Ruth Pöttgen. Photo Patrik Lundin, the Wallenberg Foundations. Ruth Pöttgen, Senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, has been appointed a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. The grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation provides her with funding for five years. Congratulations Ruth, how does it feel to receive this award?- Thank you so much! It feels wonderful. There was a long process and

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/ruth-pottgen-becomes-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-08-27

Researchers have successfully mapped three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. Photographer: ESO. By analysing high-resolution data from a 10-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers in Lund, Sweden, have managed to gain new insights into three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. The stars turned out to be unusually young with a puzzling chemical composition that surprises the researchers. In th

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-have-managed-date-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-08-27

Per Eng-Johnsson is the director of Lund Laser Centre and one of the team of researchers and doctoral students working closely with Anne L'Huillier, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2023. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg. Down in the basement of the Department of Physics, the now world-famous short laser pulses are fired almost daily. This is home to Sweden’s cutting-edge research in attosecond physics. Ac

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/everyday-laser-flashes-and-real-world-attosecond-physics - 2025-08-27

Welcome to participate in LTH's celebration of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023. Graphic: Linda Hansson, Portrait: Andreas Magnusson Qassim. On December 18th, it's time for LTH's official celebration of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. Then our own laureate – Professor Anne L'Huillier – will hold a Nobel lecture which will be broadcasted via LTH's YouTube channel. After the lecture, we invite you t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/live-streaming-lth-nobel-lecture - 2025-08-27

R. Michael Rich. Private Photo. The American astronomer R. Michael Rich has charted the innermost parts of the Milky Way using spectroscopy. R. Michael Rich have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Professor R. Michael Rich is based at the University of California Los Angeles. For almost 30 years, he has explored the innermost parts of our galaxy with the

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/world-leading-astrophysicist-appointed-new-honorary-doctor-science - 2025-08-27

Eva Lindroth. Photo: Stockholm University. Eva Lindroth is professor of Theoretical Physics at Stockholm University. In addition to being a highly cited and excellent researcher, she has been assistant supervisor for several LTH doctoral students, a frequent visiting lecturer and has included LTH doctoral students on courses at Stockholm University. All in all, she has helped to strengthen LTH’s r

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/eva-lindroth-appointed-new-honorary-doctor-lth - 2025-08-27

90 MSEK goes to Lund when research initiative WISE invests half a billion SEK in material science for increased sustainability – the largest investment in material science in Sweden. Photo: Kennet Ruona WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment in materials science in Sweden and is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. WISE

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-08-27

Snails with antennae illustrating nanowires. Illustration by Anastasia Tsioki. Jonas Johansson is a professor of physics and develops new knowledge for the production of materials at the nanoscale. Anastasia Tsioki is a first-year student on LTH's MSc in Engineering Nanoscience programme. When Jonas was about to publish a scientific article, he turned to Anastasia to illustrate a proposed cover im

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-08-27

The new findings could enable larger and more complicated circuits - crucial to unlocking the enormous computational power of quantum computers. Photo: Unsplash. By utilising quantum mechanics, a quantum computer can solve computational problems that today's supercomputers cannot. But there are problems. As the circuits in quantum computers get bigger, they become more difficult to control. Now re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-way-designing-circuits-could-lead-large-scale-quantum-computers - 2025-08-27

Tavakoli's findings show that minor detector imperfections can significantly impact steering tests, but a new method adapts for these flaws based on experimental control, allowing analysis without assuming perfect detectors. Illustration: Armin Tavakoli. Entanglement, once dismissed by Einstein as an impossible phenomenon but later shown to be possible by Nobel Prize-winning physicists, continues

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/detecting-spooky-action-distance-imperfect-detectors - 2025-08-27

Computer simulation of the formation of galaxies. Photo: The AGORA Collaboration. Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An international research team, led by Lund University and Seoul National University, has spent hundreds of millions of computer hours over

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-super-simulation-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2025-08-27

Heiner Linke and Vanya Darakchieva. Photograph. Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to support excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, engineering and natural sciences. Anne L'Huillier, Kimberly Dick Thelander and Stephanie Re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/two-physicists-become-new-wallenberg-scholars - 2025-08-27

From February 1st, students and staff at Lund University have access to Scopus AI, an AI-based search service that should make it easier to find research articles. What is Scopus AI?Scopus AI is an advanced version of the Scopus database. The tool helps you to:Search for research articles using natural language, both in Swedish and English.Get summaries based on article abstracts and references.Cr

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/scopus-ai-new-tool-finding-research-articles - 2025-08-27

Staff and students from other universities can now log in to Lund University's Canvas as external users. Here you will find out how external login works, which Swedish and international institutions are supported, and how to invite new users and solve any login issues. Who can log in externally? External accounts work for most Swedish institutions. For users from foreign institutions, Lund Univers

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/external-login-canvas - 2025-08-27

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is a generative AI tool that can, for example, answer questions, summarize text, and perform basic translations. It was previously known as Bing Chat. All employees and students at Lund University have a Microsoft 365 account that provides access to tools like Word, Outlook, and Teams – and also allows you to log in to Copilot Chat via the web.Log in and use Copilot in y

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/copilot-employees-lund-university - 2025-08-27

Right now, almost 500 students are using the university’s storage service LU Box. However, LU Box is mainly intended for employees at Lund University. Students will no longer have access to LU Box starting on 5 May 2025. Students using LU Box will receive an email with information about what they need to do and tips on alternative services to use instead.

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/lu-box-will-close-students-5-may-2025 - 2025-08-27

A video lecture – a video in which you have recorded your lecture with images in a PowerPoint presentation - can be exactly the learning support that your students need. However, an endless series of slides with an anonymous-sounding voiceover in an excessively long video can be unbelievably boring. What can you do to get your message across in your video? Check out the three tips below! Photo by

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/three-tips-your-video-lecture - 2025-08-27

Foto: Nick Fewings på Unsplash As a teaching staff member working in Canvas, you are responsible for ensuring that the content you share with your students is adapted for accessibility. In this article, you will find tips from The Project group for web accessibility on what to bear in mind for all types of information published online and on digital platforms. You will also find links and informat

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/5-tips-making-your-course-canvas-more-accessible - 2025-08-27

How can students view each other’s work? According to Sahar Valizadeh, there is no right or wrong answer, just different strategies! By Sahar Valizadeh  Many people ask how to go about allowing students to access each other’s work. Sometimes it is because the course structure is based on students working on different themes with the expectation that the result will be shared with others, but more

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/do-you-want-your-students-be-able-view-each-others-work - 2025-08-27

Photo: Damian Zaleski on Unsplash Canvas has a new Rich Content Editor which aims to make your life a bit easier when it comes to editing and formatting text, adding images and working with embedding different type of files. You can find the Editor almost anywhere you have the option to write such as in Announcements, Discussions, Pages, Assignments and Quizzes.  The new Editor - an overview The w

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/new-rich-content-editor-here - 2025-08-27