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In autumn 2026, the Faculty of Social Science will launch a new international master's programme at Campus Helsingborg: Innovation and Societal Change. The one-year programme is aimed at students who want to understand and influence how innovation can help meet today's major societal challenges, from climate change to social inequality. - Our society, both locally and globally, faces multiple and

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-masters-programme-innovation-and-societal-change-campus-helsingborg - 2025-12-15

On 24 October, the Faculty's six newly appointed professors will be inaugurated at a ceremony in the Main University Building. A total of 28 new professors will be inaugrated at Lund University. De new professors at the Faculty of Social Sciences are:Katherine Gough, Human GeographyMarkus Grillitsch, Economic GeographyKimberly Nicholas, Sustainability ScienceRoger Persson, Work and Organisational

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/congratulations-facultys-six-new-professors - 2025-12-15

The Faculty Office, ”Kansli S”, is currently preparing for a reorganisation at the turn of the year. The aim is to create a clearer, more efficient and better-coordinated organisation that meets the needs of the organisation and demands of the future more effectively. The Faculty Office has had an increasingly complex and growing workload for a long time. To meet this challenge and improve the wor

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-organisation-faculty-office-more-efficient-and-clearer-operational-support - 2025-12-15

Due to a vacancy in the Nominating Committee a by-election is now being held. You have until 26 November to cast your vote. The task of the faculty's Nominating Committee is to prepare nominations and to establish suggestions of candidates for the positions of dean and deputy dean as well as for the Faculty Board and the University Electoral College. As Magnus Jirström is leaving his position in t

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-nominating-committee - 2025-12-15

The Faculty's by-election to the Nominating Committee is now complete, and a meeting to announce the election results has been held at the Faculty Office. The new member of the Nomination Committee is Terese Anving, senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology. The committee now has the following composition:Representatives of teaching staff with research expertiseÅsa Thelander, senior lecturer,

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/terese-anving-elected-facultys-nominating-committee - 2025-12-15

In autumn 2026, the Faculty of Social Sciences will start a new Swedish Master's Programme in Comprehensive Defence and Civil Preparedness at Campus Helsingborg. The programme meets the increasing demand for expertise in the field of total defence and provides students with interdisciplinary knowledge of how society can withstand and manage crises – from security policy challenges to climate chang

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-masters-programme-comprehensive-defence-and-civil-preparedness - 2025-12-15

Several Faculty buildings in the Paradis area in Lund will be given new street addresses. This is due to police and ambulance staff having difficulties finding the exact location when responding to alarms. The new addresses are put into effect on 1 July 2019. Faculty units with new street addresses from 1 JulySchool of Social Work (the new building Gamla köket) – Allhelgona kyrkogata 8 and Norra v

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-street-addresses-paradis-area - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

  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 - 2025-12-15

 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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

The incretin hormones GLP-1 and GIP act like the yin and yang on the body´s blood vessels. While GLP-1 has been associated with protective effects according to new research GIP can contribute to an increased risk of stroke. The findings are published in the scientific journal Diabetes. The incretin hormones GIP and GLP-1 are released from the intestine after eating to stimulate insulin secretion f

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/yin-yang-balancing-act-blood-vessels - 2025-12-15