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Welcome to Lund University. Which university did you recently come from?– I came from Loughborough University in the UK, where I had been since 2010. Prior to that I was based at the University of Copenhagen for 17 years, hence speak fluent Danish. What is (or has been) the main focus of your research? – My research focuses primarily on low-income housing and livelihoods in urban areas of the glob
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/meet-katherine-gough - 2026-07-21
When Crafoord Prize laureate Veerabhadran Ramanathan visited Lund on 18 May, he combined personal reflections with a powerful scientific message: understanding aerosols and greenhouse gases is key to tackling climate change, but solving the crisis will require new approaches, broad collaboration, and urgent public engagement. On Monday, May 18, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor (Eme
https://www.science.lu.se/article/crafoord-laureate-highlights-overlooked-climate-drivers - 2026-07-21
The war against terror is coming to an end. Has China become the victor? The Middle East seems to be moving towards more authoritarian regimes. A large influx of migrants and refugees and increasing population growth are likely to affect the region over the coming decades. And what about climate change? Is the Middle East becoming wetter, drier, or both? Watch five Middle East scholars trendspotti
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/trendspotting-future-challenges-middle-east - 2026-07-21
Mats Paulssonstiftelserna delar i år ut anslag till åtta framstående forskningsprojekt varav sex projekt leds från Medicinska fakulteten. Projekten omfattar avancerade cancerbehandlingar, cellterapier, antibiotikaresistens och banbrytande diagnostik av Alzheimers sjukdom. Idag, vid en prisceremoni på Medicon Village, fick sex forskare från Medicinska fakulteten ta emot sina anslag. För första gång
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/mats-paulssonstiftelser-anslar-15-miljoner-till-fakultetens-forskning - 2026-07-22
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how these cells accelerate the cancer’s growth and that this can be successfully inhibited using a drug developed for arteriosclerosis. Glioblastoma affects around 500 Swedes every year and is the most common and most aggres
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/foam-cells-brain-tumours - 2026-07-21
Trump’s intervention in Venezuela was physical, concrete, and armed. What is happening now is decisive for the country’s future, but it also affects the entire region, according to Andrés Palacio, researcher at LUSEM. Historically, the United States has on several occasions asserted Central America, the Caribbean, and South America as its sphere of interest. Since the end of the Second World War,
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/venezuela-after-maduro - 2026-07-22
Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpretentious,” he says. When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announ
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2026-07-22
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ne of the main purposes of Mohammadhassan Safavi’s Ph D thesis is to leverage machine learning algorithms to predict where users activities should be done to incur minimum cost. Cost could be energy consumption, service quality degradation, service delay and so on. The thesis also covers many other aspects from reduci
https://www.ai.lu.se/article/how-use-machine-learning-decide-where-do-what-edge-networks - 2026-07-21
Helena Elding Larsson har sett många framsteg inom diabetesvården sedan hon inledde sin karriär som diabetesforskare och barnläkare. Hennes målsättning är att förhindra att sjukdomen bryter ut. Årets Medeonstipendiat är en av föreläsarna under evenemanget Världsdiabetesdagen Skåne, som arrangeras i Malmö den 12 november. Som diabetesforskare vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum (LUDC), barnläkar
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/diabetesforskaren-helena-elding-larsson-vill-forhindra-att-typ-1-diabetes-bryter-ut - 2026-07-21
Helena Elding Larsson har sett många framsteg inom diabetesvården sedan hon inledde sin karriär som diabetesforskare och barnläkare. Hennes målsättning är att förhindra att sjukdomen bryter ut. Årets Medeonstipendiat är en av föreläsarna under evenemanget Världsdiabetesdagen Skåne, som arrangeras i Malmö den 12 november. Som diabetesforskare vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum (LUDC), barnläkar
In the autumn, Sara Törnros from Batch 17, returned to the the LUMES programme – this time as a lecturer at the Resilience and Sustainable Development course. We took the opportunity to talk to her about her job as a climate change and resilience advisor at Plan International - and her best memories from the LUMES programme. Tell us more about your job, what do you do as a climate change and resil
A few questions to CASE's young future researchers before the big conference in Stockholm this week. Samantha Svärdh, PhD student for the research group Applied Gerontology, Center for Ageing and Supportive Environments (CASE). How will you participate at NKG?– I will be doing a poster presentation about one of the sub-studies in my PhD project. The sub-study focuses on user experiences of welfare
https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/their-way-nordic-highlight-year - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On the last of December, Professor Gunnar Gouras left his position as a coordinator for MultiPark after five years. Here is how he sums up his time and mission for our environment. Can you describe your time as a coordinator for Multipark? To lead Multipark has been very interesting as well as challenging. To have the
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/interview-gunnar-gouras-about-his-time-coordinator - 2026-07-21
Finally! We are now (almost) at the execution phase of the ventilation project in the Ecology building! Years of planning and discovering that “nobody thought of this” have hopefully prepared us as much as possible for what is going to happen. So what will actually happen? The entire ventilation system at the Ecology building attic will be exchanged for a new one! Half this summer, and the other h
https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/renovation-ventilation-ecology-building - 2026-07-21
Fidelity Investments handles financial services all over the world and is on many finance students' wish list of future employers. Active members of Lund University Finance Society (LINC), have for several years in a row secured at place at the company’s popular summer internship in London. Sebastian Lindeborg is studying Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet (Bachelor's in Business and Economy) and is goin
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/top-internship-finance-goes-annually-cambridge-oxford-and-lund - 2026-07-21
A Nobel laureate and a pioneer have been appointed honorary doctors 2023 at our faculty. On May 24, they offer their insights into the sensitivities of body and mind in an open lecture. In this lecture you will hear the 2023 honorary doctors of the Faculty of Medicine, Nobel laureate professor David Julius and professor Rita Charon each talk about their research and what it has taught them about t
