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Are you planning to write your thesis topic related to at least one of the South Asian countries? Or have you already defended your thesis with a connection to the region? Then the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award may be for you. The Award has been awarded since 2022 and is given to an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived), which has been s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-our-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20222023 - 2025-12-17

In the coming four years Mine Islar, Senior lecturer at LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies), will lead projects working on sustainable development, political ecology and social justice in the intersection of climate change and biodiversity in the Himalayas.  The funding was granted for two projects by the Swedish government research council for sustainable development FORMAS

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/mine-islar-receives-funding-studying-climate-change-and-biodiversity-himalayas - 2025-12-17

Soumi Banerjee, Tabita Rosendal and Sunny Gurumayum were all chosen to receive this semester's SASNET Doctoral travel grant. Read more about their individual projects here. SASNET has decided to award travel grants to three doctoral students at Lund University. They will use the grant to fund their fieldwork in India and Sri Lanka during the coming months. Soumi Banerjee: "Performing legitimacy in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/three-doctoral-students-receive-sasnet-travel-grant - 2025-12-17

PhD candidate Maria Tonini at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Ambiguities of Recognition – Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India” on Friday 13 May 2016. The faculty opponent was Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Venue: Auditoriet/Hörsalen, Kulturen, Tegnérplatsen in Lund. The thesis de

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/doctoral-thesis-homosexuality-contemporary-india - 2025-12-17

Read about our activities during 2022 in our newly published Activity Report. During 2022, SASNET conducted a wide range of activities to promote, support and disseminate research on South Asia at Lund University.  From arranging activities in collaboration with academic departments, research groups and student organisations at the University, SASNET also awarded several researchers with grants fo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2022-published - 2025-12-17

Two visiting Indian researchers – Dr V. Sivasubramanian and Professor N Thajuddin, held an appreciated SASNET lecture at Lund University on Monday 23 May 2016, 13.15–14.00. The seminar, organized in collaboration with the Division of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Department of Technology and Society at Lund University, was entitled ”Microalgal  Biotechnology and Phycoremediation techno

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-seminar-successful-indian-microalgal-biotechnology-research - 2025-12-17

PhD candidate Andreas Johansson at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR), Lund University, defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Pragmatic Muslim Politics. The Case of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress” on Friday 27 May 2016, at 10.00. Andreas is also connected to the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University in Växjö/Kalmar, and has therefore had double supervisors,  Prof.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-defends-thesis-muslim-politics-sri-lanka - 2025-12-17

2010 startade en av världens största studier av genernas betydelse vid bröstcancer i ett tätt samarbete mellan Lunds universitet och sjukvården i södra Sverige. Nu, sju år senare, har man inom forskningsprojektet, SCAN-B (Sweden Cancerome Analysis Network Breast), samlat in prover från mer än 10 000 patienter. Varje år insjuknar drygt 8000 svenska kvinnor i bröstcancer. Trots att prognosen är god,

https://www.scan-b.lu.se/artikel/prov-fran-10-000-patienter-ska-ge-battre-cancerbehandling - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, as researchers prepare to map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, 4MOST – the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope – collects spectra, that

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

  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 - 2025-12-17

 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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17