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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Using new technology it is possible to get a detailed colour image of all retinal layers without inserting any instrument into the eye. The technology will be used by eye researcher Elisabeth Wittström, who studies diseases of the macula. Her colleague, Linnéa Taylor, is researching the link between inflammation and d

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-technology-facilitates-studies-macula - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As a young man, when Mats Bohgard was working at a chemical factory during a leave from studies, he was urged to “Come back and fix the work environment to make it fit for human beings!”. Mats Bohgard. “Even though they said it half-jokingly, the truth is that they were experiencing every conceivable work environment

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/work-environment-champion - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “How are you, what seems to be the problem?” asks Ahmed, who is playing Doctor Ali. “Well, I have had a stomach ache for a few days”, says 26 year-old Sadeq who is playing the patient, 50 year-old Bengt. “Can you describe your symptoms?” asks Ahmed/Doctor Ali, and Sadeq/Bengt explains about pain, nausea and vomiting.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recent-arrivals-practise-their-swedish-medics-language-cafe - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Russia has its own right-wing populist movement: the Parental Movement. While the US equivalent is protesting stricter gun control, the Russians are raging against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Western lifestyle is considered a major threat to Russian traditions and normal family life”, says social an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/russian-parental-movement-counteracting-childrens-rights - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new interdisciplinary research environment for human rights will soon be launched in Lund. “Interdisciplinarity and innovative thinking are required if our work on human rights is to remain relevant to society”, writes Morten Kjaerum, director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Morten Kjaerum, director and adjunct p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chronicle-human-rights-are-become-interdisciplinary - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For two years, the LU350 Office has been working hard to coordinate all the University initiatives into a jubilee programme. The jubilee starts on Monday 19 December – exactly 350 years after the document to establish Lund University was signed. “After all the planning, we have finally reached the implementation phase

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/now-it-starts-lund-universitys-350th-anniversary - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tremendous amounts of money, an ambitious and carefully considered appointment process and major start-up packages for new employees – these are the three things that characterise WCMM, the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine in Lund. Professor Freddy Ståhlberg is the director of WCMM. WCMM in Lund has sister org

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medical-centre-recruiting-top-junior-researchers - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He advocated family planning and contraceptives already four decades before Elise Ottesen-Jensen. He was in a common-law marriage, was interested in social problems, and supported the women’s suffrage movement – and today his theories control the design of monetary policy in the West. Knut Wicksell, pioneering Profess

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/economist-whom-world-was-not-prepared - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of the two recent Lund University jubilee stamps depicts the young diabetes researchers Anna Edlund and Jones Ofori. They are pleased to be featured on the stamps – but it was a complete surprise to them both. “Obviously we knew that our picture had been taken. A couple of years ago, there was a photographer here

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unknowing-researchers-became-stamp - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a pu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is the world becoming a better place? This question will be asked by researchers when the first science week of the 350th anniversary celebration takes place in March. Debatt i Lund panellists will start off the week by approaching the question from different angles, followed by five days of discussions and lectures o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-becoming-better-place-checkpoint-sweden - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Research communication officer Evelina Lindén at the School of Economics and Management encouraged journalists to use their moral compass and be careful to give credit where it is due when interviewing researchers – in reference to a case in which SVT had assumed credit for a documentary. Here she points out what rese

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-deal-journalists - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Their own sense of well-being after a yoga session led them onto a new path in their research. Over 200 LU employees signed up as volunteers for their first study. Now they are finalising an interdisciplinary investigation of the psychological and physiological health effects of yoga. Rachel Maddux. Rachel Maddux, Una

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-employees-use-yoga-relieve-stress - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. USV is the umbrella term for the University’s specialised centres which are gradually moving into the faculties. But the process is not painless – the specialised centres are keen to safeguard their identities and their low overhead costs. The faculties and departments, on the other hand, do not want to take on financ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/usv-shrinking-centres-are-moving-faculties - 2026-05-01

Klimatförändringar gör att våren kommer tidigare. Men flyttfåglarna hänger inte med i svängarna och kommer för sent till födan när de ska häcka. Genom att få fåglarna att flyga lite längre norrut har forskare i Lund och i Nederländerna sett att fåglarna kan ge sina ungar en bättre start i livet. Den globala uppvärmningen ställer till det för våra fåglar. Varmare vårar betyder att fjärilslarver klä

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/flyttfaglar-tar-langre-flygturer-att-ge-sina-ungar-en-battre-start-i-livet - 2026-05-01

Genom att använda mikrodesignade jordmodeller har forskare vid Lunds universitet undersökt hur pyttesmå partiklar av polystyren påverkar bakterier och svampar. Trots att denna nanoplast minskade både bakterie- och svamptillväxten lyckades svampen faktiskt ”städa upp” i sin omgivning och mildra plastens påverkan. – Plastavfall är ett enormt problem idag. Oavsett om det slängs nonchalant i naturen,

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/dammsugareffekt-hos-svampar-kan-halla-nanoplastpartiklar-i-schack - 2026-05-01

Anders Mikkelsen, professor i synkrotronljusfysik och föreståndare för NanoLund, är projektledare för ett nytt centrum som fått medel från Vinnova. Under fem år ska en månghövdad hjärntrust från universitetet och industrin arbeta med hur man skapar hållbara sensorer som kan användas i svåra miljöer. Vinnova satsar på elva nya kompetenscentrum inom områden som är viktiga för en hållbar industri- oc

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fysikprofessor-ska-leda-nytt-excellenscentrum - 2026-05-01

Anne L'Huillier, professor i atomfysik vid fysiska institutionen, är en av årets Nobelpristagare i fysik! Läs mer om Anne L'Huillier: Nobelpriset i fysik 2023 | Lunds universitet (lu.se)

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/nobelpris-till-lund - 2026-05-01

Mats E. Eriksson, professor i paleontologi vid geologiska institutionen, har gjort sig känd för att namnge fossil efter hårdrocksstjärnor. Nu debuterar han med pikareskromanen Death: The Antidote To Misery där både skräckrockare, forskare och konstentusiaster får sitt lystmäte. Mats E. Eriksson är inte bara vanvettigt intresserad av urtidsdjur som dog ut för flera miljoner år sedan. Han hyser även

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/geologiprofessor-gor-skonlitterar-debut-om-death-metal-fossil-och-ond-brad-dod - 2026-05-01

Långflyttande fåglar som flyger flera dagar i sträck skiftar höjd under dygnet, ett beteende som hittills inte har gått att förklara. Men nu är forskare i Lund ett steg närmare gåtans lösning. Mycket tyder på att djuren stiger till extrema höjder dagtid för att kyla ner sig. Tidigare studier har visat att dubbelbeckasiner och trastsångare – två långflyttande fåglar som övervintrar söder om Sahara

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/omvand-ikaroseffekt-kan-ligga-bakom-flyttfaglarnas-extrema-flyghojder - 2026-05-01