Published 13 January 2017 Professor Lena Neij, Director of the IIIEE Photo: Kennet Ruona Climate change, a growing population and increased urbanisation place great demands on our cities. Meeting these challenges requires collaboration to develop smart cities. But what does a smart city really mean and how do we create one?A smart city is a sustainable city. A city in which people want to live, wh

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By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 25 May 2020 Photo by Ira Mint on Unsplash. Properly managed, the agricultural sector in Europe can contribute to many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by improving food security, reducing poverty and enhancing biodiversity. But new research shows that indicators to measure key SDGs such as health and

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By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 October 2020 3D illustration of different pollen Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers Es

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Published 13 August 2020 Nils Wierup and Peter Spégel (Photo: Sara Liedholm) In many studies, bariatric surgery has been highlighted as an almost magical method for weight loss and reversing type 2 diabetes. One question that has remained largely unanswered is how the effect of surgery differs from the effects of a strict low-calorie diet. This question has now been examined by researchers at Lund

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Published 4 December 2019 Photo: Mikael Risedal An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate climate science to consequences,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/energy-advances-open-door-more-aggressive-climate-policies - 2025-06-11

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 3 December 2020 Johan Jakobsson and Johan Flygare. Photo credit: Kennet Ruona The leadership team set to guide Lund Stem Cell Center for the next three years was announced in early September 2020. In this interview with newly appointed coordinator Johan Jakobsson and deputy coordinator Johan Flygare, we hear about th

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By peter [dot] kjallkvist [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Peter Kjällkvist) - published 14 September 2023 Ester Barinaga studies local currency initiatives. Photo: Juan Ocampo Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of mon

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-06-12

Published 17 January 2025 A few minutes in the same room as an infected person is enough to catch the virus yourself. Here, aerosol researcher Malin Alsved collects virus aerosols from an infected person in a mobile laboratory during the pandemic. Photo: Jakob Löndahl The virus winter season has struck – and COVID-19 is still part of everyday life. However, unlike during the pandemic, we now know

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By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 25 January 2023 Despite not being part of the winning team in the EU’s enormous culture and innovation push, Lund University regards itself as a clear winner. The preparatory work on the application acted like a beacon and all the faculties joined in to work together and find interdisciplinary innovation and collabor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rallied-competition-lu-continue-investment-creatives - 2025-06-12

By marie [dot] pihl [at] nek [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Pihl) - published 29 November 2024 LUSEM Case Competition 2024 LUSEM's long-standing heritage of case competitions has now been revived after some years' intermission and it is a welcomed event both by students and collaborating partners. On 21 November, nine teams gathered to showcase their skills in an intense day of preparation and case solv

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By gisela [dot] lindberg [at] kansliht [dot] lu [dot] se (Gisela Lindberg) - published 7 October 2021 Stephan Reber with two of the alligators he works with. Photo: Kennet Ruona “Toke is shy but does the most exploring of all of them, while Siggi is relaxed and friendly. But you have to know them to be able to work with them”, says cognitive scientist Stephan Reber. He is not talking about his col

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/alligators-are-key-world-dinosaurs - 2025-06-11

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 16 February 2021 LU has fine laboratories with advanced equipment. But one RQ20 panel wonders how these are to be used and by whom? PHOTO: Kennet Ruona Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the proj

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-06-11

By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallén-Widung) - published 2 April 2024 Annika Olsson, dean of LTH, Magnus Genrup, head of the Department of Energy Sciences, and Karolina Isaksson, Head of Finance at LTH. Photo: Kennet Ruona, Johan Persson and private Lund University’s researchers are good at applying for and obtaining external research grants. But many fun

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By lena [dot] bjork_blixt [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Lena Björk Blixt) - published 13 December 2024 Space contains staggeringly more than we can see or measure. The universe is estimated to consist of 5 per cent visible matter, 27 per cent dark matter and 68 per cent dark energy. Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything t

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By jan [dot] olsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 13 February 2025 Heleneholm as a campus area for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts has gained momentum. Photo: David Castor/wikimedia commons With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2025-06-12

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 16 September 2024 Illustration: Axel Brechensbauer One of the biggest perks of teaching at university? Supervising students and seeing them grow into their role. That is at least according to senior lecturers Olof Hallonsten and Anna Jonsson. Detectives with magnifying glasses and catching and preparing a fish. Those a

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By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 8 July 2024 The common reed is considered a weed, but in the farmed landscape it can benefit biodiversity as its seeds become food for insects and its pollen is a mummy for some pollinators. Here it grows beautifully in a spring barley field. One of the world's greatest challenges is to feed the world's population in a sustain

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/organic-farms-potential-higher-yields - 2025-06-11

Published 20 March 2017 At a pub in Yokohama, history of religions scholar Andreas Johansson by chance came in contact with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. For two weeks, he was hanging out with the mafia, and will soon publish a book on the tattoos of the Yakuza and what they symbolise. It requires over 200 hours of painful pricks by hand, with a metal pin attached to a bamboo stick, to achieve t

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Published 28 March 2014 This autumn she was awarded SEK 22 million in ERC grants for her Alzheimer’s research. In addition, she is a member of the Nobel Prize committee for chemistry, she has written children’s books, won the veterans’ European Championship in orienteering and is director of Humlegården, a day centre for people with autism. Meet Professor of Chemistry Sara Snogerup Linse. Sara Sno

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