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A new study shows that carbon nanotubes used as additives to polymers – to make materials lighter, stronger, and electrically conductive – do not necessarily degrade under the conditions that normally prevail in waste incineration plants. However, if the temperature is increased, or the residence time in the flue gas is extended, they will be destructed. “Contrary to what has previously been thoug

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/higher-temperatures-are-needed-ensure-carbon-nanotubes-decomposition - 2025-10-03

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-earth-was-formed-millimetre-sized-pebbles-over-short-period - 2025-10-03

https://www.science.lu.se/article/why-killer-bacteria-affect-some-people-more-severely - 2025-10-03

Astronomic amounts of new digital information about the world, our genetic heritage and our habits are continuously being generated. This information is a goldmine for research – as long as the data can be accessed, stored and analysed. “We have a lot of expertise in the field. More and more areas of Lund University are nearing the threshold for big data as an integral part of research and teachin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/big-data-research-both-reality-and-rhetoric - 2025-10-03

As of the new year, a new University management team will take over the helm. For the next term of office, 2021-2026, the University will be led by vice-chancellor Erik Renström and deputy vice-chancellor Lena Eskilsson, together with five pro vice-chancellors and the University director. “The choice of pro vice-chancellors was based on identifying skilled academic leaders with a passion for their

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-university-management-2021-2026 - 2025-10-01

Whose Museum x Krets: Max Ockborn WHOSE MUSEUM x KRETS 2019 AN EXHIBITION IN FIVE CHAPTERS OPENING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 5–8 PM Consider for a moment that a museum is a living organism, their collections forming a body whose relationships compel them to move and to act. Who will they become?In 2019, KRETS will be run by the art collective Whose Museum, who will present a year-long exhibition proj

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-max-ockborn-1 - 2025-10-01

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 form various disciplines to advance knowledge on how to catalyse transitions to low-carbon and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/four-new-professors-iiiee-transitions-low-carbon-and-resource-efficient-eco-nomies - 2025-10-01

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-islet-cell-researchers-met-conference-malmo - 2025-10-01

Do you leave work full of energy and excited about what the rest of the day has to offer? If not – maybe it is worth trying to improve recovery during the working day.  Lina Ejlertsson's thesis is about recovery of staff in one of the most stressful work environments – healthcare centres. She says we have a certain amount of energy that either drains or fills during the working day. "I would like

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recover-during-working-day - 2025-10-01

Different values, cultures and language. Leading an international research group comes with additional challenges. Margareta Sandahl and Charlotta Turner are deliberately developing the emotional expertise in their group. "It pays off in terms of energy, even if it takes time. Furthermore, the doctoral students develop not just as people, but also as future leaders", says Margareta Sandahl. Margar

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/focus-improving-groups-eq - 2025-10-01

He has advised management groups across the University for three decades. Now, the psychologist and leadership consultant Thomas Sewerin has defended his PhD – on leadership in academia. Among other things, he has looked at how disagreements can pave the way for both failure and success.  In one of the four case studies in his thesis, Thomas Sewerin together with Eva Brodin, associate professor in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/many-constructive-disagreements-successful-research-group - 2025-10-01

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 followed by unrest in Egypt

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2025-10-01

The owlet, little over three weeks old, squints slightly as Hannah Watson lays it on its back in a plastic container that once held vanilla ice cream. It seems quite happy there. Things get a little trickier when the owlet is to be measured, weighed and swabbed for bacterial samples from both front and behind. Finally, a little prick with a needle to see whether it is a male or female, and whether

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tracking-owls-send-sms-their-nests - 2025-10-01

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 - 2025-10-01

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 - 2025-10-02

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 - 2025-10-01

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 - 2025-10-01

“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 - 2025-10-01

“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 - 2025-10-01

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-new-frontiers-knowledge-awardee - 2025-10-01