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Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2026-01-08
A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity.The Taj
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-university-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2026-01-08
The number of cases of disease caused by Leishmania, a parasite that is spread via bites by sand flies which are mainly found in tropical and subtropical areas and in countries around the Mediterranean, has increased in Sweden. The most serious form of the disease usually leads to death if untreated. First published: 2019-05-06“This disease is still very rare in Sweden but the number of cases has
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-increase-parasite-disease-sweden - 2026-01-07
After graduating from the Economy and Society bachelor’s programme in 2023, Ondrej Gomola left LUSEM and cycled to downtown Lund to begin his master’s in Environmental Management and Policy at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE). His undergraduate studies had sparked a strong interest in tackling global challenges, paving the way for his next academic step. E
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ondrej-gomola-alumnus-bsc-economy-and-society-2023 - 2026-01-08
IT IS HIGH TIME that we start thinking about how we define life, according to a group of Lund University researchers. An army of intelligent robots is growing in front of us, but also opportunities to alter people’s DNA, create super babies and, perhaps, to encounter life in space.“Human beings have always dreamed of playing God. With the help of new technology, we are able to reduce unnecessary s
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/designer-babies-and-intelligent-robots-how-new-life-challenging-humankind - 2026-01-07
The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers are working to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. “This model that has been developed with our collaborators will fill an important gap for current and future drug screening efforts for the upper or lower airways using human airway cells”, says Sinem Tas, associate researcher. The most r
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-model-human-airways-speeds-battle-against-covid-19 - 2026-01-07
Lund University archaeologists have revealed details of late medieval artillery from the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden. The shipwreck is the only known example of its kind from the medieval period – as both ship and weapons are nearly identical to those of the early Spanish and Portuguese explorers. The new study tells the story of how early modern maritime adventurers
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/uniquely-preserved-artillery-offers-clues-european-colonisation - 2026-01-08
The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers are working to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. “This model that has been developed with our collaborators will fill an important gap for current and future drug screening efforts for the upper or lower airways using human airway cells”, says Sinem Tas, associate researcher. The most r
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-model-human-airways-speeds-battle-against-covid-19 - 2026-01-08
Photo: INGEMAR EDFALK/SVERIGES RIKSDAG The Sweden Democrats’ pivotal position in the Riksdag has not led to chaos and inefficiency, as many predicted after the last election. On the contrary, the parties have adapted and decisions are made through new coalitions and cross-party cooperation. However, there are other causes for concern, according to political scientist Johannes Lindvall. Sweden’s pa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/expected-parliamentary-chaos-never-materialised-storm-clouds-are-looming - 2026-01-07
Earlier this week SASNET received a message that the founder and former director of SASNET, Professor Emeritus Staffan Lindberg has died. It is with great sadness that we learned of Staffan’s passing. Staffan was to the very end very active in SASNET, not only as a mentor to current director Andreas Johansson, but also, for his contributions to seminars and publications. Just last year he publishe
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/staffan-lindberg-memoriam-1943-2019 - 2026-01-08
On Tuesday, 20 August, Lund University welcomed new international students for the autumn semester. A total of 4,500 international students have been accepted for studies at Lund University for the autumn of 2024. Among them, 1,000 are exchange students, while the remaining 3,500 include degree-seeking students at both undergraduate and advanced levels, as well as participants in Double Degree, Jo
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-students-arrive-lund-university - 2026-01-08
A team from the Swedish company Alfa Laval used MAX IV beamline MAXPEEM to gain unprecedented insights on the oxide layer of stainless steel. The information they obtained will be highly beneficial for the company’s R&D activities. In March, a team of Alfa Laval researchers and scientists from Lund University led by Axel Knutsson, Material Specialist at Alfa Laval, came to the MAXPEEM beamline for
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/company-alfa-laval-gains-unprecedented-insights-stainless-steel-max-iv - 2026-01-07
What if ordinary skin cells could be effectively reprogrammed to become brain cells and help with diseases like Alzheimer's? And what if machine learning allowed surgeons to precisely remove tumour cells on the operating table? These are the areas of research that Emil Andersson has been exploring to get closer to a solution. He successfully defended his PhD in computational biology at CEC. His th
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/one-step-closer-towards-improving-cancer-surgery-and-reprogramming-cells - 2026-01-07
Senior lecturer, Nadja Sörgärde, has received the students' award for excellence in teaching. Her students praise her extraordinary level of engagement. She personally believes the engagement is connected to the fact she thinks it is fun to teach – especially through seeing how her students develop. Nadja Sörgärde is an engineer who became interested in leadership and organisation while studying
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-are-co-producers - 2026-01-07
As Tova Mark’s presidency comes to an end, she is getting ready to hand over the reins to Agnes Ask. We got a chance to speak with both of them about the past year and expectations of what is to come. Tova, you had been very active in the student life and LundaEkonomerna ever since you started here in Lund. This last year you stepped it up a level and became president just in time for your 30 year
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/one-president-next-one-lundaekonomerna - 2026-01-08
A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2026-01-08
When you take a dip in a Swedish lake, it is not unusual to find you cannot see the lake bottom. Lake water coloured brown by organic material can be an inconvenience for swimming tourists, but mainly causes problems for the ecosystem and drinking water. Focusing on Lake Bolmen, researchers, public authorities and local organisations are now joining forces in a research project to find methods tha
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/many-reasons-take-care-lake-water - 2026-01-08
A recently discovered HIV strain leads to significantly faster development of AIDS than currently prevalent forms, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The period from infection to development of AIDS was the shortest reported among HIV-1 types, at around five years.There are over 60 different epidemic strains of HIV-1 in the world, and geographic regions are often dominated b
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-aggressive-hiv-strain-leads-faster-aids-development - 2026-01-07
Researcher Emma Hammarlund realized that geological measurement methods can also be used for medical purposes. With a simple hair sample, she hopes to find cancer at an early stage. First in the study are prostate cancer and breast cancer. Now her project has been selected for the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' (IVA) 100 list. The list also includes eight other research projects fr
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/ivas-100-list-hair-analysis-find-cancer-early-stage - 2026-01-07
