By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 28 March 2025 Former doctoral student in Statistics at LUSEM Johan Larsson, has been awarded the Best thesis award at LUSEM 2024 for his thesis Optimization and Algorithms in Sparse Regression: Screening Rules, Coordinate Descent, and Normalization. Selected by the College of Doctoral Studies, this recognition highlights t

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusems-best-thesis-award-2024-goes-johan-larsson - 2025-04-28

By thea [dot] sandin [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Thea Sandin) - published 14 April 2025 LUSEM Career Services got to visit Mohamad Hariri and hear about what a normal day as an intern at Nordea entail. Photo: Wihlborgs Mohamad Hariri is studying a bachelor’s in Business and Economics and the past 10 weeks he has done an internship at Nordea in Malmö. LUSEM Career Services had the opportunity to vi

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/internship-experience-nordea - 2025-04-28

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 13 April 2025 The annual CED Lund Population Day (LPD) 2025 is coming up 8 May on the theme The Two Fertility Puzzles, 2010-2020. We asked the organizer, professor Martin Dribe, three quick questions to learn more. Hi Martin Dribe, professor of Economic History, specializing in Economic Demography, and organiser and lead r

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-lpd-three-quick-questions - 2025-04-28

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 25 March 2025 Luís Oliveira, PhD student at Lund University, centre, was the winner of the 2024 Researchers’ Grand Prix. Here with other contestants, jury and moderator. Photo: Bodil Malmström. Do you want to be better at summarising your research in an engaging and easily understandable way? If so, the Resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hone-your-presentation-skills-researchers-grand-prix - 2025-04-28

By karin [dot] lilja [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Karin Lilja) - published 25 March 2025 More than one in seven staff members has already started using strong authentication. This is a good start – but what is important now is that more follow their example. Strong authentication is a way to log in that makes it more difficult for an unauthorised person to gain access to an IT service, for e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/one-seven-staff-members-already-has-strong-authentication - 2025-04-28

By anna [dot] mansfeld [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Mansfeld) - published 23 March 2025 Learning Hub Syd is a new initiative that aims to generate and share knowledge about collaborative governance. The hub focuses on developing the cities’ capacity to manage complex climate challenges with other stakeholders. This is done by creating a platform where the cities can work together and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/learning-hub-syd-new-collaboration-and-knowledge-sharing-platform-climate-neutral-cities - 2025-04-28

By isabelle [dot] nilsson [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Isabelle Nilsson) - published 25 March 2025 Solar4Schools won 2020 in the category 'most potential'. Here Wenjing Yang is presenting her project. Students from Lund University have been winners in the global competition RISE Awards. The competition is for projects on sustainability and innovation linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-students-are-serial-winners-sustainability-innovation - 2025-04-28

By petra [dot] francke [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Francke) - published 24 March 2025 Exhibition in a shop window at Lundia. Lund University exhibits its research in a shop window at Knut den Store Square. An exhibition based on news items from Lund University’s research account on Instagram is now on display in a shop window on a square in central Lund, Knut den stores torg. The c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-research-display-central-lund-shop-window - 2025-04-28

By Maria [dot] Blad [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Blad) - published 23 April 2025 Photos from the procession at the ceremony 2023. The faculties’ honorary doctors for 2025 have been announced and they will receive their honorary doctorates at the Doctoral Degree Conferment Ceremony on 23 May. Information on the honorary doctors’ lectures will be updated regularly during the spring. T

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/full-list-faculties-honorary-doctors-2025 - 2025-04-28

By nina [dot] nordh [at] bygg [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Nordh) - published 24 March 2025 Are you thinking about starting to commute to work by bike now that the spring is coming, but maybe you can't quite get started? Here are some of the university's test cyclists, in Innovation Skåne's project Case: Supercycle routes, with their best tips. Recently you could read in LU News about how both fitness

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/test-cyclists-best-tips-bike-commuting - 2025-04-28

