https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-local-communities-can-transition-sustainable-energy-systems - 2025-04-19

Published 25 October 2018 IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ˚C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can play a crucial role given

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-we-limit-global-warming-15-degc - 2025-04-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 17 September 2020 Histopathology of rescued bone. Femur of an osteopetrotic mouse (left) and rescued bone phenotype in femur following lentiviral mediated gene therapy. Image credit: Johan Richter & Ilana Moscatelli Johan Richter's research has resulted in the successful development of gene therapy for the hereditary d

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/successful-biotech-collaboration-brings-gene-therapy-project-clinic - 2025-04-19

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson (English translation: Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 13 May 2022 Political scientist Sarah Anne Rennick is a guest researcher at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. Photo: Ulrika Oredsson How can youth movements influence and promote democratisation and social justice in the Middle East? Can researchers

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennicks-research-profiled-lund-university-magazine - 2025-04-19

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 18 February 2019 Photo:Jenny Loftrup Åsa Burman is a former doctoral student at LU who has developed a method for efficiency and stress management. In January she held a workshop for doctoral students and has also written a book entitled "Finish on time - the Doctoral Student Handbook". Here are her best tips.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-important-tips-way-thesis - 2025-04-19

Published 18 March 2019 HR-director Ann Silbersky Isaksson. Photo:Maria Lindh The transition of the salary and human resources administration to the National Government Service Centre (SSC) is not painless. After just over four months, uncertainty still prevails among administrative staff and managers about processing cases through Primula. “We are happy to come and help people out where there is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hr-director-promises-help-tricky-salary-payments-0 - 2025-04-19

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 11 May 2019 Marie Cronqvist Photo:Ulrika Oredsson The University will hold its first Future Week in October. It is to become an annual event in which researchers from the entire University will offer the general public lectures, panel discussions and debates intended to stimulate reflection about major futu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-starts-october-0 - 2025-04-19

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 1 October 2019 Professor Mats Benner represents the the Electoral College. Photo: Johan Bävman The work to find a new vice-chancellor has begun. The recruitment committee, which now consists of equal numbers of members from the Electoral College and the University Board (with the chair of the board having the casti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-new-vice-chancellor-underway - 2025-04-19

By lina [dot] tornquist [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Törnquist) - published 12 December 2024 With funding of up to 150,000 SEK available per project, the Call is designed to allow researchers to explore early-stage ideas. Researchers and doctoral students at Lund University will soon have a new opportunity for funding to support activities outside existing research projects that can pla

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-funds-sustainable-idea-exploration-call-opens-january-15 - 2025-04-20

By Johanna [dot] Mellgren [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Mellgren) - published 6 November 2024 The Vice-Chancellor has named three of the University’s large research infrastructures as University Platforms. The designation signals that these research infrastructures have high strategic significance for the entire University. The designations are based on a number of criteria, for example whet

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/three-research-infrastructures-named-university-platforms - 2025-04-20

By edina [dot] voloder [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Edina Voloder) - published 9 January 2023 DIGG, the supervisory authority for access to digital public service has audited www.lu.se among many other websites. The audit indicated a few points for improvement but was good overall. A plan will now be developed for how the deficiencies on lu.se are to be rectified. DIGG (Agency for Digital

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/wwwluse-website-has-been-audited-digg - 2025-04-20

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/max-iv-praised-srcs-review-and-has-new-chair-board - 2025-04-20

By kontakt [at] artrosportalen [dot] se (The arthritisportal) - published 1 July 2022 Gustavo is a mechanical engineer from Colombia. During his master's studies, Gustavo got the opportunity to conduct an internship in Lausanne, Switzerland. In Lausanne, he worked in orthopedics and studied the mechanical response of knee implants for total knee replacements using numerical modeling. When Gustavo

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/will-it-be-possible-predict-future-health-status-your-knee-tissues - 2025-04-21

By lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - published 9 November 2023 SWEAH's research administrator Stina Elfverson. Photo: Lill Eriksson In a week or so it’s time for the National graduate school on ageing and health, SWEAH's biennial conference for affiliated researchers. For some, the first real event in a scientific context awaits. But what should you pack, wear and wh

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/stinas-tips-conference - 2025-04-21

Published 8 October 2015 Photo: IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living L

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick - 2025-04-21

Published 1 November 2018 “Solutions to limit the climate impact of plastics” was the topic of this years Climathon in Lund. The 24 hour hackathon gathered 54 participants and was thereby one of the larger among the 113 Climathons held simultaneous all around the world. Climathon in Lund was organised by a consortia of five very different organisations, Lunds Universitet, Lunds Kommun, Sysav, Ideo

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2018-0 - 2025-04-21

Published 9 September 2010 Marju Orho-Melander, professor of genetic epidemiology in Malmö, has been awarded Lund University’s Fernström prize. Her research is about genetic variants that are associated with blood lipids and lipoproteins and can therefore increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Many genes exist in different variants. Sometimes, some of the variants have a negative effect, in

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lunds-fernstrom-prize-goes-research-genes - 2025-04-21

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/molecular-link-between-diabetes-and-cancer-described - 2025-04-21

Published 22 May 2013 In recent years, researchers have discovered around 70 genetic risk variants for diabetes, but still TCF7L2, known as the diabetes gene, is the gene that carries with it the largest risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Using a new method called exon skipping, Ola Hansson at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) wants to learn more about TCF7L2 by studying new ways of delaying

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/method-which-repairs-damaged-genes - 2025-04-21

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] pi [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 22 September 2023 Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard is usually working as a professor of music at Aalborg University in Denmark, but for the coming six months he is joining the Theme Sound of Democracy at the Pufendorf IAS as a guest researcher. What is your background and research interests, and how does it connect to the

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/sound-engineer-and-roadie-professor-music-meet-guest-researcher-mark-grimshaw-aagaard - 2025-04-21