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Annegret Engel and Anna Tzanaki appointed Associate Professors. The Appointments Committee has 9 March decided to appoint Annnegret Engel and Anna Tzanaki as Associate Professors in EU Law. Learn more about Annegret Engel and her research in the Lund University Research portal. Learn more about Anna Tzanaki and her research in the Lund University Research portal.
https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professors-eu-law - 2026-09-21
The European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific Council of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) has awarded Alezini Loxa the 2024 Thesis Prize for her doctoral thesis entitled “Sustainability and EU Migration Law: What Place for Migrant’s Rights?”.Since September 1994, the European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific Council of the European Public Law Organi
https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-receives-prize-thesis - 2026-09-21
Martin Sunnqvist is coordinator for a new Pufendorf Advanced Study Group (ASG) at the Pufendorf Institute with the title Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future. This Advanced Study Group centres around the two keywords “Oaths” and “Courts”, and particularly the interaction between them. The independence and impartiality of judges, and the ambition to find the truth through judicial proceeding
https://www.law.lu.se/article/martin-sunnqvist-coordinator-new-pufendorf-advanced-study-group-asg-0 - 2026-09-21
Jur. kand. Sara Pedersen is honoured for her essay is about involuntariness assessment in rape offences when the victim has a mental disability. Motivation: In her essay, the first prize winner has wanted to investigate what the legislative requirements regarding voluntariness in sexual offence legislation mean and how they are handled in legal practice, as well as highlight and problematise how t
https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-wins-first-prize-her-essay-swedish-crime-victims-authority - 2026-09-21
Ana Nordberg and Aurelija Lukoseviciene, in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University, in partnership with Future by Lund, have been awarded 1 million SEK from VINNOVA for the project Personalised Immersive Digital Concert Experiences: Legal Tools for the Innovation Portfolio (KonsertX). KonsertX is aimed at developing specific legal tools for the emerging portfol
https://www.law.lu.se/article/project-funded-vinnova - 2026-09-21
Jur. Kand. Caroline Lindau, former student from the law program at the Faculty of law in Lund, received a scholarship from the law firm “Familjens jurist” on September 12 for her thesis on family law. Thesis title: Automatisk vårdnadsöverflyttning vid dödligt våld inom familjen och dess förenlighet med artikel 8 i Europakonventionen.(Automatic transfer of custody in cases of fatal violence within
https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-wins-prize-her-degree-project-family-law - 2026-09-21
The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Professor Titti Mattsson as the new holder of the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundation Professorship in Memory of Samuel Pufendorf for the period 2025-2028. The professorship is appointed for four years by the Vice-Chancellor to a professor at Lund University in the subjects of economics, political philosophy and law in the spirit of Pufendorf. Titti Mattsson i
https://www.law.lu.se/article/titti-mattsson-named-pufendorf-endowed-chair - 2026-09-21
With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with research data.The new Research Data Office will better support researchers in managing their research data according to legal requirements and security standards. This is achieved through technic
https://www.law.lu.se/article/elin-thunell-and-jon-eriksen-are-faculty-laws-data-stewards - 2026-09-21
Astronomdagarna is a conference that gathers astronomers from across Sweden. It was held in Lund during October 2-4, 2024, with over 120 people attending. The national conference Astronomdagarna is held every other year, with different universities taking turns on hosting the conference. Back in 2022 the Astronomdagarna conference was held in Gothenburg. Last time the conference was here in Lun
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/astronomdagarna-2024 - 2026-09-21
A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, as researchers prepare to map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, 4MOST – the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope – collects spectra, that
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2026-09-21
Dr. Stephan Rosswog, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Hamburg Observatory, visited the Lund Observatory and gave a talk titled "Neutron star mergers as laboratories for extreme physics" This seminar was a joint Lund Observatory Seminar & Rydberg Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/neutron-star-mergers-laboratories-extreme-physics - 2026-09-21
In a recent paper, Nicholas Borsato, along with collaborators Jens Hoeijmakers, Bibiana Prinoth, Brian Thorsbro, and Rebecca Forsberg, provides insightful research on the complex atmospheric composition of the exoplanet KELT-9b. The team captured the exoplanet's spectra during transit, revealing numerous elements within its atmosphere.This study not only verifies the presence of previously known e
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/terbium-among-heavy-elements-discovered-atmosphere-exoplanet-kelt-9b - 2026-09-21
The European Space Agency Buissness Incubator Center (ESA BIC) hosted a meet-and-greet event at Ideon on April 25th. Local professionals got to know more about ESA BIC and about a few of the ongoing space projects in Lund. This was well received by the people attending the event, and rumor has it that ESA BIC will arrange more such events in the future.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/meet-and-greet-esa-bic - 2026-09-21
Astronomers invited members of the public to look at the spring skies through the teaching telescopes. There are a number of both historical and modern telescopes at Lund Observatory. Usually these are used for teaching purposes but every now and then the astronomers decide to stay at work late into the evening in order to give members of the public the chance for some stargazing. This spring thr
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/stargazing - 2026-09-21
There is so much more to space than just rocket science. So said Deborah Lygonis, CEO Friendbase AB and Investor Relations, Innovatum, at a national hybrid lunch meeting titled ”The Future of the Space Industry”, which was jointly organised by ESA BIC and Women In Space Sweden (WISS) on May the fourth. She went on to explain how the space industry loosly divides into ’Upstream’ (including rocket
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/future-space-industry - 2026-09-21
Several members of the Lund Observatory network gathered in Lundmarkssalen today to listen to Göran Östlins from Stockholm University give a seminar titled: "SELTIC, Swedish engagement in ELT instrumentation".SELTIC is a consortium developing instruments, such as MOSAIC and ANDES, for ESOs ELT - which is currently under construction and scheduled for first light in 2028.This was the first seminar
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/swedish-engagement-elt-instrumentation-development - 2026-09-21
The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory. Attending this year's Space Research School were twenty intelligent, motivated and space-interested high school students from across Sweden. During their 10 days in Lund the group of high school students attended several lectures given by university
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/rfs-2023 - 2026-09-21
Prof. Joe Liske from Hamburg University, Germany, visited the Lund Observatory network on September 28th 2023 and gave a talk titled "Cosmological Conundrums". This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/cosmological-conundrums - 2026-09-21
Prof. Stephen Mojzsis from the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK) in Budapest, Hungary, visited the Lund Observatory Network and gave a talk titled "Galactic chemical evolution expressed in rocky exoplanet geodynamics" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/galactic-chemical-evolution-expressed-rocky-exoplanet-geodynamics - 2026-09-21
Dr. Chiara Paleari from the Department of Geology gave a Lund Observatory Seminar titled "The search for extreme solar particle storms in polar ice cores" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.
https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/search-extreme-solar-particle-storms-polar-ice-cores - 2026-09-21