By cecilia [dot] schubert [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia Schubert) - published 6 April 2025 From the left: Ruth Pöttgen, Martin Leijnse, Sara Brogaard, Emma Kritzberg and Erik Selander. Photo: Cecilia Schubert Although emissions from air travel at Lund University have slightly decreased compared to last year*, longer journeys remain a major source of emissions. Now, a group of five resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-aim-change-travel-norms-and-reduce-air-travel-lund-university - 2025-04-28

By asa [dot] thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Thormählen) - published 3 April 2025 The aim of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies is to stimulate interdisciplinary research within Lund University. The Institute supports researchers working together across disciplinary borders. One of the instruments available for interdisciplinary research is the Advanced Study Group (ASG).  Tak

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/start-advanced-study-group-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies - 2025-04-28

By jenny [dot] hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Hansson) - published 8 April 2025 The University is part of the climate collaboration CoAction Lund and this spring all participating organisations will compete against each other in sustainable commuting. To compete, you can choose to cycle, use public transport, carpool or walk to work. The competition will run for five weeks, from 28 Apri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/make-your-commute-winning-habit-join-competition-great-prizes - 2025-04-28

By asa [dot] thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Thormählen) - published 8 April 2025 The heavy application period is over. Does it feel a bit empty? No calls that fitted your interdisciplinary project this year either? Well, we have an afternoon in June, just for you. Pufendorf IAS has invited Kerstin Gidlöf, Sara Naurin and John Phillips from Lund University Research Services to an inform

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/funding-interdisciplinary-research-how-where-when-whom - 2025-04-28

Published 1 April 2025 This year, we have initiated spring dialogues (formerly operational dialogues) between faculty and University management, and the response thus far has been very positive! These dialogues are a first step in the further development of the University's work on quality development and quality assurance, which will continue next semester with autumn dialogues (previously qualit

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ranking-and-quality-issues-what-link - 2025-04-28

By anna [dot] mansfeld [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Mansfeld) - published 8 April 2025 Sexual harassment at work A new study, published in the scientific journal PLOS One, reveals that a culture of silence surrounds sexual harassment in universities. The study was based on the supporting documents collected for the 2019-2020 Tellus report. The study, which ran from 2019-2020, was con

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/study-reveals-culture-silence-around-sexual-harassment - 2025-04-28

By anna [dot] mansfeld [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Mansfeld) - published 9 April 2025 A new contract catalogue is now available to make all purchases easier, and new guidelines have been developed to help streamline our procurement process. The contract catalogue is a resource that makes it easier to find information about what agreements are available and how to use them. The contr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-contract-catalogue-help-you-make-informed-purchases - 2025-04-28

By stefan [dot] andersson [at] service [dot] lu [dot] se (Stefan Andersson) - published 4 April 2025 On 1 May 2025, LUPak will be discontinued and the paket.lu.se page will be closed. Parcel shipments must then be made via PostNord's Skicka Direkt Business service. To be able to send parcels with PostNord, your organisation needs a customer number, which you can apply for here. (New tab, in Swedis

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-procedure-sending-parcels-1-may-2025 - 2025-04-28

By jenny [dot] hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Hansson) - published 8 April 2025 For the 9th time, the university is organising Sustainability Week together with Lund Municipality. With up to 90 programme items over six days, sustainability issues will be highlighted in different ways within social, ecological and economic sustainability. It is a week of discussion and action, serious is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/5-10-may-its-time-sustainability-week - 2025-04-28

By webbansvarig [at] hr [dot] lu [dot] se (HR-sektionens webbansvarig) - published 1 April 2025 The University sets aside funding to stimulate work in support of gender equality and equal opportunities, which will be used, among other things, to promote a more even gender distribution among the university's professors. The faculties and the university´s specialised centres (USV) are hereby invited

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/funding-visiting-professors-underrepresented-gender - 2025-04-28