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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Green economy depends on high national ambitionsSustainable growth, supporting a resource efficient and low-carbon economy, is a high priority for most governments today. But which way is the most effective for the transition towards a green economy? IIIEE researchers Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij are soon wrapping up a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-researcher-luis-mundaca - 2026-05-07

Individuals cannot solve the climate crisis, argue researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Jack Coffin. Policy makers should direct their attention to the (im)moral market structures that influence consumer and corporate decision-making. In the fight against climate change, it is more important to make markets more moral than to make consumers more ethical. Individual consumers are, by now, well used to b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/why-we-need-more-moral-markets-not-more-ethical-consumers - 2026-05-07

As one of five locations in Sweden, Lund is receiving support from Formas to start a lab for urban development issues. The Lund Urban Transition Lab will be located in the innovation district in northeast Lund, where sustainable solutions in the built environment, mobility and urban planning will be developed and tested. How can sustainable urban development become a natural part of the cities of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-city-lund-urban-transition-lab-shows-way - 2026-05-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/energy-advances-open-door-more-aggressive-climate-policies - 2026-05-07

There are many requirements on the food packaging of the future. They must be better and safer than today, while also environment-friendly, cost-effective, and aesthetically pleasing. In the product development race, Tetra Pak has teamed up with the Faculty of Engineering in Lund – LTH. The researchers' computer simulations accelerate development and increase knowledge of how different materials r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-better-packaging - 2026-05-07

Three research groups at Lund University Diabetes Centre receive new project grants within precision medicine. The aim with the projects is to develop individualised treatment strategies that may benefit people with type 2 diabetes. One of the new projects will investigate whether it is possible to develop individualised treatment strategies for people with type 2 diabetes. The project EPIPREDIA i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/precision-medicine-research-within-type-2-diabetes-and-dementia-receives-support - 2026-05-07

Professor Thoas Fioretos is the first recipient of Lunds Innovatörspris (the Lund Innovator Award), a newly established prize that recognises research that has been successfully transformed into innovation with a tangible impact on society and the environment. Fioretos receives the award for his pioneering work in blood cancer research and his ability to translate scientific discoveries into life-

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/award-winning-cancer-researcher-revolutionises-diagnosis-and-treatment-worldwide - 2026-05-07

For the next four years, Camilla Davids from Namibia will share her time between Lund and Cape Town thanks to the "Double PhD-programme”. With the guidance of supervisors Gabriela Godaly and Reto Guler, Davids will focus on a project on alternative treatment methods for tuberculosis, an important research area at a time when antibiotic resistance is on the rise globally. When the call for seeding

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/camilla-davids-shares-her-time-between-lund-and-cape-town - 2026-05-07

Nicole van der Burg and Isabel Hidalgo took up the offer from Jobbsprånget to hire an intern for four months. Would they recommend it? – Every day! The interns are highly skilled, extremely motivated and happy to help in all aspects, says Nicole van der Burg who is now hiring an intern for the second time. Now you can apply for an intern as well!Learn about the application and recruitment process

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/jobbspranget-hire-intern-four-months - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Francisca Skoogh dreams of establishing an interdisciplinary centre for “performance science” at Lund University. She is both a pianist and a psychologist, and conducts research on her own relationship with the stage and stage performance anxiety. She is also a new member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The con

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-wants-teach-artists-overcome-stage-fright - 2026-05-07

A few sharp minds working together for almost an entire summer. The task: to tackle the problem that a couple of days of work generates so much data, that it would take months to analyse. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction is a technique that allows us to obtain precise and detailed structural information of materials and their properties, and to fundamentally understand physical processes at the atomi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mission-get-data-unstuck - 2026-05-07

A few sharp minds working together for almost an entire summer. The task: to tackle the problem that a couple of days of work generates so much data, that it would take months to analyse. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction is a technique that allows us to obtain precise and detailed structural information of materials and their properties, and to fundamentally understand physical processes at the atomi

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mission-get-data-unstuck - 2026-05-07

February 15th was the deadline to make pre-notifications with the preliminary title and a contact person of proposed profile areas. We received 26 pre-notifications. Based on the preliminary titles, the 26 proposed profile areas that are being developed cover the breadth of the university very well. They contain many expected topics in which Lund University has a strong track-record, but also some

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/26-pre-notifications-profile-areas-received - 2026-05-07

The first call for applications, Sustainable Idea Exploration, within the University’s Sustainability Fund opened during the autumn. The aim is to explore the innovative potential of sustainability-related research projects at an early stage. Four projects have now been granted funding. From biomimicry and energy efficiency enhancement to a model for legal advice on human rights – the applications

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-projects-awarded-grants-sustainability-fund - 2026-05-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Colleagues who assume responsibility for the big picture at their workplace nurture the leadership culture that Torbjörn von Schantz wants to see at his University. The heads of department, managers and deans of the future need to consider what is best for the University as a whole in addition to their own area. Torbj

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaders-future-should-assume-responsibility-university-whole - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The relocation of the specialised centres to the faculties which is currently underway within LU has generated concern and discussion. “But once you know where you are moving, a calmer and more constructive phase begins”, says Bo Ahrén, chair of the University’s specialised centres. But Merle Jacob, professor of resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/calmer-phase-after-turbulence-centres-moving-faculties - 2026-05-07

No 57, 13 March 2026 Welcome to a new addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   Our event “Efficient use of the Grace Hopper GPU nodes on Dardel and Arrhenius” is about to close registration.   Since last week we added two more events.  The first one is our advanced programming course on parallel programming with MPI.  The second one are our NAISS induction training days.   These are a set of m

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-10 - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Här ett axplock av priser, utmärkelser och anslag under februari, mars och april 2018. Grattis Hans Swärd till FORSA-priset FORSA-priset som är en hedersutmärkelse som delas ut vartannat år. Du får priset för att du bland annat ”åstadkommit förbättringar och ett paradigmskifte i sättet att stödja hemlösa som bland a

https://www.lu.se/artikel/priser-utmarkelser-och-anslag - 2026-05-07

Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This states a report from the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments have paid close attention to how forei

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-malign-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2026-05-07

Many campaigns encourage people to think and talk about the social and environmental consequences of what they buy and sell. A new study by Iker Arregui Alegria, Gunes Gokmen, and Roel van Veldhuizen examines whether this kind of awareness can change behavior in markets, leading firms to offer less harmful products and consumers to choose them. The study finds that this only happens when both side

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/can-social-awareness-campaigns-make-markets-more-responsible - 2026-05-08