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Mingle, listen to lectures and join our try-out activities at the Faculty of Medicine, Saturday September 23. Adress: Forum Medicum, Sölvegatan 19, Lund. The event is free of charge and open to everyone. No pre-registration required!Stations open 12.30-16.30. Read more on Swedish Intramed.
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/welcome-culture-night-forum-medicum-239 - 2025-10-21
The Board of the Faculty of Medicine (MFS) has held a meeting. The meeting began with the dean informing about that we now have a research infrastructure specialist and senior research infrastructure specialist in place, that there is a new process for professorial appointments and promotion to professor at Lund University. She also reported from the Vice-Chancellor's Management Council on interna
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/report-faculty-board-meeting-17-september-2025 - 2025-10-21
The Organization Committee for SciLifeLab Lund Day invites you to join in for a dynamic day that brings together researchers, technology platforms, and strategic research initiatives to spotlight the powerful synergies driving life science forward in southern Sweden. Programme highlights:Opportunity to interact with SciLifeLab cutting-edge technologies and national resources.A spotlight session on
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/join-scilifelab-lund-day-october-23rd - 2025-10-21
När pandemin är över är det viktigt att information finns bevarad om hur Lunds universitet mötte och hanterade krisen. Vilka beslut fattades? Vilka åtgärder genomfördes? Hur påverkades verksamheten? Bevarad information utgör underlag för forskning och lärande för framtiden. Dokumentation relaterad till corona/covid-19 består av två typer:Förändringar och anpassningar av dokumentation som skulle ha
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/riksarkivet-uppmanar-alla-att-bevara-handlingar-om-covid-19 - 2025-10-21
Ett stort arbete har utförts ute på institutioner och fakulteter för att anpassa sig till en ny termin med fler studenter och i vissa fall även mer medarbetare på plats mitt under rådande pandemi. Här kommer ett nedslag på Medicinska fakulteten med exempel på hur man har anpassat sig till Folkhälsomyndighetens rekommendationer och universitetets praktiska råd och tips. Hantering av grundutbildning
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/sma-fasta-studentgrupper-och-tydliga-lokalregler-pa-medicinska-fakulteten - 2025-10-21
Rektor har fastställt en ny universitetsövergripande strategi för Lunds universitets strategiska forskningsområden (17 september). Strategin innehåller vision och strategiska mål för Lunds universitets strategiska forskningsområden för perioden 2020-2030. Roll- och ansvarsfördelning anges för arbetet framöver. Strategin bygger på universitetets samlade kunskaper och erfarenheter i utvecklingen och
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/ny-strategi-de-strategiska-forskningsomradena-2020-2030 - 2025-10-21
Den 22 september fick Lunds universitet det glädjande beskedet från EU-kommissionen att vi har fått certifieringen HR Excellence in Research Award. Lunds universitet strävar efter vara en attraktiv arbetsgivare för forskare i alla skeden av karriären, och omfattas sedan september 2020 av EU:s certifiering HR Excellence in Research.Certifieringen HR Excellence in Research betyder att ett lärosäte d
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-certifierad-med-hr-excellence-research-award - 2025-10-21
Vid ett webbinarium den 28 september presenterades resultaten från undersökningen om förekomsten av sexuella trakasserier, trakasserier och kränkande särbehandling vid Lunds universitet och hur universitetet ska arbeta med denna fråga framöver. Nu finns rapporten att ladda ner. Tellus är ett forskningsbaserat projekt som startade 2018. Projektet har syftat till att ta reda på förekomsten av sexuel
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tellus-rapporten-om-sexuella-trakasserier-vid-lu-ar-nu-publicerad - 2025-10-21
Rektor har beslutat att ge Hållbarhetsforum ett utökat uppdrag med ökade resurser med fyra miljoner kronor om året från två miljoner kronor om året från och med 2021. Rektor har beslutat att ge Hållbarhetsforum ett utökat uppdrag med ökade resurser med fyra miljoner kronor om året från två miljoner kronor om året från och med 2021. Hållbarhetsforum blir också permanent, hållbarhetsfrågorna är lång
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hallbarhetsforum-far-utokat-uppdrag-med-studenter-och-inom-utbildning - 2025-10-21
Tommy Cedervall has been interviewed about nanoplastics on two different occations during September. WHO issued a report on an analysis of current research related to microplastics in drinking-water and Tommy was interviewed on the need for more research because we do not yet know how nanoplastics affect humans and nature.Later a research report from McGill University concluded that nanoplastics l
