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With his cycling helmet perched on his head, he rushes in like a whirlwind, fires off monosyllabic replies to emails and then asks thoughtful questions during meetings while simultaneously managing to work away on his computer. For Henrik Smith, life moves at a hundred miles an hour. But he is also a lauded professor with an awful lot to do. Henrik Smith, you see, wants to save the world. Has he g

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-visionary-who-never-slows-down - 2025-11-14

Jan Magnusson at the School of Social Work at Lund University and Manish K Jha at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai have received a planning grant to establish a research program for the study of social work and climate change in the North-East region of India. The grant was awarded by SASNET. Although the School of Social Work in Lund has established a research base in the form o

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/planning-grant-study-social-work-and-climate-change-north-east-region-india - 2025-11-13

Almost 14 million viewers have watched Anils Seth’s TED Talk “Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality”. In the beginning of May, he visits Lund University and Neuroscience Day to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. We meet on zoom for a conversation about AI, the mystery of consciousness and – of course – to find out what he knew about Sweden. … how would you explain consciousne

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hello-there-anil-seth - 2025-11-13

Nya e-resurserIBFD Tax Research Platform har utökats med ebokspaketet GREIT series. UppsägningarVi har haft en prenumeration på databasen Global Financial Data. Prenumerationen löpte ut den 31 oktober. Pågående testerBloomsbury Popular Music, 31 maj - 30 novemberA source of scholarship and serious in-depth analysis of popular music in a global context. It includes the entirety of the Bloomsbury En

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-november-emedia-och-lubsearch - 2025-11-13

En hatt för år av slit. Har det varit värt det? Vi frågar onkologen Sofie Olsson Hau, en av 105 doktorer vid fakulteten som högtidligt promoveras den 26 maj. Länk till listan! – Ja, det har varit värt det! Jag har lärt mig ofantligt mycket. Att ständigt utmana sig själv och våga ta sig an sådant man tycker verkar svårt eller rent av omöjligt gör att man känner sig levande, eller hur? Vad har slite

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/grattis-sofie-en-av-medfaks-105-nya-doktorer - 2025-11-13

Carbon offsetting can be strongly questioned as an environmental strategy, due to major challenges in reconciling climate benefits with local needs, participation and development. This is the view taken by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, who studied a tree-planting project in Uganda, through which a number of Swedish companies carbon offset their activities. Carbon offsetting is an env

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/planting-trees-africa-dubious-environmental-strategy-study - 2025-11-13

PhD student Nicola Guzzi will be defending his thesis titled “Post-transcriptional control of stem and cancer cell fate - new roles for an old RNA modification” on Thursday 24th of September 2020. In this interview, Nicola tells us about his PhD journey within the RNA and Stem Cell Biology research group at Lund Stem Cell Center. What have you been working with during your PhD?During my PhD in the

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-nicola-guzzi - 2025-11-14

The main University building is to become a hub for the organisation! That is the vision proposed by project manager Louise Pierce, who is responsible for repurposing the now almost empty building in Lundagård park. In only three years, it is to be buzzing with activity in the form of students, employees and visitors. Since early last autumn, Louise Pierce has been in charge of planning the future

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-plan-university-building-materializes - 2025-11-13

How do we create a safe environment in which humans and robots can collaborate on handling hazardous materials? What do those working in the industry need to know about sustainable production processes, re-use and critical raw materials? Companies need to up-skill their employees to have competences for the fourth industrial revolution, industry 4.0, with new technologies mainly in automation, the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/upskilling-swedens-engineers-through-unique-course-package - 2025-11-14

The social stigma surrounding HIV is still strong in many parts of the world. Children living with HIV in Ethiopia are at high risk of receiving inadequate treatment – or no treatment at all – on account of deeply rooted prejudice. The most considerable risk can be found among very small children, who do not receive proper treatment right away. Ethiopia is one of the 35 countries identified by the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/social-stigma-obstacle-successful-treatment-children-hiv-ethiopia - 2025-11-13

Fanny Esquivel Jiménez from Mexico is currently studying the Master's Programme with specialisation Culture and Creativity. We asked her what she thinks about her studies. What is the best thing about your programme? What I like the most about the Master in Service Management is the community of professors and colleagues around me, as well as the reading list and the seminars. I was looking forwar

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/what-i-most-about-masters-programme-community-professors-and-colleagues-around-me - 2025-11-13

Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden, among others. The research results can potentially benefit the development of navigation robots in crisis situations where GPS does not work, for example. According to the study, bumblebees appear capable of navigating as well as vertebrates can, an

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2025-11-13

The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is to them and which areas of develop

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-union-st - 2025-11-13

The happy buzz among the students who just completed their Leadership Academy journey more than made up for the gray skies, as they gathered in Skånis and received their diplomas. They were joined by the teachers Christine Blomquist, and Nadja Sörgärde, Maria Ekelund from our partner Deloitte, coach Pernilla Thellmark, and project Manager Simon Öhlin. The program is an extracurricular activity for

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leadership-academy-graduation - 2025-11-13

“The Tokyo Forum was a great opportunity to discuss the opportunities and challenges of sustainable social change, especially processes that involve local actors, into a high-level arena." LUCSUS researcher, Barry Ness participated in the Tokyo Forum held at the University of Tokyo place December 6-8, 2019.The forum was a joint initiative between the University of Tokyo and the Chey Institute for

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researcher-co-chairs-session-local-values-and-interests-relation-global-goals-tokyo-forum - 2025-11-13

Lars J Nilsson is Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies at LTH and a member of the Seoul International Energy Advisory Council, an advisory body working on energy-efficiency enhancement and sustainable development in South Korea’s capital. Lars J Nilsson. What have you learned from your work on sustainable development in a megacity like Seoul? I have learned a lot about humility re

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-researcher-gives-seouls-mayor-advice-energy-efficiency - 2025-11-13

What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on 16-18 May 2022, the Swedish Climate Symposium. The conference means that Sweden's largest players in climate research gather for the first time for a major sympos

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2025-11-13

... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different ways to communicate and also fun to meet people from all sorts of institutions and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2025-11-13

Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden, among others. The research results can potentially benefit the development of navigation robots in crisis situations where GPS does not work, for example. According to the study, bumblebees appear capable of navigating as well as vertebrates can, an

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2025-11-13

Diabetes is a disease that is increasing exponentially worldwide, largely as a result of the food we eat and because we exercise too little. Diabetes causes great personal suffering and shortens lifespan, as well as placing a heavy economic burden on society as whole and our health care systems in particular. This summer, Paul Franks, a professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre, will be doing a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ironman-support-diabetes-research - 2025-11-13