Av asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - publicerad 25 september 2023 Thoas Fioretos, ny ledamot i Kungliga vetenskapsakademien. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter. När den ständige sekreteraren i Kungliga Vetenskapsakademin ringde upp Thoas Fioretos, blev han väldigt överraskad. Thoas Fioretos fick beskedet att han hade blivit invald som ny ledamot i KVA, klassen för medicinska vet

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/det-har-ar-inget-man-tackar-nej-till - 2025-06-29

Av erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - publicerad 27 september 2023 Bland oktobers disputationer finns Marie Larssons om hemoglobinnivån hos mycket för tidigt födda barn. Foto: Istock. Bland de många disputationer som äger rum vid Medicinska fakulteten i höst, lyfter vi denna gång dessa: Jessica Melins arbete om hur familjen påverkas när ett barn med förhöjd risk

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/om-diabetesscreening-brostcancer-hemoglobin-och-alzheimer - 2025-06-29

Av tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - publicerad 28 september 2023 Med hjälp av ett datadrivet, bioinformatiskt tillvägagångssätt har lundaforskare gjort det möjligt att ta ett helhetsgrepp över hur våra blodgruppsgener regleras. Foto: iStock/choja Idag vet forskarna det mesta om vilka gener som gör att vi föds med just vår blodgrupp. Däremot är inte mycket känt om vad som

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nytt-bioinformatik-verktyg-loser-50-arigt-blodgruppsmysterium - 2025-06-29

Av tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - publicerad 2 oktober 2023 Drew Weissman, en av två Nobelpristagare i fysiologi eller medicin 2023, när han talade på Lund Spring Symposium i maj 2023 och mottog priset The Therapeutic Achievement Award“. Foto: Kristian Waldeck, WalmedPhoto Nobelförsamlingen vid Karolinska Institutet har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller me

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-kommenterar-nobelpriset-i-fysiologi-eller-medicin-2023 - 2025-06-29

Av erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - publicerad 3 oktober 2023 Bild: iStock/NoSystem images Både svensk och internationell lag står bakom kvinnors rätt att amma på offentlig plats. Ändå beskriver kvinnor hur de får ta emot påhopp och dömande blickar när de ammar utanför hemmet. En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar att samhället måste ge tydligare och uttal

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/att-amma-pa-offentlig-plats - 2025-06-29

Published 17 February 2022 One new research project with the MECW program will be funded by CMES starting in September 2022. The grant period is 3 years. Applications are open to scholars with employment at Lund University that hold doctoral degrees. Deadline is 19 April 2022 CMES supports supports and coordinates research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-project-proposals - 2025-06-29

Published 18 February 2022 New CMES Newsletter about recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest issue of the Newslet

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-25 - 2025-06-29

Published 21 February 2022 Together with Isabel Bramsen (LU) and Anne Lene Stein (LU), CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has authored the article "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas", published in the Review of International Studies (open access). Later years have seen the growth of a vibrant theoretical discussion on agonistic peace and the importance of creating space for contest

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/oslo-accords-and-agonistic-peace - 2025-06-29

Published 28 February 2022 CMES Scholar Lina Eklund is a contributing author of the 6th IPCC assessment report released today. Today the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its 6th assessment report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. CMES researcher Dr. Lina Eklund has contributed sections on migration and mobility to the report’s fourth chapter on W

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-scholar-lina-eklund-contributing-author-new-ipcc-report - 2025-06-29

Published 1 March 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "A Combination of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Machine Learning Methods Improves the Prediction of Groundwater Level" together with Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Faezeh Babaian (Islamic Azad University Tehran), Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran) and Naser Arya Azar (Universi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/predicting-groundwater-levels-iran - 2025-06-29

Published 3 March 2022 CMES Doctoral Researcher Laleh Foroughanfar has co-authored the article "Migration, place-making and the rescaling of urban space" together with Mattias Kärrholm (LU), Tina Gudrun Jensen (Malmö University) and Rebecka Söderberg (Malmö University). The article is available in the journal European Planning Studies. The purpose of this article is to contribute to a refined pers

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/migrants-and-re-scaling-nordic-urban-space - 2025-06-29

Published 7 March 2022 Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons) CMES Director participates in a public panel to discuss the wider repercussions in the Middle East. The Russian invasion has ended the post-Cold War era in Europe bringing war and death, civilian casualties, and refugees to Ukraine. The panel of Lund University experts will consider: Why history matters to the invasion and conflict? What does the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/russian-invasion-ukraine-why-history-matters-and-what-will-be-impact - 2025-06-29

Published 8 March 2022 CMES scholars Seyed Amir Naghibi, Behshid Khodaei and Hossein Hashemi have authored the article "An integrated InSAR-machine learning approach for ground deformation rate modeling in arid areas", available in the Journal of Hydrology. Land subsidence is an increasing human-induced disaster that not only damages building and transportation structures but also diminishes the w

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/measuring-groundwater-induced-land-subsidence-iran - 2025-06-29

Published 10 March 2022 Cover: Transnational Press CMES scholar Sarah Anne Rennick has edited the volume "Reassessing Activism and Engagement Among Arab Youth", published by Transnational Press London (2022). This collective volume contributes to the conceptual understanding of Arab youth and their relationship to politics by making explicit how civic engagement in seemingly ‘apolitical’ fields ca

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/reassessing-activism-and-engagement-among-arab-youth - 2025-06-29

Published 21 March 2022 New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest iss

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-26 - 2025-06-29

Published 22 March 2022 Photo: Ahmed Akacha on Pexels CMES scholars Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund have co-authored an annotated bibliography about the Syrian climate-migration-conflict nexus, together with Gianna Angermayr (Lund University). The bibliography is available to read online. The scientific debate about the Syrian civil war being linked to climate change that manifested through a prolonged

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-climate-migration-conflict-nexus - 2025-06-29

Published 29 March 2022 Source: Arya Azar et al. 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "A hybrid approach based on simulation, optimization, and estimation of conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater resources" together with Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz), Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran), Hamed

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/estimating-sustainable-groundwater-use-iran-through-machine-learning - 2025-06-29

Published 1 April 2022 Demonstrators during the Iraqi October Revolution. Photo: Mondalawy on Wikimedia Commons Sarah Anne Rennick has co-authored the paper "National Ambition, Divergent Vision: Consensus and Fracture Among Iraqi Youth Activists of the Tishreen Movement" together with Adel Bakawan. Since October 2019, Iraq has been witnessing a mass protest movement, heavily though not exclusively

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/consensus-and-fracture-among-iraqi-youth-activists - 2025-06-29

Published 5 April 2022 CMES scholar Pinar Dinc has authored "Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan", available online (open access) in The Commentaries. Environmental degradation is identified as a key factor that threatens the future of life on Earth, but such generalised reading entails that conceal the uneven effects of environmental degradation. When environmental degradation takes

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/environmental-racism-and-resistance-kurdistan - 2025-06-29

Published 6 April 2022 CMES scholar Lina Eklund has co-authored the article "Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology” together with Ole Magnus Theisen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Matthias Baumann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Andreas Forø Tollefsen (Peace Research Institute Oslo), Tobias Kue

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/effects-drought-agriculture-pre-war-syria - 2025-06-29