Published 28 February 2014 Geologist Charlotte Sparrenbom could be called a water detective. In her research, she searches for facts about underground water and its age in order to investigate and minimise the risk of pollution in groundwater. She is very concerned about insufficient monitoring of water quality by Swedish authorities. Senior lecturer Charlotte Sparrenbom is participating in the ne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/water-detective - 2025-07-25

Published 28 February 2014 Meet Ingvar Wirfelt – the new managing director of Gerdahallen, the university sports centre, from 1 March. What do you think is lacking at Gerdahallen at the moment? “I think there are a good range of activities and that the centre is good at picking up new trends. ‘Indoor walking’ is something I’d like to see – but it requires a lot of space. ‘Crossfit’ is another new

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-lacking-gerdahallen - 2025-07-25

Published 28 February 2014 Enzymes developed in Lund could be used in university and industry labs worldwide in the future. This is what Professor Eva Nordberg Karlsson hopes; her research group has signed a contract with an Icelandic biotech company that is going to sell their products. Eva Nordberg Karlsson wants to give other researchers reliable access to enzymes. Photo: Ingela Björck The cont

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/enzymes-lund-set-take-over-world - 2025-07-25

Published 3 March 2014 Patients with diabetes or Parkinson’s disease can be cured with stem cells at a clinic in China. Multiple sclerosis, stroke and cerebral palsy are treated at a stem cell clinic in Mexico, and in Thailand, the deadly disease ALS can be cured with stem cells... at least according to advertising from these and other clinics around the world. Desperate individuals travel there i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hyped-hope-shady-stem-cell-clinics-take-advantage-desperate-patients - 2025-07-25

Published 3 March 2014 The situation of patients with Huntington’s disease is in many respects different from patients with other serious conditions. “The condition affects the brain, the very foundation of who we are, and is caused by a diseased gene. If you have the gene, you will develop the disease sooner or later, regardless of how healthy a lifestyle you have”, says ethnologist Niclas Hagen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/difficult-living-risk-huntingtons - 2025-07-25

Published 28 March 2014 Petra Östergren is a social anthropologist who has received SEK 3 million to participate in a major new EU project about how to tackle human trafficking by studying demand. Around 15 researchers from eight countries are taking part in the project, the goal of which is to reduce the suffering that results from the worst forms of exploitation. Petra Östergren. “No. We often t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/human-trafficking-primarily-about-prostitution - 2025-07-25

Published 28 March 2014 This autumn she was awarded SEK 22 million in ERC grants for her Alzheimer’s research. In addition, she is a member of the Nobel Prize committee for chemistry, she has written children’s books, won the veterans’ European Championship in orienteering and is director of Humlegården, a day centre for people with autism. Meet Professor of Chemistry Sara Snogerup Linse. Sara Sno

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/multi-tasking-top - 2025-07-25

Published 28 March 2014 What if you could take a substance that allows a nasty bacterium to resist the human immune system and develop it into a drug to help people with completely different diseases? It sounds like a fairy tale for medical researchers. Yet this is precisely what is about to happen in Lund. Lars Björck hopes that the enzyme IdeS can be used to treat a number of autoimmune diseases

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/enzyme-killer-bacteria-could-save-seriously-ill-kidney-patients - 2025-07-25

Published 28 March 2014 In our everyday lives, we surround ourselves with electronics without really thinking about it. We go to work by car or train, travel by air when we go on holiday, and are reliant on our mobile phones, iPads and laptops. We take the products’ functions for granted, until they suddenly stop working. The fact is that this happens fairly often – every year in Sweden, we pay ro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-project-produce-more-reliable-electronics - 2025-07-25

Published 28 March 2014 At the Academy of Music in Malmö, Peter Spissky from Czechoslovakia found an opportunity to develop his interest in baroque music – a genre that didn’t suit the political system in his homeland. Through his research on how gestures taken from speech, acting and dance can be compressed into the movement of the bow, he hopes to come closer to the lively, vibrant playing that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/bowing-swing - 2025-07-25

