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Dan Metcalfe has been awarded a Formas Urgent grant for a project on the impact El Niño has on tropical forests. Dan Metcalfe, who recently was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, has been awarded 919 000 SEK for a Formas Urgent grant entitled "The impact of the 2015 El-Niño event on tropical forests: immediate effects and long-term recovery". The project will examine the consequences of this years
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-grant-dan-metcalfe - 2026-01-05
On his 50th birthday April 7th, the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet features Torben Christensen and his research. Read the article here (Google translated).
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/he-conducts-research-chilly-areas - 2026-01-05
QS World University Rankings for 2016 places Lund University as the world's 16th by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 16 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is the an improvement from last year's position of 20.Lund University as a whole is ranked #70, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 100 university" motto.The rankin
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-16-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2026-01-05
... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different ways to communicate and also fun to meet people from all sorts of institutions and
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2026-01-05
Margareta Johansson, researcher at the department, has been elected as the new Chair of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' National Committee for Global Environmental Change. Here she answers some questions regarding this. What's the purpose of the the Academy's National Committee for Global Environmental Change?– Our mission is to ensure that Swedish scientists find out what is happening on t
Ricardo Guillén, IT technician at the department, has been awarded The Science Student Union honorary prize. The honorary prize is awarded to an employee or a group of employees at the Faculty of Science that has made the studies easier for students or works to strengthen the student voice.The prize is partly motivated by the following: "Ricardo consistently provides IT support to all students and
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ricardo-guillen-awarded-luna-honorary-prize - 2026-01-05
Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet during July and August. In July, Markku was featured in Swedish newspapers Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Aftonbladet, discussing climate change, and how global warming can be mitigated.He was also interviewed about the environmental impact of air travel in Svenska Dagbladet the 4th o
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-swedish-newspapers - 2026-01-05
Ylva van Meeningen will enter the stage in a tough competition to show her skills. Forskar Grand Prix is a competition in presenting science in the most catching way, in few minutes. The audience in Lund will be hundreds of students at Polhemsskolan in Lund, on October 7th.There will also be an expert jury of three people.Ylva will present her research on BVOC: the communication of plants and its
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2026-01-05
Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at our department, will receive 10 million euros of EU framework program Horisont 2020. The money is for the infrastructure project INTERACT. INTERACT aims to make available data from around 75 research stations in the Arctic.The project will run for four years. It is coordinated by Margareta Johansson and began October 1.For more information about the pro
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-granted-millions-new-project - 2026-01-05
The teeth of herbivorous mammals provide a detailed account of the climate in which the animals live and of local climate change. Professor Janne Rinne at the Faculty of Science at Lund University, together with his colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki among others, has studied herbivores in 13 different national parks in Kenya. By adding
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2026-01-05
Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide. This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.Read more"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)Ben Smith staff page
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earths-plants-absorb-more-carbon-dioxide - 2026-01-05
Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO) lead to powerful variations in the climate of sub-Saharan Africa. Until now, it
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa - 2026-01-05
The Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme has produced a special issue of the journal AMBIO: Synthesis of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme. The special issue presents 13 papers based on Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (GEM) data. They describe chosen results and analyses of the past 10 and 20 years that the programme has operated at Nuuk and Zackenberg respectively. They co
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ambio-special-issue-greenland-ecosystem-monitoring-programme - 2026-01-05
A population projection dataset of Africa was generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. The publication of this dataset also led to the accreditation of DataGURU as a Nature data repository. A population projection dataset of African population spanning over the rest of this century has been generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. It is the first of its kind as it integrates both s
CMES Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström's upcoming work, published by University of California Press. "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics in the Arab world in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederik
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2026-01-05
Anders Ackfeldt's "Spikning" (Nailing) Ceremony for the completion of his PhD thesis. Congratulations to CMES Lecturer Anders Ackfeldt who on Thursday, 21st February nailed his PhD thesis "Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture" to the wall in the LUX building. The "Spikning" (Nailing Ceremony) is a tradition in Swedish universities and symbolises the completion of the PhD project and it
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamic-semiotic-resources-us-hip-hop-culture - 2026-01-05
Workshop held at the Department of Human Geography, 6-7th February 2019. Following the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Goal 11, making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable will be the focus of the workshop’s discussions. Swedish and Turkish scholars contribute to the subject matter from the angle of an advanced capitalist country context and an emergi
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-financialisation-housing-and-violation-housing-rights-global-north-and-south - 2026-01-05
On the 31st January, Philip Proudfoot (anthropology, University of Bath, UK, and Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden) and Mahdi Zaidan, independent researcher and activist, Beirut, Lebanon, presented a paper in a EuroStorie research seminar organised by the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki. Titled "Against abando
CMES Persian instructor Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi is contributing to the UPF magazine the Perspective with a piece about the fascinating relation between Persian literature and the current pandemic outbreak – and what this means for human affinity. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, while announcing the extension of quarantine in Spain, spoke to people and recited verses of Sa’di (d.1291) the 13th
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coronavirus-and-persian-literary-humanism - 2026-01-05
Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling at over 1.3 mill
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2026-01-05
