Betty Saenyi. Betty Saenyi is in her last semester of her doctoral studies at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her PhD journey so far. Betty, why did you choose to pursue a doctoral education?“Funny enough, a PhD was never my dream. After my undergraduate studies, I worked in industry for quite a while and only de

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/meet-betty-saenyi-doctoral-student-department-informatics - 2025-09-06

Den tredje förhandlingsrundan genomfördes i Nairobi. Fotograf: Tara Olsen Avfallshantering, plastföroreningar, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och finansiellt stöd till utvecklingsländer. Detta är i fokus för inspelen till FN:s globala plastavtal som ska vara klart i december. Mindre fokus läggs på produktionsfrågor och plastens klimatpåverkan. Det visar en ny rapport från Lunds universitet och Köpenhamns un

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/avfallshantering-och-plastfororeningar-i-fokus-inspel-till-fns-globala-plastavtal - 2025-09-05

Övningar i medveten närvaro tycks löna sig. Bild: Jen Loong/Unsplash. En ny studie visar att några minuters dagliga meditationsövningar via en vanlig mindfulness-app får hjärnan att sudda ut inlärda, men irrelevanta, rädslor. Enligt forskarna bakom studien pekar resultaten på att mindfulness skulle kunna effektivisera behandlingar av ångest och posttraumatisk stress. I studien som publicerats i Na

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/mindfulness-suddar-ut-gamla-radslor - 2025-09-05

Som diagnos är diabetesformen MODY ovanlig, patienterna får ofta en annan vanligare diabetesdiagnos och andra är odiagnostiserade. Eftersom behandlingen skiljer sig åt vid de olika MODY-formerna är rätt diagnos viktig. Här en omarbetad och förkortad text som ST-läkaren Jonas Bengtsson vid labmedicin, klinisk kemi i Region Skåne och Leif Groop, överläkare och professor i endokrinologi vid Lunds uni

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetesformen-mody-hur-manga-missar-vi - 2025-09-05

Magnus Zingmark. Foto: privat Under våren får forskargruppen Aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande vid CASE fyra nya medarbetare. Biträdande forskare Magnus Zingmark, vid Umeå universitet, som också är anställd som forskare vid Östersunds kommun, är en av dem. – Jag ser fram mot att komma ner till Lund och träffa kollegor på plats, säger Magnus. Välkommen till CASE-gemenskapen! Hur känns det att ha blivit

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/nya-medarbetare-pa-case-valkommen-magnus-zingmark-bitradande-forskare - 2025-09-05

Jessica Giacomoni (right) defends her Ph.D. thesis 14 October 2022. On 14 October 2022, Jessica Giacomoni will defend her Ph.D. thesis. With the ultimate goal to develop a possible, future alternative to cell transplantation for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, her research efforts have focused on the direct conversion of human glial cells into therapeutic neurons directly within the

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/turning-glia-neurons-inside-brain-phd-interview-jessica-giacomoni - 2025-09-05

Kristina Fagher together with a Chinese colleague, "Ski-doctor", on the slopes. Meeting international colleagues is very rewarding and inspiring. Photo: Private photo. Our researcher is part of the Swedish Olympic Committee’s development programme “Tomorrow’s Sports Researchers” and her research on para-athletes’ health and wellbeing aims to ensure that people with physical disabilities can play s

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researcher-supporting-our-athletes-most-successful-paralympic-winter-games-long-time - 2025-09-05

Firas Jumaah and Charlotta Turner. Photo:Kennet Ruona During a unique rescue operation, Lund University sent armed security forces into an Islamic State (IS) warzone to rescue a doctoral student and his family. For several years, Firas Jumaah, his supervisor Charlotta Turner and former chief security officer, Per Gustafson, have kept quiet on the events; however, now they are telling their story.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rescue-operation - 2025-09-05

Megg Garcia-Ryde defends her thesis on the 10th of October 2023. Megg Garcia-Ryde’s thesis sheds light on the early pathological processes in Alzheimer’s disease and the interplay between neurons and microglia as the disease evolves. October 10, she defends her thesis. Now, she gives her perspectives from a close collaboration between the experimental neuroinflammation laboratory and the experimen

https://www.neuroinflammation.lu.se/article/neuroimmune-crosstalk-early-alzheimers-disease-phd-interview-megg-garcia-ryde - 2025-09-05