Published 31 March 2014 For a researcher to be successful, he or she not only needs to produce good research – it also has to gain exposure. However, there is competition for space in scientific and popular science journals. This has led to the growth of a grey area with unprofessional journals that take payment from researchers who want their work to appear. Kristoffer Holmqvist recommends the in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unprofessional-open-access-publishing-new-industry - 2025-07-25

Published 3 April 2014 Industrialised construction gained momentum during the record years with the Million Program in the 1960s. Wall panels were constructed in factories and assembled on site, whereas the rest was mostly made artisanally. Today, industrialised construction involves embracing industrial principles and adopting them to the specific conditions of construction “This involved mass pr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sweden-and-japan-worlds-foremost-countries-within-industrialised-construction - 2025-07-25

Published 3 April 2014 Jerker Lessing is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and has a burning interest in the subject of industrialised construction. Although his academic career is still in its early stages, he has already led two courses at Stanford University, California. And now, at the end of March, his latest students will visit Lund University to see how far Sweden has c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lth-doctoral-student-sought-after-lecturer-stanford-university - 2025-07-25

Published 5 May 2014 Could green citizen journalism on social media be a way to solve China’s huge environmental problems? “Perhaps. Citizen journalism forces change. However, the authorities still believe that experts and more control from above will solve the problem of climate change. They haven’t understood that the trend cannot be reversed without the involvement of a grassroots movement.” An

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/green-grassroots-journalism-important-tackle-chinas-environmental-problems - 2025-07-25

Published 5 May 2014 How did the education system develop? Why did some countries choose to secularise schools completely, while others gave state support to private religious schools? Johannes Lindvall has conducted a survey of how Western schooling developed and had his article published in the world’s most prestigious political science journal. Johannes Lindvall. American Political Science Revi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/article-development-school-system-published-prestigious-journal - 2025-07-25

Published 5 May 2014 Just before Christmas, his department lost out on a top international researcher, an investment worth over SEK 100 million. A month later, his group reported a major breakthrough in pheromone research. Professor Christer Löfstedt, head of the Department of Biology, one of the largest departments at Lund University, features in the first of a series of articles on day-to-day ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rollercoaster-life-head-department - 2025-07-25

Published 5 May 2014 Pear-shaped atomic nuclei can reveal clues as to why the Universe is made up of more matter than anti-matter. Professor of Physics Joakim Cederkäll’s research on this type of atomic nucleus has now made it onto the top 10 of breakthroughs in physics from 2013. Professor of Physics Joakim Cederkäll talks about the hunt for answers to the mystery of matter and anti-matter. Photo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pear-shaped-atomic-nuclei-top-10-break-throughs-physics - 2025-07-25

Published 4 May 2014 Scholarships from the EU have also strongly favoured Lund University’s exchanges with the surrounding world. Thanks to EU scholarships, a total of close to 18 000 students, researchers and other staff have come to Lund University or travelled to countries within Europe and beyond in the past fourteen years. There has been more incoming than outgoing traffic, but in recent year

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-membership-profitable-lu - 2025-07-25

Published 4 May 2014 Attitudes to the EU are divided and uncertainty is great concerning the number of people who will vote in the EU parliamentary elections on 25 May. For Lund University, however, Sweden’s membership in the EU has brought substantial benefits. Lund is one of the Swedish universities that rake in most millions for research. The EU’s latest three framework programmes for research

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/18-000-eu-scholarships-have-promoted-exchange - 2025-07-25

Published 6 May 2014 Stortorget, the main square in the centre of Malmö, has looked the same for the past 35 years or so but the way in which the city’s inhabitants use the space has changed. These changes provide a picture of the development of the city and community, from an industrial society to a society based on services and consumption. Mattias Kärrholm. Photo: Kennet Ruona Professor of arch

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-malmo-city-dwellers-take-break-stortorget - 2025-07-25