Cross-section of a foraminifer. A new project explores how new forms can be analyzed using image analysis and machine learning. Helena Filipsson, professor at the Department of Geology, together with colleagues, has received seed funding from Lund University for the interdisciplinary project From Microns to Models: Leveraging μCT and Machine Learning for High-Resolution Morphological Diversity Ana

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-perspectives-natures-forms-interdisciplinary-project-receives-seed-funding-university - 2025-09-05

A donation saved the tulips in the Botanical Garden. Photo:Kennet Ruona The presence of the glorious tulips, which have captivated so many of the visitors to the garden and spread to the Instagram accounts of the residents of Lund, is in no way guaranteed. Neither are the coming summer flowers currently being planted in the flower beds, which last year were left bare and brown. “We depend on grant

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/botanical-garden-temporarily-flourishing - 2025-09-05

Stefan Sveningsson and Mats Alvesson. Photo:Louise Larsson Leadership is merely one among an arsenal of tools at the disposal of managers and employees to create a well-functioning group or organisation, according to organisational researchers Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson and Martin Blom at the School of Economics and Management. Are you someone who prefers to work in their own corner, rather

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-leadership-overestimated-rely-more-employees - 2025-09-05

In the interdisciplinary REICOR project, researchers will map the ground with the help of drones and other tools. Here, Lars Beckel from the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) is seen preparing a drone. SGU is a collaborative partner. Photo: Tina Martin Through an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with industry, a group of researchers hope to identify a more efficient way of asses

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/improving-efficiency-construction-railway-future - 2025-09-06

Anne L'Huillier in the laboratory. Photo: European Research Council Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpret

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2025-09-06

Professor Oskar Hansson, professor in neurology at Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds Researchers at Lund University and Washington University have identified a blood marker that reflects the amount of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain. This discovery may play a key role in determining who is most likely to benefit from the new Alzheimer’s drugs. In brief:A newly discovered blood marker, MTBR-tau

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-reliable-blood-marker-reveals-extent-alzheimers-pathology-brain - 2025-09-05

Project managers Lena Christensen and Rachel Forsyth have focused on ways to make evaluating teaching in academic career progression easier. Photo: Minna Wallén-Widung Teaching is to be as highly valued as research when it comes to appointments and promotions. Despite this ambition, it has rarely worked that way in practice. A recently completed project provides a new framework which will help fac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-initiative-raise-status-teaching - 2025-09-06

Maria Hedin and Joakim Eriksson have developed the “dementia simulator”. Photo: Alma Fager What does it feel like to live with dementia? The answer is offered by the “dementia simulator” developed by virtual reality researchers at the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. The simulator takes the user into a virtual world to experience different aspects of life with a cognitive disorder. LTH researchers Joa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-commercialisation-dementia-simulator - 2025-09-06

Julia Weber’s Siberian cat Hera is one of five cats who will appear on Postnord’s new stamps. At work, Julia Weber’s focus is on insects and other pollinators, and their survival. At home, it is her cat Hera who has grabbed attention. When Postnord announced a competition to find cats to grace their new stamps, Julia Weber did as over 18,000 other cat owners and sent in a photo along with a short

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doctoral-students-cat-became-stamp - 2025-09-06

The seminars with LU give the students in Ukraina well needed respite and inspiration. The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2025-09-06

For many years there has been an on-going discussion about how academic freedom is being challenged in many parts of the world, including Sweden. And when even some of the strongest academic bastions in the world such as Harvard are now fighting for their independence against the American federal administration’s political directives, it is clear that academia has not been crying wolf. Academic fr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/storm-clouds-gather-usa-institutional-freedom-and-independent-academia-are-essential - 2025-09-06

Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take shape and much of the work from the project “Building the e-Infrastructure Unit” has been transformed into a permanent and long-term plan for how we will work with research data management in the future. Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-data-office-takes-shape - 2025-09-06

Margareta Johansson (second from the right) visiting a Russian research station in the Altai Mountains in 2016 alongside Russian and Canadian colleagues. Photo: Sergey Kirportin Climate research in the Arctic is being hit hard as collaboration with Russian researchers is put on ice. “It’s impossible to get an overall picture of the Arctic without looking at Russia. If this becomes permanent, we wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/negative-impact-arctic-research-russia-excluded - 2025-09-05

Much of the world's infrastructure is made of concrete, which presents a challenge when it cracks and needs repair. Traditional repair methods involve cutting away a large amount of material. Now researchers at Lund University are investigating an innovative solution: using fungi to mend concrete. This groundbreaking research got off the ground with a Sustainable Idea Exploration grant and support

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/sustainable-construction-how-fungi-research-lund-university-could-revolutionise-infrastructure - 2025-09-05

With SEK 36 million in funding, stakeholders in Skåne are joining forces to develop and commercialise breakthrough ATMP research – Advanced Therapy Medical Products. The aim is to accelerate the next generation of these therapies so that more potentially life-saving ATMP treatments reach patients who currently lack effective treatment options Through the ATMP Path2Patient project, stakeholders wil

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/major-investment-accelerates-advanced-therapies-research-patient - 2025-09-05

Experimental scientist Ilknur Özen and Niklas Marklund, professor at Lund University and neurosurgical consultant at Skåne University hospital have in collaboration with Uppsala investigated brain tissue from 15 patients. Photo: Tove Smeds A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta — a hallmark

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-09-05

Martha Bailey (to the left) and Anna Breman will both attend the doctoral ceremony in Lund on 31 May 2024. (Photo sources: UCLA and Riksbanken/Sandra Birgersdotter Ek). Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historian

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2025-09-05

Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Researchers at Lund University have developed a new method to determine how the composition of proteins in blood changes in response to disease or organ damage. This could provide a deeper understanding of how diseases affect the body and be used to discover new biomarkers in the blood to aid in diagnosing complex medical conditions. Our organs consist of a variety of specifi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/protein-changes-reveal-diseases - 2025-09-05

Tobias Uller and Emma Kritzberg hope the decision inspires catering companies to focus more on vegetarian alternatives. The hope is also that other parts of the University will follow suit. Photo:Inger Ekström Vegetarian to become the standard, meat a special dietary request. That is the result of the Department of Biology and the Department of Psychology striking a blow for reduced meat consumpti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/departments-choose-sustainable-food-meat-become-special-dietary-reques - 2025-09-05

The University building. Photo: Kennet Ruona The main University building is to become a hub for the organisation! That is the vision proposed by project manager Louise Pierce, who is responsible for repurposing the now almost empty building in Lundagård park. In only three years, it is to be buzzing with activity in the form of students, employees and visitors. Since early last autumn, Louise Pie

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-plan-university-building-materializes - 2025-09-05