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Lund University is seeking 25 international researchers in its largest-ever global recruitment drive. Among these opportunities, the Department of Physics is offering two positions within the renowned NanoLund research environment as part of this major investment. “In an uncertain world where free research and education are under intense pressure, Lund University is making its largest-ever investm

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/nanolund-and-physics-key-lunds-largest-international-hiring-drive - 2025-12-23

Dive into the exciting world of physics here in Lund – from the tiniest building blocks of matter to the mysteries of the cosmos. Join us for fun experiments and demonstrations, where you can, among other things, try out a scanning electron microscope or slow down time with a high-speed camera. This year’s event also features research presentations (in English or Swedish), the chance to visit Lund

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quantum-physics-and-double-anniversary-kulturnatten - 2025-12-23

What does it feel like to help shape our understanding of the universe – and still be searching for answers 50 years later? On Friday 5 September 2025, Lund University welcomes Professor Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004), for a public lecture open to everyone. A lifetime with quantum physicsFrank Wilczek is best known for discovering asymptotic freedom, a breakthrough that led to Qua

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/meet-nobel-laureate-frank-wilczek-gives-public-lecture-lund - 2025-12-23

At the Department of Physics, she is Stina Loo, education administrator for first and second cycle programmes. But she can also call herself a linguist, entrepreneur and television personality. And now, with a dream come true: author. The book ‘Hitta din historia – släktforskning för alla’ (Find your story – genealogy for everyone), which Stina wrote together with Ingeborg Arvastsson, will be rele

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/stina-brings-history-life-new-book - 2025-12-23

Cake and a packed Rydberg Hall set the tone when Fysicum celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Department of Physics invited guests to a party, and the audience was treated to a dizzying journey through history, presented by Professor Erik Swietlicki. When Lund University was founded in 1666, there was no faculty of natural sciences. Instead, physics was part of the faculty of philosophy, and for a

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/fysicum-75-years-lively-anniversary-long-history - 2025-12-23

Packed tightly together like sparkling beehives in space. That's what the globular clusters of hundreds of thousands of stars look like. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers can reveal how these ancient and mysterious star systems are actually formed. The existence of these spherical clusters of millions of stars has been known since the invention of the telescope in the 17th century. Th

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/scientists-have-solved-astronomical-star-mystery - 2025-12-23

Armin Tavakoli, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University and researcher at the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT), has been appointed associate editor for Physical Review Letters (PRL) – one of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics. 'It’s an honour to take on this role,' says Tavakoli. “PRL holds a unique position in the physics community,

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lund-physicist-appointed-associate-editor-physical-review-letters - 2025-12-23

Recently, a new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile captured its first starlight. This marks the start of a new era in astronomy, where researchers will map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument, called 4MOST (Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, it collects spectra or colour

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-12-23

Two distinguished researchers at the Department of Physics have been promoted to professors at Lund University: David Silvermyr, specialising in high-energy heavy-ion physics, and Rainer Timm, an expert in surface physics. Their research spans from the most extreme states of matter to atomic-level interfaces in next-generation electronics. David Silvermyr – Exploring the most extreme states of mat

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quarks-nanostructures-two-physicists-appointed-professors-lund-university - 2025-12-23

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has highlighted two research projects with strong contributions from the Department of Physics, as well as the Lund Laser Centre and the NanoLund research environments at Lund University, in its annual address on technology and scientific achievements. In her speech, IVA President Sylvia Schwaag Serger emphasised the importance of celebrating

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/physics-lund-laser-centre-and-nanolund-research-highlighted-royal-swedish-academy-engineering - 2025-12-23

Nearly SEK 31 million in research grants for the years 2026–2029. That is how much researchers at the Department of Physics will receive from the Swedish Research Council's major call for proposals in natural sciences and engineering sciences in 2025. With a total of 41 grants awarded, Lund University maintains its strong position in the field of natural sciences and engineering in the national co

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lund-physicists-receive-31-million-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-23

Lund University awards Professor Cecilia Jarlskog the Silver Medal, an award that recognises individuals who make particularly significant contributions to the university and society. Cecilia Jarlskog has been a professor of mathematical physics at Lund University since 1994 and conducts internationally renowned research in theoretical particle physics. She has immersed herself in CP symmetry, whi

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/cecilia-jarlskog-receives-lund-universitys-silver-medal - 2025-12-23

The Department of Physics’ thesis fair on the 18th of November drew a packed audience, giving bachelor’s, master’s and engineering students the chance to discover projects spanning everything from nanomaterials to dark matter. Interest was high and the range of topics broad – from nanoscale materials research and advanced quantum mechanics to astrophysics and insect population measurements using L

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/full-house-department-physics-thesis-fair - 2025-12-23

Associate senior lecturer Hannah Herde at the Department of Physics is one of this year’s three recipients of Lund Students’ Prize for Excellent Teaching in 2026.  The award is based on student nominations and presented by the Vice-Chancellor, a clear sign that Hannah’s teaching makes a difference. “I’m deeply moved and humbled that students feel so strongly supported and engaged in our course tha

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/hannah-herde-honoured-bold-and-inclusive-teaching - 2025-12-23

Ultrashort laser pulses - that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second -have transformed fundamental science, engineering and medicine. Despite this, their ultrashort duration has made them elusive and difficult to measure. About ten years ago, researchers from Lund University and Porto University introduced a tool for measuring pulse duration of ultrafast lasers. The same team has

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/elegant-solution-measuring-ultrashort-laser-pulses-discovered - 2025-12-23

A new quantum study from Lund University is attracting international attention. PhD student Axel Stenquist, supervised by Associate Professor Marcus Dahlström, has, together with his co-authors, shown how entangled particles interact in ultrafast processes. “It is very exciting that our research is receiving international recognition. Understanding how quantum entanglement evolves in time is a key

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quantum-entanglement-unravelled-time-lund-study-international-spotlight - 2025-12-23

Från och med höstterminen 2022 gäller en ändrad kursplan i fysik och naturorienterande ämnen (NO). Från höstterminen 2022 börjar en ny kursplan att gälla – Lgr22. Skolverket har sammanställt material som hjälper lärare att använda den nya kursplanen, samt en jämförelse av vilka förändringar som gjorts gentemot den nuvarande kursplanen, Lgr11,  Alla ämnessidor med material kring den nya kursplanen

https://www.nrcf.lu.se/artikel/andrade-kursplaner-i-fysik - 2025-12-23

A week at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Christoph Turatus, who is a student on the second year of the Master Programme in Strategic Communication is doing an exchange semester at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, in Australia. Are you curious about what a typical week looks like at an Australian university? Read more HERE where he shares his experiences, impressions, and r

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/studying-abroad-experiences-and-stories - 2025-12-23

Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This states a report from the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments have paid close attention to how forei

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-malign-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-12-23

The frequency of the word "polarisation" in Swedish news media increased by 300% between 2010 and 2021. In the same period, the term's definition evolved, and its contextual meaning would differ depending on whether the context was Swedish or American. Nils Gustafsson and Anamaria Dutceac Segesten contributed to an article studying the use of the word "polarisation" in Swedish newspapers and magaz

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/significant-increase-polarisation-swedish-newspapers - 2025-12-23