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Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpretentious,” he says. When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2026-06-08

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett’s research focuses on reconstructing Viking sailing routes and cartography. To do so, he learnt to sail boats similar to those sailed by the Vikings and set off out to sea. He likens the sailors of that time to today’s extreme athletes. “I started a fairly theoretical doctoral thesis on reconstructing Viking sailing routes, but I wanted practical experience from a sailo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chase-vikings - 2026-06-08

Using a torch, a camera, a water bottle and pieces of Lego, Emanuel Larsson built a scanner now used as a prototype to develop future beamlines at ESS. It was late on a Friday evening in December three years ago that Emanuel Larsson, a postdoc in solid mechanics, started constructing a tomography scanner out of objects he found in his kitchen at home. ‟At the time, the aim was to be able to explai

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/home-built-scanner-helps-construct-beamline-ess - 2026-06-07

There is a great deal of interest at the University in welcoming researchers from Afghanistan. The University Management and all the faculties consulted are prepared to contribute what is needed to receive these researchers. At the International Office of LU’s External Relations Division, Pär Svensson is in charge of coordinating work with vulnerable researchers at LU within the framework of ‟Scho

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interest-welcoming-researchers-afghanistan - 2026-06-07

In March 2026, the University will switch telephone operator to Telia. A new portal for support and cases will open soon. Information for anyone with an older phone. Telephony: New mobile phone subscriptions after 11 March 2026Lund University is implementing a change of supplier for telephony services. The transition to the new supplier, Telia, will take place on 10 and 11 March 2026. Initially, t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-news-new-mobile-phone-subscriptions-new-support-centre-and-update-2g3g-coverage - 2026-06-08

In February 2026, the University’s new unified education website, ESU, will be launched. The goal is to make it easier for students to find the right course or programme. The work encompasses new design, new underlying technology, reworked content and new working methods for information about education. The project, which has been in progress for several years, has involved many people from all pa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-education-website-will-help-right-students-find-right-course-or-programme - 2026-06-08

A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity.The Taj

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-university-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2026-06-08

For many years there has been an on-going discussion about how academic freedom is being challenged in many parts of the world, including Sweden. And when even some of the strongest academic bastions in the world such as Harvard are now fighting for their independence against the American federal administration’s political directives, it is clear that academia has not been crying wolf. Academic fr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/storm-clouds-gather-usa-institutional-freedom-and-independent-academia-are-essential - 2026-06-08

To ensure that everyone has their say and that no one feels attacked when debating loaded and sensitive topics, it is important to establish the ground rules from the outset. This applies to society at large and in the lecture hall. This is the opinion of Christer Mattsson, Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Director of the Segerstedt Institute at the University of Gothenburg, who has been invite

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/risk-polarisation-lecture-hall - 2026-06-08

Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take shape and much of the work from the project “Building the e-Infrastructure Unit” has been transformed into a permanent and long-term plan for how we will work with research data management in the future. Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-data-office-takes-shape - 2026-06-08

Set a goal for your training for one to four months and pay in SEK 1,000. You get your money back if you achieve your goal. Crazy? Perhaps, but in a study by Professor of Economics Erik Wengström and his colleagues, the incentive proved to be quite effective compared with the control groups. “I’ve had a long-standing interest in how people behave in strategic situations and if you look at it from

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/achieve-your-training-goals-and-get-money-back-it-works - 2026-06-08

Many of the University’s researchers are publishing fantastic research that has been done with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). Many are curious to test out AI to improve, simplify or speed up at least a part of the research process. At the same time, many are asking “what am I allowed to use AI for?” The starting point when using AI in research is to follow the basic principles of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yes-i-want-use-ai-what-right-way-do-it - 2026-06-08

Anna Stubbendorff, a recent PhD graduate from the Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded Lund University’s Agenda 2030 Award 2026. She is being recognised for research showing that when we put climate-friendly food on our plates, it benefits both the environment and our personal health. In her doctoral thesis, Anna Stubbendorff has studied the effects of the EAT-Lancet diet, a dietary pattern desig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anna-stubbendorff-receives-agenda-2030-award-her-research-sustainable-diets - 2026-06-08

https://www.iko.lu.se/artikel/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2026-06-07

Vi på Svensk Fågeltaxering önskar alla våra fågelinventerare allt gott inför helgerna och tackar för alla fantastiska insatser under det gångna året. Här kommer årets julhälsning från oss på Svensk Fågeltaxering! Som vanligt vill vi säga ett mycket stort tack till er alla för allt det fantastiska fältarbete ni gjort under året. Era insatser är enormt uppskattade och mycket viktiga. Utan ert engage

https://www.fageltaxering.lu.se/artikel/god-jul-och-gott-nytt-inventeringsar-2026-0 - 2026-06-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. ”Typ 2 diabetes drabbar inte bara far- och morföräldrarna längre. Det har också blivit barnens sjukdom.” Uttalandet är Francine Kaufmans, president för American Diabetes Association. I Sverige är än så länge typ 2 diabetes ovanligt bland barn men i många andra länder är det annorlunda. I exempelvis USA har fler än 2

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/aggressivare-typ-2-diabetes-hos-barn - 2026-06-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu startar Innodia i Sverige, en europeisk studie med målet att hitta nya behandlingar som ska bromsa sjukdomsförloppet vid typ 1-diabetes. – I början kan kroppen fortfarande göra en liten mängd insulin men förmågan försvinner gradvis. Ju längre tid kroppen kan göra insulin desto bättre eftersom det minskar risken f

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-ska-bromsa-insjuknandet-i-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-06-07

När Tobias Nilsson, som vanligtvis arbetar som utredare vid fakultetskansliet, reste till Sydafrika genom universitetets utbytesprogram med Stellenbosch University visste han inte riktigt vad han skulle förvänta sig. Men veckorna med jobbskuggning, workshoppar och möten gav både nya perspektiv och erfarenheter som stannat kvar långt efter hemkomsten.– Det var starkt att möta människor som verklige

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/fran-lund-till-sydafrika-utbyte-gav-perspektiv-pa-bade-arbete-och-samhallsutveckling - 2026-06-07

Med Enheten för forskningsdata satsar universitetet på att förbättra stödet till forskarna i hanteringen av forskningsdata. På varje fakultet finns nu en data steward som ska hjälpa forskarna i deras arbetet med forskningsdata. Ann-Sofie Zettergren har rollen som data steward på Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten. Den nya Enheten för forskningsdata ska ge forskare bättre stöd i att hantera sina fors

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/ny-enhet-forskningsdata-med-data-stewards-pa-varje-fakultet - 2026-06-07

Onsdag 8 januari till fredag 10 januari samlades nästan 40 forskare och yrkesverksamma socionomer till det tredje internationella Global-ANSWER-konferensen i Granada. Projektdeltagarna är aktiva inom området socialt arbete och mobilitet och har rest från Rom, Florens, Palermo, Lund, Madrid, La Rioja och Lugo för att prata om projektets framsteg inom socialt arbete kring migration i Europa. Granada

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/forskning-och-profession-mots-pa-internationell-konferens-om-migration-0 - 2026-06-07