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CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to five (5) doctoral student projects, where the doctoral students are admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science. Note: It is the researcher who apply for this funding, not the student.The doctoral student will be employed at and have their main workplace

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/funding-doctoral-student-projects-environmental-science - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across eight European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done. Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural landscapes still negatively affects non-targe

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-pollinators - 2025-11-19

Congratulations on the funding for the research infrastructure ICOS, Natascha Kljun, Scientific Principle Investigator of the Lund University ICOS stations! ICOS Sweden has been awarded a grant of 43.8 million SEK from VR to operate 10 stations for a period of three years. “Thank you! Yes, these are fantastic news. The grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR) will allow us to

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/congratulations-icos - 2025-11-19

Remnants of plastic left by humans can now be found practically everywhere in nature – in waterways, within animals, and even amidst the clouds. In her thesis, Micaela Mafla-Endara examined how nanoplastics that end up in the soil affect the microorganisms living there. The answer is clear: there is an effect on the organisms and how they behave. One could say that Micaela Mafla-Endara and her tea

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nanoplastics-influence-microbial-activity-soil - 2025-11-19

A big congratulations to professor Henrik Smith on receiving the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology from The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Botany and Zoology has been awarded every three years since 1935 to Swedish researchers whom the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund considers to be well deserving. In 2023, the prize is awarded to Henrik Smith for his research e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/professor-henrik-smith-receives-rosen-linnaeus-prize-zoology - 2025-11-19

A comprehensive decision has been negotiated during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The agreement, which calls for a tripling of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, was finalised last week. Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's contact person for the IPCC, participated digitally and comments the decisions

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-deal-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-systems - 2025-11-19

Katarina Hedlund is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson, who left at the turn of the year. Per Persson has moved on to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Katarina Hedlund, professor at the Department of Biology, has been the Deputy Director of CEC for many years. She has also been Director of studies at CEC. “It will be easy to take over such a well-run organizati

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/katarina-hedlund-new-director-cec - 2025-11-19

On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you do

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/three-questions-david-warlind-about-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-11-19

With the aid of two satellites and machine learning, researcher Hakim Abdi is mapping the composition of tree species in Swedish forests down to the individual stands. Through the creation of a method capable of generating annual maps of tree diversity, his aim is to assist in forest management and decision-making regarding both climate and biodiversity strategies. Funded by the Swedish National S

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forest-analysis-through-satellite-data-and-machine-learning - 2025-11-19

After 2,5 years being hosted by the Department of Sociology at Paradisgatan 5 in the city centre of Lund, SASNET again shifted locality in early 2016. This time the move was to Villa Norlind, a rather small building located at Biskopsgatan 5, a house that used to accommodate the Dept. of Musicology, but recently was taken over by the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). SASNET rents three roo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-now-located-villa-norlind - 2025-11-19

Seminar by Anuradha Rose on alcohol consumption in South India to be held in Stockholm. On November 16, 2015 from 14.00-15.30, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm hosts a lecture by Dr. Anuradha Rose, associate professor of community medicine and bioethicist at Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A. The talk is titled Addressing Alcohol problems: Temptations in the tribes and will focus on alcohol c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-about-alcohol-consumption - 2025-11-19

The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is continuing its three short-term summer courses for Nordic students. The courses are as follows:Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Introduction CourseUniversity of Hyderabad, Hyderabad2nd to 29th July 2017Capacity: 50 studentsApproaching the Environment in India: Issues and Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface Institute for Social an

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/summer-courses-india-nordic-students - 2025-11-19

On Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14.15-15.45 Raj Kumar from Benares Hindu University will hold a lecture entitled: "Rethinking women's issues in 19th century Hindi writings of Mallika" at Uppsala University. Abstract:Mallika may be regarded as the first woman writer of Hindi in 19th century north India since nothing much is known about women writing of that time yet.Though she was a Bengali, she cam

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/public-lecture-uppsala-rethinking-womens-issues-19th-century-hindi-writings-mallika - 2025-11-19

On 30 November 2016 14.15-15.45, Professor Ruby Sain from Centre for the Study of Religion and Society in the Department of Sociology at Jadavpur University, will hold a lecture entitled: "Religious Education in South Asia" at Uppsala University. Abstract: The exploration of religion in India is as old as that country, as it has been depicted in various religious texts, such as the Upanishads, the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/public-lecture-uppsala-religious-education-south-asia - 2025-11-19

The Cell for FATA studies (CFS) at University of Peshawar organizes its 2nd National Conference on FATA entitled: "Economic Currents and Opportunities for Economic Development in FATA" from the 17th until the 18th of January 2017. CFS successfully implemented the “First National Conference on Socioeconomic & Political Currents in FATA” in 2015. This project provided an opportunity to university st

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fata-conference-university-peshawar - 2025-11-19

The stamps were recently launched at a special ceremony, as part of the upcoming Lund University 350th jubilee celebrations. The selected stamp motifs highlight both the University’s history and the cutting-edge research conducted at the University. You can buy them here in Lund, at the LU shop on Winstrupsgatan 8 or online at postnord.se. You can even order them online from overseas. Read more ab

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-has-its-own-official-stamps - 2025-11-19

An enormous Freedom of Expression cube will be turned on and a week of activities will kick-off outside of Lund Cathedral on Dec. 2 at 12:30 to commemorate Sweden’s 250-year anniversary of freedom of speech. Lund is commemorating “The Week of Silence”, a week of activities, including the launch of a human rights cube and film, a silent minute, and a concert and panel discussion on freedom of expre

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/week-silence-planned-lund - 2025-11-19

On Wednesday 23 November 2016, Liaqat Javed, Executive Director for the Backwards Rehabilitation and Improvement Commission Pakistan (BRIC), visited SASNET at Lund University. Javed had come to Lund - as part of a Sweden tour - on invitation from the regional outfit of ABF, Sweden’s largest adult non-profit educational organisation and a collaboration partner of SASNET. His mission is to share his

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/pakistani-activist-against-bonded-labour-visited-sasnet - 2025-11-19

Call for Contributions to IIAS magazine The Newsletter 2016. The Newsletter is a free, non-peer reviewed Asian Studies magazine published three times a year by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden the Netherlands. With approximately 17,000 worldwide subscribers, the magazine is an outstanding forum for Asia scholars to share commentary, research essays, book reviews and ann

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sign-iias-newsletter - 2025-11-19