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CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "A Combination of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Machine Learning Methods Improves the Prediction of Groundwater Level" together with Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Faezeh Babaian (Islamic Azad University Tehran), Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran) and Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz). The arti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/predicting-groundwater-levels-iran - 2025-11-24

This CMES Regional Outlook by Pinar Dinc focuses on the recent political developments in Turkey. Recent events over the past week have dramatically shaken the political landscape in Turkey. The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, a prominent political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was stripped of his university degree for alleged irregularities. The next morning he was detained at his ho

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-rising-tide-dissent-turkey-call-democracy-and-justice - 2025-11-23

The results from the autumn travel habits survey show that a majority of the University’s staff (approx. 80%) get to and from work by walking, cycling or using public transport. This is a higher percentage than for other large organisations in Lund. However, there is potential for even more people to commute sustainably by investments in public transport and measures to promote cycling on campus.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-staff-are-best-sustainable-commuting - 2025-11-24

Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and killed off the dinosaurs. Now, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, are analysing drill cores from the crater to reconstruct in detail what happened on Earth directly after the impact. The Chicxulub

https://www.science.lu.se/article/drill-cores-mexican-crater-provide-new-knowledge-about-dinosaurs-extinction - 2025-11-23

On September 28, the official launch of SciLifeLab Lund will take place in Forum Medicum. Lund is one of the four new sites that were established in 2022. The sites in Gothenburg, Linköping, Umeå and Lund are part of a major governmental investment in national research infrastructure. The vision is for Sweden to be a world-leading research nation in molecular life sciences. Site coordinator Esther

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/kick-scilifelab-lund - 2025-11-23

Is it possible to put a value on nature and the vital ecosystem services it provides for us? What are the pros and cons of different valuation models? These are the key questions addressed in a new report by IPBES, the UN’s biodiversity panel, to be published on 11 July. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) can be described as the equivalent

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-nature-be-valued-new-report-way-ipbes - 2025-11-23

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the recommendations below so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Enter your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleagues can easily fin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-your-summer-vacation - 2025-11-24

Funding for EduLab – the University’s experimental platform for developing courses and programmes – is being extended until 2026. The aim of EduLab is to provide a fast track for developing new course concepts by linking different parts of the University and finding fruitful collaborations. Off-the-wall ideas are welcome. EduLab is tasked with meeting the challenges faced by the University in term

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/edulab-experimental-platform-receive-continued-funding - 2025-11-24

Welcome to the fifth edition of the "WCMM Fireside Chat" series, an ongoing initiative, which showcases and highlights the work of researchers affiliated with or connected to WCMM in Lund. In this edition, we turn our spotlight to this years' WCMM Research day organizers Oscar van der Have, Swathi Pakirisamy and Iran Augusto Silva. Two oft them, Oscar and Iran, shared their motivations, experience

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-organizers-research-day - 2025-11-23

Instead of leaving a will, she prefers to participate and contribute now. Maibrit Westrin, a 94-year-old former senior lecturer in French and Spanish, supports students and researchers in the Humanities – and finds that she gets a lot out of it. With determined steps, aided by walking sticks and wearing a cap on her head, Maibrit Westrin enters the main University building to be interviewed. In th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/secret-donald-duck-translator-supports-humanities - 2025-11-23

Pathologists and coroners are now commonplace in crime novels and TV crime series and are often depicted as slightly odd people. Elisabet Englund has worked at the Division of Pathology in Lund for over 40 years. She has often been told that she is a little ‘too happy’ to be a pathologist. “Yes, there is a stereotype of people who work with dead people, which perhaps contributes to the mystificati

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/death-our-textbook-life - 2025-11-24

It feels almost shameful to admit, but climate change has always felt like something abstract and far away. Of course, I know that climate change is happening. I can explain the greenhouse effect. I even use climate change as an argument for banning meat from my diet, reducing my consumption of animal-based products, and travelling through Europe by bus and train. I do all of these things because

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-when-climate-change-becomes-personal-reflection-researching-non-economic-loss-and-damage - 2025-11-23

Celebrate Culture Night with Lund University! Browse among all our activities for young and old, which extend from morning to late evening. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme.Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-20-september - 2025-11-24

Nearly four in ten female upper secondary school students suffer from iron deficiency. Among vegetarians and vegans, seven in ten have low iron levels, according to a new study led by Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff. The research has received considerable attention in the press, radio and television. "We were surprised by the results," says Anna Stubbendorff. The past two weeks have been

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/nearly-four-ten-female-students-suffer-iron-deficiency - 2025-11-23

A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The kitchen table belonged to the then dean of LTH Thomas Johannesson, who had invited the founder of IKEA to his house to discuss a collaboration between the desig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2025-11-24

Faculty of Fine and Performing arts has named professor and artistic performer Terry O'Connor (UK) their Honorary Doctor 2022. Have you had any professional relations to Sweden and Scandinavia during your career? -I have often travelled to Scandinavia to perform and love to visit. Forced Entertainment was, I think, first invited to Bergen a couple of decades ago and then we made artistic connectio

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/these-were-incredible-teaching-experiences-me - 2025-11-23

Faculty of Fine and Performing arts has named professor and artistic performer Terry O'Connor (UK) their Honorary Doctor 2022. Have you had any professional relations to Sweden and Scandinavia during your career? -I have often travelled to Scandinavia to perform and love to visit. Forced Entertainment was, I think, first invited to Bergen a couple of decades ago and then we made artistic connectio

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/these-were-incredible-teaching-experiences-me - 2025-11-23

Lina Ejlertsson, a doctoral student in Public Health at Lund University, believes that there is a classic approach to working with and measuring health in workplaces through sick leave rates, productivity and efficiency. – Most often, rehabilitative measures or preventative work are only undertaken after employees become ill. So what happens if you instead integrate various recovery activities int

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/integrated-recovery-during-work-day-does-it-make-difference - 2025-11-23

Exposure to common infections may shape basal immunity and potentially HIV-1 acquisition amongst a high-risk population in Coastal KenyaLynn Fwambah 1 2, Cheryl Andisi 2, Claire Streatfield 3, Rachel Bromell 3, Jonathan Hare 3 4, Joakim Esbjörnsson 5 6, Thumbi Ndung'u 7 8 9 10, Eduard J Sanders 1 6 11, Amin S Hassan # 1 5, Eunice Nduati # 1 2Affiliations1Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/We

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/exposure-common-infections-may-shape-basal-immunity-and-potentially-hiv-1-acquisition-amongst-high - 2025-11-23

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-strategy-will-research-be-better-now - 2025-11-24