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No 56, 5 March 2026 Welcome to the latest addition of the NAISS training newsletter. This time we have four new events: User developing and optimising applications on the Grace Hopper GPU nodes on Dardel or the future Arrhenius system may be interested to join us in the end of March. We have a course on using Python in an HPC environment and the Programming Formalisms course. Users of our se
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-9 - 2026-07-19
No 43, 21 June 2025 The NAISS training team hopes you had a good summer break and feel refreshed for the autumn term.In this newsletter we advertise a wide variety of NAISS training events, scheduled for the beginning of the autumn term.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS website:OverviewNAISS trainingOn-site workshop: "Awk Workshop", Uppsala, 28-29 August, 2025Online training semi
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter - 2026-07-19
Food preparedness has in a short time become a central issue in both research and public debate. The way we produce, distribute and consume food is shaped by global dependencies, climate change and an increasingly uncertain global situation. LTH’s Cecilia Tullberg is the director of FORCE, a knowledge centre that brings together researchers from multiple disciplines and actors across Sweden’s food
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/how-do-we-prepare-food-system-uncertain-future-force-builds-new-knowledge - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During a unique rescue operation, Lund University sent armed security forces into an Islamic State (IS) warzone to rescue a doctoral student and his family. For several years, Firas Jumaah, his supervisor Charlotta Turner and former chief security officer, Per Gustafson, have kept quiet on the events; however, now the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rescue-operation - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ceremonies have a certain power that speaks more to the emotions than to the intellect. This is the opinion of the newly inaugurated vice-chancellor Erik Renström, who sees the value in academic traditions. In his management team, however, new winds are blowing, bringing with them the values of “integrity” and “charac
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integrity-and-character - 2026-07-19
The capacity development programme Innovation, Transformation and Resilience for Sustainable Development is part of a larger project, which aims to strengthen the development and use of science, technology, and innovation (STI) indicators in Africa. The fourth iteration of the programme took place in 2025. Laurinda Macamo from MozambiqueLaurinda Macamo is an alumna of Lund University’s capacity de
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards: “Usually there is always some kin
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-07-19
Mohamed Eldeeb defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 9, 2023. With a passion for scientific discovery with clinical impact, Mohamed has dedicated the last four years to unraveling the mysteries as to why some children develop pediatric leukemia and others don’t. His research shed light on the mechanisms that prevent and suppress leukemia initiation, paving the way for more effective and targeted treat
Informal networking, panel discussion, and Q&A session. During the forum for LTH's employees last week, Dean Annika Olsson highlighted a selection of recent good news from LTH. The management also discussed some of the key issues for the coming years – including strategic recruitment and the fact that, despite major successes, LTH cannot rest on its laurels in the competition for large grants. Emp
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/best-obtaining-erc-grants-and-40-cent-new-students-are-women - 2026-07-19
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 - 2026-07-19
Anne Sofie Djernis Anne Sofie Djernis´ MFA exhibition entitled “There is no emotional connection to numbers on a gravestone without a story being told” consisted of paintings, either on canvas or on newspaper. The paintings had an expanded colorscape and suggested different meditative states. In the hand-out text Djernis mentioned how “In a meditative state, you observe” as a way she understood he
https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/mfa-student-interview-series-part-iv-ann-sofie-djernis-and-cornerlia-hermansson - 2026-07-19
SWEAH alumnus Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, receives Forte establishment grant and alumni Anna Marseglia and Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, receives Forte project grant. Assistant Professor Anna Marseglia at Karolinska Institutet receives Forte project grant - almost SEK 5 million - to a project about gender differences in social health, resilience and cognition across the life course (the interplay of
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/millions-sweah-alumni-projects - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Every chair is taken and the leaders of the workshop have had to turn participants away. Among doctoral students, there is clearly great interest in the topic – to finish your thesis on time and feel good along the way. “I think the workshop is great, it opens your mind and the techniques seem realistic to use in yo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-survive-your-thesis - 2026-07-19
We now welcome the visiting professors recruited to the Faculty of Science through last year's international call for applications. Their collective expertise and international experience will strengthen the academic environment and create conditions for continued development in research, education and collaboration. To provide an overall picture of their backgrounds and assignments, all participa
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/our-new-visiting-professors-and-their-expertise - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In his homeland, Syria, he was a museum director – but today there is not much left of the National Archaeological Museum in Raqqa after it was plundered by IS. “I try to do what I can to save the cultural heritage”, says Anas Al Khabour. He is the second researcher to have found their way to Lund via Scholars at Risk
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fighting-save-syrias-cultural-heritage - 2026-07-19
At the Faculty of Medicine in Malmö, research is carried out at the intersection of clinical practice, large data sets and technological development within imaging diagnostics and precision medicine. Using the research of Sophia Zackrisson as an example, this article highlights how the organisation creates conditions for clinically integrated research with clear relevance to healthcare, prevention
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/research-malmo-imaging-diagnostics-and-precision-medicine-clinical-practice - 2026-07-19
It was not an entirely uncontroversial decision to gather cancer researchers in the abandoned AstraZeneca premises ten years ago. Carl Borrebaeck was pro vice-chancellor at the time and pushed for the move which in itself cost SEK 50 million in central university funds. “I was not very popular with the deans at that time,” he says. “But now it turns out that Medicon Village is a great success and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medicon-village-ten-years-after-start - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sweden is trending right now, with cultural concepts such as “lagom” (just enough) and “fika” (coffee break) selling everything from books to fashion. The nation is often seen as a social democratic model country, where people are egalitarian, wealthy and happy. As Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the Swedish multinatio
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-ikeas-founder-exported-certain-image-sweden-frugality-fika - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 gra
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-top-eu-league-best-sweden-obtaining-grants - 2026-07-19
Research is like solving a puzzle, some might say. One of the biggest of these is the body’s proteins – with over 90,000 pieces to keep track of. LUM meets three professors of protein to understand what makes the subject so fascinating and how they are working to understand when proteins go wrong in the body. If a research field were to be evaluated based on the number of Nobel Prizes it has been
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-professors-puzzle - 2026-07-20
