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The brain has its own cleaning system that removes harmful substances while we sleep and protects it from diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscientists at Lund University in Sweden have now imaged the cleaning system in 3D, indicating that it is substantially more developed than previously thought. Read the full article here.
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/watch-cleaning-system-brain-captured-3d-footage - 2025-12-21
The Swedish Basal Ganglia Society We are happy to announce the formation of SWEBAGS - the Swedish Basal Ganglia Society. SWEBAGS is a nationwide non-profit organization providing a platform for scientific discussion and education in basal ganglia-related research. We aim to foster multidisciplinary collaborations across biological scales and methodological approaches. All professionals, students a
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/swebags-launched - 2025-12-21
A research group from Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand a specific type of neuron that could underlie several brain disorders including schizophrenia, epilepsy and autism, and are developing exciting new strategies to treat them. Read the full article here.
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/restoring-neural-networks-and-understanding-brain-disorders - 2025-12-21
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have identified a gene variant that can cause cerebral small vessel disease and stroke. The study is published in Neurology Genetics. Read more about this discovery. Article in Neurology Genetics MAP3K6 Mutations in a Neurovascular Disease Causing Stroke, Cognitive Impairment, and Tremor (Neurology Genetics, February 2021)
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-gene-variant-linked-stroke - 2025-12-21
Overexpression of the Parkinson-related protein, α-synuclein, leads to blood-brain barrier leakage and pericyte activation in mice. A study published in Scientific Reports identifies pericytes as potential target cells for early interventions. Parkinson’s disease is a movement disorder caused by the accumulation and aggregation of α-synuclein and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. Disruption of
Nina Reistad, Senior Lecturer in Physics, has been awarded the Educator of the Year award by the W-section of the Student Union of Technology at Lund University. She receives the award for her inspiring and committed way of teaching, where she combines clarity with a genuine interest in student learning. Nina Reistad is responsible for a course in physics and electricity, gases and liquids, which
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/students-finest-award-nina-reistad - 2025-12-21
Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity without resistance and are used in electromagnets, antennas and power lines. Researchers have now studied a multifaceted superconductor that exhibits a so-called vortex lattice when exposed to a magnetic field. The discovery could revolutionise technological development. Smart superconductors are predicted to fundamentally change our every
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-have-mapped-superconductor-multiple-personalities - 2025-12-21
Secondary school students from 38 countries will gather in Lund to compete in the International Young Physicists’ Tournament – a competition that trains future scientists in problem-solving, teamwork and communication. From 29 June to 5 July, Lund University will host the International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT), one of the world’s most prestigious physics competitions for secondary schoo
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-host-international-physics-tournament-summer - 2025-12-21
Dedicated, pedagogical and popular - that's how two of the Department of Physics' teachers are described by the students themselves. Andreas Ehn and Kristina Eriksson Stenström have both been awarded Teacher of the Year by their respective student sections at the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. Andreas Ehn - Teacher of the Year 2024/2025, I-sectionAndreas Ehn, senior lecturer and researcher at the Di
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/they-are-honoured-their-outstanding-teaching - 2025-12-21
The 10th International Conference on Attosecond Science and Technology (ATTO X) will take place in Lund, Sweden, from July 6–11, 2025. ATTO is the world’s leading conference in the field of attosecond science, gathering researchers from academia, institutes, and industry to share the latest developments in ultrafast science. Held biennially, ATTO showcases state-of-the-art advances in attosecond l
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lund-host-prestigious-attosecond-science-conference-july-2025 - 2025-12-21
Anne-Lise Viotti and Armin Tavakoli at Lund University have been named Future Research Leaders 2025 by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF). The award is based on their pioneering research projects in nonlinear optics and quantum communication – fields with significant future impact on both technology and society. For the ninth time, the Foundation for Strategic Research has appoint
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/two-researchers-department-physics-named-future-research-leaders - 2025-12-21
Lund University is seeking 25 international researchers in its largest-ever global recruitment drive. Among these opportunities, the Department of Physics is offering two positions within the renowned NanoLund research environment as part of this major investment. “In an uncertain world where free research and education are under intense pressure, Lund University is making its largest-ever investm
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/nanolund-and-physics-key-lunds-largest-international-hiring-drive - 2025-12-21
Dive into the exciting world of physics here in Lund – from the tiniest building blocks of matter to the mysteries of the cosmos. Join us for fun experiments and demonstrations, where you can, among other things, try out a scanning electron microscope or slow down time with a high-speed camera. This year’s event also features research presentations (in English or Swedish), the chance to visit Lund
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quantum-physics-and-double-anniversary-kulturnatten - 2025-12-21
What does it feel like to help shape our understanding of the universe – and still be searching for answers 50 years later? On Friday 5 September 2025, Lund University welcomes Professor Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004), for a public lecture open to everyone. A lifetime with quantum physicsFrank Wilczek is best known for discovering asymptotic freedom, a breakthrough that led to Qua
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/meet-nobel-laureate-frank-wilczek-gives-public-lecture-lund - 2025-12-21
At the Department of Physics, she is Stina Loo, education administrator for first and second cycle programmes. But she can also call herself a linguist, entrepreneur and television personality. And now, with a dream come true: author. The book ‘Hitta din historia – släktforskning för alla’ (Find your story – genealogy for everyone), which Stina wrote together with Ingeborg Arvastsson, will be rele
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/stina-brings-history-life-new-book - 2025-12-21
Cake and a packed Rydberg Hall set the tone when Fysicum celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Department of Physics invited guests to a party, and the audience was treated to a dizzying journey through history, presented by Professor Erik Swietlicki. When Lund University was founded in 1666, there was no faculty of natural sciences. Instead, physics was part of the faculty of philosophy, and for a
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/fysicum-75-years-lively-anniversary-long-history - 2025-12-21
Packed tightly together like sparkling beehives in space. That's what the globular clusters of hundreds of thousands of stars look like. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers can reveal how these ancient and mysterious star systems are actually formed. The existence of these spherical clusters of millions of stars has been known since the invention of the telescope in the 17th century. Th
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/scientists-have-solved-astronomical-star-mystery - 2025-12-21
Armin Tavakoli, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University and researcher at the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT), has been appointed associate editor for Physical Review Letters (PRL) – one of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics. 'It’s an honour to take on this role,' says Tavakoli. “PRL holds a unique position in the physics community,
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lund-physicist-appointed-associate-editor-physical-review-letters - 2025-12-21
Recently, a new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile captured its first starlight. This marks the start of a new era in astronomy, where researchers will map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument, called 4MOST (Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, it collects spectra or colour
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-12-21
Two distinguished researchers at the Department of Physics have been promoted to professors at Lund University: David Silvermyr, specialising in high-energy heavy-ion physics, and Rainer Timm, an expert in surface physics. Their research spans from the most extreme states of matter to atomic-level interfaces in next-generation electronics. David Silvermyr – Exploring the most extreme states of mat
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quarks-nanostructures-two-physicists-appointed-professors-lund-university - 2025-12-21
