Today we welcome Antoinette Fage-Butler, associate professor at the Department of English at Aarhus University She is here at the Pufendorf IAS as part of the NordIAS Fellowship exchange and will visit the Institute for a week this time around, returning for a second week in autumn. With The NordIAS Fellowship exchange, researchers at Institutes taking part in the NordIAS network may vist other IA

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Three Themes. Three windows. Photo: Åsa Thormählen. During the academic year 2025/2026, three new Themes will be here at Pufendorf IAS. Our Themes are currently all busy with organising their final events, (please read more in the article An eventful spring awaits | The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies) and precisely at the same time, the cycle of our new Themes begins. “Breathless with an

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/three-themes-our-doorstep - 2025-08-25

An ASG working in the Pufendorf Sculpture Hall. Photo: Johan Persson The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies offers two different types of interdisciplinary groups: Our Themes, where researchers from different disciplines and faculties at Lund University work on and are paid by the institute one day a week for an entire academic year. And then the flexible meeting format for interdisciplinary

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Photo: Johan Persson Have you been thinking about a research problem perfect for an interdisciplinary research group to explore? Perhaps you think that it needs to be more mature in order to pursue funding? Look no further - here's your chance. Pufendorf IAS launches the yearly call for applications to start a Theme here at Lund University's beautiful incubator for new interdisciplinary research.

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The new Advanced Study Groups, who will start their work at the institute in September, will investigate questions related to: artistic processes in music and literary creation; land use conflicts in Sweden; the energy crisis impacts on households; industries and on the energy transition; and the linkages between digital innovation and emergent digital inequalities in relation to human rights. We

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The Institute announces yearly calls for application to Themes and Advanced Study Groups. Researchers at Lund University are now invited to apply for Themes and Advanced Study Groups, starting in 2024. Theme applications  A Theme must be innovative in nature and revolve around a research issue which can best be solved through knowledge from several disciplines in collaboration.  Focus should be on

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Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard is usually working as a professor of music at Aalborg University in Denmark, but for the coming six months he is joining the Theme Sound of Democracy at the Pufendorf IAS as a guest researcher. What is your background and research interests, and how does it connect to the Theme Sound of Democracy ? As my parents were teachers working for the British government, I was fortunat

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/sound-engineer-and-roadie-professor-music-meet-guest-researcher-mark-grimshaw-aagaard - 2025-08-25

Berit Løkensgard Strand is a professor in biopolymers and biomaterials at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In autumn 2023 and spring 2024, she is an International Fellow at the Pufendorf IAS, working with the Theme Roadmap of Biomaterials 4.0. What is your background and research interests? My background is in chemical engineering and biotechnology, and I am now a professor in b

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/meet-guest-researcher-berit-lokensgard-strand - 2025-08-25

Marie Koldkjær Højlund is a composer, sound artist and associate professor of Sound Studies at Aarhus University. Marie Koldkjær Højlund is composer, sound artist and associate professor of Sound Studies at Aarhus University. In autumn 2023, she's an International Fellow at the Pufendorf IAS, working with the Theme Sound of Democracy. What is your background and research interests?When I was I chi

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Sierd de Vries is an associate professor at the department of Hydraulic Engineering at Delft University (Netherlands), and will be working as a guest researcher with the Theme Coastal Perspectives. What is your background and research interests?I work on the creation of sustainable coastal landscapes. With my background in coastal engineering and coastal sciences, I study how Nature Based Solution

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/meet-guest-researcher-sierd-de-vries - 2025-08-25

Lena Rubensdotter is a geologist working within Geohazards and rapid slope processes, also extensively in Geomorphology and Quaternary geological mapping, Periglacial geomorphology, Coastal geomorphology and Arctic permafrost related hazards. Lena Rubensdotter is a researcher at the Geohazard and Earth observation team at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) and University Centre of Svalbard, whe

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The institute welcomes two new Advanced Study Groups, starting in February 2024: (Un-)natural borders; and Aesthetics in Business Creativity (ABC). The Advanced Study Group (Un-)natural borders: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on the boundaries of European integration, sets out to explore how natural conditions determine the features and boundaries of European integration, and how European integra

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Jan de Boer is a full professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology. He is skilled in Stem Cells, Biomaterial Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Jan de Boer is a biologist at the department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. His research interest is in the molecular complexity of cells and how molecular

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-new-guest-researcher-jan-de-boer - 2025-08-25

The real deal: Dionysos statue at Pufendorf IAS. Photo: K. Ruona Gifted and enthusiastic students work with the "layers of history" in our beautiful Sculpture Hall. Pufendorf IAS is situated in one of the most beautiful buildings in Lund (if we may say so ourselves), originally built in 1886. The last major renovation of the former Department of Physics and Classical Department was done in 2009, j

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Lights on for our new interdisciplinary Themes. Photo: Å. Thormählen At yesterday’s meeting, the board of Pufendorf IAS decided to invite four new Themes to the institute this fall. We received ten theme applications in December 2023, six of these were sent on to external experts for review and four of these are now invited to start in September 2024. The chosen Themes are (in no particular order)

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Özlem Çelik Özlem Çelik is currently visiting the Pufendorf IAS as part of a new exchange programme of NordIAS´s fellows. She is a visiting scholar at the University of Helsinki and a Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Research, University of Turku and Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) Collegium Fellow. You were a postdoc at Lund University in 2018-2019, welcome back to Lund! 

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Today, on the 17 of June, the board of the Pufendorf IAS decided to accept three applications to form three new Advanced Study Groups - all starting in September 2024! These ASGs will pursue interdisciplinary research ideas within Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future;Neobiogenesis: The Inevitability of Life; Next Generation Healthscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Care Facilities of th

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The Pufendorf IAS stimulates interdisciplinary research within Lund University. The Institute supports researchers working together across disciplinary borders to develop new areas of research. The Institute announces yearly calls for application to Themes and Advanced Study Groups. Researchers/teaching staff (with PhD or equiv.) employed by Lund University are now invited to apply for Themes and

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/call-applications-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies - 2025-08-25

Proper evaluation calls for accurate material. Photo: Pavel Danilyuk/Pexels Every four years, the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies is evaluated to monitor how the institute meets its overall objectives and follows its basic principles. This year, an external panel has evaluated the activities during the years 2018–2021 (yes, including the pandemic years), the model on which the Pufendorf I

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/pufendorf-institutes-sustainable-principles - 2025-08-25

Pufendorf IAS' beautiful façade and windows. Photo: Johan Persson A couple of weeks have passed since our symposium: Conducting research in interdisciplinary teams. On the 21 of October, we had the great pleasure of welcoming both Martin Cloonan and Britta Padberg, two of our external evaluators, back to Lund. And both were kind enough to speak at the Symposium. Martin Cloonan led with taking the

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/constructive-friction-context - 2025-08-25