The University’s Research Board is calling for applications for university-wide funding intended for interdisciplinary projects focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development.
A novelty for this call for applications is the opportunity to apply for funding for postdoc positions or associate senior lectureships. Within the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering, the funding is primarily to be used for postdoc positions. In exceptional cases, the support may be used for strategic recruitments of associate senior lecturers. This presumes, in that case, that the recruitment is in line with the department’s recruitment plan. If you are considering applying for funds to recruit an associate senior lecturer, you and the relevant head of department should contact either vice dean Anders Tunlid (if the position is to be located at the Faculty of Science) or pro dean Heiner Linke (if the position is to be located at LTH) no later than 30 September.
The deadline to apply for funding is 25 November. An information meeting about the call for applications will be held on 11 March from 12:00 to 13:00 via Zoom.
Read the call for applications on the Research Board’s website (see righthand column)
Read more and sign up for the information meeting via LU Zoom |
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The Foundation for the Internationalisation of Higher Education and Research (STINT) is calling for applications for the following funding:
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The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SFF) is calling for applications for industrial doctoral student grants for people who have not yet been admitted to research studies. The aim of the call for applications is to increase the exchange of knowledge between academia and industry. The application deadline is 19 May.
Read the call for applications on the SSF website
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The Research Professional database contains both national and international calls for applications. Log in using your University account (Lucat ID).
Log in to Research Professional |
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The Lund University Bioinformatics Infrastructure (LUBI) invites you to the following seminars and activities during the spring.
- Shamit Soneji, “Virtual reality for the visualisation of high-throughput omics data”, 31 March, 13:00–14:00 in the Belfrage Room, BMC, and via Zoom.
- Jessica Lindvall, “Elixir – resources and training opportunities in bioinformatics”, 27 April, 13:00–14:00 via Zoom.
- Parashar Dhapola, “Scalable analysis and integration of single-cell genomic modalities”, 18 May, 13:00–14:00 in the Segerfalk Room, BMC, and via Zoom.
- Poster presentation and refreshments, 9 May 14:00–17:00 in the Belfrage Room, BMC.
Read more and sign up for the seminars on the LUBI website
Read more and sign up for the poster presentation on the LUBI website |
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The faculty invites you to a seminar with Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, professor at Chalmers University of Technology and leader of the higher education institution’s gender equality initiative, Gender Initiative for Excellence. The seminar is entitled Female faculty – why so few and why care? Time and place: 2 March at 15:00 in the Lundmark Room, Astronomy Building.
Read the invitation (PDF, 2.3 MB) |
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The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) invites you to a seminar with Ralf Seppelt, professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. The seminar is entitled Stable and high Yields in the Future? Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate. Time and place: 2 March at 15:00–16:00 in Blue Hall, Ecology building, and via Zoom.
Read more and register for the event via the CEC website |
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The University’s research infrastructure Correlative Image Processing and Analysis (CIPA) invites you to a seminar which, among other things, includes presentations from the CIPA coordinator, application experts, and users. Time and place: 15 March at 09:00–13:00 in the lecture hall 104, Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies. The registration deadline is 11 March.
Read more and register for the event on the Faculty of Medicine website
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The Lund Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-Ray Science (LINXS) invites you to a scientific conference on integrative structural biology. The conference is intended for researchers in academia, industry and major research facilities such as MAX IV and ESS. Time and place: 4–6 May at Kulturen. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 13 April. The registration deadline for the conference is 23 April.
Read more and register for the conference on the LINXS website |
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The Swedish Climate Symposium is a new national scientific conference aiming to highlight the specialisation and breadth of Swedish climate research, as well as offering an opportunity for exchange of knowledge and experiences, both within academia and with wider society. The initiative is backed by the strategic research environments BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate) and MERGE (ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system) together with the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research. The conference will take place 16–18 May in Norrköping. Abstracts are to be submitted no later than 25 February. The registration deadline for the conference is 1 April.
Read more and register on the conference website |
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During this month, four new theses will be presented at the Faculty of Science.
- Katja Kozjek, “Soil microbial diversity in agriculture: Responses to land-use and extreme weather events”
- Sofia Åkesson, “Chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons; an interdisciplinary study of degradation and distribution in complex environments”
- Ann-Kathrin Ziegler, “Urbanisation and its impacts on birds: Disentangling the effects of multiple pollutants on avian behaviour and physiology”
- Lea Miko Versbach, “Efficient Solvers for Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Methods”
Search for doctoral theses in the University’s research portal
See forthcoming public defences of theses – lu.se
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| Jens Hoeijmakers, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, was interviewed about the discovery of a planet orbiting close to Proxima Centauri, which is the Sun’s nearest neighbouring star, only 4.2 lightyears away. Hoeijmakers explained that the planet is between Earth and Mars in size, i.e. very small, which is why the discovery is so spectacular. |
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Elna Heimdal Nilsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, Anna Persson, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Ruth Pöttgen, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, and Sanna Alwmark, researcher at the Department of Geology, were interviewed about their research. They also spoke about their driving forces and how they began to get interested in their respective subjects.
Read the article in the Lundagård magazine |
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| Tönu Pullerits and Kaibo Zheng, respectively professor and researcher at the Department of Chemistry, were interviewed about a new study showing how sunlight can be used to convert carbon dioxide into fuel. ‟The study uses a combination of materials that absorb the light and harness its energy to convert carbon dioxide. Using ultrafast laser spectroscopy, we have determined exactly what happens in that process”, says Pullerits. The breakthrough could become an important piece in the puzzle to reduce levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the future. |
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| Helena Alexanderson, professor at the Department of Geology, responded to readers’ questions about the Earth’s ice ages. How often do ice ages occur, why do they happen and why do they then melt away? |
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| Daniel Strand, professor at the Department of Chemistry, was interviewed about a new study in which researchers successfully produced a simple hydrocarbon molecule that demonstrates what is known as a logic gate function, similar to that in transistors, in a single molecule. ‟We have developed a simple hydrocarbon molecule that changes shape while going from insulating to conductive when exposed to electrical potential. The recipe was to design what is known as an antiaromatic ring in a molecule so that it becomes more robust and can both receive and emit electrons”, says Strand. In future, the discovery could enable the production of electrical components at the molecular scale. |
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| Marija Dubackic, doctoral student at the Department of Chemistry, was interviewed about her participation in a protest against the Swedish Migration Agency’s new rules on residence permits. |
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| Göran Bengtsson, professor emeritus at the Department of Biology, wrote an opinion piece entitled ‟The pre-pandemic contingency plans were unusable”. |
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The Lund Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-Ray Science (LINXS) is keen to support relevant profile areas and could be involved in several applications. If you are a main applicant and interested in getting support from LINXS, you are welcome to contact Trevor Forsyth and Anna Ntinidou, respectively director and administrative manager at LINXS.
Read more about LINXS support (PDF, 71 kB) |
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