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Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES to study political youth, water security, research data infrastructure or geopolitics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! Postdoctoral Fellow on Political Youth in Middle East Conflicts The postdoctoral position will be part of a research project focused on the Middle East and youth in armed conflicts. The conflicts in the Middle East and Nort
Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby in Skåne. The goal was to learn more about the herbs of nature while letting the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2025-10-15
Children of immigrants from countries with low risk of type 1 diabetes develop the disease more often than expected if they grow up in Sweden, which is a high-risk country. Scientists mean that it is something in the Swedish environment that causes this elevated risk. Ahmed Delli, who is a scientist at Lund University Diabetes Centre, has mapped what happens when a child moves from an area with lo
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/moving-sweden-increases-risk-diabetes - 2025-10-15
With around 350 million patients worldwide, diabetes is one of the world’s major public health problems. This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been referred to as ‘gene fishing’. It involves fishing up the genes that contribute
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/major-prize-lu-diabetes-researcher - 2025-10-15
On 12 December, the Government presented the Research and Innovation Bill entitled “Research and Innovation for the Future, Curiosity and Benefit”. An overall assessment of the Bill shows that it is much more challenging for Lund University than any previous Research Bill. It offers great opportunities for many researchers and different types of research, while stearing research more than earlier
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-bill-great-opportunities-very-challenging - 2025-10-16
Many of us have worked more remotely during the pandemic than we ever dreamed of doing. Informatics researcher Saonee Sarker has been studying IT-enabled collaboration and its impact on work-life balance for many years, but mainly with a focus on the IT sector. Today, she sees how that industry's digital settings has moved to encompass us all. The bookshelves in Saonee Sarker's office at the Schoo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hybrid-workplace-future - 2025-10-15
Central Asian Law project organized the conference titled “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on the discussion of the interconnections between international actors, domestic institutions, business actors, as well as informal institutions and norms and how their interplay shape the governance, legal culture and business environ
https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/conference-understanding-legal-cultures-central-asia-6-8-november-2021 - 2025-10-15
The University finds itself in a time of paradoxes. At the same time as the EU, via its framework programmes, works for openness and mobility for researchers and students, there are increasing nationalistic and protectionist trends. In addition, the trust and hope that society has in research as a solution for global challenges is being unsettled by the spread of knowledge relativism. This is the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/competitive-intelligence-increasing-difficulty-being-university - 2025-10-15
A surprising behaviour of atoms is giving scientists new insights into one of the most fundamental phenomena in nature: the absorption of light. A new physical phenomenon for light pulses has been discovered. The study, published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, was conducted by physicists at Lund University. In the world of atoms, the laws of nature as we know them do not apply
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/atoms-absorb-energy-unexpected-ways - 2025-10-15
First-born children are at lower risk of heart attack and stroke than their siblings – provided that the number of siblings does not exceed three; then it is the other way around. And people without siblings have a higher risk of heart attack and stroke later in life compared to those who have siblings. These are among the findings of a new population study from Lund University published in BMJ Op
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/number-siblings-may-be-linked-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-10-15
In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition must be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from PhD Emma Johansson. Emma Johansson’s thesis investigates how land use is affected by large-scale land acquisition, also referred to as land grabbing, mainly in Tanzania. The lan
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/large-scale-land-acquisition-affects-farmers-ability-produce-their-own-food-africa - 2025-10-15
Felicia Gustafson from Sweden graduated from the Master's programme Sustainable Service Management 2021 and now work as a sustainability advisor and specialist for Position Green in Malmö. What did you do before you started studying the Master’s programme in Service Management? "I went straight into the Master’s from my Bachelor’s in International Management at Jönköping International Business Sch
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-alumni-felicia-gustafsson - 2025-10-15
These are busy times for atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier. Earlier this year, she received the prestigious Wolf Prize – perhaps not as widely known among the general public, but within the field of physics it is considered second only to the Nobel Prize. Anne L’Huillier was honoured for her contribution to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. “I haven’t really taken it all in yet. I hav
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/prestigious-physics-prize-goes-lund-researcher - 2025-10-16
Ouyang Yuan defends her Ph.D. thesis on 14 October 2022. As a medical student with a longstanding interest in blood malignancies, her research has focused on better understanding the development of a specific type of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The hope is that these findings will help lead to a better understanding of AML and future treatments that can one day prevent, delay, or c
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/placing-acute-myeloid-leukemia-under-microscope-phd-interview-ouyang-yuan - 2025-10-15
What surprises a course participant from Africa on a short visit in Lund and to LUSEM? And what made the strongest impressions? Takes to bring back? And what about the group dynamic with new acquaintances from many different parts of the same continent? We are really curious about what happened during the fourth round of the course Innovation, Transformation and Resilience for Sustainable Developm
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/what-we-learned-and-will-take-home - 2025-10-16
Type 2 diabetes is a complex disease that can lead to serious health problems. It is important to find ways to predict the disease to take preventive measures. A large interdisciplinary study led by Lund University has identified a biomarker in the blood that predicts type 2 diabetes several years before diagnosis. Diabetes is on the rise and over time, diabetes can lead to complications such as c
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-biomarker-identified-predicts-type-2-diabetes-several-years-diagnosis - 2025-10-15
Gases used in anaesthesia are potent greenhouse gases, and their total global impact has not previously been known. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health led by Lund University shows that greenhouse gas emissions from anaesthetic gases have decreased by 27% over the last ten years. By swapping out the anaesthetic gas with the highest climate impact, the climate impact of anaesthetic gas
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/reduced-climate-impact-anaesthetic-gases-worrying-trend-middle-income-countries - 2025-10-15
Five postdoctoral fellowships on the Middle East are opened on (1) political youth in conflict (2) water security and sustainable development (3) earth observations (4) geopolitics and regional cooperation and (5) data research infrastructure Apply before 20 November 2023! Postdoctoral Fellow in Earth Observations of Land Cover and Vegetation Dynamics in the Middle EastMore than a decade has passe
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-openings-5-postdoctoral-fellowships-middle-east - 2025-10-15
