Published 30 September 2014 For the first time, a Swedish municipality has placed large amounts of sand on its beaches as a way of combating coastal erosion. This would probably never have happened if it wasn’t for Hans Hanson, Professor of Water Resources Engineering at LTH, who has been “nagging the municipal leaders and the Government for the past 25 years”. Hans Hanson by the pier that Ystad m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sand-instead-stone-combat-coastal-erosion - 2025-03-01

Published 30 September 2014 Meet Carina Jensen, coordinator of LU350, Lund University’s 350th anniversary, which will be celebrated from December 2016 to January 2018. How is the work on the jubilee going? “Well, we’ve passed the ideas stage and are now into the preparation phase. The LU350 committee received over 270 ideas that have been whittled down to around 100. They cover everything from sim

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-work-jubilee-lu-350-going - 2025-03-01

Published 30 September 2014 “Are my gut bacteria the reason why I’m fat?” was the title of a talk held by Frida Fåk, and it is also one of her research topics: the link between the bacterial flora in the intestines and a person’s weight and health. In her spare time, she likes to draw and paint, and would like to see that hobby become her job. Frida Fåk – researcher and artist. Frida Fåk is a biol

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/right-gut-bacteria-could-stop-atherosclerosis - 2025-03-01

Published 30 September 2014 What jobs will we do in the future? And who will work? Research shows that half of today’s jobs will not be necessary in 20 years’ time. Questions about unemployment and the future job market have been discussed at several different university events in recent months, most recently at Debatt i Lund. In early June, politicians, entrepreneurs and researchers gathered for

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Published 30 September 2014 In a tumour, cancer cells grow and multiply in an uncontrolled manner. However, the cancer cells also need help from other, normal cells for the tumour to develop. This network of ‘helper cells’ is the focus of Kristian Pietras’ research. Two years ago, Kristian Pietras left Karolinska Institutet for Lund, attracted by the opportunity to establish an entirely new resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/charting-how-normal-cells-help-cancer-cells - 2025-03-01

Published 3 October 2014 He is our least known celebrity – a man of power who took the initiative for Lund University and was literally ‘prepared for both’. The 17th century bishop Peder Winstrup is an exciting historical person – and corpse – that will now be studied in a major interdisciplinary project. For many years, a beautiful coffin has stood in the crypt of the Cathedral. In it lies 17th c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/old-bishop-winstrup-returns-academy - 2025-03-01

Published 16 October 2014 Political scientist Hanna and psychologist Emma have more in common than their surname, Bäck. They are sisters but also make up an interdisciplinary research team. By combining their subjects, they are attempting to gain a complete picture of what motivates people to take part in political protests and why some of them resort to political violence. The research indicates

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/keeping-it-family-sisters-form-interdisciplinary-research-duo - 2025-03-01

Published 16 October 2014 Skissernas Museum (the Museum of the Artistic Process and Public Art) is sending three monumental paintings by Sonia Delaunay, each measuring 3 x 7 metres, to Paris for an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It is the first time the three works, Motor, Propeller and Instrument Panel, have been shown in France since the 1937 International Exposition

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cultural-treasures-skissernas-museum-main-attraction-paris-exhibition - 2025-03-01

Published 16 October 2014 Death in the form of a skeleton with a scythe is a familiar figure of dread, but death and dying do not have to be frightening. “Death does not have to be marked by fear; it can just as often be characterised by calm and quiet. There can be a lot of joy even during the last days of a person’s life!” Carl Johan Furst. These are the words of Professor Carl Johan Fürst, head

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-palliative-centre-improve-skills-end-life-care - 2025-03-01

Published 16 October 2014 Linde Lindkvist is on the way to becoming Sweden’s first Doctor of Philosophy in Human Rights Studies. He is the first to reach this goal within the subject, which combines law, history and philosophy. “This is an intense time, I am trying to isolate myself in order to finish.” He explains two doctoral students have been involved from the very beginning, since the researc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/set-become-swedens-first-doctor-human-rights - 2025-03-01

Published 16 October 2014 Meet Paul Franks... ... Professor of Diabetes Research and sportsman, who raised money for diabetes research by competing in the Copenhagen Ironman* triathlon race a while ago. How have the race and the fundraising gone? “I think it’s gone well. Despite a broken toe, I finished the race in just over 10 hours. I beat my previous Ironman record, which I set in a race 20 yea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/running-diabetes - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01

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 - 2025-03-01