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LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a ranking well deserved they say. – Over the past 25 years, researchers at Lund University have been pioneers in the interdisciplinary field of sustainability studies. In 2008, when the Faculty of Social Sciences establishe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking-well-deserved - 2025-12-11

How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study by LUCSUS researchers. It reveals that the answer is broader than just improved policies – it's about rethinking the very role of law itself. Researchers Ebba Brink, Ana Maria Vargas Falla and Emily Boyd examine how socio-legal processes shape climate vulnerability and resistan

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2025-12-11

Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on travel behaviors? What can be attributed to economic factors, changed social norms or a combination of both is unclear - but air travel in Sweden has decreased by 20 percent compared to before the pandemic. – The movement seeks to achieve change by making visible other ways of traveling, and in a large

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-dissertation-explores-how-swedens-flight-free-movement-challenges-social-norms-around-flying - 2025-12-11

Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. On January 21, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP). Mine Islar, who leads the ongoing glacier research at LUCSUS, presented at the launch event in Geneva. Why is 2025 designated as a glacier preservation year?– 2025 is seen as a tipping point

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/2025-international-year-glaciers-preservation-research-lucsus-studies-impacts-glacial-melt - 2025-12-11

A new research project, led by LUCSUS research fellow Felix Schulz, aims to explore how work identities shape attitudes toward climate action and policies, highlighting both challenges and opportunities in the transition to a decarbonized future. Felix Schulz, who recently moved from Leeds to Lund to begin his new role at LUCSUS, is studying how workers in diverse sectors and occupational groups p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/understanding-identity-climate-transition - 2025-12-11

Inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary! DevRes2024, hosted by Lund University, brought together 200 researchers and practitioners from 16 different countries, for a two-day conference in October. DevRes 2024 was hosted by Lund University on 21 - 23 October, and the conference theme was “Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals in a polarized world”. DevRes is a bi-annual conference gathering

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/devres2024-inspiring-diverse-and-multidisciplinary - 2025-12-11

Kimberly Nicholas was appointed professor in Sustainability Science in June 2024. After more than 15 years at Lund University, her commitment to stopping climate change is stronger than ever. “We need to keep our eyes on the prize and focus on where the problem is to address it.” What has been the most important moment in your career? I got to witness the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. T

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-kimberly-nicholas-mission-combat-climate-change - 2025-12-11

NanoLundians Roger Olsson, professor of chemical biology and therapeutics, and Martin Hjort, researcher in chemical biology and therapeutics, have together with researchers at Gothenburg University successfully developed temporary, organic electrodes that can be seamlessly integrated into biological systems. The method, now published in Nature Communications, opens up a future where bioelectronics

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/electrotherapy-without-surgery - 2025-12-11

Transistors that can change properties are important elements in the development of tomorrow’s semiconductors. With standard transistors approaching the limit for how small they can be, having more functions on the same number of units becomes increasingly important in enabling the development of small, energy-efficient circuits for improved memory and more powerful computers. Researchers at Lund

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cutting-edge-transistors-semiconductors-future - 2025-12-11

As one of two researchers in Sweden, Anne L’Huillier will receive an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the second call for 2023. A total of 66 researchers from 14 different countries will receive grants. Anne L’Huillier, professor at Atomic Physics, Lund University, and an associated member of NanoLund receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project “SICEP, Single-shot, high

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-receives-erc-proof-concept-grant - 2025-12-11

Were you among those who couldn’t make it to the conference EuroNanoForum2023? Don’t despair – we have gathered recordings of several sessions for you to watch. The EuroNanoForum 2023 marked a lively and engaging event where academia, industry, policymakers, and stakeholders converged to deliberate on Nanotechnology and advanced materials for a sustainable Europe. Collaborative Strategies for Sust

https://www.nano.lu.se/euronanoforum - 2025-12-11

NanoLundian Kimberly Dick is, for more than a decade, a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and studies the building of new materials by working on an atom-scale. As put in the film: If an atom were the size of a Lego piece, lying in a hand, the hand would be the size of planet Earth. “Big discoveries are made when we realize something fundamental and yet surprising about nature”, she says. Kimberly Dick T

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/creating-completely-new-materials-atoms - 2025-12-11

Corrosion-resistant metallic materials are required in applications such as rocket engines, nuclear power stations and chemical industry. An alloy of nickel, chromium, and molybdenum is often used. However, a new study shows that this alloy rusts in a previously unknown way. Buildings, modes of transport, artworks, and music instruments – we encounter metallic materials almost everywhere in societ

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/researchers-reveal-deficiencies-corrosion-resistant-metallic-materials - 2025-12-11

Among the four scholars from Lund University who have received ERC Starting Grants is Filip Lenrick, a researcher in industrial production, for the project “Bulk-like Joints by Gas Actuated Bonding”. The ERC Starting Grant is aimed at researchers in the early stages of their careers and has scientific excellence as its sole selection criterion. The researchers and their projects have been ranked t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-nanolundian-filip-lenrick - 2025-12-11

Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, will invest in 11 new competence centers starting in January 2024. Among the new ones, two are directly connected to NanoLund – adding up to the already existing center C3NiT. New research environments for sustainable and digital transformation are emerging. In the competence centers, universities and companies will jointly conduct excellent research and educat

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-involved-vinnovas-new-competence-centers - 2025-12-11

Lung exposure to nanowires induces an inflammatory response and allergic response when tested on mice. “This emphasizes how important it is that we continue to take nanosafety into account”, says Professor Christelle Prinz, one of the researchers behind the study. In a collaboration with the National Research Center for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, led by Ulla Vogel, and the Finnish Inst

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/study-shows-importance-taking-nanosafety-account - 2025-12-11

Lectures, lab tours, Science Slam – and giving sneak peeks at MAX IV Laboratory Open Day. NanoLund and Solid State Physics were all over the place during the annual event ”Culture Night” (Kulturnatten). This year NanoLund participated again in a joint effort with the Physics Department at Lund University in the annual Kulturnatten (”Culture Night”) event in Lund. Together with other Divisions, Nan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/all-over-place-nanolund-participated-culture-night - 2025-12-11

At Lund University’s annual ceremony in January, Professor Anne L'Huillier will receive Lund University’s gold medal for her outstanding contributions to the university. Lund University can award silver and gold medals to people who have made important contributions to either Lund University or society at large. The first time the gold medal was awarded was in 1967 when it was awarded to Tetra Pak

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-gold-medal-anne-lhuillier - 2025-12-11

For experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter, Professor Anne L’Huillier at Lund University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz. Today, we celebrate the first Lund University Nobel Laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/and-nobel-prize-now-announced - 2025-12-11

“Twisted or planar?” is the question that our brand new NanoLundian, Assistant Professor Maning Liu, and his colleagues explore in their new article. The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, WISE, thereby celebrates its very first scientific publication – making it to the cover of Solar RRL. The current energy crisis underlines the urgent need to develop robust energy system

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/maning-liu-pioneers-wise-celebrates-its-first-scientific-publication - 2025-12-11