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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the recent Lund University Homecoming Weekend the Centre arranged an event where we invited three alumni to share their experiences. One of the alumni was Sune Petersen who graduated from the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in 2015 and is now a Project Administrator at DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture.
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumnus-sune-petersen - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new way of identifying cancer biomarkers has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The new technology allows very sensitive, quick and cost-effective identification of cancer biomarkers. The research is published in Nature Communications Biology. Today, every third person will get cancer in the
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/novel-biomarker-technology-cancer-diagnostics - 2026-05-27
Kerstin Enflo is a professor of economic history at Lund University School of Economics and Management. For the past year, she has been a member of The Economic Sciences Prize Committee. We catch up with her just after Claudia Goldin, professor of economic history at Harvard University, was announced as this year’s winner. Hi there, Kerstin Enflo! You are an economic historian and in your first ye
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/kerstin-enflo-her-first-year-economics-prize-committee - 2026-05-27
Previous research shows that wars contributed to the expansion of state revenues in the Early Modern period and in the twentieth century. There are, however, few cross-national studies on the long nineteenth century. Using new annual data on wars and public revenues from 1816 to 1913 for 27 American and European countries, this article provides new evidence that military conflicts very rarely trig
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/goenaga-sabate-and-teorell-publish-article-review-international-organizations - 2026-05-27
Tine Buffel is professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester, where she directs the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group. Her presentation in the CASE Scientific Session had a focus on social and economic inequalities, and their consequences, both for research and urban ageing. The implications of such inequalities for age-friendly policy and practice were discuss
https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-scientific-session-tine-buffel-about-age-friendly-movement - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Since January 1, NanoLund has a new director – Anders Mikkelsen, and a new deputy director – Maria Messing. “Organizing the work in NanoLund will be an interesting challenge, but we take it on with great enthusiasm and look forward to engaging with the entire staff,” says Anders Mikkelsen. “It is now time to look forw
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-directors-maria-messing-and-anders-mikkelsen - 2026-05-27
When a new EU project focusing on gender equality and diversity in STEM got under way last autumn, Lund University was involved from the outset. Through the Department of Physics, Lund is participating in the Erasmus+ project GENERA COPA, which has received €400,000 in funding and brings together universities and research environments from across Europe. The project launched in September 2025 in c
https://www.science.lu.se/article/we-need-more-perspectives-physics-and-mathematics-lund-new-eu-project - 2026-05-27
Physical geographer Alex Vermeulen, who leads the work on the ICOS Carbon Portal, was the editor of a new publication on greenhouse gas flows that has received significant international recognition. It was recently presented at the UN Climate Summit in Baku. Alex, you've been working with the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin again this year. What do the results look like?– Concentrations of all major green
https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-draws-attention-dark-report-greenhouse-gases - 2026-05-27
An event packed week with inspiration, tips, and discussions about teaching. Thank you to all who participated or helped organize the activities. The week kicked off with Professor Katarina Mårtensson, who gave an introduction to how we could develop teaching skills through open classroom observations.“My biggest takeaway was the potential we have to strengthen our teaching together by fostering c
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/pedagogical-week-lusem - 2026-05-27
Digitalisation and AI affect us all – whether we work in research, teaching, administration or management. In order to face the future with the right tools and knowledge, we have formed an Ad hoc group to support our employees in developing their expertise in digitalisation and AI. We are launching an AI course for all staff as the semester gets underway. It is a basic course, aimed at those who a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-ad-hoc-ai-group-bolster-staff-expertise-digitalisation-and-ai - 2026-05-28
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IIIEE staff, board members, former board members, students and alumni. After nine years, I have decided to leave my assignment as Director at the IIIEE. Together with you I have had the privilege to further develop the Institute in being an innovative and creative arena for interdisciplinary education and research wit
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thank-you-all - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund University in Sweden of gardens and residential courtyards in and around Malmö, Sweden. The result surprised the researchers, who had expec
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-human-population-density-negative-pollinators - 2026-05-27
An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disease. The study is now published in Cell Reports Medicine. People with type 2 diabetes are up to four times more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, anginas and other coronary heart diseases than healthy people. Therefo
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In our course Contemporary South Asian Societies we have the pleasure of having one of our former students, Emilija Zabiliute, as a lecturer. Emilija was a student on our masters programme between 2008-2010 and received her PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2016. Could you please tell us a bit about yourself?I
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumna-emilija-zabiliute - 2026-05-27
An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disease. The study is now published in Cell Reports Medicine. People with type 2 diabetes are up to four times more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, anginas and other coronary heart diseases than healthy people. Therefo
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2026-05-27
Andreia Neto Meireles, doktorand i farmaceutiska vetenskaper vid University of Porto har fått en doktorandtjänst på Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten genom EUGLOH-samarbetet. Hon är en av de första som kommer till Lunds universitet genom nätverket och ska stanna i nio månader. – Det känns som en fantastisk möjlighet att få göra min doktorandutbildning vid två universitet och i två länder, säger Andrei
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/forsta-eugloh-doktoranden-pa-plats-i-lund - 2026-05-28
En ny rapport sammanfattar den krassa realpolitikens erfarenheter och landar i fem rekommendationer som ökar chansen till att klimatpolitiska styrmedel fungerar också i praktiken. Erfarenheten visar att klimatpolitik som kan låta bra på pappret inte alltid fungerar i verkligheten. Kilometerskatt och reduktionsplikten – lag på viss andel biobränsle i bilbränsle – är två exempel på styrmedel som ant
https://www.lu.se/artikel/fem-tips-till-politiker-att-lyckas-med-sin-klimatpolitik - 2026-05-28
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fast fashion has shrunk the fashion production cycle from three months to an unbelievable two weeks. New ideas are snapped up from the catwalk, interpreted and made into trendy clothes with a low price-tag, available in shops and online. Economists attribute the success of fast fashion to innovative large companies, b
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/korean-efficiency-behind-fast-fashion - 2026-05-27
In a recent research paper, Talina Sondershaus and her co-authors investigate how shadow banks, which are bank-like institutions that are only lightly regulated, behave in the context of climate change. They find that when society pays high attention to climate change, shadow banks start buying “brown loans”, i.e. loans from borrowers that have a large carbon footprint, while prices for these loan
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/shadow-banks-and-climate-change-ally-or-obstacle - 2026-05-27
