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Researchers at Lund University and Lund Stem Cell Center in Sweden have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders. The researchers have focused on the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease and the results have now been published in the journal Brain. Basic medical research often faces the challenge of developing disease models that correspond to specific disease mec
It took Swedish prosecutors six years to prepare the criminal case against former executives of Telia Company for paying several hundred million USD in bribes in Uzbekistan. The Sociology of Law Department's researcher Isabel Schoultz attended the trial to study the defence strategies of the accused. In September 2018, three former top executives of the Swedish telecommunications company Telia Com
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-corporate-executives-beat-corruption-charges-performing-unbeloning-court - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Focusing on low-carbon economy. Jonas Sonnenschein is a PhD candidate at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. He has a background in Philosophy & Economics (BA) from Germany – where he originally comes from – and he holds a Master in Environmental Management an
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-phd-candidate-jonas-sonnenschein - 2026-07-01
Documentation must be sent to the faculty no later than 15 September 2024. The application must be submitted to the Foundation no later than 8 October 2024. Objectives of the callThe main objectives for the call are:to provide prominent early-career researchers in law with substantial funding that will allow them to advance in their academic career,to support new research findings of high academic
https://www.law.lu.se/article/ragnar-soderberg-foundation-announces-funding-postdoctoral-projects - 2026-07-01
The Faculty has recently established a research council as an advisory body to the Faculty Board and management. ”We hope to strengthen the quality and impact of our research", says Chair Jonas Larsson, Vice-Dean. A central part of a research council's work is external monitoring and analysis of the quality development of the Faculty's research. As an advisory body to the Faculty Board of Medicine
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/our-facultys-new-research-council-quality-development-and-impact-agenda - 2026-07-01
Lund University continues to rise in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and is rated number 72 in the world. That is three places higher than last year and means that Lund University is the top-ranked higher education institution in Sweden. QS has published annual university rankings since 2004. In the latest QS rankings (2026), 8,467 higher education institutions were evaluated, of which 1,501
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-best-sweden-qs-rankings - 2026-07-02
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Michael Edgerton in exciting and new collaboration with ESS. Why do you collaborate with ESS and when did the collaboration start? -The collaboration began a little more than a year ago. For years I have collaborated with scientists on both artistic and research projects, and just generally been inspired by
https://www.arts.lu.se/article/new-and-exciting-collaboration-between-ess-and-academy-music - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 14 and 15 April, the School of Social Work, in collaboration with SASNET, hosted a workshop on nationalisms in South Asia. The convenors were Frank Korom from Boston University, Jan Magnusson from the School of Social Work and the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson. The core idea of the workshop was formed in op
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/comparing-nationalist-actors-south-asia - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Congratulations to Cheng Luan, research engineer from China and postdoc in the research group Diabetes - Islet Patophysiology who is given the Chinese government award for outstanding self finance students abroad. – I would never forget how excited I was when I got the phone call from the Embassy of China in Sweden no
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/award-outstanding-chinese-student-abroad - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Santa’s home would logically be located in the small town of Jokkmokk in northern Sweden, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, who have used satellite images of the Earth to calculate the mean centre of the global population. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe results contradict the idea that Santa’s hometown is i
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/santa-claus-should-live-northern-sweden - 2026-07-01
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in producing two molecules that are otherwise only formed by microorganisms from extremely contaminated wastewater in an abandoned mine in South Korea. The method, which took four years to develop, could pave the way for new types of drugs. The study is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Glionitrin A and B are two molec
https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-synthetic-code-rare-molecules-sought-after-drug-development - 2026-07-01
The LTH Faculty Board has decided to support building a new nanolab and the establishment of more activities in Science Village. The board of the Faculty of Science has, given current conditions, decided not to proceed with their establishment in Science Village. The University Board and University Management continue to see the University’s establishment there as an important goal. “For Lund Univ
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/science-village-and-new-nanolab-remain-important-lund-university - 2026-07-01
On 24-25 November, the BECC Annual Meeting 2014 was held in Halmstad. The meeting focused on the future possibilities of research within BECC and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we have collected the presentations from the meeting here. The fifth annual meeting for BECC was hel
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-presentations-becc-annual-meeting-2014 - 2026-07-01
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 - 2026-07-01
The UNFCCC climate meeting COP27 is currently taking place in Egypt. With evidence growing that green house gas emissions are making extreme events occur more frequently, and with greater intensity, loss and damage has emerged as one of the most important topics at the meeting. Developing countries and civil society are mobilizing for compensation, and are demanding that polluters pay. Lund Univer
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cop27-climate-compensation-poorer-countries-must-top-agenda - 2026-07-01
When the next semester starts, the students and teachers in Business Administration here at the School will have the privilege of collaborating with our very first Director of AI Integration, Burak Tunca. Burak Tunca is senior lecturer in Digital marketing and deeply interested in the AI developments in his field. As of the autumn semester 2024, he is also responsible for the integration of artifi
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/meet-first-director-ai-integration-education-business-administration - 2026-07-01
The BECC board has decided to strengthen the ongoing interdisciplinary development of BECC research by announcing a call for funding salary of up to 6 two-year postdoctoral researcher positions. The aim is to promote the development of BECC research by creating and strengthening interdisciplinary interactions. Application deadline is January 27st 2017, 12.00. This is an abbridged summary in Englis
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/announcement-call-salary-funds-6-becc-postdoctoral-positions-lund - 2026-07-01
Where do you learn the most English in the shortest amount of time, in Sweden or Vietnam? Swedish children are better at communicating, while Vietnamese children are better at constructing correct sentences and at understanding language rules. This was the result of a study of children 11–12 years old by doctoral student Vi Thanh Son at Lund University in Sweden. “Swedish children are more free in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-do-children-best-learn-second-language - 2026-07-01
