Associate Professor Aboma Merdasa, MSc, PhD We are happy to announce that Aboma Merdasa has been appointed as an Associated Professor at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University.Aboma will give a seminar to celebrate his appointment on Friday the 16th of May, at 12.30. The seminar will be given in the Conference Room, Eye Clinic (building A), Lund. The date of the seminar

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Jenny Hulth, MD during her doctoral thesis defence. On Friday the 11th of November, Jenny Hulth successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Skin tumor delineation using photoacoustic imaging and hyperspectral imaging."The defence was held at the Medical Faculty in Lund with faculty opponent, examination committee members, supervisors and audience present in the auditorium.The faculty

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Participants AFSIN workshop 2024 In November we had the great pleasure to participate in the African Spectral Imaging Network (AFSIN) workshop in Kpalimé, Togo. The topic of the workshop was on "Clinical Translation of Optical Instrumentation" where we had the opportunity to bring some of our instruments with us for not only educational purposes, but do some interesting experiments. During the 10

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Paulina Ibek did successfully defend her Master thesis entitled "Advancing Precision Diagnostics for Delineation of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Hyperspectral Images" on the 20th of January.

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Visit from Prof. Chulhong Kim and co-workers in SKERIC collaboration We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Chulhong Kim and his students at the Lund University Photoacoustic Center where we engaged in fruitful discussions on how to implement new exciting photoacoustic technology in the clinic. In our exchange, we particularly focused on some of the most pressing challenges faced by clinicians relat

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Associate professor Aboma Merdasa. Aboma Merdasa gave an appreciated seminar about his career within and outside the Academia on Friday the 16th of May, at 12.30. The seminar was part of the celebration of his appointment as an Associated Professor at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University.

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New publication about Giant Cell Arthritis in Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology: Naumovska M, Sheikh R, Engelsberg K, Blohmé J, Hammar B, Malmsjo M: Temporal artery biopsies contract upon surgical excision, but do not shrink further during formalin fixation. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology 2020;49:84-86.

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Niklas Altermark and Emil Edeborg have published their article “Visualizing the Included Subject: Photography, Progress Narratives, and Intellectual Disability” in the journal ”Subjectivity”. In the article, Altermark and Edenborg examine how photographs are used to create a progress narrative of disability politics that hamper our understanding of how this group is being oppressed today.  Learn m

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Annika Bergman Rosamond has, together with Michelle Pace (Roskilde), co-authored the article “Political Legitimacy and celebrity politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East envoy 2007-2016”. The article is published in the journal Middle East Critique. This article explores former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role as the official envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, with many observers quest

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Klas Nilsson has recently received a prize for his dissertation ”The Money of Monarchs”. The award is conferred by Vetenskapssocieteten and was presented at the annual celebration held on November 23. Vetenskapssocieteten exists to promote humanist research, in part by providing support to younger researchers.Nilsson’s dissertation, the Society notes, “makes an important contribution to the study

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Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have published a joint article in “Review of International Studies”, entitled “Misrecognition and the Indian state: The desire for sovereign agency”. In the article, they show how the Indian state is being rethought, restructured and reimagined through Hindu nationalism and how the concept of misrecognition accounts for desires for sovereign agency and group cohe

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Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article ”Theorising Feminist Foreign Policy”, which has been published in International Relations. The article advances a new theoretical framework, which enables a thoroughgoing study of feminist foreign policy. It draws upon feminist international relations theory and the ethics of care to embrace the lived

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/theorising-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-08-27

Maiken Røed has co-authored the article "Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain" published in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article investigates participation bias in the European Commission's online consultations and focuses on the effects of issue characteristics. More information is available on

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Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relationship between politics and

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Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “On the Frontline: Populism and White Nationalism” in the journal Discover Society. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall discusses the dangers of seeing rising ethnic diversity as a threat to democracy and the West – a position held by a number of academics, journalists and commentators in Britain and Europe.Learn more on discoversociety.orgCatarina Kinnval

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Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published an article entitled "Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals–The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus" in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have gained momentum with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Developm

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Are female politicians less likely to be promoted to specific ministerial posts, and is it important for them to toe the party line? Hanna Bäck has, together with Johan Bo Davidsson and Markus Baumann, studied this question in an analysis of Swedish cabinet appointments. The results of their statistical analysis suggest that women are less likely to become ministers when deviating from the party l

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Tobias Dan Nielsen has co-authored an article called ”Global outsourcing of carbon emissions 1995–2009: A reassessment”, which has been publish in the journal ”Environmental Science & Policy”. The article investigates carbon flows in international trade, adjusting for differences in production technology between countries. It provides a more nuanced understanding of the impact of international tra

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Audrey Vandeleene has co-edited the book ”Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy”, which just has been published at Palgrave Macmillan. The book studies electoral candidates and their relationship with political parties and voters in the Belgian partitocratic context.  All book chapters rely on data from the Belgian Candidate Survey 2014 that was coordinated by Audrey Vandeleen

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Karin Aggestam has contributed with a chapter to “Oxford University Press Handbook on Women, Peace and Security” on “WPS, peace negotiations and peace agreements”. The book's editors are Sara Davies and Jacqui True. The chapter analyses women’s representation in peace negotiations and the contents of peace agreements. Based on a comprehensive interview survey of global peacemakers opportunities an

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