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tommy-cedervall-interviewed-nanoplastic - 2025-10-21
Martin Leijnse and three researchers from University of Copenhagen have received in total 10 million Euro for an ERC Synergy project called ‘Foundations of nonlocal and nonabelian condensed-matter systems'. Here, nonlocal means that quasiparticles encode a quantum state that is hidden from any local measurement, while nonabelian means that exchange of quasiparticles changes their joint quantum sta
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/martin-leijnse-involved-awarded-erc-synergy-grant - 2025-10-21
In recent work involving NanoLund's Lars Samuelson, Hongqi Xu and Sören Jeppesen closely collaborating with a group at University of Tokyo/RIKEN in Japan and a group at Peking University in China describes how they have successfully realized a double nanowire Josephson junction device and discovered an enhancement of supercurrent arising from coherent splits of Cooper pairs by 1D electron-electron
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/double-nanowire-josephson-junction-device-frontier-physics-research - 2025-10-21
At the 31st MAX IV User Meeting on September 23-25, 2019 Susanna Hammarberg won the Student Poster Award 2019 for her poster: “Strain mapping of nanowire device using scanning XRD”.Read more about the poster award (in English) or read the news at MAXIV's home page (in English).
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/poster-award-susanna-hammarberg - 2025-10-21
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation announced on October 1st that Kenneth Wärnmark wins one of 20 prestigious grants for ground-breaking research projects. The grant of 35 MSEK over five years is to support the project “Photofunctional iron complexes”, aiming to harvest solar energy with iron-based molecules.Kenneth will give a talk on the project on October 17th at 12:15 in Lundmarksalen at
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-project-funding-kennet-warnmark - 2025-10-21
Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years of age) who has/have significantly contributed to the field of aerosol science. The award is conf
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2025-10-21
We are very happy to announce that Luke Hankin is starting today as new Head of laboratory for Lund Nano Lab, succeeding Maria Huffman. Luke comes from a position as Engineering Director at Sol Voltaics where he has lead a team of 20 people. He was responsible for lab construction, equipment development, clean room, chemistry labs, IT and safety. Prior to that he has held positions in automotive,
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luke-hankin-new-head-lund-nano-lab - 2025-10-21
A feature in Sydsvenskan describes Tönu Pullerits' research on perovskites as a material for more efficient solar cells and describes the limitations with the current silicon solar cells. The reason for the feature is that a journal article by Tönu and colleagues has been chosen as one of the best on Perovskites by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge.Read more in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish) o
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solar-cell-research-featured-sydsvenskan - 2025-10-21
Cellevate AB, a company spun out from a project at the Engineering Nanoscience Program at Lund University, was named Nordic Nanotech Company of the Year 2019 last week at the NanoForum 2019 conference arranged by SwedNanoTech as part of the IVC-21. Another company spun-out from the NanoLund research environment, Hexagem AB, was also competed for the title as one of the three finalists. Congratulat
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cellevate-named-nanotech-company-year-2019 - 2025-10-21
Rapidus reports that the recently established Spermosens AB secured 2,5 MSEK in funding from private investors and and 0,3 MSEK from Vinnova.Spermosens AB led by NanoLund graduate Kushagr Punyani, develops a diagnostic device for male infertility, predicting if the patient’s sperms would bind to and fertilize a healthy female egg, and hence diagnosing the underlying cause of male factor infertilit
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/spermosens-ab-secures-funding - 2025-10-21
Andreas Wacker was interviewed on May 20th by Swedish Radio P4 about the 2019 redefinition of the kilogram according to the SI base units.Listen to the interview here (Kilogrammet pensioneras) or read Andreas' short summary of the changes.
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/radio-interview-andreas-wacker-si-changes - 2025-10-21
