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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Following criticism from the Swedish Research Council for delays and unclear leadership at MAX IV, the organisation is now headed in the right direction. Efficiency has increased through stricter deadlines, clearer priorities among the projects and increased clarity in the decision chains. “We are on the right path an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/max-iv-sees-light-end-tunnel - 2026-06-29

Raquel Garza Gómez is a Ph.D. student at Lund University, who will be defending her thesis on January 19, 2024. With a background in computational biology, Raquel's research focuses on studying the role of transposable elements in the human brain. Transposable elements refer to DNA sequences capable of moving from one part of the genome to another. Her research aims to provide a better understandi

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/transposable-elements-healthy-and-diseased-human-brain-phd-interview-raquel-garza-gomez - 2026-06-29

All Lund University employees and students are welcome to participate in this year's edition of the Future Innovations Award. Applications are open until May 5. The Future Innovations Award celebrates groundbreaking ideas from Lund University. Ideas with the potential to change our world. It has now opened for applications for 2025. Since its start in 2017, it has become an important platform for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-innovations-award-2025-competition-opens-over-1-million-sek-prizes - 2026-06-30

When LINXS moved from its old premises at Ideon to The Loop in Science Village in March, the institute became the first research environment from Lund University to make the move to Brunnshög. Since then, activities have more than doubled, new collaborations have emerged, and the team’s mood is distinctly optimistic.I met with Anna Ntinidou, Head of Administration, Noomi Egan, Communications Offic

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/home-linxs-pioneer-paving-way-science-village - 2026-06-29

He has designed a transport box that keeps hearts alive outside the body and developed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device. But during a visit to nuns in Africa, he was suspected of being a spy. Meet Stig Steen, a post-retirement professor of thoracic surgery, who is driven by an unshakeable belief that the greatest things in life are on the other side of the mountain. If Stig Steen had f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cardiothoracic-innovator - 2026-06-30

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu förstärker vi verksamheten. Vi söker en viktig medspelare i innovationsarbetet vid Lunds universitet, med huvudsakligt fokus på den tvärvetenskapliga livsmedelsforskningen i gränslandet mellan nutrition, livsmedelsvetenskap, och medicin. Lunds universitet grundades 1666 och rankas återkommande som ett av världens

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/vi-soker-affarsutvecklare-inom-livsmedel-och-medicin - 2026-06-29

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Det ser ut att lossna för LU Holding, Lunds universitets egen såddfinansiär som bildades i mitten av 90-talet med uppdrag att ge en första grundplåt till forskning med kommersiell potential. Idag finns 50 forskningsbolag i portföljen och det rörliga investeringskapitalet har vuxit till 50 miljoner. Förhoppningen är

https://www.lu.se/artikel/antligen-vinst-lu-holding - 2026-06-29

On the second day of COP26, more than 100 global leaders, representing 85% of the world's forests, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade. The Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use will cover forests totaling more than 13 million square miles. Sustainability researcher and deforestation expert, Torsten Krause, at Lund University for Su

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2026-06-29

The new Campus Plan is now out on a consultation round among organisational units and external collaboration partners. The consultation period lasts until 13 February but as requirements and relations are constantly changing, the Campus Plan will need to be continuously updated. The Campus Plan, which is a part of the University’s work on strategy, will be finalised in the summer and cover the per

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-campus-plan-2050-horizon-out-consultation-round - 2026-06-30

As a PhD student in this project you will be working in a dynamic and interdiscplinary research environment with links to two strategic research areas: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) and Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate (BECC). Application deadline: 26 May 2023. Doctoral student at Lund University's Department of Physical Geograhy and Ecosystem Science (INES).  S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-vacancy-lu-doctoral-student-pyrogeography-middle-east - 2026-06-29

Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for those fighting to protect the rain forest and the environment. Last year, 79 people were killed for that reason, three times as many as in the second most dangerous country, Brazil. This means planning field studies there needs to be particularly meticulous. Lund University researcher Jesica López researches how the management of livestock affects

