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Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Many of us have worked more remotely during the pandemic than we ever dreamed of doing. Informatics researcher Saonee Sarker has been studying IT-enabled collaboration and its impact on work-life balance for many years, but mainly with a focus on the IT sector. Today, she sees how that industry's digital settings has moved to encompass us all. The bookshelves in Saon

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hybrid-workplace-future - 2025-09-17

Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES to study political youth, water security, research data infrastructure or geopolitics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! Postdoctoral Fellow on Political Youth in Middle East Conflicts The postdoctoral position will be part of a research project focused on the Middle East and youth in armed conflicts. The conflicts in the Middle East and Nort

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-openings-4-cmes-postdoctoral-fellows-political-youth-water-security-and-geopolitics - 2025-09-17

One clear change meant minimising the number of patient visits to the clinic – instead, physicians, nurses and patients met via telephone or video call. A cancer diagnosis often entails many hospital visits and intensive treatments that can be very tiring for the patient. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, cancer patients were identified as an at-risk group, so forms of treatment

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/wake-pandemic-new-methods-cancer-care - 2025-09-17

Message from the LUDC Executive Board. Photo by CDC on Unsplash Dear Friends and colleagues,We are all now well aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading fast in Sweden and around the world. There is a lot of information to digest. Some of this is factual and helpful, but there is also a great deal of poorly informed speculation, that risks promoting anxiety and panic. As biomedical scientists

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/updates-covid-19 - 2025-09-17

Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby in Skåne. The goal was to learn more about the herbs of nature while letting the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2025-09-17

Children of immigrants from countries with low risk of type 1 diabetes develop the disease more often than expected if they grow up in Sweden, which is a high-risk country. Scientists mean that it is something in the Swedish environment that causes this elevated risk. Ahmed Delli, who is a scientist at Lund University Diabetes Centre, has mapped what happens when a child moves from an area with lo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/moving-sweden-increases-risk-diabetes - 2025-09-17

With around 350 million patients worldwide, diabetes is one of the world’s major public health problems. This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been referred to as ‘gene fishing’. It involves fishing up the genes that contribute

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/major-prize-lu-diabetes-researcher - 2025-09-17

On 12 December, the Government presented the Research and Innovation Bill entitled “Research and Innovation for the Future, Curiosity and Benefit”. An overall assessment of the Bill shows that it is much more challenging for Lund University than any previous Research Bill. It offers great opportunities for many researchers and different types of research, while stearing research more than earlier

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-bill-great-opportunities-very-challenging - 2025-09-18

Conference title “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey Central Asian Law project organized the conference titled “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on the discussion of the interconnections between international actors, domestic institutions, business actors, as well as inform

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/conference-understanding-legal-cultures-central-asia-6-8-november-2021 - 2025-09-17

Photo: MostPhotos. A surprising behaviour of atoms is giving scientists new insights into one of the most fundamental phenomena in nature: the absorption of light. A new physical phenomenon for light pulses has been discovered. The study, published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, was conducted by physicists at Lund University. In the world of atoms, the laws of nature as we kno

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/atoms-absorb-energy-unexpected-ways - 2025-09-17

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have led a study involving osteoporosis patients with hip fractures. The results show that it is possible to increase bone formation around surgical implants. Photo: iStock New research shows that it is possible to induce new bone formation around orthopaedic implants in osteoporotic patients. The study has been published in Acta Biomaterialia. The study, w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/making-bone-alive-ceramic-material-transforming-new-bone-tissue-osteoporotic-patients - 2025-09-17

The University finds itself in a time of paradoxes. At the same time as the EU, via its framework programmes, works for openness and mobility for researchers and students, there are increasing nationalistic and protectionist trends. In addition, the trust and hope that society has in research as a solution for global challenges is being unsettled by the spread of knowledge relativism. This is the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/competitive-intelligence-increasing-difficulty-being-university - 2025-09-17

Course participants of 'Innovation, Transformation, and Resilience for Sustainable Development' gathered in front of LUSEM’s main entrance. Photo: Private What surprises a course participant from Africa on a short visit in Lund and to LUSEM? And what made the strongest impressions? Takes to bring back? And what about the group dynamic with new acquaintances from many different parts of the same co

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/what-we-learned-and-will-take-home - 2025-09-17

Ouyang Yuan will defend her thesis 14 October 2022. Ouyang Yuan defends her Ph.D. thesis on 14 October 2022. As a medical student with a longstanding interest in blood malignancies, her research has focused on better understanding the development of a specific type of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The hope is that these findings will help lead to a better understanding of AML and fut

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/placing-acute-myeloid-leukemia-under-microscope-phd-interview-ouyang-yuan - 2025-09-17

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bioengineering-and-cell-derived-strategies-salivary-gland-regeneration-phd-interview-jiao-dong - 2025-09-17

Among other things, the results indicated that individuals without siblings had an increased frequency of heart problems and that first-born children had a lower risk of heart problems such as heart attack and stroke. Photo: Mosthphotos. First-born children are at lower risk of heart attack and stroke than their siblings – provided that the number of siblings does not exceed three; then it is the

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/number-siblings-may-be-linked-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-09-17

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/mapping-lacustrine-algal-blooms-globally - 2025-09-17

Felicia Gustafson from Sweden graduated from the Master's programme Sustainable Service Management 2021 and now work as a sustainability advisor and specialist for Position Green in Malmö. What did you do before you started studying the Master’s programme in Service Management? "I went straight into the Master’s from my Bachelor’s in International Management at Jönköping International Business Sch

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-alumni-felicia-gustafsson - 2025-09-17

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/1415-international-students-were-welcomed-during-arrival-day - 2025-09-18

It was a surprise for Anne L’Huillier when she was awarded Wolf Prize. Photo: Evelina Lindén These are busy times for atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier. Earlier this year, she received the prestigious Wolf Prize – perhaps not as widely known among the general public, but within the field of physics it is considered second only to the Nobel Prize. Anne L’Huillier was honoured for her contribution to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/prestigious-physics-prize-goes-lund-researcher - 2025-09-18