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CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to five (5) doctoral student projects, where the doctoral students are admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science. Note: It is the researcher who apply for this funding, not the student.The doctoral student will be employed at and have their main workplace

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/funding-doctoral-student-projects-environmental-science - 2025-11-29

What if ordinary skin cells could be effectively reprogrammed to become brain cells and help with diseases like Alzheimer's? And what if machine learning allowed surgeons to precisely remove tumour cells on the operating table? These are the areas of research that Emil Andersson has been exploring to get closer to a solution. He successfully defended his PhD in computational biology at CEC. His th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/one-step-closer-towards-improving-cancer-surgery-and-reprogramming-cells - 2025-11-29

A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across eight European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done. Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural landscapes still negatively affects non-targe

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-pollinators - 2025-11-29

Congratulations on the funding for the research infrastructure ICOS, Natascha Kljun, Scientific Principle Investigator of the Lund University ICOS stations! ICOS Sweden has been awarded a grant of 43.8 million SEK from VR to operate 10 stations for a period of three years. “Thank you! Yes, these are fantastic news. The grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR) will allow us to

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/congratulations-icos - 2025-11-29

Remnants of plastic left by humans can now be found practically everywhere in nature – in waterways, within animals, and even amidst the clouds. In her thesis, Micaela Mafla-Endara examined how nanoplastics that end up in the soil affect the microorganisms living there. The answer is clear: there is an effect on the organisms and how they behave. One could say that Micaela Mafla-Endara and her tea

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nanoplastics-influence-microbial-activity-soil - 2025-11-29

A big congratulations to professor Henrik Smith on receiving the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology from The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Botany and Zoology has been awarded every three years since 1935 to Swedish researchers whom the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund considers to be well deserving. In 2023, the prize is awarded to Henrik Smith for his research e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/professor-henrik-smith-receives-rosen-linnaeus-prize-zoology - 2025-11-29

A comprehensive decision has been negotiated during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The agreement, which calls for a tripling of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, was finalised last week. Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's contact person for the IPCC, participated digitally and comments the decisions

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-deal-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-systems - 2025-11-29

Katarina Hedlund is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson, who left at the turn of the year. Per Persson has moved on to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Katarina Hedlund, professor at the Department of Biology, has been the Deputy Director of CEC for many years. She has also been Director of studies at CEC. “It will be easy to take over such a well-run organizati

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/katarina-hedlund-new-director-cec - 2025-11-29

On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you do

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/three-questions-david-warlind-about-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-11-29

With the aid of two satellites and machine learning, researcher Hakim Abdi is mapping the composition of tree species in Swedish forests down to the individual stands. Through the creation of a method capable of generating annual maps of tree diversity, his aim is to assist in forest management and decision-making regarding both climate and biodiversity strategies. Funded by the Swedish National S

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forest-analysis-through-satellite-data-and-machine-learning - 2025-11-29

On 25-26 October 2019, a group of academics, representatives of NGOs and international organisations, social advocates and politicians met at Antwork Beirut to discuss some of the major challenges for Syria in the coming years. The workshop was funded by the Swedish research council for sustainable development, Formas, and was organised by Helen Avery (CMES) and Chavia Ali (ip-ACIRR).CMES Masters

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/strategies-socially-and-environmentally-sustainable-futures-urgent-challenges-and-emerging - 2025-11-29

CMES Rola El-Husseini participated last week in the annual MESA meeting in New Orleans where she had co-organised a panel titled "Breaking Boundaries or Entrenching Old Ones? Post-Arab Spring Experiences of Women and Political Representation". She also presented a paper titled "Theorising State Feminism in the Arab World after the 2011 Uprisings." "From women’s key role in the Arab Spring and othe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/breaking-boundaries-or-entrenching-old-ones-post-arab-spring-experiences-women-and-political - 2025-11-29

December 16, at 16 00-18 00 the author Maria F Malmström has invited four guests: Jessica Winegar, Nina Gren, Jonas Frykman, Anja Franck to talk about her book. Place: CMES Finngatan 16. "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these even

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt-book-talk - 2025-11-29

New article by CMES water researchers in the journal "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters": Lake Urmia (LU) in northwestern Iran has largely shrunk over the last two decades. The emerged bare, salty soil could turn into a threatening new dust source for the densely populated region around it. Hossein Hashemi is one of the researchers from CMES/LTH: - To quantify LU as a dust source, we exam

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dust-lake-urmia-threatening-densely-populated-region-iran - 2025-11-29

Islamism är ett brett fenomen med många uttrycksformer som måste förstås utifrån sin geografiska och historiska kontext. Det var huvudtesen när islamologen Torsten Janson, universitetslektor vid Centrum för Mellanösternstudier på Lunds universitet, nyligen höll föredrag i Hässleholms stadsbibliotek. Jansons exempel innefattar superhjältar i islamiska seriealbum såväl som Muslimska brödraskapets fö

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamolog-ger-svar-om-islamism-och-ibn-rushd-cmes-torsten-janson-hassleholm-newspaper - 2025-11-29

Försvinnanden och interneringar bland återvändande flyktingar i Syrien, främlingsfientlighet i grannländer och krigets fortgång skapar en omöjlig situation för flyktingarna. Läs Kholoud Mansours artikel om svårigheten att återvända till Syrien. Trycket på syriska flyktingar att återvända ökar. Främlingsfientlig retorik och ekonomisk stress gör deras tillvaro i grannländerna allt svårare. Men från

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/pest-eller-kolera-syrier-kan-inte-atervanda-hem-swedish-cmes-kholoud-mansour - 2025-11-29

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global politics, with a focus on the Middle East, North Africa and citizens in the Diaspora.          How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? NEW TIME AND PLACE:December, 17, 2019: Jessica WinegarJessica Winegar is a sociocultural anthropolog

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-time-and-place-passion-and-global-politics-conversation-series-jessica-winegar - 2025-11-29

Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University Date: 11 November 2019, 1.00 PM - 2.30 PM Research seminar with Maria Malmström, Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern, Lund University and Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York City. Participants: Maria Malmström, Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern, Lund

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-discussion-maria-malmstrom-streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2025-11-29

The magazine will be distributed to the faculties, FSI (Sektion Forskning, Samverkan och Innovation), External relations, LU's management, Bishop's House, Lund municipality via meetings, conferences etc. WIDELY SPREAD AROUND THE WORLDIt will also be sent to Lärosäten Syd's office in Brussels as well as to embassies around the world.FSI will also send it to the other universities management around

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/printed-version-magazine-mission-possible - 2025-11-29

CMES Helen Avery attended the workshop Defending and Exhibiting Diversity in Syrian Museums, 29-31 October 2019. "Looking back to a rich history of the Middle Ages, medieval collections are an integral part of many Arab Museums. This is especially true for the Arab countries in Northern Africa and the Near East: From Morocco to Iraq there exist plenty of large and small, state owned and private mu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/defending-and-exhibiting-diversity-syrian-museums-beirut - 2025-11-29