Claus-Christian Eckhardt, the Director of the School of Industrial Design is relieved. Photo: Erik Andersson A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-08-23

1.5 million Swedes and 850 million people globally suffer from migraines, a condition that Lars Edvinsson has been researching for almost forty years. Practically every day over the past year, he has received thank you letters from all over the world from patients whose lives have been transformed thanks to new medication based on his research. However, the path leading to this point has been long

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/migraine-researcher-who-bucked-trend - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

“Cultural heritage means a great deal for Syria’s identity and is something we all share. It can help to reconcile groups that were previously in conflict”, says Anas Al Khabour. In his homeland, Syria, he was a museum director – but today there is not much left of the National Archaeological Museum in Raqqa after it was plundered by IS. “I try to do what I can to save the cultural heritage”, says

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fighting-save-syrias-cultural-heritage - 2025-08-23

The precise construction design for Science Village is still unclear, with the possible exception of the common Space (in the background) which will be the first building to be erected in the area. This will house a reception, restaurant and exhibition ab "Now I dare to rejoice a little", says Sven Lidin, dean of the Faculty of Science. "The uphill task that establishment in Brunnshög had become a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemists-jump-science-village-bandwagon - 2025-08-23

"There is so much freedom and so many opportunities here – it is a fantastic place. But if my main task is to be smart, there must be the conditions for it." says Jimmie Kristensson. Photo: Kennet Ruona Enjoying your job is a condition for both academic success and freedom, according to pro vice-chancellor Jimmie Kristensson. He is in charge of the University’s new initiative for gender equality a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/going-work-should-be-fun-0 - 2025-08-23

As one of four young researchers at Lund University, Ingrid van Dijk, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History at LUSEM and researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography, receives an ERC Starting Grant. Her project is titled “Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations”. She is the first researcher ever from Lund U

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-economic-historian-ingrid-van-dijk-project-health - 2025-08-23

“Replication studies are not seen as valuable, but researchers and society need to know which studies hold up”, says Burak Tunca. Photo: erol ahmed, evan smogor och hans reniers/unsplash Science should be able to be reproduced, but in reality this is a step that is often overlooked. Researcher Burak Tunca at the School of Economics and Management sees several possible measures that could make rese

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-it-again-and-do-it-right - 2025-08-23

Christian Balkenius is not worried about robots taking over and becoming smarter than us. " Not in my lifetime, in any case", he reassures. Photo:Maria Lindh How do you get a robot to behave in an ethical and moral way? Christian Balkenius is giving this a lot of thought, as it is the topic of his research project. However, he is also thinking about ethics among robot researchers.  “It’s often sai

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/robots-not-so-smart-we-would-think - 2025-08-23

Maria Nilsson and her husband and fellow researcher John Ward looks at a find. Photo: Anders Andersson The archaeology team gets up with the sun at five o’clock each morning. They then work for seven hours under the burning sun in the middle of nowhere in Egypt’s desert landscape among venomous scorpions and lizards. They only stop work for lunch and a typical Egyptian chai tea break. “The most co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leading-archaeological-super-team-banks-nile - 2025-08-23

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin studies peoples' attitudes towards organ­ trafficking, counterfeit medicines and transplants. Photo: Kennet Ruona Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2025-08-23

The building called The Spark is the entrance to Medicon Village. Photo: Kennet Ruona It was not an entirely uncontroversial decision to gather cancer researchers in the abandoned AstraZeneca premises ten years ago. Carl Borrebaeck was pro vice-chancellor at the time and pushed for the move which in itself cost SEK 50 million in central university funds. “I was not very popular with the deans at t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medicon-village-ten-years-after-start - 2025-08-23

Cyber attacks against universities have skyrocketed during the pandemic. The blackmailers often succeed. Photo: Shutterstock Cyberattacks against the University have sharply increased over the past two years. They mainly take the form of email attacks, known as phishing, which aim to penetrate and take over entire IT environments. The attacks often succeed. Lund University is no different from the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dramatic-increase-cyber-attacks-against-universities - 2025-08-23

A locked toilet station in the Gazdar Bandh informal settlement in Mumbai. – Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Her research foc

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sanitation-more-toilets-informal-settlements-india-need-community-based-ownership-and-state-action - 2025-08-23

Petru Liuba checks Arvid's heart before the operation. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Two-year-old Arvid will soon undergo his third heart operation. This time, the procedure will be safer and quicker, due to a new simulation method that researchers have developed for children with heart disease. It is Monday afternoon in Ward 67 at Skåne University Hospital and in one of the rooms, two-year-old Arvid is h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tragic-loss-led-research-project - 2025-08-24

When Han Somsen recommended to limit the free outdoor movement of cats based on the EU’s Birds Directive and Habitats Directive it resulted in what can be described as a perfect storm. Photo: Andrzej Puchta/ Shutterstock Han Somsen has newly been appointed professor in environmental law at the Faculty of Law. He is best known for his recommendation that bird-killing cats should be kept indoors. “H

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/law-professor-who-wants-put-nature-above-law - 2025-08-24

If Stig Steen had followed his childhood dream, he would have become a speed skater. Instead he became a thoracic surgeon and researcher in physiology and medical technology. Photo: Kennet Ruona He has designed a transport box that keeps hearts alive outside the body and developed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device. But during a visit to nuns in Africa, he was suspected of being a spy. M

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cardiothoracic-innovator - 2025-08-24

Leave or renovate and expand? Kemicentrum plays a central role in two of the three alternatives for where the departments of chemistry and physics will be located in the future. Photo: Kennet Ruona Where will the chemists and the physicists be located in the future? A recent report shows that it will be much more expensive to move to Science Village than if they stay on Sölvegatan. The evaluation

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/major-cost-differences-when-comparing-science-village-options - 2025-08-24