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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the latest issue of LUM, Jonas Ardö, Senior Lecturer at our department, discusses how to make resources suffice in the Sahel region. Read the article here.
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2026-10-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Emma Li Johansson, PhD student, collaborates with Scientific American graphic science team for visualizing large scale land acquistions for their May 2015 issue. Read article in Scientific AmericanEmma Li Johansson staff page
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/emma-li-johansson-contributed-graphic-scientific-american - 2026-10-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. QS Top University ranking for 2015 places Lund University as the world's twentieth by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 20 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is an improvement from last year's position of 21. Lund University as a whole also
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-20-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2026-10-09
The Inverse Modelling group at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), Lund University, seeks to appoint a post-doctoral fellows to work on the quantification of biogenic and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions based on assimilating relevant observational data. The main duties involved in a post-doctoral posistion is to conduct research. Teaching may also be inc
https://www.nateko.lu.se/pdf_ccmodelling - 2026-10-09
Postdoctoral fellow in Earth Observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East. The Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announce one vacant position as a 2-year postdoctoral fellow with an orientation towards earth observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics.More than a decade has passed since the
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-position-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observation - 2026-10-09
Researcher Patrik Vestin writes in a " news and views " article in Nature that the woody surfaces of trees may take up methane on a scale of global importance. This is a missing piece in the estimation of global methane budgets, and hence in climate models. Future research should involve not just stems and trunks, but also leaves and small branches to get a fuller picture. Forests play a crucial r
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/bigger-role-trees-global-carbon-cycling - 2026-10-09
Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact on the global carbon cycle, is relatively unexplored with respect to ecosystem functions and impact on climate change. Now one of few in situ studies over a long period of time, 2010-2022, shows that the Sahel area has lost a lot of its power as a carbon sink during the time period examined. Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact o
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reduced-carbon-sink-power-sahel - 2026-10-09
Allowing nature to cover up after human activities, known as rewilding, has several benefits. It improves the resilience of ecosystems, increases biodiversity and favours the interaction between nature and society. This is according to a new study from Lund University. Rewilding is a method that aims to re-establish animal and plant species that have disappeared from a particular area. In a new st
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/rewilding-good-planet-and-people - 2026-10-09
AI and future research was the central question when researchers from across Europe gathered at Lund University earlier this summer for the second full consortium meeting of AI4PEX, a research project focused on improving Earth System Models (ESMs) using the latest AI methods. Bridging AI and Climate Modelling across disciplinesAI4PEX is short for Artificial Intelligence for Process Enhancement in
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/how-can-artificial-intelligence-help-us-better-predict-future-our-planet - 2026-10-09
Each year, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) awards a gold medal to an outstanding researcher in physical geography, human geography, or anthropology. Every third year, the prestigious Vega Medal is presented to a physical geographer, an award that has honored some of the world’s most influential scientists in the field. The Importance of the Vega MedalThe Vega Medal is one
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/call-nominations-2026-vega-medal-physical-geography - 2026-10-09
Are you curious about how forests affect the climate, how the climate affects forests, and how we can actually know anything about the forests of the future? Then this new exhibition at Naturum Skrylle is for you! There’s a lot of talk about forests and their importance for people, the climate, and biodiversity. This exhibition offers brief insights into current research from Lund University on th
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/opening-climate-and-forests-new-popular-science-exhibition-naturum-skrylle-0 - 2026-10-09
From a room in the University Building, via AF-borgen and today’s Centre for Languages and Literature, to the current premises at Geocentrum. From being a small part of the Department of History to becoming two distinct academic directions. The story of the Department of Geography is full of twists and chapters—now documented in a new book by Jonas Åkerman. There are two people who, between them,
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/jonas-akermans-last-excursion-and-story-department - 2026-10-09
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has elected two new members of the Academy’s class for medical sciences. One of them is Malin Parmar, Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Lund University. Together with her research group, Malin Parmar has conducted several groundbreaking studies on stem cells that have led to the development of new treatments for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Using kno
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-elected-royal-swedish-academy-sciences - 2026-10-09
Inflammatory responses in the brain have long been suspected of playing a role in Alzheimer’s disease, but are challenging to monitor in the living human brain. An international collaboration including researchers at MultiPark, Lund University has made it possible to detect elevated levels of Galectin-3, a protein expressed in the immune cells inside the brain. The results were published in Acta N
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/biomarker-reveals-inflammatory-changes-brain-alzheimers-disease - 2026-10-09
Cell replacement therapy has long been a hope for patients with Parkinson’s disease and efforts are on their way to use stem cell derived-dopaminergic neurons in clinical trials. On 14 October, Jessica Giacomoni defends her thesis. Her project about the direct conversion of human glial cells into therapeutic neurons directly within the brain has the ultimate goal to become an alternative to cell t
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/turning-glia-neurons-inside-brain-phd-interview-jessica-giacomoni - 2026-10-09
Numerous studies have suggested that eating a healthy diet may reduce a person’s risk of dementia. A new study from one of MultiPark's research groups, published in Neurology, sheds new light on the impact of having a Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet includes a high intake of vegetables, legumes, fruits, fish and healthy fats such as olive oil, and a low intake of dairy products, meats a
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/does-mediterranean-diet-really-decrease-your-risk-dementia - 2026-10-09
An investigational stem cell-based therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, has been given regulatory approval for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial. Ethical approval of the trial has already been obtained from the Swedish Ethics Review Authority, and the STEM-PD team, led from Lund University in Sweden, is thereby ready to proceed with the trial. “We are excited and looking forward t
Matilde Negrini’s thesis project has been to develop and characterize a rat model of Parkinson’s disease. November 4, she defends her thesis. Here, she talks about her project and most proud moments during her Ph.D. journey. Tell us about your research! My project has been to develop and characterize a rat model of Parkinson’s disease based on the Parkinson’s-related protein alpha-synuclein. This
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/modelling-parkinsons-disease-phd-interview-matilde-negrini - 2026-10-09
MultiPark’s scientists conduct world-leading research in biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease, led by Professor Oskar Hansson at the memory clinic at Skåne University Hospital. He recently met with Bill Gates to discuss the future possibilities in this field. You met with Bill Gates yesterday in Brussels. Why did he want to meet you there? Already five years ago, Gill Gates understood the importance
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multipark-researcher-bill-gates-brussels - 2026-10-09
A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that people with Alzheimer's disease can now be identified before they experience any symptoms. It is now also possible to predict who will deteriorate within the next few years. The study is published in Nature Medicine, and is very timely in light of the recent development of new drugs for Alzheimer's disease. It has long been known that t
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/alzheimers-disease-can-be-diagnosed-symptoms-emerge - 2026-10-09
