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On December 10, After Science Network will be launched – a new initiative for doctoral students and postdocs at Lund University who want to explore opportunities beyond academia or utilise their research through innovation. We speak with Johannes Jonasson, President of the DOKT (The Doctoral Student Guild at LTH), about why the network is needed. Lund university’s innovation office LU Innovation,

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/new-network-doctoral-students-curious-about-alternative-career-paths - 2026-05-09

Jonathan Jayes is one of our PhD students in Economic History. He is preparing to defend his dissertation, but before that, we had a chance to ask him a few questions. His thesis is titled Like Moths to a Flame – An Individual-Level Approach to Technological Change in 20th Century Sweden. Could you tell us a little about yourself, your academic background, and in simple terms what your thesis is a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-thesis-three-questions-jonathan-jayes - 2026-05-10

Burak Tunca is director of AI at the Department of Business Administration. He shares some insights into large language models and his work in this fairly new role. He is responsible for overseeing developments in the AI space and evaluating how teaching and research activities at the department can benefit from integration of those developments. “At the moment, we have two main questions: First,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/what-about-ai-burak - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New Lund students are generally younger and have better educated parents than the average Swedish student. This emerges from the figures in a new LU report. Despite a series of initiatives to attract more students from non-academic backgrounds in recent decades, there is little progress. Now a major regional approach

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/initiatives-aimed-children-widen-participation - 2026-05-09

The information age predates the internet by a long stretch – it began with life itself. Nobel Laureate Craig C. Mello described at the Lund Spring Symposium in May how living organisms are not merely carriers of genes, but also active managers, defenders, and editors of genetic information. Craig Mello, who received the Nobel Prize in 2006 for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi), together wi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/rnai-genetic-spark-information-inferno-cell - 2026-05-09

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-irans-islamic-revolution-does-and-does-not-influence-houthi-rule-northern-yemen - 2026-05-09

The WCMM & DDLS Leadership Seminar Series, an initiative designed to equip WCMM & DDLS Lund PIs with leadership skills essential for shaping the future of medical science, has now held its second session of 2026. On 11 February, we were delighted to welcome KArin Jirström, Vice Dean responsible for PhD studies and campus development, as our invited speaker. Karin gave an in-depth overview of the F

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-ddls-leadership-seminar-fun-research-education-board - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This fall SASNET welcomes a new visiting scholar Vittorio Felci. Vittorio Felci graduated in Political Science (2005) and obtained a second-level Master degree in Middle East Studies at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy (2007). He earned a Ph.D in History of International Relations from the University of Flor

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-visiting-scholar-sasnet - 2026-05-09

Dick Harrison is 57 years old and has written 105 books. He lectures all over the country, is a regular expert on TV and radio, runs a podcast, and writes articles for magazines and two columns a week in one of Sweden’s largest newspapers. “Teaching is my calling, though, the thing closest to my identity.” It’s winter and muddy on the drive in front of the Harrisons’ Art Nouveau villa in Åkarp. On

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dick-harrison-brand - 2026-05-10

After recently presenting her dissertation in Research Policy: A scholarly quest for meaning - Negotiating scholar-activism at the intersection of structure and agency, we had a chance to find out a bit more about Farzana and her research. Farzana was born and raised in Sari, a city in the northern part of Iran, by the Caspian Sea. The family had no prior academic background, but valued  education

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-thesis-three-questions-farzana-bashiri - 2026-05-10

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Steen, researcher at LUCSUS, has been appointed as the new Director of Studies for LUMES (International Master Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science). What will your role as Director of Studies for LUMES entail?I am responsible for leading the work with the master programme both in everyd

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/meet-new-director-studies-lumes-karin-steen - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a new book, sociologist Lisa Flower shows how lawyers manage their emotions in the courtroom, where emotional displays traditionally are unwelcomed. People practicing and studying law often ignore the role emotions play in court. The idea is that feelings disturb the rationality that is the judicial discipline’s fo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/uncovering-obscure-emotional-labour-law-practitioners - 2026-05-09

When the Swedish Research Council announced funding for so-called "centres of excellence" almost three years ago, a total of 15 new initiatives were approved across Sweden. Only one of them was awarded to Lund: COMMONS – Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions.A year has now passed since COMMONS was inaugurated with a ceremony at the Department of Chemistry. What has happened si

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/commons-centre-excellence-focus-common-ground - 2026-05-09

In an ideal world, perhaps the Psychological Defence Research Institute in Helsingborg would not even exist. But the global situation has brought attention, increased research funding and significant interest in collaboration from wider society. “The entire research institute is built around the idea that the world is troubled. We could be ten times the size we are, there is such an enormous amoun

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/psychological-defence-research-institute-we-could-be-ten-times-size-we-are - 2026-05-09

HAIDI Research Activities February 20–21, 2025. The Finnish team member, Hanna Varjakoski, participated in the Ageing in the Digital Era: An Interdisciplinary Debate on ICTs and Social Inclusion for Older Adults conference in Milan, Italy. The two-day conference was organized by an interdisciplinary research group from the ACTIVE-IT research project investigating population ageing, active ageing,

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-findings-presented-international-conference-milan - 2026-05-09

At least a third of the glaciers in the Himalayan range could melt due to climate change. This will have severe consequences for almost 2 billion people, including the village communities in Nepal, since the glaciers are an important water and energy source. Researcher Mine Islar is examining the future of renewable energy through micro-hydro power in Nepal by looking at collective action to find

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-are-communities-nepal-managing-locally-produced-renewable-energy-age-climate-change - 2026-05-09

Semiconductors – the “brains” behind electronic products and systems. Whether mobile phones, automotive, energy, home appliances, or artificial intelligence, these components (“chips”) play a key role. At the same time, Asian countries account for more than half of the world’s semiconductor chip production. Swedish semiconductor capability is now to be strengthened by Lund University together with

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strengthening-swedish-semiconductor-capability - 2026-05-09

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seminar-develop-contacts-singapore - 2026-05-09

Jakob has both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the Department of Informatics at Lund University. He finished his master's degree during the spring of 2018. Editor's note: The below interview is from 2024 and translated from Swedish.Tell us about what you do today!“I currently work as a Project Manager at Alfa Laval. The role means that I am responsible for the operational and strate

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/jakob-bratthall-tideman-alumnus-msc-information-systems-2018 - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nifid-start-initiative-malmo - 2026-05-09