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Petter Pilesjö. Bild: Johan Joelsson (NatFak). Professor Petter Pilesjö has been appointed Head of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, which will be established at the turn of the year. Security, integration, and joy will be high on his agenda during the first year. How would you briefly describe your background and yourself as a person?– I see myself as a broad geographer. After c

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/petter-pilesjo-appointed-head-facultys-new-department - 2025-09-21

Mathematics and medicine combined in a new master’s specialization in life sciences, part of the faculty’s investment in computational science. Image: Unsplash A new specialization within the Master’s programme in Life Sciences highlights how computational science can be applied in medicine and biology. The initiative reflects a growing demand for mathematically and technically skilled scientists

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/mathematics-and-medicine-combined-new-masters-specialization-computational-science - 2025-09-21

Cross-section of a foraminifer. A new project explores how new forms can be analyzed using image analysis and machine learning. Helena Filipsson, professor at the Department of Geology, together with colleagues, has received seed funding from Lund University for the interdisciplinary project From Microns to Models: Leveraging μCT and Machine Learning for High-Resolution Morphological Diversity Ana

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/new-perspectives-natures-forms-interdisciplinary-project-receives-seed-funding-university - 2025-09-21

Caroline Slomp, the Faculty of Science's Honorary Doctor 2025, receiving her laurel wreath from Promotor and our Deputy Dean Karin Rengefors. Image by Magnus Sandberg It is now time to nominate honorary doctors for 2026! If you are permanently employed at the Faculty, you are welcome to submit your proposal no later than 31 October 2025.Being appointed as an honorary doctor at our Faculty is one o

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/nominate-honorary-doctors-2026 - 2025-09-21

Soon, the building currently known as Astronomihuset will take on a new role as a communal meeting place for students and staff. Take the opportunity to help decide what the building will be called. Photo: Malin Åkerskog Soon, the building currently known as Astronomihuset will take on a new role as a communal meeting place for students and staff. Take the opportunity to help decide what the build

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/what-should-new-name-astronomy-house-be-help-name-new-hub-natural-scientists - 2025-09-21

Students during an exercise in geographic information technology. The teaching is led by Karin Larsson at Geocentrum I. The people in the photo are not connected to the Inspiration Day. Image: J. Leyman On 20 October, the Faculty of Science will for the very first time host an Inspiration Day for teachers. It will be a full day packed with pedagogical discussions, fresh ideas for the classroom, ac

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/take-chance-spark-new-ideas-your-teaching-sign-years-inspiration-day-teachers - 2025-09-21

An international recruitment initiative from the university has attracted a large number of applicants. A total of 357 researchers from around the world have applied to become visiting professors at Lund University – as many as 86 of them to the Faculty of Science! “It was a very positive outcome of the initiative,” says Per Persson, Dean of the Faculty of Science. “When going through the applicat

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/recruitment-initiative-attracts-international-top-researchers-faculty-science - 2025-09-21

Nu är anmälan till högskolepedagogiska kursen Lärarrollen i utveckling (7,5 Hp) öppen. Kursledare är docent och universitetslektor Ylva Hofvander Trulsson som här svarar på några frågor:Vilka hoppas du anmäler sig till utbildningen?– Jag ser fram emot anmälningar från lärare från hela vår fakultet, juniora och seniora. Både de som arbetat länge i verksamheten men inte gått högskolepedagogiska kurs

https://www.mhm.lu.se/internt/artikel/jag-ser-fram-emot-anmalningar-fran-hela-var-fakultet - 2025-09-21

This lecture (in English) is a result of a collaboration between the choral teachers at the Academies of Music in Sweden. Due to the corona pandemic, we see the need of strengthening the choral life, and we also see new possibilities to use digital tools to arrange exchange projects to enrich the choral education. We organize two lectures fall 2020: November, 3 with Karin Rehnqvist and November, 2

https://www.mhm.lu.se/internt/artikel/guest-lecture-karin-rehnqvist - 2025-09-21

5G world record set by Lund University and Bristol University researchers. Photo: National Instruments Researcher Steffen Malkowsky, together with research colleagues from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Bristol, UK, has achieved a new world record in 5G technology, thereby surpassing the previous record that he himself contributed to last spring. The successful experiment is an imp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-set-new-5g-world-record-and-earn-multiple-awards - 2025-09-21

