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Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2026-11-02
Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpretentious,” he says. When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announ
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2026-11-02
Meret-Neith was perhaps the first female ruler of ancient Egypt and one of the most powerful women in the world during her lifetime some 5,000 years ago. Researcher Amber Hood is part of an international research team investigating the royal tomb in the desert outside Abydos. When LUM spoke to Amber Hood, a researcher at the Department of Geology, she was making final preparations for this year’s
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/exploring-tomb-wine-loving-queen - 2026-11-02
Archaeologist Greer Jarrett’s research focuses on reconstructing Viking sailing routes and cartography. To do so, he learnt to sail boats similar to those sailed by the Vikings and set off out to sea. He likens the sailors of that time to today’s extreme athletes. “I started a fairly theoretical doctoral thesis on reconstructing Viking sailing routes, but I wanted practical experience from a sailo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chase-vikings - 2026-11-02
A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity. The Taj
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-university-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2026-11-02
Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take shape and much of the work from the project “Building the e-Infrastructure Unit” has been transformed into a permanent and long-term plan for how we will work with research data management in the future. Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-data-office-takes-shape - 2026-11-02
Set a goal for your training for one to four months and pay in SEK 1,000. You get your money back if you achieve your goal. Crazy? Perhaps, but in a study by Professor of Economics Erik Wengström and his colleagues, the incentive proved to be quite effective compared with the control groups. “I’ve had a long-standing interest in how people behave in strategic situations and if you look at it from
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/achieve-your-training-goals-and-get-money-back-it-works - 2026-11-02
The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for the Polar regions still have significant uncertainties. This is hampering efforts to curb climate change and deal with the effects we already see at play not only within the Polar regions, but also in Europe and the rest of the world. Po
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/exploring-future-climates-polar-regions - 2026-11-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Vegetarian to become the standard, meat a special dietary request. That is the result of the Department of Biology and the Department of Psychology striking a blow for reduced meat consumption. The aim is to reduce the University's climate impact. Vegetarian food shall be the first option for catering and other activi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/departments-choose-sustainable-food-meat-become-special-dietary-reques - 2026-11-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Åsa Burman is a former doctoral student at LU who has developed a method for efficiency and stress management. In January she held a workshop for doctoral students and has also written a book entitled "Finish on time - the Doctoral Student Handbook". Here are her best tips. Work in units Divide your day into units and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-important-tips-way-thesis - 2026-11-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The presence of the glorious tulips, which have captivated so many of the visitors to the garden and spread to the Instagram accounts of the residents of Lund, is in no way guaranteed. Neither are the coming summer flowers currently being planted in the flower beds, which last year were left bare and brown. “We depend
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/botanical-garden-temporarily-flourishing - 2026-11-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Leadership is merely one among an arsenal of tools at the disposal of managers and employees to create a well-functioning group or organisation, according to organisational researchers Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson and Martin Blom at the School of Economics and Management. Are you someone who prefers to work in th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-leadership-overestimated-rely-more-employees - 2026-11-01
The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowledge exchange is Oksana Chernysh, dean of the Faculty of Pedagogical Technologies and L
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2026-11-02
It is Thursday morning and time for the miniature brains to have lunch. The temperature in the cell incubator is a comfortable 37 degrees, perfect for a tiny brain. Anna Falk prepares the nutrient solution that the cells need to grow. These are cells that have made the remarkable transformation from skin cells to stem cells and then to brain neurons. The small model of the brain is called an organ
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/feeding-time-miniature-brains - 2026-11-02
Lund University has been sliding down the lists of the three main university ranking organisations for several years. Today, we make only one of the top 100 lists, and even then with a mere five places above the 100 cut-off. Daniel J. Guhr is an expert on the importance of these rankings and knows what the consequences can be if the downward trend continues. “Losing a top 100 position in all three
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consultants-warning-major-consequences-falling-outside-top-100 - 2026-11-02
Anna Stubbendorff, a recent PhD graduate from the Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded Lund University’s Agenda 2030 Award 2026. She is being recognised for research showing that when we put climate-friendly food on our plates, it benefits both the environment and our personal health. In her doctoral thesis, Anna Stubbendorff has studied the effects of the EAT-Lancet diet, a dietary pattern desig
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anna-stubbendorff-receives-agenda-2030-award-her-research-sustainable-diets - 2026-11-02
In March 2026, the University will switch telephone operator to Telia. A new portal for support and cases will open soon. Information for anyone with an older phone. Telephony: New mobile phone subscriptions after 11 March 2026 Lund University is implementing a change of supplier for telephony services. The transition to the new supplier, Telia, will take place on 10 and 11 March 2026. Initially,
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-news-new-mobile-phone-subscriptions-new-support-centre-and-update-2g3g-coverage - 2026-11-02
In February 2026, the University’s new unified education website, ESU, will be launched. The goal is to make it easier for students to find the right course or programme. The work encompasses new design, new underlying technology, reworked content and new working methods for information about education. The project, which has been in progress for several years, has involved many people from all pa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-education-website-will-help-right-students-find-right-course-or-programme - 2026-11-02
