By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 13 May 2024 “Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulation

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/vinzent-ostermeyer-wrote-best-doctoral-thesis-lusem-2023 - 2025-06-29

Published 15 May 2024 A former student had heard that our senior lecturer in statistics, Pierre Carbonnier was about to retire after this semester. Would we do a feature on him? The student remembered him fondly and added that his mother had also had Pierre as a teacher and thought he was pretty awesome. Few, if any statistics teachers can claim to have reached and inspired more students than Pier

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/44-years-carbonnier-stats-dont-lie - 2025-06-29

Published 16 May 2024 The current platform for strategic work applies until the end of this year, but a decision on an updated version for the period 2025-2027 has already been taken. The revised platform retains its original structure, with four prioritised areas and three general watchwords: innovative, digital and sustainable. The content has however been adjusted in order to better address cur

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/platform-strategic-work-2025-2027 - 2025-06-29

Published 16 May 2024 Regarding the setting up of a tent camp in Lundagård and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent c

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/tent-camp-lundagard-0 - 2025-06-29

Published 16 May 2024 In connection with Pride Week in Lund, the University invites you to join us in a pre-procession get-together, after which we can participate in the Pride parade together. The LundaPride parade takes place on 18 May and the University wishes to take part and highlight the event. All students and employees are welcome to go together in the Pride parade. We start at 11.30 in th

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/join-us-lundapride-18-may-0 - 2025-06-29

Published 22 May 2024 ”I would like to express my gratitude to my many professional colleagues and students with whom I have had the pleasure and fun of working,” says Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics. Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics, Lund University School of Economics and Management and University of Wroclaw, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/statistics-professor-malgorzata-bogdan-named-ims-fellow-2024 - 2025-06-29

Published 28 May 2024 According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement applications.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2025-06-29

Published 28 May 2024 A COIL involves two different courses at two universities in different countries where students collaborate digitally during a part of the course. Each course follows its own syllabus, and the teachers grade their respective students.For several years, Lund University has offered seed money to support teachers who, in collaboration with colleagues from EUGLOH, want to develop

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/do-you-want-take-opportunity-develop-coil - 2025-06-29

Published 28 May 2024 This year’s doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University’s ceremonial highlight and the faculties’ most important academic celebration, will break the record for the number of conferees. It is time to celebrate the faculties’ doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors.Record number of conferees at doctoral degree conferment ceremony – LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/record-number-conferees-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-31-may - 2025-06-29

Published 5 June 2024 The Department of Business Administration has appointed Burak Tunca as the new Director of AI Integration. Burak Tunca, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at LUSEM, is set to lead the department's efforts in incorporating artificial intelligence into our academic framework. "Anxiety or worries about cheating made us lose valuable time in the implementation of AI at the University,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-position-department-business-administration-director-ai-integration - 2025-06-29

Published 5 June 2024 Photo: Kennet Ruona The war between Israel and Hamas may awaken both anxiety and commitment among students and staff.Lund University is committed to ensuring a secure work environment and study environment for everyone. The University does not accept any form of harassment of staff or students. Should this occur, it is taken very seriously, and the University will act in acco

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/secure-environment-everyone - 2025-06-29

Published 11 June 2024 Since joining us at LUSEM in January Maria makes sure our alumns are up to date with the goings on at the School through our external newsletter, events and by keeping in touch with them through LinkedIn and of course though the Alumni Network. Joining the Alumni network is easy. After your studies at LUSEM, you basically sign up and stay in touch for as long as you like. So

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/maria-johansson-our-alumni-relations-manager - 2025-06-29

Published 11 June 2024 The thesis in statistics is titled ”Optimization and Algorithms in Sparse Regressions: Screening Rules, Coordinate Descent, and Normalization”, but what is it about? "It is about statistical models for high-dimensional data, where the number of variables outnumber the number of observations, such as DNA microarray data where there may be hundreds of observations (patients) b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-johan-larsson - 2025-06-29

Published 12 June 2024 The new board had its first meeting on 5 June, and beyond our two external members it really is a brand new group. “We have a strong base to start from and from there we will try to be more relevant for the whole of LUSEM than ever before. For instance we have an aim set at establishing new stipends for our teachers, researchers and guest researchers besides those we already

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/presenting-our-new-partnership-board - 2025-06-29

Published 13 June 2024 The one year presidency of Simon Anderberg draws to a close and on 16 July he hands over the president’s club to Tova Mark. We had an opportunity to meet up with them both in Skånis and of course we leapt at it. Simon, how has the last year matched your expectations?I’m not sure what I expected, but we are at a good place as an organisation. We did not have any radical chang

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-president-another-lundaekonomerna - 2025-06-29

Published 13 June 2024 Lund University has risen to 75th place in the prestigious QS annual ranking. This is an improvement of ten spots on the previous year, placing Lund as the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. In addition, the University has been awarded the QS Sustainability Champions Award.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lund-university-climbs-global-ranking-wins-sustainability-award-0 - 2025-06-29

Published 13 June 2024 Last week our Professor in Economic History, Sylvia Schwaag Serger was appointed as new president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).With an extraordinarily strong background in research and innovation her expertise has been called upon by the European Commission, the OECD, and the World Bank to name but a few.Congrats Sylvia!Read more on IVA's homepa

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sylvia-schwaag-serger-new-president-iva-0 - 2025-06-29

Published 13 June 2024 Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2025-06-29

By pia [dot] berntsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Berntsson) - published 23 March 2021 Photo of Sophia Zackrisson by André de Loisted A new LUCC Coordinator has been appointed by the Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. Professor Sophia Zackrisson has been appointed as the new LUCC coordinator for a 3-year period and she will replace Kristian Pietras as coordinator from March 1st 2

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-lucc-coordinator - 2025-06-29

Published 7 September 2021 New board members: Jesper Petersson and Stefan Jovinge Jesper Petersson, R & D Director Region Skåne will replace Hannie Lundgren (from April 2021) and Stefan Jovinge will replace Ingemar Petersson as representative Region Skåne (Head of Research at Skåne University Hospital) from Autumn 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-members-lucc - 2025-06-29