The University Board has appointed Lena Eskilsson as deputy vice-chancellor of Lund University 2021-2026. Eskilsson is a senior lecturer in human geography and has many years’ experience in education and leadership issues at Lund University. Since 2018, she has been the pro dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. “It is an incredible honour to be entrusted with this role by the Electoral College a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lena-eskilsson-new-deputy-vice-chancellor - 2025-08-25

Håkan Håkansson, Anders Scherstén and Robin Gullstrand browse geological images of the Dolomite mountain range in northeast Italy. Photo:Kennet Ruona In 2016, a forgotten archival treasure was found in the cellar of the Department of Geology. The material included a unique map of Iceland from 1844 and a geological map of the whole of New Zealand dated 1869. Now 322 works have been restored and pla

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-treasure-trove-maps-restored-its-former-glory - 2025-08-25

Earning money on the book is not an incentive for either of them. Charlotta Turner intends to donate her share to Nadia Nurad’s initiative to rebuild the villages destroyed by ISIS. Former doctoral student Firas Jumaah and supervisor Charlotta Turner have had a special bond since 2014, when Jumaah and his family got caught up in the first ISIS lightning offensive in Iraq.  Employing far-reaching m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2025-08-25

Eva Nordmark comes to Humlamaden three times a week to help look after the horses. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Eva Nordmark was 62 when she received her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. But rather than life ending, it gave her the chance to reclaim parts of her life that she had not previously had time for. It is a sunny autumn day at the Humlamaden rehab centre outside Veberöd, and the stable is full of life and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-memory-fails - 2025-08-25

Oskar Hansson and Sara Linse collaborate across faculties and their research has recently localised a drug that could potentially slow the progress of Alzheimer’s and be made available to the market next year. Photo: Johan Joelsson She is a chemist. He is a medic. Together they are behind some of the major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research in recent times. Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2025-08-25

 To achieve the University’s emissions targets, students and employees must for example, reduce how much CO2 they produce when commuting . Cycling is one alternative. Photo: Kennet Ruona By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2025-08-25

Torbjörn von Schantz is satisfied that the management group has got better at taking collective responsibility. Photo: Kennet Ruona Torbjörn von Schantz finds that he has made good progress on the road to a united University. In his management group, he now sees more of a shared assumption of responsibility and less of a silo mentality and special interests. What he has missed most during his year

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/outgoing-vice-chancellor-satisfied-see-more-people-taking-collective-responsibility - 2025-08-25

It is not only the central University management team that is changing. Several faculties will also be getting new management. Here is a list of the new faculty leaders for the forthcoming period. Find out who is to be dean and pro dean for each faculty as of the new year. Faculty of Engineering Annika Olsson becomes new Dean. Heiner Linke becomes new Deputy Dean. Faculty of Fine and Performing Ar

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-faculty-management-teams - 2025-08-25

As of the new year, a new University management team will take over the helm. For the next term of office, 2021-2026, the University will be led by vice-chancellor Erik Renström and deputy vice-chancellor Lena Eskilsson, together with five pro vice-chancellors and the University director. “The choice of pro vice-chancellors was based on identifying skilled academic leaders with a passion for their

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-university-management-2021-2026 - 2025-08-25

During the autumn of 2019, an analysis was conducted of how the faculties and the University's IT functions currently manage incidents and events that threaten our information security. Preparatory analyses, training, activities and a management dialogue have been ongoing since 2019 in the field of information security. The University is affected on a daily basis by events that negatively affect o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/information-security-incidents-and-events - 2025-08-25

The Government has now presented the Research and Innovation Bill for this mandate period, which indicates the way forward for Swedish research policy. The Government's starting point is that free research must be safeguarded while the research policy must respond to global and national societal challenges. In the bill, the Government presents the research policy for 2021–2024. The policy is based

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/governments-new-research-bill - 2025-08-25

When Lund University switched to digital teaching there were many challenges both for the teaching staff and students. How exams and assessment were to be conducted now that the students were not on-site was an important question and a very difficult challenge. The existing tools for digital on-campus exams were tested for online exams. Inspera, a digital tool that some of the teaching staff and a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-exams-campus-and-remote-solutions - 2025-08-25

Farshid Jalalvand researches how to develop safe vaccines to prevent respiratory tract infections that cause ear and eye inflammation. Photo: Mahendar Kadari Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-08-25

“What side effects can you get?"," What unnatural chemicals do they inject?" and "Is it unnecessary to get vaccinated?" are some questions that vaccine sceptics ask themselves, according to Mia-Marie Hammarlin. Photo: Anna Aatola Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2025-08-25

"It is easy to feel that you are losing control when things change quickly and you don't know exactly how your employees are coping at home", says Anne Link, head of the Occupational Health Service. Photo: Jenny Loftrup The number of managers at the University who have consulted the Occupational Health Service for preventive purposes has risen during the pandemic. "It is easy to feel that you are

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2025-08-25

Vice-chancellor Erik Renström in the Wrangel building, where he is located with his faculty office until Kungshuset is completely renovated in the autumn of 2022. Photo: Kennet Ruona Ceremonies have a certain power that speaks more to the emotions than to the intellect. This is the opinion of the newly inaugurated vice-chancellor Erik Renström, who sees the value in academic traditions. In his man

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integrity-and-character - 2025-08-25

Dragana Trivic working out in the laundry room. LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways of keeping active. "I work out i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2025-08-25

LU has fine laboratories with advanced equipment. But one RQ20 panel wonders how these are to be used and by whom? PHOTO: Kennet Ruona Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-08-25

Together with Sara Linse, professor of biochemistry and Oskar Hansson, professor of clinical memory research, Johannes Rousk is one of three LU-researchers on the list of the world’s most influential researchers. Photo: Kathrine Rousk Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was ma

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2025-08-25

Few employees utilise health promotion benefits As the Swedish Tax Agency’s guidelines now allow health promotion reimbursement for apps for activities like running, Lund University has decided, as of 1 January 2021, also to approve health promotion reimbursement for participation in running groups led by a gym or other organisation with a corporate identity number.  Read more about health promoti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/health-promotion-reimbursement-participation-running-groups - 2025-08-25