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Lund University is investing SEK 19.7 million in research infrastructure for 2026–2030. Among the 11 funded projects, Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) receives SEK 2 million for “Bringing data-driven live-cell super-resolution 3D-microscopy to Lund University,” strengthening bioimaging capabilities and advancing cellular research. Lund University has allocated funds to support local resear

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-receives-funding-advance-live-cell-super-resolution-3d-microscopy - 2025-11-15

This year’s largest grant from the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation goes to WCMM Fellow Vinay Swaminathan at Lund University, who has been awarded SEK 5 million for a project that aims to uncover how healthy breast tissue develops into tumours and spreads. Swaminathan’s research group studies the early stages of cancer development using advanced 3D tissue models that mimic the tumou

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/wcmm-fellow-vinay-swaminathan-sek-5-million-ingabritt-and-arne-lundberg-research-foundation - 2025-11-15

As autumn settles in and the leaves begin to fall, it’s once again time for the annual 7T User Meeting, an afternoon dedicated to sharing updates, exchanging ideas and exploring the exciting research made possible by the 7 Tesla MR facility. This year’s meeting will take place on 5 November 2025, from 13:00 to 16:00, at Forum Medicum, room BMC:E16003 Utblicken. Participation is free of charge, but

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/join-us-2025-7t-user-meeting-updates-insights-and-collaboration - 2025-11-15

Astronomdagarna is a conference that gathers astronomers from across Sweden. It was held in Lund during October 2-4, 2024, with over 120 people attending.  The national conference Astronomdagarna is held every other year, with different universities taking turns on hosting the conference.  Back in 2022 the Astronomdagarna conference was held in Gothenburg.  Last time the conference was here in Lun

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/astronomdagarna-2024 - 2025-11-15

In a recent paper, Nicholas Borsato, along with collaborators Jens Hoeijmakers, Bibiana Prinoth, Brian Thorsbro, and Rebecca Forsberg, provides insightful research on the complex atmospheric composition of the exoplanet KELT-9b. The team captured the exoplanet's spectra during transit, revealing numerous elements within its atmosphere.This study not only verifies the presence of previously known e

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/terbium-among-heavy-elements-discovered-atmosphere-exoplanet-kelt-9b - 2025-11-15

The European Space Agency Buissness Incubator Center (ESA BIC) hosted a meet-and-greet event at Ideon on April 25th.  Local professionals got to know more about ESA BIC and about a few of the ongoing space projects in Lund. This was well received by the people attending the event, and rumor has it that ESA BIC will arrange more such events in the future. 

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/meet-and-greet-esa-bic - 2025-11-15

Astronomers invited members of the public to look at the spring skies through the teaching telescopes. There are a number of both historical and modern telescopes at Lund Observatory.  Usually these are used for teaching purposes but every now and then the astronomers decide to stay at work late into the evening in order to give members of the public the chance for some stargazing. This spring thr

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/stargazing - 2025-11-15

  There is so much more to space than just rocket science. So said Deborah Lygonis, CEO Friendbase AB and Investor Relations, Innovatum, at a national hybrid lunch meeting titled ”The Future of the Space Industry”, which was jointly organised by ESA BIC and Women In Space Sweden (WISS) on May the fourth. She went on to explain how the space industry loosly divides into ’Upstream’ (including rocket

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/future-space-industry - 2025-11-15

 Several members of the Lund Observatory network gathered in Lundmarkssalen today to listen to Göran Östlins from Stockholm University give a seminar titled: "SELTIC, Swedish engagement in ELT instrumentation".SELTIC is a consortium developing instruments, such as MOSAIC and ANDES, for ESOs ELT - which is currently under construction and scheduled for first light in 2028.This was the first seminar

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/swedish-engagement-elt-instrumentation-development - 2025-11-15

The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory. Attending this year's Space Research School were twenty intelligent, motivated and space-interested high school students from across Sweden.   During their 10 days in Lund the group of high school students attended several lectures given by university

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/rfs-2023 - 2025-11-15

Prof. Joe Liske from Hamburg University, Germany, visited the Lund Observatory network on September 28th 2023 and gave a talk titled "Cosmological Conundrums". This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/cosmological-conundrums - 2025-11-15

Prof. Stephen Mojzsis from the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK) in Budapest, Hungary, visited the Lund Observatory Network and gave a talk titled "Galactic chemical evolution expressed in rocky exoplanet geodynamics" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.  

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/galactic-chemical-evolution-expressed-rocky-exoplanet-geodynamics - 2025-11-15

Dr. Chiara Paleari from the Department of Geology gave a Lund Observatory Seminar titled "The search for extreme solar particle storms in polar ice cores" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.  

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/search-extreme-solar-particle-storms-polar-ice-cores - 2025-11-15

Assistant professor Ása Skúladóttir from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy, gave a seminar titled "Digging into dwarf galaxies" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series. 

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/digging-dwarf-galaxies - 2025-11-15

Johan Pries, Postdoc researcher at the department, has been granted funding for a three year project. Building on ongoing Vetenskapsrådet-funded research about the Swedish People’s Parks movement, this second project was recently awarded a grant of close to three million from the FORMAS research council. The project will shift from the earlier history of the People’s Parks at their zenith in the e

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/johan-pries-lead-project-called-folkrorelsernas-kulturarv-omvandling-bevarande-och-liv-i-de-svenska - 2025-11-15

Mads Barbesgaard, lecturer at the department, has received funding for a research project. Mads has received 3.150.000 SEK in support from VR for a post-doc project titled Myanmar’s energy landscapes and the politics of geography. The project examines struggles around expansions of energy infrastructure in the midst of competing state territorialization projects, contested capital accumulation and

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/research-funding-myanmars-energy-landscapes-and-politics-geography - 2025-11-15

A research project led by Muriel Côte, senior lecturer at the department, has received funding. FORMAS will fund a project called “Fair gold? Institutionalising labour and environmental standards along the certified gold supply chain”, as part of their Annual open call 2020 - Research projects for early-career researchers, for nearly 4 million SEK for four years (2021-2024), led by Muriel Côte  an

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/research-funding-fair-gold-institutionalising-labour-and-environmental-standards-along-certified - 2025-11-15

The study aims to assess under what social, economic and spatial conditions that processes of urbanization at the lowest level of the urban hierarchy can promote the livelihoods and welfare of residents in small towns. Together with Ola Hall from the Department and colleagues at the University of Dar es Salaam, Makerere University, University of Ghana and the International Centre for Local Democra

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/agnes-andersson-djurfeldt-has-been-awarded-funding-vetenskapsradet-study-lower-level-urbanization - 2025-11-15

Markus Grillitsch, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, and his team has been awarded for their work with ‘Coffee Break With Researchers’.   The winning platform can be found here http://www.coffeebreakwithresearchers.org

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/coffee-break-researchers-won-rsa-media-communications-regional-studies-award - 2025-11-15

”I DN-journalisten Lasse Wierups hyllade bok ”Gangsterparadiset” finns ett antal kartor som förklarar mer än åratal av nyhetsrapportering om gängbrottsligheten. Det är kulturgeografen Nicklas Guldåker vid Lunds universitet som har gjort en socioekonomisk kartläggning av tre utanförskapsområden utifrån barntäthet och livsvillkor. Resultatet visar i korthet att allt hänger ihop: ju fler barn och ju

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/kulturgeograf-vid-lunds-universitet-bidrar-med-kartor-till-hyllad-bok - 2025-11-15