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-important-plan-thoroughly - 2026-06-30

Future Week has become Future Days. It will continue to showcase innovative research with focus on the big questions of the future. The popular science programme will now be formed around the pioneering visions of researchers and teaching staff from all the University’s faculties. For the past three years, Lund University’s Future Week has presented ground-breaking research; research that has its

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-days-2022-future-week-new-guise - 2026-06-29

SWEAH Alumni Interdisciplinary Network (SAIN), har som främsta syfte att skapa en bas för långsiktig och framstående svensk forskning om äldre och åldrande. Detta ska ske genom ämnesöverskridande samarbeten mellan svenska lärosäten. SWEAH-alumnen Charlotta Nilsen från Jönköping University och Stockholms universitet, ingår i styrgruppen för nätverket. Hon har tillsammans med Caroline Hasselgren (Gö

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/nytt-alumnnatverk-har-sett-dagens-ljus - 2026-06-29

Very few support climate change, pollution and the general destruction of our planet, but why then is it so hard to make a truly sustainable future desirable? Researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Jon Bertilsson have looked into this from a marketing perspective and point to some instances where their field could make a difference.“Marketing in the service of companies has done a tremendous job of creat

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/climate-crisis-has-marketing-problem - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish cities of Malmö, Lund, Oskarshamn and Bjuv are looking for creative partners with innovative solutions that can be involved in a new venture, to convert waste heat into urban food or other biological production through an Open Innovation Competition. Clean residual heat emitted from a diverse range of sour

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-food-residual-heat-open-innovation-competition - 2026-06-29

PhD student Lina Lefstad is passionate about working towards just climate change mitigation. She is excited about how we as a society can use CCS technology in the most just and effective way for the technology to genuinely contribute to decarbonisation and emissions reductions. What do you explore in your PhD-project?  My PhD is part of a broader project called “Burying problems? Carbon capture a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-lina-lefstad-studies-how-carbon-capture-and-storage-technology-used-and-envisioned - 2026-06-29

You are welcome to celebrate Culture Night with us! Browse among all our activities for all ages that run from the morning to late evening. On the programme are music, try-out activities, theatre, art exhibitions and much more. Faculty of Medicine at Forum MedicumThis year we are holding an open house at Forum Medicum where we arrange exciting stations, lectures and try-out activities on the theme

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/culture-night-21-september-2024 - 2026-06-30

Mikael Akke, Göran Jönsson, Sara Linse och Mathieu Gisselbrecht vid Lunds universitet har tilldelats mångmiljonanslag från Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse. Under fem år ska de driva tunga projekt om allosterisk signalering, effektivare immunterapi, hemlighetsfulla hjälparproteiner och kvantmekanisk sammanflätning. Mikael Akke, professor i biofysikalisk kemi, får 36 miljoner kronor för att ”kn

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fyra-lundaforskare-far-120-miljoner-kronor-fran-wallenbergstiftelse - 2026-06-30

Katrine Skovgård’s Ph.D. project sheds light on the dysfunctions in the brain through which dopaminergic pharmacotherapies for Parkinson’s disease affect motor behaviors. January 19, she defends her thesis. She explains how better experimental models might improve future translational research on dyskinesia. You presented your research at the MultiPark Café recently. But for those who could not at

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/why-dopamine-receptor-type-matters-phd-interview-katrine-skovgard - 2026-06-29

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu är det klart vilka som blir Medicinska fakultetens nya ledning från och med januari 2018. Ny dekan blir professor Erik Renström och ny prodekan blir professor Kristina Åkesson. Lunds universitets rektor Torbjörn von Schantz har utsett Erik Renström till dekan och Kristina Åkesson till prodekan för Lunds universit

https://www.lu.se/artikel/medicinska-fakultetens-nya-ledning-fran-och-med-januari-2018 - 2026-06-29