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A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Something to announce
https://www.cgbkansli.lu.se/en/article/testnews - 2026-07-05
Approximately one in five Swedish young adults (18–25) have experienced recurring problems with paying their bills in the past year. The group with recurring payment problems tend to make more unplanned purchases, are less likely to have a social network to discuss their financial problems with, and are less likely to have friends that could help them financially, than those who do not experience
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/study-finds-every-fifth-swedish-young-adult-has-payment-problems - 2026-07-05
Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions? “In theory, no, but in practice this seems to be the case”, says researcher Max Koch from Lund University in Sweden. His study of 138 countries is the first ever to take a global approach to the connections between growth, prosperity and ecological sustainability. The study was recently p
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/economic-development-leads-greater-carbon-footprint-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions - 2026-07-05
Max Koch professor at the School of Social Work has together with Oksana Mont from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University edited a new book on welfare and its relationship to sustainability. For more information, click here (new window).
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-sustainability-and-political-economy-welfare - 2026-07-05
Cecilia Heule and Arne Kristiansen, researchers and teachers at the School of Social Work share their experiences in gap-mending pedagogy in a new European anthology: The Service User as a Partner in Social Work Projects and Education. The anthology is one of the outcomes that can be traced back to a unique mobilisation course that started 11 years ago at Lund University. The anthology gives for t
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-anthology-describes-gap-mending-europe - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
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 - 2026-07-05
