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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2026-04-17

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2026-04-17

​​​​​​​Did you know that about 70% of rare diseases begin in childhood? How about that 1 in 5 cancers are considered a rare disease? Or that nearly three-quarters of all rare diseases are genetic diseases? With more than 6,000 rare diseases known to impact the lives of an estimated 300 million people around the world – rare diseases are all too common. Limited knowledge of these diseases often res

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/shining-spotlight-rare-disease-research - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This autumn she was awarded SEK 22 million in ERC grants for her Alzheimer’s research. In addition, she is a member of the Nobel Prize committee for chemistry, she has written children’s books, won the veterans’ European Championship in orienteering and is director of Humlegården, a day centre for people with autism.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/multi-tasking-top - 2026-04-17

Investigation of a metre-long front flipper, uniquely preserved with fossilized soft tissues, has revealed that the giant ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus was equipped with flow control devices that likely served to suppress self-generated noise when foraging in dimly lit pelagic environments about 183 million years ago. Thus, this visually guided megapredator relied on underwater stealth—or ‘silent s

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ancient-giant-marine-reptile-relied-stealth-while-hunting-darkness - 2026-04-17

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kind-methods-mean-happy-cells - 2026-04-17

WCMM Fireside Chat is a series of articles dedicated to showcasing the remarkable work of researchers within and around the Lund Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM). Our goal is to encourage collaboration, communication, and inspiration among the scientific community by highlighting innovative research, breakthrough discoveries, and the people driving these advancements. Join us as we

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-elin-tragardh - 2026-04-17

In the middle of October, the first project partner meeting was held in Helsingborg. The project is about shared and sustainable mobility in new housing developments, and was hosted by Lund University, Campus Helsingborg and the City of Helsingborg. The goal of the project is to create innovative conditions for new residential areas with the preservation of green spaces that enables valuable natur

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/reduced-number-parking-spaces-favour-green-meeting-places-new-eu-project - 2026-04-17

The Bundy Academy’s 2022 major prize amounting to SEK 3 million is awarded to Sebastian Palmqvist, Associate Professor of Clinical Memory Research at Lund University and Senior Physician at the Memory Clinic at Skåne University Hospital, for his research on improved diagnostics of Alzheimer’s disease. RationaleSebastian Palmqvist has published a large number of research papers in the field of cogn

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/awardees-2022-bundy-academy-major-prize - 2026-04-17

The mandate Head of Department rarely spans more than six years. Matthias Baier held it at the Sociology of Law Department for eleven. This spring, the former prefect resumed his position as Senior Lecturer. Accompanied by his partner and two dogs in their rural home outside of Lund, Matthias Baier spent the spring semester phasing himself out of the department's top managerial position and back t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/matthias-baier-has-stepped-down-head-department-and-back-classroom - 2026-04-17

Many of us have digital maps at our fingertips in our smartphones, but these maps are not adapted to guide us when walking or finding our way in new environments, for example, as tourists in an unfamiliar big city. Creating such maps requires in-depth knowledge about map design which can be further improved by using new technology that can process large amounts of data. “We are collaborating with

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/digital-maps-tomorrow-improve-how-we-find-our-way - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The official figures for forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August 2020 show a slight decrease from last year. But researchers at the Brazil's Space Research Institute, Inpe, warn that data may need to be corrected so much that they instead reveal the worst fires in a decade. Torsten Krause, researcher in forest

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-fires-brazilian-amazon-august-2020 - 2026-04-17

After a huge response with over 60 creative name suggestions from students and staff at the faculty, the decision has now been made: the Astronomy Building is getting a new name and will step into the future as Universum! In the coming years, the building will be developed into a natural meeting place for the natural sciences, bringing together the study centre, faculty management, the faculty off

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/astronomy-building-gets-new-name-welcome-universum - 2026-04-17

Amyloid-beta accumulation may start inside neurons. A novel imaging approach to study structural changes before amyloid plaques are formed. Four distinct subtypes of Alzheimer's disease. A simple diagnostic tool predicting the risk of developing the disease. And a collaboration with Region Skåne, Lund Municipality, and the pharma industry to facilitate earlier diagnosis and more accurate prognosti

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/alzheimers-awareness-month-five-optimistic-research-news-multipark - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At a pub in Yokohama, history of religions scholar Andreas Johansson by chance came in contact with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. For two weeks, he was hanging out with the mafia, and will soon publish a book on the tattoos of the Yakuza and what they symbolise. It requires over 200 hours of painful pricks by hand,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researcher-intrigued-mafia-tattoos-japanese-mafia-photographed-lund-researcher - 2026-04-17

A considerable reduction in the availability of electricity is expected this winter. If the electricity available is less than the demand for electricity, this results in what is known as a power shortfall. This could lead to short power cuts at the University. There is now a Vice-Chancellor’s decision that clarifies duties and responsibilities within the University in the event of a power shortfa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-must-be-prepared-disconnection-electricity-0 - 2026-04-18

Why are there hundreds of jumbled human bones in the ground at Uppåkra? That is one of the mysteries that archaeologists at Lund University hope to be able to solve in the next few years. They will be aided by the latest DNA technology. A quiet calm rests over Uppåkra, just outside Lund. The only sound under the enormous tent canvas that has been hung just next to an old pigsty – which incidentall

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-technique-reveals-uppakras-violent-past - 2026-04-18

Nine projects have been granted funding through the Sustainability Fund and the call for applications concerning Sustainable Idea Exploration. The aim of the call is to take early ideas from research to innovation that can make a difference to society. The funded projects each receive a maximum of SEK 150,000 to develop the innovative potential of their ideas. Twenty applications were submitted in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-fund-enables-nine-new-projects - 2026-04-18

Where will the chemists and the physicists be located in the future? A recent report shows that it will be much more expensive to move to Science Village than if they stay on Sölvegatan. The evaluation report compares three options: Chemistry and physics establish activities in Science Village and move thereKemicentrum is renovated and expanded, and the physicists move in there to be with the chem

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/major-cost-differences-when-comparing-science-village-options - 2026-04-18