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Tuesday 15 August is Arrival Day, the day when Lund University welcomes new international students. In autumn 2023, 4,000 international students have been accepted for studies at Lund University. About a quarter of those are exchange students studying at Lund for a semester or a year. The remaining 3,000 include program students at undergraduate and advanced level as well as Double degree, Joint p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/arrival-day-4000-new-international-students-admitted - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is limited understanding of the geopolitics of fire, conflict, and land, for example, how conflict and fire are related and how conflict impacts the biophysical environment. Since 2014, the natural environment in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been negatively affected by recurrent conflict that coincided with

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-geopolitics-fire-conflict-and-land-kurdistan-region-iraq - 2026-06-21

A decisive, visionary leader with the ability to safeguard academic freedom. These are some of the requirements when Lund University recruits the University’s 163rd Vice-Chancellor. Fourteen points. That is the length of the list of qualifications and abilities sought when Lund University searches for a new Vice-Chancellor. The fact that the person specification has now been finalised means that t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-requirements-when-recruiting-vice-chancellor - 2026-06-21

The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was published and we are happy to a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2026-06-21

SciLifeLab, Science for Life Laboratory, is a joint organisation for the advancement of molecular biosciences in Sweden. What started off as a joint effort between Stockholm-based universities is now a national collaboration with operations at 11 universities. In 2022, SciLifeLab site Lund was started. SciLifeLab, Science for Life Laboratory, is a joint organisation for the advancement of molecula

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/scilifelab-national-resource-unique-technologies-and-expertise - 2026-06-21

The third ScienceBrew of 2024 hosted a trio of talented researchers in the fields of medicine and law. Read more about their presentations below and experience even more great talks on our next session of ScienceBrew in May! Thanks to Hanna, Sacharias and Manni for presenting their work at Café Ariman!Hanna, a PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine, explained her work on identifying genes that con

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/sciencebrew-april-2024-stem-cells-heart-surgery-and-law-dying - 2026-06-21

        Four new thematic collaborative initiatives havereceived SEK 1 million per year for the period 2023-2025 by Lund University. One of the funded initiaives is The Pandemics and Alertness collaborative initiative.   The overarching objective of this initiative is to create the multidisciplinary platform Pandemics and Alertness that aims to facilitate cooperation between important stakeholders

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/pandemics-and-alertness - 2026-06-21

In bright sunshine - and with only a few raindrops - 290 doctoral graduates and 16 honorary doctors were conferred in hats and wreaths during Lund University’s grand ceremony, the doctoral degree conferment ceremony. At the same time, 48 jubilee doctors were also honoured. View slideshow on Flickr This year’s doctoral conferment ceremony had to take a different route because the University main bu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newly-conferred-doctors-adorned-hats-and-wreaths - 2026-06-21

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nano-forests-reveal-secrets-cells - 2026-06-21

Meet new guest researcher Professor Simon Clegg, University of East Anglia (U.K.) and University of California, Davis (U.S.A.). His main research focus is on the fundamental physical chemistry of atmospheric aerosol particles, and on the development of chemical speciation models of seawater and other natural waters. Simon is working with MERGE until the end of November. Simon will be working mainl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-focus-aerosols-water - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The islets of Langerhans in the pancreas contain not only insulin-producing cells, but also four other hormone-producing cell types. Using a new method, researchers are to study their interaction by mapping previously unknown genetic networks. “It will give us new possibilities to direct medicines at new targets”, say

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/mapping-mechanisms-behind-type-2-diabetes - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Last summer's extreme drought hit farmers and horse stables in county Skåne hard. Yields were smaller than normal and the price of fodder has increased.  Now, researchers from LUCSUS and Lund University want to gather farmers’ experiences of the drought to find out more about the major challenges to adapt the Swedish

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researcher-will-gather-farmers-experiences-extreme-summer-drought - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researchers present new guidelines and principles on how to improve climate change adaptation collaboration between, and for, citizens and municipalities. Municipalities and their residents are facing increasing challenges as a result of a changing climate. Floods, heat waves and storms are expected to increase

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/guidelines-and-principles-improved-city-citizen-cooperation-climate-change-adaptation - 2026-06-21

Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden, among others. The research results can potentially benefit the development of navigation robots in crisis situations where GPS does not work, for example. According to the study, bumblebees appear capable of navigating as well as vertebrates can, an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2026-06-21

All students, staff and friends are welcome to the University’s annual academic ceremony on 27 January 2023. The programme includes musical entertainment, award presentations and speeches, and concludes with refreshments. Lund University’s anniversary is celebrated with an academic ceremony that highlights first and second-cycle education. The prizes presented during the ceremony include Lund Univ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/annual-academic-ceremony-27-january-2023 - 2026-06-22

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/novel-biomarker-technology-cancer-diagnostics - 2026-06-21

A decisive, visionary leader with the ability to safeguard academic freedom. These are some of the requirements when Lund University recruits the University’s 163rd Vice-Chancellor. Fourteen points. That is the length of the list of qualifications and abilities sought when Lund University searches for a new Vice-Chancellor. The fact that the person specification has now been finalised means that t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-requirements-when-recruiting-vice-chancellor - 2026-06-22

Join us and make connections, discover and celebrate innovation during an inspiring lunch event on September 10th that celebrates research-driven solutions that can shape the future, at the Future Innovations Awards 2025. During the event, the finalists will give short inspiring pitches of their innovations, giving you an overview of exciting innovation projects at Lund University.  Trend analyst

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/come-and-celebrate-finalists-future-innovations-award-during-inspiring-lunch-event - 2026-06-22

A new group, the Ad Hoc Group, has been formed with the task of supporting all staff members in developing their expertise in digitalisation and AI. The work is in full swing and the first phase will focus on the following in AI:Basic course in AI for all staff members The first initiative is a basic course in AI aimed at those who have just started, or not yet begun, to use generative AI in their

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/support-those-who-want-develop-expertise-ai-and-digitalisation - 2026-06-22