From the left: Luis Mundaca, Oksana Mont, Jenny Palm and Nancy Bocken. Photo: Jenny Loftrup The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) was established in 1994 as an international centre at Lund University to address complex environmental challenges. Over the years, the IIIEE has developed into a unique interdisciplinary centre of excellence synthesizing insights for

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/four-new-professors-iiiee-transitions-low-carbon-and-resource-efficient-eco-nomies - 2025-08-23

The Ukrainian research students are now on site at Medfak. Pictured: students, supervisors, course leaders and the project coordinator. (Not all project participants are pictured in this photo.) Photo: Agata Garpenlind Ten Ukrainian medical students, ten supervisors from the Faculty, for ten weeks. Initiator and professor, David Gisselsson Nord, is happy that the pilot project in medical research

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/medfaks-ukrainian-summer-school-has-started-welcome-us - 2025-08-23

The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the appointment, which he sees as a great honour. Vice-chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz .

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-vice-chancellor-safeguard-student-influence - 2025-08-23

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 interdisciplinary group at the Pufendorf Institute has studied during the spring. The six singe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/musical-experiment-subject-research - 2025-08-23

“My first project was about giving poor families in Thailand the opportunity to send their children to school. A student and I helped set up chicken farms at the schools, which the children took care of. The money they earned by selling the eggs on the markets covered their school fees”. Leif Bjellin. Photo: Gunnar Menander So says Leif Bjellin, now retired from Lund University, but still occasion

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/helping-earthquake-victims-nepal - 2025-08-23

“We are dependent on one another globally – this became evident not least through the Ebola epidemic. For cooperation to work and develop, Africa cannot be left out of the loop”, says Benedict Oppong Asamoah, researcher and lecturer in public health. He hopes that the University’s focus on Africa will lead to more and better contacts Benedict Oppong Asamoah. Photo: Gunnar Menander Lund University

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-strategy-shows-great-potential - 2025-08-23

The study participants were served portions of white wheat bread during the two meals. After the meal intervention, blood sugar and insulin levels differed between different groups of participants. Photo: Petra Olsson A lot of research explains which diets may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Much research remains to be done about how our genes respond to the foods we eat. A new stud

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/bread-study-examines-role-genes-breaking-down-food - 2025-08-23

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published on 23 August 2018“We must understand the ageing process itself in order to help people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, and to possibly enable us to prevent these diseases from arising”, says Henrik Ahlenius of the Stem Cell Centre at Lund University. His aim is to develop an experimental model for human nerve

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-do-dementia-diseases-affect-our-brains - 2025-08-23

Postdoctoral researcher Agatheeswaran Subramaniam and PhD Student Kristijonas Žemaitis from the Stem Cell Regulators research group. Photo: Alexander Doyle Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a novel target for the expansion of human blood stem cells ex vivo and shed light on the mechanism of action of a stem cell promoting molecule, currently in phase II clinical trials. Hemato

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-ex-vivo-expansion-transplantable-human-blood-stem-cells - 2025-08-23

Electron microscopy image of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell on top of nanostraws. Image credit: M. Hjort and L. Schmiderer Researchers from Lund University have developed a promising new method for delivering biomolecules into human blood stem cells using nanotechnology. With little to no detrimental effects on target cells, this novel approach has great potential for research and clinical app

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/nanostraws-used-deliver-biomolecules-stem-cells - 2025-08-23

Photo: Maria Malmström Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. The first one took place in Tunisia and was then foll

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2025-08-23

An external view of the spherical teaching space ‘Teknodrom’. Photo: Kennet Ruona Back then, the red brick buildings rose like a lonely wall against the open fields of eastern Lund. Now, the buildings are a hub in the middle of the knowledge highway that links the centre of the city with the research facilities on the outskirts of Brunnshög. We are talking, of course, about the buildings on the Fa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-time-move-newly-renovated-m-building - 2025-08-24

View of Kyiv – a few years before the capital, Odessa, Kharkiv and Mariupol woke up to dawn attacks. Photo: Tetiana Shevereva/Unsplash Early in the morning there was the sound of explosions and the sky lit up. Since 24 February 2022, Lund University has stood in solidarity with Ukraine’s universities. Are there lessons to be learned from the period when Kiev’s largest university had to rapidly ada

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lessons-ukraine-running-university-while-war-rages - 2025-08-24

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Apply for your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleagues can easily find them

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2025-08-24

Vanya Darakchieva is a professor of solid state physics at LTH. Photo: Jenny Leyman What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-08-24

The tense global situation is a challenge for the university's internationalisation work, says International Coordinator Pär Svensson. Photo: Minna Wallén-Widung Internationalisation has become more important – and more complex – in recent years. In a world where democracy and academic freedom are under threat, Lund University needs to take greater responsibility for its international collaboratio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/internationalisation-important-comprehensive-and-complex - 2025-08-24

Just before the summer, the Vice-Chancellor decided on Lund University's Green Travel Plan. It highlights the issues the University needs to work on in the future to further enhance its work on sustainable commuting to work and studies. The University's work within CoAction to promote a carbon-neutral Lund, as well as the previous project on sustainable mobility at Lund University, have now result

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/green-travel-plan-commuting-decided - 2025-08-24

Commuting by bike or public transport is a simple and effective step towards greater sustainability. Image: Unsplash Sustainability is a priority – not only for the Faculty of Science but for the entire university. Working sustainably is not only about reducing climate and environmental impact – it also contributes to a more stimulating, safe, and inclusive workplace. Lund University's new resourc

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/five-ways-be-even-more-sustainable-work - 2025-08-23

Thérése Jönsson defended her thesis on the subject of nursing science specialising in physiotherapy on March 20. One in four people suffer from osteoarthritis, a chronic joint disease. Although guidelines have long existed regarding how osteoarthritis should be treated, only half of patients undergo the recommended basic treatment. A new thesis from Lund University shows that the existing guidelin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-osteoarthritis-school-can-reduce-pain-and-increase-quality-life - 2025-08-23

Research published in the research journal Diabetologia needs to meet a high standard of quality. Most of the manuscripts submitted are rejected. At the start of 2021, Hindrik Mulder, MD and professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC), will take over as editor-in-chief of the journal. After just over 10 years as European and Senior Editor of Journal of Endocrinology, Hindrik Mulder finishe

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hindrik-mulder-incoming-editor-chief-diabetologia - 2025-08-23