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Stay Curious is a new English-language newsletter that makes it easy for you to find out about the latest research from your University colleagues in a concise and engaging format.The newsletter is published monthly on LinkedIn – a platform focused on knowledge sharing and professional networking. Using LinkedIn for the newsletter allows us to build on our already strong presence on the platform a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/stay-curious-universitys-new-newsletter-about-our-research - 2025-10-09

The City of Lund and Lund University have approved a joint strategy to foster the local innovation environment and business community. This means that efforts to attract companies and talent and to bolster Lund’s international position are now being stepped up.“It sends out a strong signal that we speak with one voice. Sweden ranks high in terms of patents from academia. Lund University is third i

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-statement-intent-city-lund - 2025-10-09

The University is now launching a new round of excellence initiatives to bolster the recruitment of top international researchers through the Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF) programme. With this initiative, the University aims to foster its international research presence and provide early-career researchers with the best opportunities to advance their careers.Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-round-excellence-initiatives-early-career-researchers-and-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2027 - 2025-10-09

Lund University makes annual purchases totalling SEK 1.5 billion. Together, these purchases make up a large part of the University’s carbon footprint. How can we meet the high demands of research on materials and products, and at the same time become a resource-efficient organisation with a carbon footprint that is as small as possible?Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/importance-sustainable-purchasing-and-procurement - 2025-10-09

An event packed week with inspiration, tips, and discussions about teaching. Thank you to all who participated or helped organize the activities. The week kicked off with Professor Katarina Mårtensson, who gave an introduction to how we could develop teaching skills through open classroom observations.“My biggest takeaway was the potential we have to strengthen our teaching together by fostering c

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/pedagogical-week-lusem - 2025-10-09

A former student had heard that our senior lecturer in statistics, Pierre Carbonnier was about to retire after this semester. Would we do a feature on him? The student remembered him fondly and added that his mother had also had Pierre as a teacher and thought he was pretty awesome. Few, if any statistics teachers can claim to have reached and inspired more students than Pierre Carbonnier, who has

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/44-years-carbonnier-stats-dont-lie - 2025-10-09

The current platform for strategic work applies until the end of this year, but a decision on an updated version for the period 2025-2027 has already been taken. The revised platform retains its original structure, with four prioritised areas and three general watchwords: innovative, digital and sustainable. The content has however been adjusted in order to better address current issues in the wid

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/platform-strategic-work-2025-2027 - 2025-10-09

Regarding the setting up of a tent camp in Lundagård and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lund

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/tent-camp-lundagard-0 - 2025-10-09

In connection with Pride Week in Lund, the University invites you to join us in a pre-procession get-together, after which we can participate in the Pride parade together. The LundaPride parade takes place on 18 May and the University wishes to take part and highlight the event. All students and employees are welcome to go together in the Pride parade. We start at 11.30 in the Main University Buil

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/join-us-lundapride-18-may-0 - 2025-10-09

Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics, Lund University School of Economics and Management and University of Wroclaw, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Professor Malgorzata Bogdan receives the award ”for innovative contributions to high-dimensional statistics, particularly in multiple testing and variable selection, insightful connections between Bayesian

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/statistics-professor-malgorzata-bogdan-named-ims-fellow-2024 - 2025-10-09

According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement applications.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2025-10-09

A COIL involves two different courses at two universities in different countries where students collaborate digitally during a part of the course. Each course follows its own syllabus, and the teachers grade their respective students.For several years, Lund University has offered seed money to support teachers who, in collaboration with colleagues from EUGLOH, want to develop new courses or progra

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/do-you-want-take-opportunity-develop-coil - 2025-10-09

This year’s doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University’s ceremonial highlight and the faculties’ most important academic celebration, will break the record for the number of conferees. It is time to celebrate the faculties’ doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors.Record number of conferees at doctoral degree conferment ceremony – LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/record-number-conferees-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-31-may - 2025-10-09

The Department of Business Administration has appointed Burak Tunca as the new Director of AI Integration. Burak Tunca, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at LUSEM, is set to lead the department's efforts in incorporating artificial intelligence into our academic framework. "Anxiety or worries about cheating made us lose valuable time in the implementation of AI at the University, but AI is here to stay

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-position-department-business-administration-director-ai-integration - 2025-10-09

The war between Israel and Hamas may awaken both anxiety and commitment among students and staff.Lund University is committed to ensuring a secure work environment and study environment for everyone. The University does not accept any form of harassment of staff or students. Should this occur, it is taken very seriously, and the University will act in accordance with existing procedures as soon as

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/secure-environment-everyone - 2025-10-09

Since joining us at LUSEM in January Maria makes sure our alumns are up to date with the goings on at the School through our external newsletter, events and by keeping in touch with them through LinkedIn and of course though the Alumni Network. Joining the Alumni network is easy. After your studies at LUSEM, you basically sign up and stay in touch for as long as you like. Some are really active an

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/maria-johansson-our-alumni-relations-manager - 2025-10-09

The thesis in statistics is titled ”Optimization and Algorithms in Sparse Regressions: Screening Rules, Coordinate Descent, and Normalization”, but what is it about? "It is about statistical models for high-dimensional data, where the number of variables outnumber the number of observations, such as DNA microarray data where there may be hundreds of observations (patients) but millions of variable

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-johan-larsson - 2025-10-09

The new board had its first meeting on 5 June, and beyond our two external members it really is a brand new group. “We have a strong base to start from and from there we will try to be more relevant for the whole of LUSEM than ever before. For instance we have an aim set at establishing new stipends for our teachers, researchers and guest researchers besides those we already have in place for the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/presenting-our-new-partnership-board - 2025-10-09

The one year presidency of Simon Anderberg draws to a close and on 16 July he hands over the president’s club to Tova Mark. We had an opportunity to meet up with them both in Skånis and of course we leapt at it. Simon, how has the last year matched your expectations?I’m not sure what I expected, but we are at a good place as an organisation. We did not have any radical changes planned, instead we

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-president-another-lundaekonomerna - 2025-10-09

Lund University has risen to 75th place in the prestigious QS annual ranking. This is an improvement of ten spots on the previous year, placing Lund as the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. In addition, the University has been awarded the QS Sustainability Champions Award.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lund-university-climbs-global-ranking-wins-sustainability-award-0 - 2025-10-09