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In a newly published study in Nature Communications, Emma Hammarlund and her research team at Lund University detail how daily fluctuations in oxygen levels influenced the rise of animal life. Their findings offer new insights as to how dramatic daily shifts in oxygen availability and stress may have played a central role in the evolution of complex organisms on Earth. “Now, when we explore animal
Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historianMartha Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California (UCLA). She also works at the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Baile
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2025-12-17
Vegetarian to become the standard, meat a special dietary request. That is the result of the Department of Biology and the Department of Psychology striking a blow for reduced meat consumption. The aim is to reduce the University's climate impact. Vegetarian food shall be the first option for catering and other activities where food is pre-ordered. This is what both department boards have decided
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/departments-choose-sustainable-food-meat-become-special-dietary-reques - 2025-12-17
The main University building is to become a hub for the organisation! That is the vision proposed by project manager Louise Pierce, who is responsible for repurposing the now almost empty building in Lundagård park. In only three years, it is to be buzzing with activity in the form of students, employees and visitors. Since early last autumn, Louise Pierce has been in charge of planning the future
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-plan-university-building-materializes - 2025-12-17
Threats against researchers are increasing, according to acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson, who received 16 reports of threats last year. The rise is in online threats, whereas the number of disruptive or violent people on campus is dropping – probably thanks to more locked doors. “But the hidden figures are high when it comes to online threats, as most people don’t report them.” Threats
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/online-threats-against-researchers-are-rise - 2025-12-17
In brilliant sunshine, the new doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors walked in procession from the main University building to the Cathedral for the most important event in the academic calendar – the doctoral degree conferment ceremony. The ceremony took place on 24 May and the flags on the roof of the main University building flapped against a clear blue sky. People had gathered in Lunda
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/happy-doctors-escaped-rain - 2025-12-17
Leadership is merely one among an arsenal of tools at the disposal of managers and employees to create a well-functioning group or organisation, according to organisational researchers Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson and Martin Blom at the School of Economics and Management. Are you someone who prefers to work in their own corner, rather than having a manager looking over their shoulder? Do you
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-leadership-overestimated-rely-more-employees - 2025-12-17
Lund University has been sliding down the lists of the three main university ranking organisations for several years. Today, we make only one of the top 100 lists, and even then with a mere five places above the 100 cut-off. Daniel J. Guhr is an expert on the importance of these rankings and knows what the consequences can be if the downward trend continues. “Losing a top 100 position in all three
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consultants-warning-major-consequences-falling-outside-top-100 - 2025-12-18
Should climate researchers let their findings speak for themselves, or does the state of the planet mean that it is a duty to take to the barricades? How can science get its message across in the best way and does climate activism by researchers impact their credibility? These questions were the focus of Debatt i Lund this May. The panel consisted of sustainability researcher Kimberly Nicholas, so
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-and-activism - 2025-12-18
Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2025-12-18
Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpretentious,” he says. When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announ
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2025-12-18
Using a torch, a camera, a water bottle and pieces of Lego, Emanuel Larsson built a scanner now used as a prototype to develop future beamlines at ESS. It was late on a Friday evening in December three years ago that Emanuel Larsson, a postdoc in solid mechanics, started constructing a tomography scanner out of objects he found in his kitchen at home. ‟At the time, the aim was to be able to explai
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/home-built-scanner-helps-construct-beamline-ess - 2025-12-18
There is a great deal of interest at the University in welcoming researchers from Afghanistan. The University Management and all the faculties consulted are prepared to contribute what is needed to receive these researchers. At the International Office of LU’s External Relations Division, Pär Svensson is in charge of coordinating work with vulnerable researchers at LU within the framework of ‟Scho
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interest-welcoming-researchers-afghanistan - 2025-12-18
Archaeologist Greer Jarrett’s research focuses on reconstructing Viking sailing routes and cartography. To do so, he learnt to sail boats similar to those sailed by the Vikings and set off out to sea. He likens the sailors of that time to today’s extreme athletes. “I started a fairly theoretical doctoral thesis on reconstructing Viking sailing routes, but I wanted practical experience from a sailo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chase-vikings - 2025-12-18
Meret-Neith was perhaps the first female ruler of ancient Egypt and one of the most powerful women in the world during her lifetime some 5,000 years ago. Researcher Amber Hood is part of an international research team investigating the royal tomb in the desert outside Abydos. When LUM spoke to Amber Hood, a researcher at the Department of Geology, she was making final preparations for this year’s
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/exploring-tomb-wine-loving-queen - 2025-12-18
Researchers at Lund University and Washington University have identified a blood marker that reflects the amount of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain. This discovery may play a key role in determining who is most likely to benefit from the new Alzheimer’s drugs. In brief:A newly discovered blood marker, MTBR-tau243, can reveal how much Alzheimer’s disease pathology is present in the brain. The hi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-reliable-blood-marker-reveals-extent-alzheimers-pathology-brain - 2025-12-18
To ensure that everyone has their say and that no one feels attacked when debating loaded and sensitive topics, it is important to establish the ground rules from the outset. This applies to society at large and in the lecture hall. This is the opinion of Christer Mattsson, Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Director of the Segerstedt Institute at the University of Gothenburg, who has been invite
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/risk-polarisation-lecture-hall - 2025-12-18
The number of managers at the University who have consulted the Occupational Health Service for preventive purposes has risen during the pandemic. "It is easy to feel that you are losing control when things change quickly and you don't know exactly how your employees are coping at home", says Anne Link, head of the Occupational Health Service. Anne Link and psychologist Linda Kuhn at the Occupatio
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2025-12-18
A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity.The Taj
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-university-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2025-12-18
