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Earlier this month, Simon Hultmark defended his Ph.D. thesis. In pursuit of his long-standing fascination for stem cells, his research over the last several years has focused on blood stem cells and cancer. All in an effort to contribute to the development of improved clinical therapies for patients with a type of blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia. In this interview, he tells us about h
The students at the master programme in Service Management with the specialization in Supply Chain Management is currently taking the course Service Logistics where several interesting guest lecturers are invited. – Guest lecturers creates a possibility for collaboration between Campus and the outside world, says course examiner Klas Hjort. – The course started with a guest from the University of
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/guest-lecturers-gives-valuable-industry-insights-and-connection-business-life - 2026-07-01
The students at the masters' programme in Service Management with the specialization in Supply Chain Management is currently taking the course Service Logistics where several interesting guest lecturers are invited. – Guest lecturers creates a possibility for collaboration between Campus and the outside world, says course examiner Klas Hjort. – The course started with a guest from the University o
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/guest-lecturers-gives-valuable-industry-insights-and-connection-business-life-0 - 2026-07-01
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have co-authored the article ”Digital Norm Contestation and Feminist Foreign Policy, published in the journal International Studies Perspectives. Abstract: This article examines the role of digital norm contestation in feminist foreign policy (FFP). It analyzes how states that participate in digital diplomacy are involved in challenging and
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-digital-norm-contestation-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-07-01
In 2028, the first observations will be made at the world's largest optical telescope being built in Chile. It is now clear that the facility will be equipped with a powerful spectrograph that researchers in Lund will help to develop. The telescope is called the Extremely Large Telescope and is being built by the European Southern Observatory, ESO - an international organisation with 16 member cou
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-develop-new-spectrograph-giant-telescope - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ultrasound that detects rare cells in a drop of blood. Business models for a circular economy. Laser technology that can film at almost the speed of light, and another that can map insects from several kilometres away. Four promising researchers from Lund University have been awarded starting grants from the European
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-university-researchers-awarded-erc-starting-grants - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Thursday 20 May Morten is giving a CMES Research Seminar on the topic: What is so Sectarian about Sectarian Politics? Identity Politics and Authoritarianism in a New Middle East. 1. How has sectarian politics been debated before, during and after the Arab Revolts? The public debate on sectarianism easily leaves the
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-questions-morten-valbjorn - 2026-07-01
Through the years, most gender norms have been challenged or changed in modern society. Yet each Christmas, a strikingly similar image of Santa Claus appears in the media and in our homes. What is is about Santa Claus that makes him immune to the criticism that other male patriarchal figures have endured? ”A lot of Swedish parents these days are very gender aware and progressive. This hasn’t seeme
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-we-accept-santas-traditional-masculinity - 2026-07-01
An increasing number of people want to help bees and other pollinators by growing flowers that are rich in pollen and nectar. But which flowers are the most beneficial? If the point is to aid threatened bee species and biodiversity, then a variety of native plants is the way to go. If you are a farmer, with large areas of insect-pollinated crops, it might be easiest to aim for a few species of flo
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/flowers-benefit-both-bees-and-biodiversity - 2026-07-01
Johanna Sandahl started her position as the University’s new communications director on 28 September. She has been part of the organisation before but comes most recently from a position in the City of Malmö. Johanna Sandahl worked for many years as a communications director and communications officer at the Faculty of Medicine. She knows parts of the organisation well and many members of staff ar
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-communications-director-lund-university - 2026-07-02
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. All over the world, thousands of experts are sitting entering information about their home countries into a huge democracy database. Soon, three quarters of the world’s countries will have been entered. “In my megalomaniac moments, I usually compare the database to the CERN particle accelerator. It will be as importan
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gigantic-database-stores-information-about-democracy-worldwide - 2026-07-01
In 2017, the European Research Council (ERC) adopted a new approach to making research accessible to a broader audience – creating cartoons. Malin Parmar, a professor of cellular neuroscience at Lund University and recipient of an ERC grant, is one of the Swedish researchers whose research formed the basis for an ERCcOMICS cartoon. The last episode in a series of ten has now been published. A Cell
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/final-episode-erccomics-series-cells-life - 2026-07-01
Blood transfusions are vital, but demand for blood far exceeds supply all over the world. In India and China, for example, relatives are usually called upon to give blood in the case of an accident or an operation. An international conference in Lund, Sweden, the first of its kind, will now discuss various possible alternative treatment methods with the potential to complement or even replace bloo
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/shortage-blood-global-problem - 2026-07-01
Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering, LTH, is now launching profile areas for its collective excellence in research. The areas are interdisciplinary and will contribute to increased collaboration with business and industry as well as wider society. Seven themes form the profile areas: aerosols, circular construction industry, energy transition, nanoscience, photon science, AI and digitalizatio
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2022/lth-launches-profile-areas-stronger-responses-societal-challenges - 2026-07-01
The University’s Annual Academic Ceremony on 23 January 2026 saw Denmark’s former head of state, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, made an Honorary Fellow of Lund University. Honorary fellows at the University are extremely rare (former Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson is the only previous recipient of the title) and for a Danish Queen to be made an Honorary Fellow this time around seemed a hi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/annual-academic-ceremony-royally-celebrated - 2026-07-02
Bibiana Prinoth has been awarded the Oscar II Scholarship 2026 for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science. The scholarship recognises the most prominent thesis presented during the past two years within each field at Lund University. In her work, Bibiana Prinoth studies distant and extreme planetary atmospheres using advanced spectroscopy, opening up new possibilities for understanding how plan
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/thesis-exploring-extreme-exoplanet-atmospheres-awarded-oscar-ii-scholarship - 2026-07-01
Bibiana Prinoth has been awarded the Oscar II Scholarship 2026 for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science. The scholarship recognises the most prominent thesis presented during the past two years within each field at Lund University. In her work, Bibiana Prinoth studies distant and extreme planetary atmospheres using advanced spectroscopy, opening up new possibilities for understanding how plan
Kajsa Brolin explores how our genes and environment affect the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. March 27, she defends her Ph.D. project partly based on MultiPark’s biobank sample collection. Here, she tells about the newly discovered genetic risk factor that might be specific to people in the southern part of Sweden. And is coffee really protective? Tell us about your research! “My research
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genes-and-environment-pd-phd-interview-kajsa-brolin - 2026-07-01
The Centre for European Studies has awarded the 2021 Best Thesis Award to Agnes Baude for her Master of Law thesis on the European Arrest warrant and the rule of law. Agnes Baude’s thesis is called “Protecting the European Union Rule of Law through national court scrutiny? – A case-study of L and P from the CJEU and the importance of the Union’s fundamental values in the context of European extrad
https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/baude-receives-best-thesis-award-2021 - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows how fruit flies use their sense of smell and humidity to find food, avoid dehydration and discover the best place to lay their eggs – in overripe marula fruits. Faeces from herbivores are also suitable, but the flies reject carnivore excrement. Summer is high
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fruit-flies-fear-lion-faeces - 2026-07-01
