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Intervju med Emma Sparr, professor i fysikalisk kemi vid kemiska institutionen, om nätverksbidraget EXCITE. Stort grattis, Emma! Du och flera kollegor från Lunds universitet, tillsammans med forskare vid andra svenska lärosäten, har fått 1,2 miljoner kronor i nätverksbidrag från Vetenskapsrådet (VR) för att ta fram ett underlag för ett excellenskluster med titeln EXCITE: Excellence Cluster for Inn
Astronomdagarna is a conference that gathers astronomers from across Sweden. It was held in Lund during October 2-4, 2024, with over 120 people attending. The national conference Astronomdagarna is held every other year, with different universities taking turns on hosting the conference. Back in 2022 the Astronomdagarna conference was held in Gothenburg. Last time the conference was here in Lun
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/astronomdagarna-2024 - 2025-12-27
A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, as researchers prepare to map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, 4MOST – the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope – collects spectra, that
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-12-27
In a recent paper, Nicholas Borsato, along with collaborators Jens Hoeijmakers, Bibiana Prinoth, Brian Thorsbro, and Rebecca Forsberg, provides insightful research on the complex atmospheric composition of the exoplanet KELT-9b. The team captured the exoplanet's spectra during transit, revealing numerous elements within its atmosphere.This study not only verifies the presence of previously known e
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/terbium-among-heavy-elements-discovered-atmosphere-exoplanet-kelt-9b - 2025-12-27
The European Space Agency Buissness Incubator Center (ESA BIC) hosted a meet-and-greet event at Ideon on April 25th. Local professionals got to know more about ESA BIC and about a few of the ongoing space projects in Lund. This was well received by the people attending the event, and rumor has it that ESA BIC will arrange more such events in the future.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/meet-and-greet-esa-bic - 2025-12-27
Astronomers invited members of the public to look at the spring skies through the teaching telescopes. There are a number of both historical and modern telescopes at Lund Observatory. Usually these are used for teaching purposes but every now and then the astronomers decide to stay at work late into the evening in order to give members of the public the chance for some stargazing. This spring thr
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/stargazing - 2025-12-27
There is so much more to space than just rocket science. So said Deborah Lygonis, CEO Friendbase AB and Investor Relations, Innovatum, at a national hybrid lunch meeting titled ”The Future of the Space Industry”, which was jointly organised by ESA BIC and Women In Space Sweden (WISS) on May the fourth. She went on to explain how the space industry loosly divides into ’Upstream’ (including rocket
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/future-space-industry - 2025-12-27
Several members of the Lund Observatory network gathered in Lundmarkssalen today to listen to Göran Östlins from Stockholm University give a seminar titled: "SELTIC, Swedish engagement in ELT instrumentation".SELTIC is a consortium developing instruments, such as MOSAIC and ANDES, for ESOs ELT - which is currently under construction and scheduled for first light in 2028.This was the first seminar
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/swedish-engagement-elt-instrumentation-development - 2025-12-27
The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory. Attending this year's Space Research School were twenty intelligent, motivated and space-interested high school students from across Sweden. During their 10 days in Lund the group of high school students attended several lectures given by university
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/rfs-2023 - 2025-12-27
Prof. Joe Liske from Hamburg University, Germany, visited the Lund Observatory network on September 28th 2023 and gave a talk titled "Cosmological Conundrums". This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/cosmological-conundrums - 2025-12-27
Prof. Stephen Mojzsis from the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK) in Budapest, Hungary, visited the Lund Observatory Network and gave a talk titled "Galactic chemical evolution expressed in rocky exoplanet geodynamics" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/galactic-chemical-evolution-expressed-rocky-exoplanet-geodynamics - 2025-12-27
Dr. Chiara Paleari from the Department of Geology gave a Lund Observatory Seminar titled "The search for extreme solar particle storms in polar ice cores" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/search-extreme-solar-particle-storms-polar-ice-cores - 2025-12-27
Assistant professor Ása Skúladóttir from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy, gave a seminar titled "Digging into dwarf galaxies" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/digging-dwarf-galaxies - 2025-12-27
Lina Eklund har intervjuats av flera nyhetskanaler för sin bevakning av kriget på Gazaremsan med hjälp av satellitbilder. Hör henne berätta i klippet nedan. Här visar och berättar forskaren Lina Eklund om vad de ser på satellitbilderna från Gaza. – Det som sticker ut är den omfattande förstörelsen på en väldigt liten yta och på väldigt kort tid, säger hon till SVT.SVT nyheter: Lundaforskare bevaka
https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/overvakar-krig-med-satellitbilder - 2025-12-27
INTERACT har tidigare varit en viktig aktör i forskningen runtom i Arktis, och kunskaperna därifrån går nu vidare in i POLARIN, med EU-finansiering på 163 miljoner SEK (14.6 million euros) över 5 år. Nytt i POLARIN är att Antarktis involveras, och att infrastrukturen utökas också med isbrytare. För Lunds universitets del är Margareta Johansson koordinerande. Officiellt sjösattes POLARIN den 1 mars
https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/mer-forskning-i-polaromradena-nar-nya-polarin-drar-igang - 2025-12-27
Thomas Pugh, universitetslektor vid institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap, får finansiering för sitt projekt Tree2Globe. European Research Council (ERC) stödjer forskning av högsta kvalitet inom alla områden. ERC Advanced Grant är avsett för etablerade forskare med en meritlista av betydande bidrag under det senaste decenniet. I årets omgång får 255 forskare totalt 652 miljoner eu
https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/stort-eu-bidrag-global-tradforskning - 2025-12-27
Afrika är, trots sin stora yta och därmed stora påverkan på den globala kolcykeln, relativt outforskat med avseende på ekosystemfunktioner och påverkan på klimatförändringar. Nu visar en ny in situ-studie under 2010-2022, att Sahelområdet har förlorat mycket av sin kraft som kolsänka under den undersökta tidsperioden. Afrika är, trots sin stora yta och därmed stora påverkan på den globala kolcykel
https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/sahel-minskad-kraft-som-kolsanka - 2025-12-27
Researchers at Lund University have designed a new bioink which allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-bioprinted with the help of patient cells for the first time. The 3D-printed constructs are biocompatible and support new blood vessel growth into the transplanted material. This is an important first step towards 3D-printing organs. The new study has been published in Advanced Materials. Chro
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-bioink-brings-3d-printing-human-organs-closer-reality - 2025-12-27
Congratulations to Prof. Malin Parmar, who has been elected as one of three new members of the Board of Directors at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). The Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology research group led by Prof. Parmar aims to develop new, cell-based therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Together with her team, Prof. Parmar has shown in a series of pionee
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-elected-isscr-board-directors - 2025-12-27
In a collaborative study with other European research groups, scientists from Lund University in Sweden have shed new light on how the protein aggregates that accumulate in the Parkinsonian brain may contribute to neuronal injury during disease progression. The study is published in Cell Reports. The brain is a complex organ composed of billions of neurons, whose proper function is dependent on a
