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Wilhelm Agrell är historiker och professor i underrättelse­analys. Hans författarskap till stor del handlat om svensk försvars- och säkerhetspolitik under kalla kriget. Med anledning av det förändrade säkerhetsläget har LUM ställt några frågor. Finns det spioner vid universitetet?– Det korta svaret är ja. Universiteten är i allmänhet inte själva ett mål för främmande makts underrättelseverksamhet

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/wilhelm-agrell-om-spionhot-mot-universitetet - 2026-04-20

Städer kan bli mer hållbara genom att människor delar transporter och förändrar sitt sätt att röra sig i samhället. – Lunds universitet medverkar i EU-projektet Share-North som bygger på att ju mer vi delar på transporter, desto mer yta får vi i städerna, säger Michael Johansson, forskare i miljöstrategi vid Campus Helsingborg. Share-North samlar universitet och organisationer från Sverige, Norge,

https://www.lu.se/artikel/delade-transporter-viktigt-hallbara-stader - 2026-04-20

Hur mycket vatten behöver vi dricka för att vi ska hålla oss friska? Vilken effekt får olika dieter på ämnesomsättningen? Studier av olika hormoner i kroppen ger diabetesforskare nya svar. Förhoppningen är att utveckla individanpassade behandlingar och kostråd som kan minska risken att utveckla fetma och sjukdomar som typ 2-diabetes. Hormonsystemet samarbetar med nervsystemet och styr mycket av de

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/okad-kunskap-om-hormonsystemet-kan-ge-farre-fall-av-typ-2-diabetes-och-fetma - 2026-04-19

Welcome to another WCMM Fireside Chat, a series of articles dedicated to highlighting the work of researchers within and around the WCMM in Lund to promote collaboration and communication. This time we present our discussion with Vinay Swaminathan, a group leader at WCMM focused on cell mechanobiology. We talked about his work, the successes and challenges of multidisciplinary science and the coll

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-vinay-swaminathan - 2026-04-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What does the origin of life on Earth have to do with malignant tumour cells? In an unusual research project, a geochemist and a tumour biologist have joined forces to explain the emergence of animals in a new way, thereby questioning one of the cornerstones of evolution. Geochemist Emma Hammarlund is excited to see w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/odd-pair-solves-evolutionary-riddle - 2026-04-19

The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until Friday, November 1, is focused on how countries will fulfil previous pledges to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and water and restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030. It’s a noble aim, yet Colombia itself shows just how far we have to go. If you travel south east fr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/colombia-hosts-un-biodiversity-summit-its-own-amazonian-rainforest-crisis - 2026-04-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He began by renting out his sofa, then gave his blessing to a military tent on the LTH campus and later made it possible to transport and erect prefabricated housing from China. Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson has done a lot to highlight the shortage of student accommodation, and last year ended in a triumph for housing

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellors-perseverance-pays-student-housing - 2026-04-19

Research is like solving a puzzle, some might say. One of the biggest of these is the body’s proteins – with over 90,000 pieces to keep track of. LUM meets three professors of protein to understand what makes the subject so fascinating and how they are working to understand when proteins go wrong in the body. If a research field were to be evaluated based on the number of Nobel Prizes it has been

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-professors-puzzle - 2026-04-20

What role can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play in the resilience and sustainability of communities? New research highlight the specific ways that SMEs play and how they can accelerate the adoption of sustainability practices. However, the findings also indicate that capacity-building and experimentation are required throughout the ecosystem of policies, resources, governance actors t

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/small-and-medium-sized-enterprises-smes-are-pivotal-actors-and-amplifiers-community-resilience - 2026-04-19

A month has passed since the start of the autumn semester. By now, the Sociology of Law Department's two guest professors, Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, are deeply embedded in the institution, where they will stay until June 2022. Anna Lundberg, who started on 1 July, is Professor of Welfare Law and Associate Professor in Human Rights at Linköping University. At the Sociology of Law Department

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/these-are-sociology-law-departments-guest-professors - 2026-04-19

New article on the role of governance vis-á-vis direct citizen engagement to strengthen public involvement in the energy transition. This research examines the role of Swedish municipalities and municipally-owned energy utilities (MEUs) in promoting energy democracy through local renewable energy initiatives. Energy democracy emphasizes citizen participation and local control over energy governanc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/toward-energy-democracy-municipal-energy-actions-local-renewable-energy-projects - 2026-04-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Each year, the analysis company Clarivate Analytics identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. The list includes three names from Lund University, and Sara Linse, principal investigator at NanoLund, is one of them. The H

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-among-worlds-most-cited-researchers - 2026-04-19

What can be done to help to manage peak demand and congestion in the electricity grid? A new article highlights the role of local flexibility markets and provides and understanding from the perspectives of the flexibility service providers in two LFMs in Sweden. Local flexibility markets (LFM) help to manage peak demand and congestion in the electricity grid. They are designed to function around m

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-article-drivers-and-barriers-local-flexibility-markets - 2026-04-19

Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (SLU) have received a 4-year grant from Formas for the project ”NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning”. Congratulations! SummaryThe notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- and sustainability goals is w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/project-achieving-sustainability-through-risk-taking-receives-4-year-grant-formas - 2026-04-19

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-manners-receives-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatical-grant-writing-book-european-unions - 2026-04-19

Dr Colm Flaherty noticed that despite generally declining membership in Swedish political parties, political engagement is very much alive. He says it is observable in the mundane activities of everyday life, and studying it can teach us a lot about Swedish culture. Political engagement is changing form in Sweden. The place to find political action today is in everyday life, rather than solely in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-spaces-radical-social-change - 2026-04-19

Professor Timur Dadabaev is conducting a 12-month research stay at the Sociology of Law Department. The visiting professorship marks the launch of a long-term effort to establish a Transregional Decolonial Studies Hub at Lund University. Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations, the founding Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the University of Tsuk

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/timur-dadabaev-joins-department-visiting-professor - 2026-04-19

Under tisdagen uppmärksammades sex av de mest innovativa idéerna och projekten som just nu finns inom Lunds universitet. Idégivarna fick dela på totalt 500 000 kronor när Lunds universitets och Sparbanken Skånes Pris för Framtidens innovationer delades ut. Bland vinnarna märktes ett energilagringsystem som använder sig av förbrukade bilbatterier och en ny metod för att bedöma strokerisk. Priset fö

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/sex-innovativa-lundaideer-prisade - 2026-04-19

För drygt ett och ett halvt år sedan tog biologen Emma Kritzberg sig an uppdraget att utveckla Naturvetenskapliga fakultetens Core Curriculum för forskarutbildningen. Uppdraget kom direkt efter hennes tid som studierektor för forskarutbildningen vid biologiska institutionen, en roll hon hade i sex år.– Jag har alltid tyckt att forskarutbildningen är bland det roligaste som finns. Som studierektor

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/ett-samlat-grepp-om-forskarutbildningen-borjar-ge-resultat - 2026-04-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Centrum för miljö och klimatforskning har anställt två nya professorer med fokus på forskning kring mänsklig påverkan på miljöförändringar. Natascha Kljun och Yann Clough heter CEC:s nya professorer, som har till uppgift att etablera varsitt forskningsprogram av hög internationell kvalitet i miljövetenskap. Forsknin

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-forsta-professorer-i-miljovetenskap - 2026-04-19