Published 5 July 2024 CMES researcher Maria Småberg has participated in a podcast and written an article about what it is like to teach about Israel Palestine. The article, "Att undervisa om Israel-Palestinakonflikten efter den 7 oktober" (English translation: "Teaching about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after 7 October"), was published in Svenska Jerusalemsföreningens Tidskrift in June 2024. 

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Published 5 July 2024 Photo: Nastaran Taghipour/Unsplash Read the summary conclusions from the CMES policy-research dialogue that explored the multifaceted relationship between Iran and Europe. The report is based on a policy-research dialogue organised by CMES in April 2024 with international scholars and practitioners. Executive SummaryFor more than two decades, Iran’s nuclear program has been a

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Published 11 July 2024 Come work with us as a postdoctoral fellow! Apply by 14 August. Postdoctoral Fellow in Earth Observation of Land Cover and Vegetation Dynamics in the Middle East Work duties The main duties involved in a post-doctoral position is to conduct research. Teaching may also be included, but up to no more than 20% of working hours. The position shall include the opportunity for thr

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Published 19 August 2024 On 22-23 August, CMES is organising the Third Annual SWEMENA Conference at Lund University. This interdisciplinary annual conference reflects SWEMENA’s main objective to bring together different communities of researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers across Sweden with an interest in the Middle East and North Africa region SWEMENA encourages the dissemination and disc

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Published 21 August 2024 CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini has written an article about Lebanese society being split over a potential war with Israel published in the Conversation. The article, "Lebanese society is split over a potential war with Israel", was published on 16 July 2024.IntroductionHezbollah began launching rockets into northern Israel in solidarity with Palestinians shortly after th

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Published 30 August 2024 Apply for the autumn semester's courses by 11 September! CMES offers three Arabic language courses during the autumn of 2024: - A1, Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners, Part I- A2, Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners, Part I- B1, Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic, Part IThe courses are exclusively offered for Lund University students and staff interested in working and

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Published 4 April 2024 Heiner Linke and Vanya Darakchieva. Photograph. Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to support excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, engineering and natural sciences. Anne L'Huillier, Kimberly Dick The

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By kommunikation [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 26 April 2024 Marcus Dahlström himself has illustrated an atom that is dressed and entangled with an electron. Particles, sometimes a long way from one another, can be entangled. This strange phenomenon completely confounds our intuition, but the explanation for it has been provided through quantum mechanics. Researchers a

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By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 2 May 2024 The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, is mapping the Milky Way through astrometry. Photo: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier. Thanks to the Gaia space telescope, scientists have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way. The object, Gaia BH3, is located in the Eagle constellation, less tha

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Published 12 May 2024 Mats Lindroos. Photo: ESS. Mats Lindroos has suddenly left us. Until recently, he worked at the Department of Physics. We remember him as a passionate, brave and valued colleague. Mats was an adjunct professor at the Division of Particle and Nuclear Physics. His colleagues at the research division miss a valued fellow researcher:"Mats Lindroos, in memoriamIt was with great re

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By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 13 June 2024 The ice line during a stellar outburst. Closest to the star, the solid material is dust, but outside the ice line, ice allows particles to grow larger. Illustration: A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) How planets form is a question that has long vexed the world's astronomers. In recent yea

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By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 25 June 2024 One of the things the Lindau Meeting participants had the opportunity to experience in 2023 was a boat trip to Mainau. Photo: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. For the 73rd time, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be arranged. It takes place 30 June–5 July 2024 in Bayern, Germany, by the beau

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By armin [dot] tavakoli [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Armin Tavakoli) - published 13 August 2024 Free Church of Mehedeby, built in 1898. Google Maps knows it under the name “Quantum Church”. Photo: Armin Tavakoli. An extraordinary event has taken place this summer in a small, overlooked village north of Uppsala, blending the rich history of Swedish religious movements with cutting-edge quantum res

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quantum-redemption-unique-intersection-science-and-history-mehedebys-free-church - 2025-05-01

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 21 August 2024 Artistic illustration of the ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) spectrograph. Image: ESO. In 2028, the first observations will be made at the world's largest optical telescope being built in Chile. It is now clear that the facility will be equipped with a powerful spectrograph tha

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By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 21 August 2024 Megan Hill, Jesús Carrero Robles, Jesper Wallentin, Ingrid Klint, Jesper Larsson, Aksel Mihailov, Filip Lenrick, and Huaiyu Chen are the four supervisors and four students in the Summer School Deep Dive into Synchrotron Analysis. Photo: Evelina Lindén A few sharp minds working together for almost an enti

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By tiina [dot] meri [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 26 August 2024 Science Village in north-east Lund will be an innovative and international meeting place for students, cutting-edge research and business. A new and expanded nano laboratory is planned in the area to complement Max IV and ESS. Illustration: TMRW/Science V Answers relating to diseases and accurately targeted drug

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By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 5 September 2024 Artistic illustration of exoplanet. Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser. A team of researchers, led from Lund, has discovered a small planet that has a peculiar way of moving in its orbit. The wobbling planet TOI-1408c, located 455 light years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be far more complex t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-discovery-planet-wobbles - 2025-05-01

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 5 September 2024 Yuhe Zhang, PhD at the Department of Physics. Photo: private. Yuhe Zhang, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Physics, has been awarded the Werner Meyer-Ilse Prize. She is honoured for her work on using deep learning for 2D, 3D and 4D X-ray images. Congratulations, how does it feel to rece

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Published 9 September 2024 Photo: MostPhotos. A surprising behaviour of atoms is giving scientists new insights into one of the most fundamental phenomena in nature: the absorption of light. A new physical phenomenon for light pulses has been discovered. The study, published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, was conducted by physicists at Lund University. In the world of atoms, t

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By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 12 September 2024 Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Physics at Lund University, is awarded the Great Gold Medal 2024 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Anne L'Huillier, Professor of Physics at Lund University, is awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineer

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