Success with grant applications leads to problems of an unexpected although pleasant kind. If your research team is almost doubled in size, where are all your colleagues supposed to work? And how are they to get access to laboratory equipment which is already fully booked? Johan Jakobsson in an unusually empty lab (the rest of his group were at a conference). After major success with grants, his p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/practical-problems-following-grant-success - 2025-08-25

Enzymes developed in Lund could be used in university and industry labs worldwide in the future. This is what Professor Eva Nordberg Karlsson hopes; her research group has signed a contract with an Icelandic biotech company that is going to sell their products. Eva Nordberg Karlsson wants to give other researchers reliable access to enzymes. Photo: Ingela Björck The contract is the result of an EU

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/enzymes-lund-set-take-over-world - 2025-08-25

The bad news about malignant melanoma is that the disease is increasing more rapidly than most other types of cancer. The good news is that it is easy to cure, as long as it is detected in time. A research group in Lund has therefore started a project that it is hoped will make it easier to correctly diagnose suspicious moles. Kari Nielsen (at the left). Photo: Roger Lundholm The purpose of the pr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tape-could-simplify-skin-cancer-diagnosis - 2025-08-25

Being director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics is about choosing what to do, and what not to do. At the start, Lena Neij travelled a lot, but now she sees representing the institute abroad as a responsibility shared by all the staff. She still supervises doctoral students, but doesn’t have the time she would like for her own research, nor for students and teac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/there-are-lot-duties-role - 2025-08-25

Charlotte Ling and Lena Eliasson from Lund University Diabetes Centre are part of the organising committee for the conference. Photo: Petra Olsson International researchers who study islets of Langerhans met for a conference in Malmö in June. Studies of insulin-producing cells help us understand disease mechanisms in diabetes. Lund University Diabetes Centre and the strategic research area EXODIAB

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-islet-cell-researchers-met-conference-malmo - 2025-08-25

The CT-scanned feather details (left) need to be converted to a complete 3D model of the feather (right) in order to develop numerical tools to realise a geometric model of the feather. This model in turn will be the basis for the development of a highly Birds are masters of flight and can even outperform aircraft. Bar-tailed godwits, for example, can fly from Alaska to New Zealand – 11 600 km – i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/making-aircraft-wing-feather - 2025-08-25

Image credit: Greasy Faced Dial by Shane Gorski, via Flickr (licenced under a CC BY-ND 2.0 licence) Cycling becomes a lot harder if you don’t oil the bicycle chain! Similarly, you can’t cut metal, turn metal on a lathe or press sheet metal without lubricant. Previously in engineering works there was a flow of lubricant that is hazardous for health and the environment, but now the technology exists

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-efficient-lubricants-using-sawdust - 2025-08-25

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Daniel Göransson, one of the digital heroes, ensures the technology functions between the external assessors, Pro vice-chancellor Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen (far bottom left of the screen) and Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz (top right) Photo: M Lindh So say Mats Benner and Freddy Ståhlberg after having reviewed both self-evaluations and assessor reports. The RQ20 Research Quality Evaluation P

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rq20-research-still-evaluated-despite-pandemic-obstacles - 2025-08-25

Thomas Sewerin has studied how a world-leading research environment handles conflict.  Photo: Adam Severin He has advised management groups across the University for three decades. Now, the psychologist and leadership consultant Thomas Sewerin has defended his PhD – on leadership in academia. Among other things, he has looked at how disagreements can pave the way for both failure and success.  In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/many-constructive-disagreements-successful-research-group - 2025-08-25

Hervé Corvellec believes that, in the future, higher education institutions that achieve ‘excellence in minimal carbon dioxide’ will be the most attractive. Photo: Kennet Ruona Currently, a worthy and fast-moving academic career requires extensive travel with high carbon dioxide emissions. Because of this, sustainability researcher Hervé Corvellec says Lund University should review its qualificati

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-cannot-assume-doctoral-student-or-researcher-better-because-they-have-attended-more-international - 2025-08-25

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-attracts-people-endurance-running - 2025-08-25

Every year since 1999, the Master’s students in Industrial Design at Lund University have done what most design students around the world can only dream of – go to NASA in Houston, Texas, USA and study at the Johnson Space Center. There they design products for an extreme environment – namely, space. “The missions to Mars that the students from Lund have been studying will happen somewhere between

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-students-collaborate-nasa - 2025-08-25

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https://www.becc.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-08-25

Last year, we had several opportunities to engage with Amanda Sjögren’s work during her time as a PhD student at the Unit for Clinical Epidemiology in Orthopedics at Lund University. For those who need a reminder of what Amanda does, the previous parts can be read here, or by scrolling to the bottom of the page. In short, Amanda focuses on knee osteoarthritis at the molecular level during her PhD.

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/two-years-exciting-oa-research-phd-student-amanda-sjogren - 2025-08-25

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronom-tar-farval-av-rymdteleskop-som-under-lang-tid-kartlagt-vintergatan - 2025-08-25

Operator remotely controls a real boat, and is in a virtual world above a virtual boat. The virtual world gets a 360°-image from the real boat. In the image, the operator takes a bearing against a landmark, thereby improving the accuracy of the positi Just like self-driving cars, we can expect autonomous ships to become more common in the coming years. However, two safety challenges which need to

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/improving-conditions-autonomous-ships - 2025-08-25