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Clay is described as an ancient material with a great future. “The potential areas of application are huge,” says an enthusiastic Marie Skepö, professor of theoretical chemistry whom we recently welcomed as an affiliated faculty member of NanoLund. Clay is a material that has been used since ancient times for protecting, building, and carrying things. If we learn more about how to change various p

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-nanolundian-investigating-clay-materials-atomistic-level - 2025-11-05

Tobias Dan Nielsen, Karl Holmberg och Johannes Stripple har skrivit artikeln ”Need a bag? A review of public policies on plastic carrier bags – Where, how and to what effect?”. Artikeln har publicerats i tidskriften Waste Management. Om artikeln (på engelska)The plastic carrier bag epitomises many of the features that have transformed plastics into a material that defines our contemporary modern c

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/behover-du-en-plastpase - 2025-11-05

Hakim Abdi is amongst other things physical geographer, researcher, and keen bird watcher, currently featured in the new issue of the Swedish astonomy magazine Populär Astronomi. So what has physical geography to do with space? Hello Hakim... ...why is a Physical geographer featured in an astronomy magazine? This interview / profile comes after the Swedish Astronomical Society's festival called "A

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/we-live-golden-age-satellite-research - 2025-11-05

Lund researchers have every reason to be proud regarding competition for EU grants. LU is the best in Sweden in terms of total funding and in the top three with the Karolinska Institute (KI) and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) regarding the number of participations in different projects.  “We have the most ERC grants in Sweden, and within the humanities and social sciences there are special ef

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-top-eu-league-best-sweden-obtaining-grants - 2025-11-05

On 2nd of May, a Solidarity gathering for academic freedom took Place at Hangaren, with students and staff from our department, as well as from other faculties, showing up to express support and solidarity with the academicians in the world who are put under the threat of closure in countries such as Hungary, Russia, and Turkey. We, the faculty and students of the Department of Gender Studies at L

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/statement-solidarity - 2025-11-05

As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in the US, have investigated one such alternative. “We were able to show that a tailor-made protein which previously worked against various kinds of Gram-negative b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/specially-designed-protein-fights-several-species-bacteria - 2025-11-05

A large number of road construction projects are underway in and around Lund, affecting commuters’ ability to reach their workplaces. More disruptions are expected in spring 2026 when the Swedish Transport Administration begins work on the E22 between the Gastelyckan and Lund North interchanges. Roadworks present challenges but also opportunities to be inspired to find alternatives to driving. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/road-construction-around-lund-continues-tips-alternative-commuting-options - 2025-11-06

In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial fibrillation, many days of ECGs may be required for diagnosis – “long-term ECG recordings”. These recordings must then undergo a time-consuming and human resource-intensive review to identify heart rhythm abnormalities. In a large international study, researcher

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2025-11-05

Father and son collected soda cans, begged and froze in a tent. Now they both work in our restaurant kitchen. Marian Hristov is 26 and tries hard not to think about what it was like back then. When he collected soda cans, begged and lived in a tent."It wasn't good," he says in fine Swedish when we meet in the warmth of Stamstället in Forum Medicum, after the lunch session."I'm quite shy, it was ha

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/stamstallet-life-bright-side-now-father-and-son - 2025-11-05

Despite harsher sentences and increased resources for the criminal justice system, research shows nothing to indicate that this leads to reduced criminality. “We wanted to problematise the notion that punishment is the best option,” says Tova Bennet, researcher in Criminal Law at Lund University. Over the past 15 years, tougher sentencing has been a popular tool in Swedish law and order politics.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/research-offers-no-evidence-support-tougher-sentencing - 2025-11-06

Richard Shearmur is Professor at the School of Urban planning, McGill university in Montreal, Canada. Richard is an international leading scholar in a broad spectra of areas in economic geography including research on urban, regional and rural development and different dimensions on cities and firm level innovations. His interest also covers critical analysis on how measurement, data and knowledge

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/geographies-innovations-confusions-perplexities-and-ways-forward - 2025-11-05

Den 28 februari 2024 miste vi vår kära vän och kollega Pär-Henrik Björverud som oväntat gick bort under natten i hemmet. PH var universitetsadjunkt på Socialhögskolan sedan år 2011, med lång erfarenhet som jurist. Han lämnar både kolleger och studenter i stor sorg och saknad.Från och med måndagen den 4 mars och under några veckor framåt kommer det att finnas en möjlighet, för den som vill, att skr

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/par-henrik-bjorverud-har-lamnat-oss - 2025-11-05

Den 16 Maj arrangerar AI Lund [ai.lu.se] för tredje gången sedan 2019 heldagseventet AI* Nordic Powwow i AF-borgen. Den bärande idéen är att skapa en bred mötesplats för kompetenser, tankar och perspektiv i den samhällsomvälvande AI-frågan. Arrangemanget vänder sig till AI-intresserade inom alla branscher och samhällssektorer. Det blir ett gemensamt spår under förmiddagen följt av en eftermiddag d

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tredje-ai-nordic-powwow-i-lund-den-16-maj - 2025-11-06

The Faculty's pilot of transcription using the Whisper AI tool has worked very well, with many hundreds of hours of interview material transcribed so far. Until there is a university-wide solution, we are therefore continuing to offer the tool through the Department of Psychology. About the offerThe Department of Psychology has purchased a powerful computer to be used for transcribing audio and vi

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/whisper-transcription-tool-still-available-spring-term - 2025-11-05

Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics, and Edouard Berrocal, researcher in combustion physics, will each receive EUR 150 000 to further develop research results deemed by the European Research Council funding body to have great innovative potential. Traces viruses in the body in a new way For several years, physicist Christelle Prinz has been developing nanotechnology to diagnose and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grants-new-covid-test-and-spectrometer - 2025-11-05

Many of us have worked more remotely during the pandemic than we ever dreamed of doing. Informatics researcher Saonee Sarker has been studying IT-enabled collaboration and its impact on work-life balance for many years, but mainly with a focus on the IT sector. Today, she sees how that industry's digital settings has moved to encompass us all. The bookshelves in Saonee Sarker's office at the Schoo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hybrid-workplace-future - 2025-11-06

Ett av våra tvärvetenskapliga Teman, Antika synagogor och det mänskliga sensoriet, bestämde sig för att göra maj ännu mer händelserik. Inte oss emot! Speciellt eftersom de bjuder på simuleringar av det förflutna med hjälp av avancerade metoder, internationella experter och ... mat. De tre evenemangen är öppna för alla. De kommer att hållas på engelska – och du behöver registrera dig för dem. Sympo

https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/ett-tema-flera-evenemang - 2025-11-05

Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die young, at least in species where parents are not helped by others. However, in some species things are different and parents r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bird-parents-receive-help-live-longer - 2025-11-05

I höst har de första studenterna påbörjat sina studier på det nya sexåriga läkarprogrammet. Samtidigt tog Medicinska fakulteten tillfället att arrangera en konferens där den nya utbildningen betraktas ur ett internationellt perspektiv. På programmet stod frågeställningar om framtida kompetensbehov i Sverige och andra länder samt internationella kvalitetsstandarder.  Och kommer läkarstudenterna som

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nya-lakarutbildningen-i-ett-internationellt-perspektiv - 2025-11-05

Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2? In a study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, this was investigated by redesigning antibodies and combining them against the virus. The modified antibodies have been tested in human cells and with mice. Many antibodies used to treat covid infection during the pandemic have been so-called neutralizin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cocktail-modified-antibodies-provides-strong-effect-against-sars-cov-2 - 2025-11-06