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 “The state sold us for 49 years.” These are the words of one of the farmers that doctoral student Mine Islar has interviewed in Turkey. Her recently completed thesis is about the conflicts that have arisen when the government gives private companies the right to the water in several Turkish rivers. Mine Islar. “The rivers are ‘leased’ to the companies for 49 years. However,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-community-protests-against-leasing-rivers - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 Cross-disciplinary collaborations, the development of new technology and investment in a technical laboratory are key success factors, according to Professor Susanne Åkesson, coordinator of CAnMove, which is now preparing for its mid-way evaluation. The research in CAnMove was awarded a Linnaeus grant in 2008. Susanne Åkesson, the programme coordinator, is pleased with how t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cross-disciplinary-approach-factor-canmoves-success - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 Two full-time technicians help biology researchers to realise new ingenious ways of gathering data on how animals move. Thanks to computer chips, wireless communication and nanotechnology, the researchers can achieve groundbreaking results. Johan Bäckman and Arne Andersson sort out the technology for CAnMove projects.Photo: Lena Björk Blixt We walk along one of the corridors

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-facilitators - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 For a mathematician, the waves of the sea are related to differential equations, and particularly complex ones at that. Mathematical research can help to improve understanding of how waves form and move – which could be useful, for example, in the work to predict dangerous monster waves. The sunlight glistens on the rippling waves. The calm expanse of the sea is spread out b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/monster-waves-mathematical-challenge - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 All over the world, thousands of experts are sitting entering information about their home countries into a huge democracy database. Soon, three quarters of the world’s countries will have been entered. “In my megalomaniac moments, I usually compare the database to the CERN particle accelerator. It will be as important a tool for political scientists as CERN is for physicist

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gigantic-database-stores-information-about-democracy-worldwide - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 Infant mortality in Malawi is among the highest in the world. In a new EU-funded project, researchers from Lund, Cork and Oxford will develop new mobile technology to help health care staff in the country diagnose and treat serious diseases earlier and more effectively. In rural Malawi, aid organisations’ health care staff use a disease manual called IMCI, developed by the W

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mobile-will-save-childrens-lives-malawi - 2025-04-27

Published 26 June 2013 Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epilepsy that are being tested by a research group in Lund. T

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2025-04-27