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Lars Harrie, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES) and GIS Center, has been appointed a member of the National Geodata Council, representing universities and colleges. The Council aims to develop strategies and activities to ensure that geographical data can be used in, for example, climate change adaption, the creation of sustainable cities and disaster ma

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/government-appoints-member-geodata-council-gis-center - 2025-11-27

Copernicus has published a dataset that shows growing seasons and vegetation productivity in great detail. Researchers from the department - Lars Eklundh, Zhanzhang Cai and Hongxiao Jin - have developed the algorithms that form the basis of the databases. Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), a service that provides geographic data from satellites, has recently published a large dataset cover

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/copernicus-publishes-dataset-researchers-our-department-contribute - 2025-11-27

Forest management in the climate debate is splitting the forest community of researchers, forest owners, organisations and companies. Which way is the right way to go to make forestry work to help to counteract climate change? Several of our researchers appear in this, and professor emeritus Anders Lindroth explains his view on today´s forest management. Swedish National television program Vetensk

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/our-researchers-battle-forest - 2025-11-27

Weiming Huang is awarded in EuroSDR Award winner 2021 for the best PhD thesis related to geoinformation science for his thesis about knowledge-based geospatial data integration and visualisation with Semantic Web technologies. The thesis was presented during the 139th EuroSDR Board of Delegates meeting on October 22, 2021. Dr. Weiming Huang has been awarded by the European Spatial Data Research fo

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dr-weiming-huang-awarded-best-phd-thesis - 2025-11-27

The increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing our climate to warm at an alarming rate. The consequent changes are unprecedented, and difficult to predict due to the complexity of the Earth system.  While we know that half of the carbon emissions released to the atmosphere by fossil fuel usage are re-captured by the ocean and land ecosystems, we still lack knowledge when i

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/icos-supports-science-and-policy-making-first-comprehensive-article-describing-icos-published - 2025-11-27

On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The pauses during the day gave opportunity to interesting discussions and the possibility to interact

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-11-27

Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Lund University Hospital will be presenting their

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-11-27

Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-11-27

Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-27

Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will take place on November 7 at “Forskningens dag”.Congratulations, Åsa!Read more (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-11-27

Congratulations to Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz who is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation! Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation to study the role of hypothalamic dysfunction for striatal pathology in HD! Congratulations Rana!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-awarded-postdoctoral-stipend - 2025-11-27

Today the new Huntington Center headed by Åsa Petersén was inaugurated by the dean of the Medical Faculty at Lund University and the Head of Research at Region Skåne. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-now-inaugurated - 2025-11-27

TNU är värd för ett råd- och stödgruppsmöte för Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom i Skåne torsdagen den 1:e juni kl 18.00 - 20.00.Program:18.00-18.10 Välkomna och introduktion av Susanne Zell, RHS18.10-18.40 Föredrag om den senaste forskningen av Åsa Petersén, Lunds Universitet18.40-19.10 Rundtur på forskningslaboratorium om Huntingtons sjukdom19.10-20.00 Fika och diskussion om anhörigförening

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-berattar-om-den-senaste-forskningen-riksforbundet-huntingtons-sjukdom-den-1e-juni-2017 - 2025-11-27

On July 31st 2008, Åsa Petersén was interviewed on Swedish National Radio, Sveriges Radio P1. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/radio-interview-asa-petersen - 2025-11-27

Gåva ger hopp om att stoppa grym sjukdom (in Swedish only)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sydvenskan-article-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-11-27

article_in_allers_2008.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-allers-magazine-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-11-27

Read about Huntington's disease and Åsa Petersén's research on page 26 (in Swedish).Aktuellt om Vetenskap & Hälsa - November 2008

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-huntingtons-disease-aktuellt-om-vetenskap-halsa - 2025-11-27

Åsa Petersén has been assigned to one of the six positions as senior clinical researcher in psychiatry advertised by the Swedish Research Council.The prestigious position is for three years with a possible extension for three more years, and includes a start-up package of one million Swedish kronor (around 100 000 euro) during the first year. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-assigned-position-psychiatry - 2025-11-27

Deniz Kirik and Åsa Petersén have been selected as the Allan and Maria Myers International visiting fellows for 2009. As part of this, they are invited to visit the Florey Neuroscience Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Fellowship provides support for leading international researchers to visit Australia, with the objectives of enhancing Australian exposure to cutting edge res

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/melbourne-2010 - 2025-11-27

Åsa Petersén håller föredrag om psykiatriska symtom vid Huntingtons sjukdom i Oslo den 10 april 2010 på 30-års jubileumsdagen för "Landsforeningen for Huntington sykdom" i Norge.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-haller-foredrag-i-oslo - 2025-11-27