Tuesday 16 August 2016 is "Arrival Day" for over 2,000 new international students at Lund University. Arrival Day is a dedicated day to welcome international students to their new environment at Lund University. Students are greeted by international mentors at Copenhagen Airport and at the Lund train station, before being driven to the Academic Society building to be ‘checked in’, given keys to th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-welcomes-students-around-world-arrival-day - 2025-09-21

Scientists have been able to show that birds fly faster in flocks. Photo: Beninfreo New research at Lund University in Sweden shows that the flight speed of birds is determined by a variety of factors. Among the most sensational is that the size of the flock has a significant impact on how fast the birds can fly. The larger the flock, the higher the speed. Researchers at the Faculty of Science in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-fly-faster-large-flocks - 2025-09-21

An American emperor dragonfly accelerates streaks of smoke down when it flaps its four wings. The photo has been edited. PHOTO: IGOR SIWANOWICZ/HUAI-TI LIN The complicated structure of the dragonfly’s wings makes them sturdier and increases their stability and flexibility in the air, without affecting the aerodynamics. The research results may become applicable in the wind power industry and in th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dragonflys-flight-technique-uncovered - 2025-09-21

Abuse of addictive prescription drugs is increasing, and is at risk of becoming a major public health problem in Europe. Photo: MostPhotos The largest study of prescription drug abuse in Europe shows that more than 12 per cent of Swedes over age 12 have abused prescription medication. The results, published in the scientific journal BMC Psychiatry, are based on studies in five European countries –

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prescription-drug-abuse-europe - 2025-09-21

Study uncovers what exactly makes authoritarian and socially dominant people have an increased tendency to accept torture. Photo: F. Mariani A research group of psychologists from Lund University in Sweden have shown that authoritarian people and those who perceive their own group as socially superior to others are often more inclined to accept the use of torture. The thing that unites them is not

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-do-some-people-find-it-easier-accept-torture-and-assault-others - 2025-09-21

21-year-old orangutang Naong demonstrated that he can predict the taste sensations. Photographer: Tomas Persson A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that orangutans can imagine whether or not a certain juice blend is good or not, based on its ingredients. Predicting an experience of something that has not yet occurred can be done by using so-called affective forecasting – an ability th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/orangutans-can-predict-future-experiences - 2025-09-21

By assigning barcodes to stem cells, researchers can see how individual stem cells in the blood differ from one another, and how their functions change with age. Photo: MostPhotos By assigning a barcode to stem cells, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made it possible to monitor large blood cell populations as well as individual blood cells, and study the changes over time. Among other

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/barcodes-show-blood-family-tree - 2025-09-21

The three-dimensional structure of the RNR enzyme from the bacterium pseudomonas aeruginosa shows how it shuts down when there is no longer a need for DNA building blocks. Illustration: Derek Logan A study of an enzyme that helps build and repair DNA in living organisms increases our understanding of how these processes are controlled and how we can use this to combat infections. Chemists at the F

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-about-building-blocks-life - 2025-09-21

Lund University has once again been ranked as the number one university in Sweden and the 73rd best in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2016/17 that was released today. With 17,000 internationally recognised universities in the world, this ranking reinforces Lund University’s place in the global top tier of higher education, among 0.4% of the world’s universities. The QS World Univers

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-100-qs-university-rankings - 2025-09-21

Study points out how important follow-ups are to evaluate patients’ psychological well-being after gastric bypass surgery. Photo: Shutterstock Research from Lund University shows that one in five adolescents who have undergone obesity surgery experience poor mental health. Some have even had suicidal thoughts. The study is based on follow-up studies of 88 adolescents who have undergone obesity sur

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increased-focus-mental-health-young-obesity-surgery-patients - 2025-09-21