Derek Logan, Ulf Nilsson and Karin Lindkvist are all adding bits to solve the protein puzzle. Photo: Tove Smeds Research is like solving a puzzle, some might say. One of the biggest of these is the body’s proteins – with over 90,000 pieces to keep track of. LUM meets three professors of protein to understand what makes the subject so fascinating and how they are working to understand when proteins

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-professors-puzzle - 2025-08-26

Illustration: Axel Brechensbauer One of the biggest perks of teaching at university? Supervising students and seeing them grow into their role. That is at least according to senior lecturers Olof Hallonsten and Anna Jonsson. Detectives with magnifying glasses and catching and preparing a fish. Those are two of the metaphors that Anna Jonsson and Olof Hallonsten use to explain the relationship betw

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/comic-strips-and-metaphors-help-students-reflect - 2025-08-26

The core samples of millennia-old ice bear witness of severe solar storms long ago. Photo: Raimund Muscheler Contained within Greenland’s millennia-old ice are the traces of gigantic solar storms. Geology professor Raimund Muscheler is now undertaking a major initiative to chart the storms back through time, to improve our knowledge of potentially dangerous solar flares. Our sun is currently in an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ice-stone-age-might-reveal-future-solar-storms - 2025-08-26

Fredrik Tufvesson, a professor of Communications Engineering at LTH, is in the midst of developing 6G technology for use in the 2030s. Photo: Jessika Sellergren Everyone is familiar with the frustration that comes when otherwise excellent mobile phone reception suddenly drops out. The moment when all mobile communication becomes impossible. But why does this happen and what is really behind the nu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/energy-efficiency-key-future-6g-technology - 2025-08-26

Sverre Spoelstra is currently doing research on gamification in high-performance organisations and algorithmic leadership. Photo: Louise Larsson In just a few years, artificial intelligence has gone from horror film bogie man to a tool integrated into every phone and computer. From spell check to shopping recommendations – and now to allocating tasks at work and measuring performance. LUM met with

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/will-your-next-boss-be-artificially-intelligent - 2025-08-26

Annika Olsson, dean of LTH, Magnus Genrup, head of the Department of Energy Sciences, and Karolina Isaksson, Head of Finance at LTH. Photo: Kennet Ruona, Johan Persson and private Lund University’s researchers are good at applying for and obtaining external research grants. But many funding bodies require faculties and departments to co-fund research projects, something that is becoming a major fi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/co-funding-increasingly-difficult-challenge - 2025-08-26

Tony Ingesson and David Gisselsson Nord. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with the help of methods from espionage and intelligence analysis. Tony Ingesson finds it fairly easy

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2025-08-26

Pictured left to right: Blerim Emruli, Erik Påander, Jordina De Sousa, Iván Ortiz Del Noval & Alfriyadi Rafles. Photo: Carla Böhme. Students on the Master's Programme in Information Systems have the opportunity to earn valuable business analytics certificates to boost their resumes. The international Master's Programme in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/students-empowered-industry-recognised-certificates - 2025-08-25

The dean of the Faculty of Science Sven Lidin on the overgrown field that will soon start its metamorphosis into the research mecca, Science Village. It is a catalyst that will modernise the Faculty of Science, both at Brunnshög and Sölvegatan. Dean Sven Lidin may have become “nearsighted, flabby and middle-aged” during his ten years in symbiosis with Science Village, but his future visions are mo

https://www.science.lu.se/article/facultys-journey-towards-science-village-brunnshog - 2025-08-25

Every chair is taken and the leaders of the workshop have had to turn participants away. Among doctoral students, there is clearly great interest in the topic – to finish your thesis on time and feel good along the way.   “I think the workshop is great, it opens your mind and the techniques seem realistic to use in your work”, says Kristin Osk Ingvarsdottir who this spring will commence the final

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-survive-your-thesis - 2025-08-25

This year's final surpassed even last year's in terms of excitement and impressive serves—and last year's final was already in a class of its own! Photo: Anna Löthman On 2 April, it was time for the the annual FEK Table Tennis Tournament again, and this year also marked its 10th anniversary! The competition first started in 2013 but has had three breaks over the years, which is why the 10-year cel

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/who-made-it-podium-years-fek-table-tennis-tournament - 2025-08-25

