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On Tuesday, June 21st, we had our first book-club! Twenty-five eager and a little bit angry (this book evokes emotion) women gathered at Geocentrum II to discuss Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (read more below). It was a very nice and inspirational afternoon lead by our hosts and organisers Rebecca and Amber. Did I mention there was also lunch and fika!! For our next book club we will b
https://www.wings.lu.se/article/wings-first-book-club - 2026-07-21
Name: Anahita Baninajjar Date for disputation: 11 juni 2026 Title of thesis: Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning in High-Stakes Decision Making My PhD focuses on understanding and improving the trustworthiness of machine learning models in high-stakes applications like healthcare. Modern AI systems can achieve impressive accuracy, but they can still fail in unexpected ways, leak sensitive informa
https://www.eit.lth.se/en/article/anahita-baninajjar-understanding-and-improving-reliable-ai - 2026-07-21
As the Young Academy of Sweden announces its new members, one of them is a colleague from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo): Lina Eklund. That's fantastic news! What will that mean for you, Lina?"It's going to be educational and fun!"What do you hope to gain from the Academy?"Being elected to the Young Academy of Sweden is, of course, a unique opportunity to play a part in
https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/lina-eklund-appointed-new-member-young-academy-sweden - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund is a very proud sponsor of INASCON 2020. The annual international nanoscience student conference opened yesterday with 1100 registered students from 70 countries around the world. This year the conference is organized by a team of 35 Lund University undergraduate students. Due to the circumstances around CO
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-2020-more-1000-registered-participants-all-over-world - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Plants in tropical dry areas have developed an unusual strategy for survival. Instead of using their water supply during the dry season, they hold on to the last drops until the very end in order to quickly get started on photosynthesis as soon as the rainy season has begun. Using satellite technology, researchers hav
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clever-strategy-sets-photosynthesis-flying-start - 2026-07-21
The different pathways for future energy systems may technologically look very much the same, but they differ fundamentally when it comes to ownership, distribution of profits and what local values are created. How this is played out in practice is discussed in this new article by Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari and Jenny Palm. New decentralized energy-generation technologies have turned economies of scale
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/distributed-energy-systems-and-energy-communities-under-negotiation - 2026-07-21
The IIIEE alumna Iryna Stavchuk, student in our Master in Environmental Management and Policy, 2004-2005, is nominated as one of the BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2023! There is a lot going on about our alumna Iryna Stavchuk. The war pushed her out of her deputy-minster of the environment post in Kiev and out of her country, picking new roles in relation to Ukraine and climate issue
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-bbc-100-list-most-inspiring-and-influential-women-2023 - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. - The idea is to use the great public interest that the Climate Summit in Paris in December 2015 will stir up to educate the masses on climate change, says Angela Oels to Riksbankens website rj.se and continues:- A MOOC (massive open online course) is basically a lecture series of different speakers that is broadcaste
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/angela-oels-visiting-researcher-starts-mooc-climate-justice - 2026-07-21
Under pandemin föll många genom skyddsnätet. För personer med långtidscovid blev det smärtsamt tydligt: de fanns – men erkändes inte. Nu visar en ny studie från Lunds universitet hur vanliga medborgare, mitt i sin sjukdom, organiserade sig digitalt och utmanade myndigheternas bild av vad covid egentligen är. När kroppen inte orkar men samhället blundar – så tog de saken i egna händer Den svenska c
Ett halvår efter det avslutade diplomprogrammet New Welfare Services – Sustainable Service Design as a driver for regional development delar några av deltagarna med sig av hur det påverkat deras arbete. Kursdeltagarna beskriver i filmen hur programmet dels ändrat deras synsätt och hur de tar sig an olika frågor i sitt arbete, men också hur det bidragit till organisationsförändringar och förändring
https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/effekter-och-resultat-efter-diplomprogrammet-i-uganda - 2026-07-21
Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The first time she came to Lund, Rafah Barhoum only stayed for a couple of months. It was 2011 and she was an Erasmus Mundus scholar and taught Arabic. She returned home to Syria, but the war soon drove her back. Now Rafah Barhoum has come to Lund to stay. Rafah Barhoum is happy in Lund, where she teaches Arabic, but
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-hold-syria-my-heart - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PhD student Nicola Guzzi will be defending his thesis titled “Post-transcriptional control of stem and cancer cell fate - new roles for an old RNA modification” on Thursday 24th of September 2020. In this interview, Nicola tells us about his PhD journey within the RNA and Stem Cell Biology research group at Lund Stem
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-nicola-guzzi - 2026-07-21
Lund University moves forward with the development project at Campus Helsingborg. In the next step, the pre-design phase, architects will present a sketch of a new layout of the University's premises. The architects do their work in dialogue with the University's project group. The plan is to forward a sketch for consideration to relevant actors within the University in the autumn of 2025."The pre
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/pre-design-phase-campus-helsingborg - 2026-07-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In an advanced experiment, researchers have established that nanoparticles made of metal and semiconductors have properties never previously observed. Among other things, the particles are extremely good at amplifying incident laser light. The new discovery could become very important for the development of optical co
https://www.science.lu.se/article/gold-nanosponges-could-be-useful-computers-future - 2026-07-21
An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behaviour of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to extreme heights during a full moon, seemingly catching insects in the moonlight. And, during a lunar eclipse, the birds simultaneously lost altitude. The results are published in Current Biology. The b
https://www.science.lu.se/article/black-swifts-descended-rapidly-during-lunar-eclipse - 2026-07-21
An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behaviour of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to extreme heights during a full moon, seemingly catching insects in the moonlight. And, during a lunar eclipse, the birds simultaneously lost altitude. The results are published in Current Biology. The b
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/black-swifts-descended-rapidly-during-lunar-eclipse - 2026-07-21
“It's an amazing feeling to see your research put to practical use in the real world," explains Magnus Gäfvert, new Innovation Developer at LU Innovation who works with researchers at LTH. After having been co-founder and CEO of the software company Modelon, which is based on LTH research, he has now returned to Lund University. Now he wants to help the next generation of researchers transform the
