Published 16 October 2014 A great deal of moral courage or a really desperate situation – these are the requirements for someone to disclose state secrets. And life will most certainly never be the same again. This is what emerges from the experiences of the Cold War’s first major defectors, Mr and Mrs Petrov, as from those of Edward Snowden, who will perhaps never be able to return to his homelan

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spy-novel-way-present-new-research - 2025-02-05

Published 20 October 2014 Off the coast at Haväng, forests several thousands of years old are hidden below the sea. When researchers dive down to examine the well-preserved tree-trunks, they are literally diving deep into human history. Arne Sjöström gets ready for another sea dive. The morning sun is glittering on the calm surface of the Baltic Sea at Haväng in Österlen. Down on the beach, the re

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/studying-stone-age-forest-under-sea - 2025-02-05

Published 21 November 2014 More and more research is based on ‘big data’, not only in engineering, medicine and science, but also increasingly in the humanities and social sciences. These huge quantities of data offer fantastic opportunities, as well as major challenges. How does Lund University deal with these? Do researchers receive the support they need? Are we equipping students to meet the di

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/big-data-requires-good-navigators - 2025-02-05

Published 21 November 2014 Astronomic amounts of new digital information about the world, our genetic heritage and our habits are continuously being generated. This information is a goldmine for research – as long as the data can be accessed, stored and analysed. “We have a lot of expertise in the field. More and more areas of Lund University are nearing the threshold for big data as an integral p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/big-data-research-both-reality-and-rhetoric - 2025-02-05

Published 21 November 2014 We are experiencing a minor revolution with the growth of big data, according to Professor of Mathematics Magnus Fontes at LTH. He therefore recently took the initiative to establish the Centre for Mathematical Modelling, to gather the University’s expertise in big data modelling and calculations. The idea is that less initiated researchers will also be able to receive s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-experiencing-minor-revolution - 2025-02-05

Published 21 November 2014 In a large hall on Margaretavägen in Lund, next to LDC, the air is full of the hum of computers. The supercomputers Alarik, Erik and Platon – the most powerful in southern Sweden – are busy computing complex problems that Lund University researchers are not able to solve on their own. At the moment, a simulation of a future MAX IV beamline is underway, alongside calculat

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunarc-universitys-powerhouse - 2025-02-05

Published 21 November 2014 Nowadays, a photograph taken by a normal mobile phone camera is almost 2 MB in size. It is therefore possible to imagine the huge quantities of data produced by scanners that take thousands of three-dimensional images of a single body part or tissue sample. Freddy Ståhlberg shows how data from the forthcoming national 7 Tesla MRI scanner will be managed. The data will be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/incredible-amounts-data-new-medical-images - 2025-02-05

Published 21 November 2014 The huge increase in data in biology and medicine creates new challenges for researchers. Extracting information from databases is the research community’s new day job. Dag Ahrén teaches database mining to biologists. He is part of a national network of bioinformaticians, BILS (Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences). Research engineer Dag Ahrén observes that th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/data-mining-research-community-coalface - 2025-02-05

Published 20 November 2014 A pink cleaning trolley is an unusual sight. But even if the colour is the first thing to catch your eye, it is not the pink gleam that makes people stop and talk. The cleaning trolley is a rolling exhibit at Gilla jobbet, a work environment fair in Stockholm, and Patrik Nilsson is the man pushing it around. He is doing a PhD in aerosol technology at LTH and wants to pro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chats-around-cleaning-trolley-provide-inspiration-research-projects - 2025-02-05

Published 20 November 2014 A lot of research on human behaviour is based entirely on words: researchers read, ask questions, send out questionnaires and write reports. But this means they miss a lot of elements concerning sound, sights and people’s interaction with their physical surroundings. Devrim Umut Aslan wants to study consumers’ attitudes to a shopping environment (Södergatan in Helsingbor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consumers-attitudes-captured-film - 2025-02-05

Published 20 November 2014 … Professor of Functional Zoology and Cancer Cell Biology, who is helping to develop a world-class cell culture laboratory in Bolivia. It is part of a SIDA-funded project to study how medicinal plants can influence cancer cells. What is your collaboration with Bolivia like? “This is the third in a line of SIDA-funded projects which I have now joined as a cancer researche

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-stina-oredssonabout-collaboration-bolivia - 2025-02-05

Published 21 November 2014 “Really good research is often interdisciplinary”, said Kerstin Sahlin from the Swedish Research Council (VR) at a seminar in Lund on how the land lies for research funding. She wanted to debunk the myth that VR is not good at encouraging interdisciplinary projects. Quite the opposite – a working group has recently been appointed specifically for this type of application

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tips-funding-bodies - 2025-02-05

Published 18 December 2014 How creative are research studies? What can be done to make them more creative? LUM has met Samuel West, who is not only a doctoral student, but who actually does research on creativity. Samuel West had worked as a psychologist for many years when he decided four years ago to do a PhD. Now he is looking back on his research studies, which will soon be finished, and doesn

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-searching-creativity-outside-academy - 2025-02-05

Published 18 December 2014 What is the effect on doctoral students’ creativity when they are forced into the academic straightjacket of research studies? What obstacles do they have to cross in order to reach their full potential? According to creativity researcher Eva Brodin, there are many examples of research environments where doctoral students do not have an opportunity to be really creative

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-creative-are-research-studies - 2025-02-05

Published 18 December 2014 Sweden has got its first seven Tesla MRI scanner. The 40 ton scanner had to be lowered into place at the Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) at Skåne University Hospital. Until now, the most powerful MRI scanners in Sweden that are used on humans have had a magnetic field of three Tesla. The weather was kind when the over 40 ton MRI scanner was lifted into the hospi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-host-strongest-mri-scanner-sweden - 2025-02-05

Published 17 December 2014 What are you used to? This was the question that twenty five eager course participants seized on when they gathered to investigate cultural differences in order to better meet the various needs of international students. The course in intercultural communication aimed to increase awareness of intercultural encounters and the misunderstandings that can arise. Every year,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-student-reception-aim-course-cultural-differences - 2025-02-05

Published 17 December 2014 The Inter Arts Centre (IAC) in Malmö provides a forum enabling all parts of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts to conduct research together and create joint projects. Its objective is to find new approaches and to achieve collective results which are greater than the sum of their parts. An example of the Centre’s work is one of the largest symposia ever to be held i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/experimental-art-across-boundaries - 2025-02-05

Published 18 December 2014 Meet Per Ödling, Professor of Telecommunication at LTH, who recently gave a lecture for the Hjärntrusten network in Lund entitled “The new digital society is already here”. You expect to become redundant as a teacher within the foreseeable future? “Yes, that’s correct.” And whose fault is that? “It is mine and all those who have contributed to technical and digital devel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-society-already-here - 2025-02-05

Published 18 December 2014 Wandering among the amaryllises and other seasonal blooms of the “Christmas in the orangery” exhibition in Lund’s Botanical Garden is one very satisfied director. Bente Eriksen came from Gothenburg University to her new job in Lund a couple of months ago and has now learnt that the municipality of Lund will support the garden to the tune of SEK 2 million per year. The ne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-director-botan-prepares-two-anniversaries - 2025-02-05

Published 18 December 2014 He is checking out at the same fighting weight as when he checked in, and does the same number of push-ups (40!) now as he did then. He has been through several tough rounds and had to fight to defend his convictions and his views on the University’s development. Per Eriksson summarises his time as vice-chancellor as “six years of incredibly great joy, development, press

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eriksson-you-have-dare-take-risks-sometimes-if-you-want-make-things-happen - 2025-02-05