The researchers could see an increase in the number of pregnancies and a relative number of 38% more babies born among women who received hormone therapy that matched their gene variation compared with those who did not. Photo: iStock Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have conducted a clinical study to show how a woman’s genetic profile provides information on which hormone treatment is mos

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/higher-success-rate-using-simple-oral-swab-test-ivf - 2025-08-25

Sevda Gheibi studies a protein called ACSL1 that seems to play a key role for beta cell function. She receives a grant of from the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation for further studies of this protein. Photo: Petra Olsson Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that usually requires lifelong treatment. A central goal for many diabetes researchers is to develop new cell therapies that can cure the disease. Th

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hjelt-diabetes-foundation-supports-research-can-pave-way-new-cell-therapies - 2025-08-25

Pufendorf-temat DigiJustice har nu avslutat sin första termin. Två temamedlemmar och forskare från Institutionen för informatik delar med sig av sina erfarenheter av temat så här långt. Miranda Kajtazi, docent i informatik, leder det pågående Pufendorf-temat DigiJustice tillsammans med Lena Halldenius, professor i mänskliga rättigheter. Institutionen för informatik representeras också av Osama Man

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/en-host-med-digijustice-informatikperspektivet - 2025-08-25

Kan du berätta lite om ditt forskningsområde?Min forskning sträcker sig över livsspannet. Vi undersöker prevention och behandling och använder skada i led som riskfaktor för artros. Vi gör studier från unga med skada eller risk för skada till äldre med artros och har fokus på träning.Kan du berätta om dina pågående forskningsprojekt?I-PROTECT är ett projekt som handlar om att förebygga skada i led

https://www.artrosportalen.lu.se/artikel/mot-eva-ageberg - 2025-08-25

Lundaforskarna har tittat på vilka patienter som tryggt kan tas vidare till vanlig vårdavdelning, utan intensivvård. Foto: iStock Många patienter med akut bröstsmärta blir inlagda på vårdavdelning – trots att bara en bråkdel av dem behöver akut, högspecialiserad hjärtsjukvård. Forskaren och akutläkaren Tsvetelina Nilsson har i sitt avhandlingsarbete undersökt hur dessa patienter – på ett säkert sä

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/fokus-spara-tid-och-pengar-till-akut-hjartsjukvard - 2025-08-26

Svenska och kanadensiska forskare, samt ett 50-tal expertgranskare och kardiologer, har visat hur hur känslig och träffsäker AI kan vara vid bedömning av långtids-EKG för att hitta avvikelser i hjärtrytmen. Bild: iStock/alexaldo. Vid besvär av bland annat oregelbunden hjärtrytm, yrsel eller svimning kan EKG behöva registreras under flera dygn – långtids-EKG – som sedan granskas för att hitta avvik

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ai-ar-battre-manniskan-pa-att-bedoma-langtids-ekg - 2025-08-26

Opera AI Kaidan. Foto: Chris Scott, Operactive Arts I gränslandet mellan estetik och ekonomi omvandlar Centrum för estetik och företagets kreativitet (ABC) innovation genom att sammanföra estetik, ekonomi och teknik i ett organisatoriskt sammanhang. Vi fick möjlighet att prata med Alexandra Huang-Kokina och Robin Porsfelt – två nya postdoc röster som hjälper till att forma centrets ambitiösa visio

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/dar-konst-moter-innovation - 2025-08-25

Joakim Zander på favoritfiket som också figurerar i boken, kanske också i den kommande filmatiseringen? Foto: Johan Persson Ekonomihögskolans Joakim Zander blev jurist i Uppsala och doktor i Nederländerna, men författarskapet har han tagit med sig till Lund, hem­staden sedan drygt tio år. Den 31 juli har filmatiseringen av spännings­romanen ”Ett ärligt liv” premiär på Netflix. Där utgör Lund både

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/lund-i-huvudrollen-nar-zanders-roman-blir-film - 2025-08-25

Migrantarbetare. Omslagsbild till Rustam Urinoyevs bok Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. Foto: Bokens författare De ekonomiska sanktionerna mot Ryssland efter invasionen av Ukraina har destabiliserande effekter även i Centralasien. Eftersom ekonomiska och sociala påfrestningar i Ryssland kan leda till omfattande uppsägningar av migrantarbetare förber

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/centralasiatiska-gastarbetare-hotas-av-massarbetsloshet - 2025-08-25