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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During his time at SASNET, the security expert will work on Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in South Asia. Asheque recently joined SASNET as an affiliated researcher. He is a political and security researcher on South Asia. He has worked as a countering violent extremism professional at the international level and has
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asheque-haque-joins-sasnet - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When the pandemic is over, it is important that information is preserved about how Lund University faced and managed the crisis. What decisions were made? What measures were taken? How was the organisation and its activities affected? Preserved information constitutes a basis for research and learning for the future.T
The EU Commission has presented the New European Innovation Agenda designed to strengthen European competitiveness through the green and digital transitions. At Lund University, we are well placed to take advantage of this and to raise our ambitions in deep tech innovation and solving today’s societal challenges. The EU Commission’s Agenda will involve many financial investments in innovation. The
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eus-innovation-agenda-applies-us-too - 2026-07-14
How can the University better safeguard academic freedom? In the discussions held across the organisation this spring, one clear message has emerged: Directed research funding is a problem. There is a further opportunity to get involved and have your say. Since the project on academic freedom and the University’s role in society was launched at the start of the year, just over 20 discussions and w
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-cause-resonates-widely-take-opportunity-get-involved - 2026-07-14
All teaching staff must submit a report concerning secondary employment by 31 March at the latest. Teaching staff who do not hold secondary employment are also to report this. Reporting and assessment is done in Primula. Be careful to choose the current year (2024) in the report. Heads of department are to have assessed and explained decisions on secondary employment by 30 April at the latest. Tea
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-teaching-staff-report-secondary-employment - 2026-07-14
The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them money. Not only does a successful researcher need to produce good research, their findings must also be visible among tough comp
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/always-check-magasine-carefully - 2026-07-15
In this winter’s and spring’s major exhibition at Skissernas Museum, Gunilla Klingberg's latest artistic commissions for two renowned public spaces in Stockholm are presented, along with a selection of her international projects. For the exhibition Klingberg has also created new works generated from the material she has saved during her processes. Klingberg’s work Virvelvind (Whirlwind) at Sergels
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-wringwrenchwhirlweave-0 - 2026-07-14
Upcoming licentiate thesis and defence on 3rd October: “Localising the Sustainable Development Goals: tools and processes for building urban transformative capacity – the case of Malmö” On October 3rd, Roland Zinkernagel will defend his licentiate thesis on “Localising the Sustainable Development Goals: tools and processes for building urban transformative capacity – the case of Malmö” Roland has
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/save-date-upcoming-defence-sdgs-and-urban-transformative-capacity - 2026-07-15
Wildfires and deforestation are spreading in the wake of an expanding cattle industry in the Amazon rainforest. Now, Jesica López is being recognised for her research, which has brought together politicians, landowners, farmers and Indigenous communities in an effort to halt this development. "We must understand that the Amazon is an ecosystem every human being on the planet depends on," she says.
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/jesica-lopez-honoured-her-fight-future-amazon - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The artist performs, the audience listens and applaud to show their appreciation. These are the given roles during a concert. But what happens if we dissolve these roles and the audience acts in a way that is completely unexpected. Does this change the song? The sound? The communication? This is what an interdisciplin
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/musical-experiment-subject-research - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, scientists are able to describe the exact mechanism for how a common genetic variant leads to a disruption in blood lipid levels that significantly increases the risk of heart disease. The one in every three persons who carries both copies of the risk allele engages a 40 percent higher risk of suff
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/mechanism-behind-common-heart-attack-gene-explained-scientific-breakthrough-nature - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Sölve Elmståhl is co-author of the article Predictive Performance of the FIF Screening Tool in 2 Cohorts of Community-Living Older Adults which has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. The study shows that the screening tool First-time Injurious Fall (FIF) can identify
Gustavo Jasso Ahuja, a researcher at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded funding within the framework of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s mathematics programme. The grant will be used to recruit a researcher from overseas to a postdoc position in Lund. The mathematics programme is a long-term initiative by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Between 2014 and 2029
https://www.science.lu.se/article/maths-researchers-receive-funding-study-mysterious-algebras - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For a decade now, the Rehabilitation Medicine research group’s work on spinal cord injuries (SCI’s) has had a far-reaching impact. In many areas, this is research at the global cutting edge; not least, in terms of following the same group of individuals as they live – and age – with spinal cord injuries. Research grou
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-research-spinal-cord-injuries-continues-have-global-impact - 2026-07-15
Oscar Manouchehrian has explored the roles of exercise and inflammation in neurological disorders. On May 13, he defends his Ph.D. thesis. Here, he shares his insights into academic research and experiences as a Ph.D. student in the Experimental Neuroinflammation Laboratory at MultiPark. Tell us about your research! My research engagement has been broad during my research education. For example, I
https://www.neuroinflammation.lu.se/article/phd-interview-oscar-manouchehrian - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The dream of finding the “diabetes gene” is dead. However, partly thanks to Leif Groop – professor and multiple award recipient for his ground-breaking research – we will look at type 2 diabetes in a whole new way in the future. He is now retiring, and in an interview with diabetesportalen.se he looks back on his even
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/time-burie-lada-interview-leif-groop - 2026-07-15
Work is slowly starting back up again after a long and much-needed break. Before I turn my attention to what lies ahead, I would like to begin by looking back briefly. At the end of last autumn, I travelled to Chicago, partly to visit my son, who is an exchange student at Illinois Institute of Technology, and partly to visit the University of Chicago to explore potential collaborations. The timing
We are so proud of our colleagues Håkan Håkansson and Tomasz Lesniak. Their work to make the Ravensbrück archive's testimonies from the Holocaust freely available to everyone led UNESCO to recognise the archive as a world memory last year. Now they are receiving an award from the university for their solid work. The Ravensbrück Archive is a collection of 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of N
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/university-administrative-award-recognises-work-ravensbruck-archive - 2026-07-15
