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LUCSUS Director professor Emily Boyd, has recently been appointed Editor-In-Chief for the journal Global Sustainability. Emily Boyd took over the editorship from the previous Editor-in -Chief, professor Johan Rockström. As the new editor-in-chief, Emily Boyd would like to see a new dynamic phase in Global Sustainability. She thinks that Global Sustainability has the potential to be at the forefron

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-new-editor-chief-global-sustainability - 2026-07-03

Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain largely absent. The COP26 agreement suggests that markets will play a central role, but there are significant problems with this approach. Carbon removal, also known as “negative emissions”, is the process

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2026-07-03

The “Staying on the ground” movement initiated in Sweden has gained rising influence internationally, indicating the start of an important shift in not just attitudes but also culture regarding travel behaviors and visions of living well under climate change. A recently published paper by LUCSUS PhD  candidate Sara Ullström, LUCSUS researcher Kimberly Nicholas and political scientist Johannes Stri

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-did-flying-go-luxury-aspiration-contested-norm-sweden - 2026-07-03

Offshore wind power is presented as one of the solutions to solve the energy crisis in southern Sweden. But the issue has been met with a "not in my backyard” attitude, as many municipalities say no to the government's decision. LUCSUS researcher Henner Busch, shares his thoughts on how to involve local communities and create a more just energy transition. Earlier this autumn, the Swedish governme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/conflicts-between-national-climate-targets-and-local-communities-jeopardize-renewable-energy - 2026-07-03

Bibiana Prinoth has been awarded the Oscar II Scholarship 2026 for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science. The scholarship recognises the most prominent thesis presented during the past two years within each field at Lund University. In her work, Bibiana Prinoth studies distant and extreme planetary atmospheres using advanced spectroscopy, opening up new possibilities for understanding how plan

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/thesis-exploring-extreme-exoplanet-atmospheres-awarded-oscar-ii-scholarship - 2026-07-03

How do some planets end up extremely close to their host stars, despite appearing to have formed much farther away? A new international JWST study, led by the University of Southern Queensland in collaboration with MIT, seeks to answer this question. From Lund University, Judith Korth contributed key dynamical analysis. The study focuses on TOI‑1130b, a mini‑Neptune orbiting a star about 190 light

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/when-planets-migrate-lund-researcher-contributes-key-analysis-jwst-study - 2026-07-03

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Anne L’Huillier has been awarded this year’s Röntgen Plaque. The award ceremony will take place on 30 May in Remscheid, Germany. Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at Lund University, receives the award for her groundbreaking contributions to attosecond physics. Her research has made it possible to study and understand ultrafast electron dynamics in matter, n

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-awarded-rontgen-plaque-2026 - 2026-07-03

Magnetic fields are not a phenomenon confined to our Solar System. A recent study shows that distant exoplanets carry clear signatures of magnetism – something that had not previously been known. The findings open up new ways to study alien worlds and identify potentially habitable planets. The Universe is full of strange planets. Among the most puzzling are the so-called “ultra-hot Jupiters” – en

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/cosmic-gusts-reveal-mysterious-magnetic-fields - 2026-07-03

In a joint initiative, six Swedish universities are now joining forces to establish the Swedish Center for Quantum Technology, a national centre for research, innovation, education and capacity building in quantum technology. The initiative aims to strengthen Sweden’s competitiveness in the field and to serve as a driving force for the development and application of the technology. Globally, quant

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-centre-strengthen-sweden-quantum-race - 2026-07-03

The Swedish Research Council has announced the first funding decisions under its Strategic Recruitment of Associate Senior Lecturers programme. Two of the grants have been awarded to the Faculty of Science through the recruitment of Jennifer Graham at the Department of Physics and Adela YiYu Zhang at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.The Swedish Research Council has announced the first funding

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/double-success-faculty-science-swedish-research-council-call - 2026-07-03

Bibiana Prinoth, who completed her PhD at Lund University in 2025, has now been recognised internationally. She is one of only nine researchers worldwide to receive the IAU PhD Prize. The award highlights the most outstanding doctoral theses globally and places her research among the very best in the world. Bibiana Prinoth is being honoured by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an organis

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astrophysicist-lund-receives-international-prize-her-thesis - 2026-07-03

The strange space object ‘Oumuamua took the scientific community by storm nine years ago. In the wake of its passage close to our planet, many questions have been raised. Recently, an international initiative was launched to search for more visitors from other solar systems. One night in October 2017, a telescope in Hawaii is carrying out its routine task of scanning the night sky. The following d

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/hunt-visitors-other-solar-systems - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovation potential by the European Research Council. For several years, physicist Christelle Prinz has developed nanotechnology to diagnose and s

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical processes that can be compared to the Higgs mechanism. The discovery can, among other things, provide more knowledge about quantum mechanical processes that are similar to

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What is all the dark matter in the universe made of? Could it be connected to new particles that can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, will search for new particles beyond the known fundamental components of matter with the ATLAS experiment at t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/prestigious-erc-consilidator-grant-awarded-caterina-doglioni - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to resear

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor of Atomic Physics and affiliated member of NanoLund, has been awarded the Optical Society Max Born Award 2021 “for p

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-max-born-award - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A research project on how to observe and control the movement of electrons will soon commence at LTH thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Per Eng-Johnsson, professor at the Division of Atomic Physics, will receive just over SEK 25 million for doing something that no one has

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/unique-research-project-electrons-awarded-grant - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund affiliated researcher recieves funding to develop a new microscope. Pablo Villanueva Perez, associate senior lecturer in Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will develop a completely new X-ray microscope to improve the study and filming of different materials in 3D. Today this is done using microtomography (μCT) b

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-starting-grant-rewarded-pablo-villanueva-perez - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2026-07-03