By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallén-Widung) - published 26 October 2023 A few hours after the announcement: Anne L'Huillier surrounded by media, colleagues and students. Photo: Andreas Hillergren/TT The excitement has been palpable in recent weeks following the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, a researcher at Lund. This is the firs

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-received-lunds-first-nobel-prize - 2025-08-10

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 5 May 2023 An external view of the spherical teaching space ‘Teknodrom’. Photo: Kennet Ruona Back then, the red brick buildings rose like a lonely wall against the open fields of eastern Lund. Now, the buildings are a hub in the middle of the knowledge highway that links the centre of the city with the research

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-time-move-newly-renovated-m-building - 2025-08-10

By tiina [dot] meri [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 9 May 2023 View of Kyiv – a few years before the capital, Odessa, Kharkiv and Mariupol woke up to dawn attacks. Photo: Tetiana Shevereva/Unsplash Early in the morning there was the sound of explosions and the sky lit up. Since 24 February 2022, Lund University has stood in solidarity with Ukraine’s universities. Are there less

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Published 7 June 2023 Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Apply for your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleague

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Published 9 October 2024 Photo: Petra Francke Today, Times Higher Education (THE) published their latest ranking and Lund University has been ranked 95. This is an improvement of 11 places compared to last year. This means that Lund University has made strong progress in all three major rankings this year. “It’s easy to criticise rankings, but they aim to make sense of the complexity of what a uni

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Published 12 October 2023 Johan Holmberg, Olivia Ritsvall, Karl Swärd, Marycarmen Arévalo-Martinez and Sebastian Albinsson. (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) A research group at Lund University has studied how a molecular sensor located in the blood vessel wall, controls how the vessel compensates for high blood pressure. As we age, the sensor deteriorates, which can worsen vascular damage caused by high bl

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Published 31 October 2022 I and many others are ambivalent when it comes to the ranking of the world’s universities. But Lund University has made the ranking lists and that does have an impact, at the very least for international marketing purposes. We must be active, rather than passive, in relation to the ranking bodies. Small margins can make a university climb or tumble down the lists, so ther

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Published 6 February 2015 The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the appointment, which he sees as a great honour. Vice-chancel

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Published 15 June 2015 The artist performs, the audience listens and applaud to show their appreciation. These are the given roles during a concert. But what happens if we dissolve these roles and the audience acts in a way that is completely unexpected. Does this change the song? The sound? The communication? This is what an interdisciplinary group at the Pufendorf Institute has studied during th

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Published 11 September 2015 “My first project was about giving poor families in Thailand the opportunity to send their children to school. A student and I helped set up chicken farms at the schools, which the children took care of. The money they earned by selling the eggs on the markets covered their school fees”. Leif Bjellin. Photo: Gunnar Menander So says Leif Bjellin, now retired from Lund Un

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By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 4 June 2019 Margareta Sandahl and Charlotta Turner. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Different values, cultures and language. Leading an international research group comes with additional challenges. Margareta Sandahl and Charlotta Turner are deliberately developing the emotional expertise in their group. "It pays off in t

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By Noomi [dot] Egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 April 2019 More knowledge of how the climate affects agriculture and vice versa can provide important input into political decisions and legal frameworks, say the researchers in Lund. Photo: Shutterstock Currently, it can take weeks and even months to produce results on how the future climate could affect agriculture. Now,

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By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 26 June 2025 Charlotte Ling, who together with Katarina Fagher and Alice Maguolo, has been awarded a grant of five million Danish kroner by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo: Kennet Ruona Congratulations to Charlotte Ling who, together with Katarina Fagher and Alice Maguolo, has been awarded a grant of five million Danish

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By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra) - published 11 January 2022 The study participants were served portions of white wheat bread during the two meals. After the meal intervention, blood sugar and insulin levels differed between different groups of participants. Photo: Petra Olsson A lot of research explains which diets may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Much re

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