By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 2 September 2021 Grand Isle (where Ida made landfall), when it was flooded by a previous hurricane in 2002. LUCSUS researcher, David O’Byrne, who has done extensive research on coastal restoration in Louisiana, USA, comments in the wake of storm Ida. It was one of the strongest to hit the state in terms of wind-speed, and stru

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/quick-funds-recovery-need-be-combined-long-term-plans-david-obyrne-comments-storm-ida - 2025-01-15

By Stina [dot] Lundkvist [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Lundkvist) - published 8 October 2021 While sustainability challenges, such as climate change, tend to be seen as external problems, a new article by professor Christine Wamsler, helps us to see and address them as  a human relationship crisis. Photo Unsplash In a newly published article in Global Environmental Change, LUCSUS Professor

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-and-internal-transformation-are-tied-together-new-study-provides-roadmap-advancing-related - 2025-01-15

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 7 October 2021 The recent IPCC report can underpin climate action and the science provides direction to political action on a local and global level. At least, this is what LUCSUS Director, and one of the lead authors of the report, Emily Boyd wish to to see happen. In August, the IPCC published the first part of its sixth ass

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-report-cop26-emily-boyd-comments-what-science-can-do-climate-action-0 - 2025-01-15

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 21 October 2021 Do you want to learn about the promises and pitfalls of ‘net zero’ mitigation pathways and the technologies that are supposed to help bring these about? In June 2022, LUCSUS will co-organise a 5-day intensive PhD course focusing on climate change mitigation and the politics of 'Net Zero' and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-phd-course-politics-net-zero-and-carbon-removal - 2025-01-15

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 2 November 2021 Another decade of deforestation means more biodiversity lost, greenhouse gas emissions and forest degradation, fragmentation and conversion to other land-uses. Photo: Unsplash On the second day of COP26, more than 100 global leaders, representing 85% of the world's forests, pledged to halt an

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2025-01-15

By Stina [dot] lundkvist [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Lundkvist) - published 10 November 2021 Sara Ullström says that she learnt a lot by watching the other participants’ presentations and listening to the feedback they got from the jury as well. “Stand still while you are talking, move when you are not talking”, I will remember that. LUCSUS PhD candidate Sara Ullström competed in the nati

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-candidate-sara-ullstrom-knows-how-pitch-her-research-4-min-these-are-her-tips - 2025-01-15

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 15 November 2021 LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd. LUCSUS Director professor Emily Boyd, has recently been appointed Editor-In-Chief for the journal Global Sustainability. Emily Boyd took over the editorship from the previous Editor-in -Chief, professor Johan Rockström. As the new editor-in-chief, Emily Boyd would

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-new-editor-chief-global-sustainability - 2025-01-15

Published 17 November 2021 We are seeing dramatic growth in forest-based carbon offsets, even though carbon stored in trees cannot compensate for continued fossil fuel emissions. Photo: Marita Kavelashvili Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2025-01-15

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 22 November 2021 While flying is still widely presented as a social norm, the problematization of flying makes visible that other more climate-friendly ways of traveling and vacationing are both possible and desirable. Photo: Unsplash/Ross Parmly The “Staying on the ground” movement initiated in Sweden has g

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-did-flying-go-luxury-aspiration-contested-norm-sweden - 2025-01-15

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 2 December 2021 The best way to get local communities and citizens involved is to ensure that citizens can somehow benefit from the project, either as individuals or as a community, says Henner Bush. Offshore wind power is presented as one of the solutions to solve the energy crisis in southern Sweden. But t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/conflicts-between-national-climate-targets-and-local-communities-jeopardize-renewable-energy - 2025-01-15

Published 3 July 2020 Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 6 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics and chemical physics – for application. Initial deadline for applications: August 25, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:    Energy saving LEDs based

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/6-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-01-15

Published 2 July 2020 The annual international nanoscience student conference INASCON is coming up. This year, it is held in Lund 11–13 August, broadcasted online, open for anyone interested in nanoscience: students, academics or businesses. INASCON is an annual, student-organized conference on nanoscience and technology, hosted in different countries since 2007 and originally to be hosted this ye

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-goes-digital-time-register - 2025-01-15

Published 3 July 2020 An exciting position as center coordinator at NanoLund is open for application. Are you a master of coordinating and managing? Do you have a strong interest in science, technological development and how it can be used in future society? Apply for the position as coordinator and get the chance to work at Sweden’s largest environment for nanoscience and nanotechnology! We are l

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-center-coordinator-nanolund - 2025-01-15

Published 12 August 2020 NanoLund is a very proud sponsor of INASCON 2020. The annual international nanoscience student conference opened yesterday with 1100 registered students from 70 countries around the world.   This year the conference is organized by a team of 35 Lund University undergraduate students. Due to the circumstances around COVID-19 the conference is broadcasted online and has attr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-2020-more-1000-registered-participants-all-over-world - 2025-01-15

Published 24 August 2020 Researchers from strategic research areas NanoLund and StemTherapy have developed a promising new method for delivering biomolecules into human blood stem cells using nanotechnology. With little to no detrimental effects on target cells, this novel approach has great potential for research and clinical applications. The discovery and development of therapeutic biomolecules

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanostraws-used-deliver-biomolecules-stem-cells - 2025-01-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 3 September 2020 Less damage is done to samples studied in X-ray microscopes – when rotating is not required. This technique will be developed by Pablo Villanueva Perez from NanoLund, ERC Starting Grant awardee 2020, and his team. NanoLund’s affiliated member Pablo Villanueva Perez from Synchrotron Radiation Physics has been awa

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-nanolund - 2025-01-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 29 September 2020 Camilla Modéer, Peter Gärdenfors, Ursula Hultkvist Bengtsson, Heiner Linke and Jan Westberg discussed the topic academia and industry at the NanoLund Annual Meeting. Photo: Kennet Ruona At the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2020, Camilla Modéer gave her honorary lecture as part of the program. We are happy to be able

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/academia-needs-boosting-purpose-perspective - 2025-01-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 2 October 2020 Anders Mikkelsen is, from January 2021, the new Director of NanoLund. Photo: Lund University Anders Mikkelsen, professor at Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will be the next Director of NanoLund by the beginning of 2021, when Heiner Linke steps down from this role after eight years of leadership. The announcement by

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-director-nanolund-coming - 2025-01-15

By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 12 November 2020 The bee, unlike us humans, knows at every moment exactly how far from home it is, and in which direction the nest is located, says David Winge, post doc at the strategic research area NanoLund at Lund University. Photo: Evelina Lindén How come bees always find their way home, not to mention in a strai

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-01-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 29 October 2020 An international team of researchers – consisting of no less than four from NanoLund – have used nano focused X-rays at the NanoMAX beamline to image the complex structure of metal halide perovskite nanowires. The high-resolution imaging made it possible to see domains inside the nanowire, as the temperature was

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nano-diffraction-ferroelastic-domains-max-iv - 2025-01-15