Published 11 January 2022 Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino (Photo: Robert Olsson and private image) LU researchers Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant each, for their research on innovation and knowledge dynamics and automated vehicles respectively. The ERC Starting Grant is aimed at researchers in the early stages of their career, and scientifi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-lu-researchers-receive-erc-starting-grants - 2025-04-27

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 13 January 2022 The border between Turkey in the north and Syria in the south has similar biophysical characteristics but shows a difference in vegetation greenness. Research at Lund University tries to find out why. Image from SentinelHub. To find out why so many people have left their farms in north-eastern Syria, phys

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/knowledge-about-climate-stress-could-counteract-conflicts - 2025-04-27

Published 17 January 2022 Pontus Nordenfelt and Wael Bahnan When we talk about antibodies against COVID-19, we tend to mean the so-called neutralising antibodies, that offer protection by blocking the virus from invading our cells. Now, a new study from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that non-neutralising antibodies may also be important in providing protection against Covid. “Our results

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-antibodies-may-protect-against-covid - 2025-04-27

Published 19 January 2022 Photo: Michael Erhardsson, Mostphotos Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Resea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2025-04-27

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 20 January 2022 The probability that at some point as a professional musician you feel stage fright is high. Therefore, it is important to learn tools to handle it. Photo: iStockphoto. Francisca Skoogh, an international concert pianist, psychologist and researcher at the Malmö Academy of Music, wants to support tomor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/getting-butterflies-fly-formation-art-managing-performance-anxiety - 2025-04-27

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 21 January 2022 Swati Aggarwal and Ashley Middleton are from two completely different worlds but have found a creative and exciting way to create art from research. Photo: Kennet Ruona. A handful of selected artists have paired up with researchers from the European Spallation Source (ESS) and the results are unexpect

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-research-new-ways-seeing - 2025-04-27

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 25 January 2022 This is where Helsingborg's new district, Oceanhamnen, is emerging. Jessica Engvall and Elisabeth Högdahl think about how memories from what was previously a port area can be brought to life in urban planning. Photo: Sven - Eric Svensson Allow stories to speak and weave in memories. A multidimensional

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/meaningful-memories-inspire-urban-planning - 2025-04-27

Published 26 January 2022 Photo: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL Through analyzes of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers is that the storm took place during one of the sun's more quiet phases – during which it is generally believed our planet is le

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ancient-ice-reveals-mysterious-solar-storm - 2025-04-27

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 28 January 2022 Guests and guides during the performance 'Island' in August 2020. Photo: Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir. What is worth sustaining? Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir's research is all about a theatre audience facing themselves with that profound question. "In my work I offer a frame or a situation for my guests to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-man-island - 2025-04-27

Published 28 January 2022 Illustration: Bibiana Prinoth Using high-resolution spectroscopy, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping the atmosphere of an exoplanet located 322 light years from Earth. The knowledge gained about the hot gas surrounding the Jupiter-like planet is important for the understanding of Earth-like planets. WASP-189b is a planet outside our own sol

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exotic-cocktail-atmosphere-extreme-exoplanet - 2025-04-27

Published 1 February 2022 The LUSEM team finished sixth at the John Molson case competition. From the left: Jakob Hultström Palerius, Sebastian van Dijkman, Mats Urde (Coach), Dominykas Vidžiūnas, Lum Rexha. (At the training session in Mölle.) As only the second team ever, the LU team made it to the semifinals and finished sixth in this year's John Molson MBA International Case Competition – the l

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-reaches-semifinals-prestigious-mba-competition - 2025-04-27

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 2 February 2022 New knowledge about how the body's cells can be reprogrammed to attack their attackers gives hope to more and more patient groups. Techniques with minor side effects and new drugs are already in use. Photo: iStockphoto T cells, antibodies, immune defences – concepts we have learnt more about after a coupl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bodys-fantastic-defence-system-gets-help-fight-against-cancer - 2025-04-27

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 4 February 2022 Anna Berg and Maj Persson, biologists and freelance creators, collecting material for the ARNA project 'The landscape as a designed living environment'. Photographer: Nille Leander. The Vombsjö basin in Skåne could become the world's first biosphere reserve integrating the cultural dimension. If the a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vombsjo-basin-way-becoming-unique-new-biosphere-reserve - 2025-04-27

Published 4 February 2022 Mats Moberg, Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Cars and Annika Olsson, Dean at the Faculty of Engineering. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and Volvo Cars have signed an agreement to strengthen existing research collaborations and identify new areas for mutual benefit and development – and in this way contribute to so

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-lund-university-and-volvo-cars - 2025-04-27

Published 8 February 2022 Electron microscope image shows a blod stem cell on top of a membrane of nanotubes (Image: M. Hjort and L. Schmiderer) An interdisciplinary research team has successfully used innovation to solve a persistent major problem in stem cell research. More specifically, to gently introduce therapeutic biomolecules into target cells to increase their growth. The project has now

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-nanostraws-can-increase-number-blood-stem-cells - 2025-04-27

Published 8 February 2022 Anne L'Huillier The Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded to Anne L'Huillier at Lund University, Paul Corkum at the University of Ottawa, and Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. They were selected for pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. The recipients share the pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/professor-anne-lhuillier-awarded-wolf-prize-physics - 2025-04-27

Published 9 February 2022 iStock/selvanegra In a recent study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers discovered that metabolic changes affect how blood cells are formed during embryonic development. They found a previously unknown metabolic switch with a key role in how different types of blood cells develop. This means blood cell formation can be directed towards producing natural killer cel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/metabolism-found-regulate-production-killer-cells - 2025-04-27

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 9 February 2022 The southern part of Sweden has established itself as a centre of gaming. With its roots in sub-cultures, the gaming industry is now a strong market in which local actors and creatives collaborate. Photo: iStockphoto. Do you work in graphic design, are you passionate about games development, or do you

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cultural-and-creative-business-concepts-need-specific-and-strategic-support - 2025-04-27

Published 11 February 2022 Leo Flynn The Faculty of Law at Lund University has appointed Deputy Director and Principal Legal Advisor at the European Commission Leo Flynn as the faculty's Honorary Doctor for 2022. Leo Flynn will be promoted at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony 3 June. Leo Flynn is Irish and educated at Cambridge University and University College Cork. He is Deputy Director an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/leo-flynn-appointed-honorary-doctor-2022-faculty-law - 2025-04-27

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 11 February 2022 As it is difficult to predict which pollinators may survive in a future climate or which pollinators will be needed to pollinate future crops, it is important to preserve a diversity of pollinators. Photo: iStockphoto Honeybees are common pollinators, but other insects such as hoverflies, beetles and but

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/habitat-important-wild-pollinators-under-threat - 2025-04-27