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The faculties’ honorary doctors for 2025 have been announced and they will receive their honorary doctorates at the Doctoral Degree Conferment Ceremony on 23 May. Information on the honorary doctors’ lectures will be updated regularly during the spring. The title of honorary doctor, doctor honoris causa in Latin, is a distinction which is awarded by a faculty. The honorary doctors are people who h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/full-list-faculties-honorary-doctors-2025 - 2026-07-12

Our researcher is part of the Swedish Olympic Committee’s development programme “Tomorrow’s Sports Researchers” and her research on para-athletes’ health and wellbeing aims to ensure that people with physical disabilities can play sports safely. Presently she is in China to provide support for the Swedish Paralympians at the Winter Paralympics. In terms of performance, it is Sweden’s best Winter P

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researcher-supporting-our-athletes-most-successful-paralympic-winter-games-long-time - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are plans to build a new animal testing facility at Brunnshög in north-east Lund. It is a strategic decision by the Faculty of Medicine based on the need to replace the present animal facility, which is no longer optimal for breeding, and the desire aim to offer international researchers a safer research environ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safer-research-new-animal-testing-facility - 2026-07-13

Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor och en rad andra ämnen som ofta är aktuella.  För experter i flera aktuella ämnen, se Experter – listor och databaser | Lunds universitet Medicin och hälsa   Sol, värme, smittor och sjukdom Höga temperaturer, värmeböljor och sjukdom Höga tempe

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-sommarlista-2025-massor-av-experter-pa-sommarens-fragor - 2026-07-12

By integrating data from Inside Airbnb and other sources, students in the Master’s Programme in Information Systems create apps that support decision-making and provide actionable insights. We spoke with two student groups to learn more about the project. As part of the Master’s Programme in Information Systems, students enrolled in the mandatory course Business Intelligence are diving deep into t

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/students-create-apps-integrating-data-airbnb-and-beyond - 2026-07-14

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Close proximity between the laboratory and the clinic, an identity that is tied to the division and not only to the different research groups, and lunch conversations about everything between heaven and earth. Thoas Fioretos, Felix Mitelman and Fredrik Mertens. According to three professors, these are some of the reas

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stimulating-environment-key-success-clinical-genetics - 2026-07-13

Nordic and Andean countries started their economic modernisation in the same way: with export of raw natural resources. Later on, Norway and Sweden became rich, while Bolivia, Chile and Peru followed a quite different path. What made them diverge from the common road? Different fiscal policies may be one of the reasons, new research from Lund University suggests. In the mid-19th century, Norway ex

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/resource-curse-new-light-research-findings-fiscal-policy-andean-and-nordic-countries - 2026-07-13

Martin Stenlo’s PhD thesis aims to improve the intensive care of lung patients as well as to increase the health status of transplantable donor lungs which will improve the success rate of lung transplantation. He is defending his thesis on the 12th of November and in this interview he tells us about his translational research and his time as a PhD student. It can’t be an easy task to combine a fu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martin-stenlo - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a pu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2026-07-13

A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office What’s the first thing you will be working on as dean? “Since I’m starting my second term as dean, LTH will continue with what we started duri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2026-07-14

The first submission deadline is on 24 November 2025. Lund University supports the SRA Collegium’s initiative to announce a call for seed funding aimed at supporting emerging and innovative interdisciplinary research topics for the university’s Strategic Research Areas (SRAs). A total of 6 MSEK has been allocated for this call, which also aims to foster novel collaborations among the SRAs.We now i

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/call-proposals-targeting-strategic-research-areas-sras-seed-funding-emerging-research-topics - 2026-07-13

On 20 December, 2022 Kristijonas Zemaitis will defend his Ph.D. thesis. With the goal to improve the availability of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for the treatment of patients with blood disorders, he has spent the past several years working to better understand HSCs and how they are regulated to one day propagate these stem cells in the lab for therapeutic purposes. In this interview, we

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/unravelling-mechanisms-blood-stem-cell-expansion-phd-interview-kristijonas-zemaitis - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University’s contract education needs to grow in order to match the skills needed among companies and public authorities in the region. A new report proposes to give the departments the main responsibility for the development of contract education. Employees who work as consultants on the side are to become more i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/put-departments-charge-contract-education - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the J

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-shows-great-promise-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-13

Priscyll Anctil, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, recently published a blog post about the human rights violations, especially against women, in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power two years ago. The blog post is available below. August 15, 2023, marked two years of the Taliban takeover. And with it, everyday attacks against “all manifestations of humanity, free

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/blog-post-priscyll-anctil-taliban-takeover-two-years - 2026-07-13

Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor och en rad andra ämnen som ofta är aktuella. För experter i flera aktuella ämnen, se Experter – listor och databaser | Lunds universitet Medicin och hälsa Sol, värme, smittor och sjukdom Höga temperaturer, värmeböljor och sjukdom Höga temperat

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-sommarlista-2026-massor-av-experter-pa-sommarens-fragor - 2026-07-12

Här finner du några av universitetets statsvetare, ekonomer, historiker med flera, som kan kommentera dagsaktuella händelser eller ge långsiktiga analyser kring frågor som rör valet 2022.  Parlamentarism, partier och val (samtliga statsvetare) Hanna Bäck, hanna [dot] back [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (hanna[dot]back[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se), 046-222 01 61 Område: väljarbeteende, strategiskt röstande,

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-valexpertlista-2022 - 2026-07-12

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Här är en lista över forskare från Lunds universitet som kan svara på många olika slags frågor som kan bli aktuella under de stundande helgerna, från A till Ö. God jul önskar Lunds universitet! A Advent, jul och trettondag: historia, teologi och praktik Stephan Borgehammar, professor i praktisk teologi, kan svara på

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-julexperter-2020 - 2026-07-14

Kriget i Gaza har skapat konflikter på universitet i Sverige och i andra länder. Motsättningarna mellan demonstranter och universitetsledningar och mellan grupper av anställda lär ta tid att överbrygga. Vi har träffat både LU:s rektor och demonstranter från tältlägret i Lundagård. I LUM ger de sin syn på vägen framåt. Vi har också intervjuat Lundaforskare med vitt skilda specialiteter och frågat h

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/efter-palestinagard-vad-hander-nu - 2026-07-12

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Increased collaboration within the faculties and a general revitalisation.  This is already a clear result from the RQ20 research evaluation that was presented in March. “We have caught sight of each other” was a frequent comment heard in a round of telephone calls to the deans and research managers. Most of the facul

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-regrouping-after-rq20 - 2026-07-13