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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, a Swedish municipality has placed large amounts of sand on its beaches as a way of combating coastal erosion. This would probably never have happened if it wasn’t for Hans Hanson, Professor of Water Resources Engineering at LTH, who has been “nagging the municipal leaders and the Government for the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sand-instead-stone-combat-coastal-erosion - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Carina Jensen, coordinator of LU350, Lund University’s 350th anniversary, which will be celebrated from December 2016 to January 2018. How is the work on the jubilee going? “Well, we’ve passed the ideas stage and are now into the preparation phase. The LU350 committee received over 270 ideas that have been whittl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-work-jubilee-lu-350-going - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Are my gut bacteria the reason why I’m fat?” was the title of a talk held by Frida Fåk, and it is also one of her research topics: the link between the bacterial flora in the intestines and a person’s weight and health. In her spare time, she likes to draw and paint, and would like to see that hobby become her job. F

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/right-gut-bacteria-could-stop-atherosclerosis - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What jobs will we do in the future? And who will work? Research shows that half of today’s jobs will not be necessary in 20 years’ time. Questions about unemployment and the future job market have been discussed at several different university events in recent months, most recently at Debatt i Lund. In early June, pol

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-jobs-will-we-do-future - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a tumour, cancer cells grow and multiply in an uncontrolled manner. However, the cancer cells also need help from other, normal cells for the tumour to develop. This network of ‘helper cells’ is the focus of Kristian Pietras’ research. Two years ago, Kristian Pietras left Karolinska Institutet for Lund, attracted b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/charting-how-normal-cells-help-cancer-cells - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He is our least known celebrity – a man of power who took the initiative for Lund University and was literally ‘prepared for both’. The 17th century bishop Peder Winstrup is an exciting historical person – and corpse – that will now be studied in a major interdisciplinary project. For many years, a beautiful coffin ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/old-bishop-winstrup-returns-academy - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Political scientist Hanna and psychologist Emma have more in common than their surname, Bäck. They are sisters but also make up an interdisciplinary research team. By combining their subjects, they are attempting to gain a complete picture of what motivates people to take part in political protests and why some of the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/keeping-it-family-sisters-form-interdisciplinary-research-duo - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Skissernas Museum (the Museum of the Artistic Process and Public Art) is sending three monumental paintings by Sonia Delaunay, each measuring 3 x 7 metres, to Paris for an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It is the first time the three works, Motor, Propeller and Instrument Panel, have been

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cultural-treasures-skissernas-museum-main-attraction-paris-exhibition - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Death in the form of a skeleton with a scythe is a familiar figure of dread, but death and dying do not have to be frightening. “Death does not have to be marked by fear; it can just as often be characterised by calm and quiet. There can be a lot of joy even during the last days of a person’s life!” Carl Johan Furst.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-palliative-centre-improve-skills-end-life-care - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Linde Lindkvist is on the way to becoming Sweden’s first Doctor of Philosophy in Human Rights Studies. He is the first to reach this goal within the subject, which combines law, history and philosophy. “This is an intense time, I am trying to isolate myself in order to finish.” He explains two doctoral students have b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/set-become-swedens-first-doctor-human-rights - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Paul Franks... ... Professor of Diabetes Research and sportsman, who raised money for diabetes research by competing in the Copenhagen Ironman* triathlon race a while ago. How have the race and the fundraising gone? “I think it’s gone well. Despite a broken toe, I finished the race in just over 10 hours. I beat m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/running-diabetes - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A great deal of moral courage or a really desperate situation – these are the requirements for someone to disclose state secrets. And life will most certainly never be the same again. This is what emerges from the experiences of the Cold War’s first major defectors, Mr and Mrs Petrov, as from those of Edward Snowden,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spy-novel-way-present-new-research - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Off the coast at Haväng, forests several thousands of years old are hidden below the sea. When researchers dive down to examine the well-preserved tree-trunks, they are literally diving deep into human history. Arne Sjöström gets ready for another sea dive. The morning sun is glittering on the calm surface of the Balt

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/studying-stone-age-forest-under-sea - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. More and more research is based on ‘big data’, not only in engineering, medicine and science, but also increasingly in the humanities and social sciences. These huge quantities of data offer fantastic opportunities, as well as major challenges. How does Lund University deal with these? Do researchers receive the suppo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/big-data-requires-good-navigators - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Astronomic amounts of new digital information about the world, our genetic heritage and our habits are continuously being generated. This information is a goldmine for research – as long as the data can be accessed, stored and analysed. “We have a lot of expertise in the field. More and more areas of Lund University a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/big-data-research-both-reality-and-rhetoric - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are experiencing a minor revolution with the growth of big data, according to Professor of Mathematics Magnus Fontes at LTH. He therefore recently took the initiative to establish the Centre for Mathematical Modelling, to gather the University’s expertise in big data modelling and calculations. The idea is that les

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-experiencing-minor-revolution - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a large hall on Margaretavägen in Lund, next to LDC, the air is full of the hum of computers. The supercomputers Alarik, Erik and Platon – the most powerful in southern Sweden – are busy computing complex problems that Lund University researchers are not able to solve on their own. At the moment, a simulation of a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunarc-universitys-powerhouse - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nowadays, a photograph taken by a normal mobile phone camera is almost 2 MB in size. It is therefore possible to imagine the huge quantities of data produced by scanners that take thousands of three-dimensional images of a single body part or tissue sample. Freddy Ståhlberg shows how data from the forthcoming national

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/incredible-amounts-data-new-medical-images - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The huge increase in data in biology and medicine creates new challenges for researchers. Extracting information from databases is the research community’s new day job. Dag Ahrén teaches database mining to biologists. He is part of a national network of bioinformaticians, BILS (Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life S

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/data-mining-research-community-coalface - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A pink cleaning trolley is an unusual sight. But even if the colour is the first thing to catch your eye, it is not the pink gleam that makes people stop and talk. The cleaning trolley is a rolling exhibit at Gilla jobbet, a work environment fair in Stockholm, and Patrik Nilsson is the man pushing it around. He is doi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chats-around-cleaning-trolley-provide-inspiration-research-projects - 2026-05-15