By evelina [dot] hagberg [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Hagberg) - published 11 November 2021 The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) regularly awards smaller travel grants to students who would benefit from carrying out field studies in connection with their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis. The overall theme of the thesis must be related to European affairs, broadly interprete

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/apply-now-student-travel-grants - 2025-07-17

By evelina [dot] hagberg [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Hagberg) - published 9 December 2021 The single market of the EU is often hailed as the number one success story of European integration, and it is one of the reasons why the EU is seen as a law-making machine. Single market laws are partly focused on competition law, which sets out to ban state aid and other interventionist practices in

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/how-can-eu-fix-global-trade - 2025-07-17

By simon [dot] barajas_lamo [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Simon Barajas Lamo) - published 8 February 2022 Agnes Baude (photo). The Centre for European Studies has awarded the 2021 Best Thesis Award to Agnes Baude for her Master of Law thesis on the European Arrest warrant and the rule of law. Agnes Baude’s thesis is called “Protecting the European Union Rule of Law through national court scrutiny? –

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/baude-receives-best-thesis-award-2021 - 2025-07-17

By simon [dot] barajas_lamo [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Simon Barajas Lamo) - published 8 February 2022 Olivia Rachwol (photo). The Centre for European Studies has awarded Olivia Rachwol the 2021 honorary mention for her Master of Cultural Sciences thesis on Conspiracy Theories in Polish Daily newspapers. Olivia Rachwol’s study is called “Conspiracy Theories and the Polarized Polish Press: Systemi

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/rachwols-masters-thesis-receives-honourable-mention - 2025-07-17

By simon [dot] barajas_lamo [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Simon Barajas Lamo) - published 9 June 2022 How do you apply for a job at the European Commission and what skills are in demand? And what is it like to work for the Commission? In March 2022, Helena Larsson Haug, Senior Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General Competition (DG COMP), visited Lund and shared her experiences and t

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/working-european-commission - 2025-07-17

By simon [dot] barajas_lamo [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Simon Barajas Lamo) - published 9 June 2022 The Director General of the National Board of Trade (‘Kommerskollegium’), Anders Ahnlid, visited Lund on 30 March 2022. At a seminar organized by the Centre for European Studies, he presented an overview of how the global trading system came into being, evolved during and after the Cold War, and mig

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/global-trading-system-war-war - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde and Evelina Lindén) - published 7 January 2021 Christelle Prinz’ project developing a test that quickly detects viruses in the body receives an ERC proof of concept – innovation money from the European Research Council. Picture: Mostphotos. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 e

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 13 January 2021 The upper part represents the experiment with a laser that shines on the 2D trap with atoms. In the lower part you can see how the atoms act when they pair, while the water represents their properties as superfluids. Illustration: Jonas Ahlstedt. By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been abl

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 15 December 2020 Caterina Doglioni. Phot by Lena Björk Blixt What is all the dark matter in the universe made of? Could it be connected to new particles that can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, will search for new particles beyond the known fundamental

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/prestigious-erc-consilidator-grant-awarded-caterina-doglioni - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 5 November 2020 Illustration of a protein motor. Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nob

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 9 March 2021 Anne l’Huillier is the winner of the 2021 Max Born Award from the Optical Society (OSA). Photo: Magnus Bergström The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor o

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-max-born-award - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 9 October 2020 Per Eng-Johnsson. A research project on how to observe and control the movement of electrons will soon commence at LTH thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Per Eng-Johnsson, professor at the Division of Atomic Physics, will receive just over SEK 25 million for doing somethi

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/unique-research-project-electrons-awarded-grant - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 16 September 2020 Pablo Villanueva Perez. Photo: Johan Joelsson NanoLund affiliated researcher recieves funding to develop a new microscope. Pablo Villanueva Perez, associate senior lecturer in Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will develop a completely new X-ray microscope to improve the study and filming of different materials i

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-starting-grant-rewarded-pablo-villanueva-perez - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 7 September 2020 Droplets are spread in the air when we sing – here from powerful and consonant-rich singing photographed with a high-speed camera. Photo: Alexios Matamis If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sin

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna-Karin Alm) - published 12 April 2021 Laboratory facilities within Lund University and Chalmers University will be used to prepare experiments using X-rays or neutrons. Picture from the PME-lab at Lund University. Courtesy of Jan-Eric Ståhl. Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/x-rays-and-neutrons-entering-metals-and-manufacturing-industries - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 16 April 2021 We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Exploratory Nanotechnology, explains how. The basis of the electronics we use today, such as home computers and mobile phones, was invented more

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-make-smarter-and-more-efficient-electronics - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster NanoLund) - published 6 April 2021 Using nanotechnology, researchers can insert biomolecules into the blood stem cells from the umbilical cord, without damaging the cells. NanoLund researchers Martin Hjort, Yang Chen, and Martin Borgström have been awarded the Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s prize for future innovations. Their projects are

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/double-innovation-prize-nanolund - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 18 April 2021 Roman Pasechnik. Photo by Gunnar Ingelman For 50 years, the research community has been hunting unsuccessfully for the so-called Odderon particle. Now, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has discovered the mythical particle with the help of extensive analysis of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider at

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-find-evidence-elusive-odderon-particle - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 12 August 2020 Martin Rey The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many bill

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-07-17

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Sune Svanberg) - published 6 July 2020 Terra cotta soldiers guarding the tomb of emperor Qin, China. Photo: Stockphoto According to  2200 years old records, the so far never opened tomb of emperor Qin should contain large amounts of liquid mercury, forming lakes and rivers of a large-scale “map” of China, which had been unified by him.  Recently, the rese

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mercury-emission-terracotta-army-emperor-qins-mausoleum-xian-measured-lidar - 2025-07-17