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In September 13-15, 2023 the ClimBEco summer meeting entitled “Double up and double down: linking the global climate and biodiversity crises to bring about fast, fair and transformative change” was held. My research background is not in marine sciences, nor am I used to living by the sea, yet something about the Kristineberg Center for Marine Research brings about a comfortable feeling of being in

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2023 - 2026-07-21

Photo: Damian Zaleski on Unsplash Canvas has a new Rich Content Editor which aims to make your life a bit easier when it comes to editing and formatting text, adding images and working with embedding different type of files. You can find the Editor almost anywhere you have the option to write such as in Announcements, Discussions, Pages, Assignments and Quizzes.  The new Editor - an overview The w

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/new-rich-content-editor-here - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Klara Winkler spent last semester at LUCSUS as a visiting PHD student. Here she reflects on her time at the centre, and discusses research approaches and collaboration in sustainability science.What are your reflections on research and collaboration at LUCSUS?LUCSUS is a vibrant place for sustainable sciences research

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-ways-are-short-and-atmosphere-welcoming - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

Two research projects involving a total of 9 postdocs received a total of SEK 32.7 million in the second round of Lund University’s research programme for excellence, focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. In March 2021, Lund University announced SEK100 million in new funding for a research programme for excellence, focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development for the years 20

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nine-new-postdocs-through-excellence-programme-sustainable-development - 2026-07-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a tumour, cancer cells grow and multiply in an uncontrolled manner. However, the cancer cells also need help from other, normal cells for the tumour to develop. This network of ‘helper cells’ is the focus of Kristian Pietras’ research. Two years ago, Kristian Pietras left Karolinska Institutet for Lund, attracted b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/charting-how-normal-cells-help-cancer-cells - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Biohackers experiment with their own bodies to upgrade themselves. They try to acquire a supermemory, increase their metabolic rate or affect some other biological mechanism. Now an interdisciplinary project is investigating how biohacking will come to influence our view of the human body and bioscience. : Interdiscip

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biohackers-crack-human-bodys-programming-code - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Einar Smith is being awarded the Swedish Savings Bank Foundation scholarship for his thesis. A prospective study which demonstrates that the metabolite ergothioneine, independent of other risk factors, can be linked to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. The study is published in BMJ Heart. E

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/connection-between-markers-healthy-diet-and-reduced-risk-cardiovascular-disease-resulted-scholarship - 2026-07-21

Sahana Subramanian recently completed her master’s degree at Lund University. Her thesis “Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour”, studies Kerala’s Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme and, for this, she received this year’s SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award.  Sahana Subramanian, recently admitted as a doctoral student at LUCSUS, was introduced to the concept of ‘urban em

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sahana-subramanian-urban-india-facing-twin-crisis - 2026-07-21

Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely that feminism is usually seen as a European or Western "product" that is exported to the rest of the worl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. More focus on the institutional environment and less on individual researchers in the assessment of research misconduct – and protection for whistle-blowers should be increased. These are some new points in the revised code of conduct for research integrity – points developed in a process led by Göran Hermerén. The EU

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/diminished-focus-scapegoats-scrutiny-entire-research-environment-0 - 2026-07-21

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Success with grant applications leads to problems of an unexpected although pleasant kind. If your research team is almost doubled in size, where are all your colleagues supposed to work? And how are they to get access to laboratory equipment which is already fully booked? Johan Jakobsson in an unusually empty lab (th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/practical-problems-following-grant-success - 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

During last autumn and winter a team of researchers, PhD students and master students from Lund University and Leuphana University, Lüneburg, joined forces to undertake a student-driven quantitative review on temporal changes in ecosystem services. While the primary outcome of this collaboration will be a review to be published in an international scientific journal, the true added value of the st

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/student-driven-quantitative-review-temporal-changes-ecosystem-services - 2026-07-21

A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2026-07-21

Term of office for health and safety representatives runs until 31 December 2023. There will be an election and you can nominate others or yourself until September 29. Principal health and safety representative, Johan Lind tells us more. Hi Johan! Tell us more about yourself. I’m a Finance officer, at the Medical Department Office in Malmö, and I’m the Principal safety representative for the two d

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/time-vote-why-should-you-become-health-and-safety-representative - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Together with Sparbanken Skåne, LU Innovation awards an annual prize to ideas that are good enough to become the innovations of the future. This year, Elaine M'Nkubitu, student at the EMP programme at the IIIEE, is one of the winners. Her idea is to turn organic waste into affordable and sustainable fertilizer in Keny

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/student-elaine-mnkubitu-one-winners-future-innovation-prize - 2026-07-21

Below, Sinikka Neuhaus reflects on her experiences of the course The Teacher and School (7.5 credits), which is the first of eight core courses in educational sciences within the extensive cohesive subject teacher training programme at Lund University. Although the students had already studied 45 credits in their respective subjects, this was the first time that all 75 programme students were gath

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/educational-dilemmas-subject-teacher-training-programme-when-switching-remote-teaching - 2026-07-21

Fyra forskare vid Lunds universitet har beviljats medel från Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs stiftelse till ett sammanlagt belopp på drygt 28 miljoner kronor. Projekten handlar om att komma fram till lämpliga nödåtgärder för att hantera klimatkrisen, hur AI kan spåra psykisk ohälsa utifrån text, om förändrat internationellt akademiskt utbyte samt vilka aktiviteter som ska definieras som hållbara f

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/32-miljoner-till-fem-forskare-fran-wallenberg-stiftelser - 2026-07-21