Edith Hammar, Johan Ekroos and Cecilia Akselsson deal with issues related to ecosystem services and biodiversity in a changing climate.Photo: Kennet Ruona In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In simple terms, ecosystem services can be described as the benefits hu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2025-09-05

The nanolab is a laboratory that can characterize and create nanostructures at the atomic scale. You can for example grow nanotubes for purposes like precision medicine, energy harvesting, or more efficient electronics. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg A lab where you can “craft” new materials on the atomic level, bringing together cross-disciplinary scientists to produce nanomaterials and semicondu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-it-big-nano-crafting - 2025-09-05

Photo: Ragnhild Haarstad, Stockholm City Museum Universal school lunch programs make students healthier, and increase their lifetime income by 3%, according to a unique study from Lund University in Sweden published in The Review of Economic Studies. Health disparities arise early in life and play a major role in economic outcomes among adults. Yet there are few studies on the long-term effects of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/free-and-nutritious-school-lunches-help-create-richer-and-healthier-adults - 2025-09-05

LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler recently visited Australia to give the prestigious Dean’s lecture at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She was also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in order to stimulate their work and open up a wider debate on urban adaptation and resilience. - Supporting sustainability and resilience is one of the three focus areas of the U

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-giving-deans-lecture-australia-and-creating-wider-debate-urban-adaptation-and - 2025-09-05

Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and her father Volodymyr Voitenko meet with Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is one of the driving spirits at the University who are doing everything they can to help Ukraine and the people who are fleeing. Since the war started, she has succeeded in helping her parents and a colleague escape the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/yuliya-fighting-ukraine - 2025-09-05

"Small-scale solar electricity in buildings - power for change in energy systems and everyday life" Prof. Jenny Palm at the IIIEE has reported the results from the project “Small-scale solar electricity in buildings – power for change in energy systems and everyday life” The research was done in collaboration with Uppsala University and Linköping University and it was funded by the Swedish Energy

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/results-finalized-research-project-solar-electricity-buildings - 2025-09-05

Åsa Petersén works hard at i to find treatment that slows down Huntington's disease. A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that s

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-09-05

Philip Warkander is Sweden's first ever PhD graduate in fashion studies. Photo: Kennet Ruona Workhorse Philip Warkander became Sweden’s first PhD graduate in Fashion Studies. He describes research in a new subject as continuously doubting – an approach he also applies to the academic community’s focus on hard work. Moving around as a researcher, he noticed one day that he had fallen into the class

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doubting-fashion-pioneer - 2025-09-05

Tove Harnett är lektor vid Socialhögskolan i Lund. Hon har tillsammans med forskarkolleger från Lund och Linköping producerat en film där de argumenterar för förändringar i LSS-lagen så att även personer över 65 års ålder ska kunna beviljas assistans. Hur är den här filmen kopplad till er forskning?I projektet ”Kan en handikappolitisk modell ge en bättre äldreomsorg?” undersökte jag, Annika Taghiz

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/aldrefaltet-kan-lara-sig-av-rattighetstankandet-i-handikappolitiken - 2025-09-05

Pressmeddelande 6 oktober 2020 Tarmarnas bakterieflora, mikrobiotan, är förändrad hos personer med typ 2-diabetes. Nu visar en befolkningsstudie med stöd av bland annat Hjärt-Lungfonden att detsamma gäller vid förstadier till diabetes. Upptäckten öppnar för en mer individanpassad behandling. – Vår studie visar att undersökningar av tarmmikrobiotan skulle kunna användas för att tidigt identifiera p

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/tarmbakterier-visar-vagen-mot-battre-behandling-av-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-09-05

Simon Hultmark defended his Ph.D. thesis on 06 October 2022. Earlier this month, Simon Hultmark defended his Ph.D. thesis. In pursuit of his long-standing fascination for stem cells, his research over the last several years has focused on blood stem cells and cancer. All in an effort to contribute to the development of improved clinical therapies for patients with a type of blood cancer known as a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/modeling-normal-and-malignant-hematopoiesis-vitro-phd-interview-simon-hultmark - 2025-09-05