Lund University is monitoring developments in Ukraine and the Government’s action. The information on the University’s websites is continuously updated. If you have questions about how the war could affect the organisation, you can email them to: ukraina@er.lu.se.
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Anna Runemark and Stanley Heinze, Associate Senior Lecturer and researcher respectively at the Department of Biology, are to receive SEK 20 million each from the European Research Council. Runemark will study how hybridisation can give rise to new variations, while Heinze will investigate insect brains and their neural circuits.
Read the news item on the faculty website |
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The following people have been awarded grants:
- Patrik Vestin, research engineer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, will receive over SEK 1.6 million for the project ‟Towards more sustainable forest management – Climate mitigation potential of Fennoscandian forests under different forest management regimes”.
- Emma Kritzberg, Professor at the Department of Biology, will receive just over SEK 1.3 million for a project on ‟The role of land-use and land-cover change to browning of surface waters”.
- Ola Olsson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biology, will receive just over SEK 1.3 million for the project ‟Have nature conservation considerations in forestry over the past few decades benefited birds?”.
- Glenn Svensson, researcher at the Department of Biology, will receive just over SEK 850 000 for the project ‟Pheromone-based pest control in spruce seed plantations: optimisation of the SPLAT method for mating disruption of the spruce seed moth and Dioryctria abietella”.
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| Julia Kelly, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been awarded the Alfort Prize worth SEK 40 000 by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG). Kelly received the prize for her thesis "Carbon exchange in boreal ecosystems: upscaling and the impacts of natural disturbances". |
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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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Do you want to improve your ability to summarise the most important features of your research and get help and support in presenting your findings? If so, you can sign up for the Researcher Grand Prix competition, where you present your research in the most easily accessible and engaging way possible – in only four minutes. The registration deadline is 6 May.
Read more and sign up for Researcher Grand Prix (staff.lu.se) |
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The Division for Higher Education Development (AHU) has now opened registration for the courses below, to be offered in the autumn. The registration deadline is 7 June.
- Teaching and learning in higher education
- Teaching and learning in higher education – online
- Teaching and learning in higher education – blended course
- Teaching and Learning – extension
- Course design in higher education – blended course
- Open Networked Learning
- Doctoral supervision
Read more and register for the courses on the AHU website |
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Doctoral students and research staff can now register for a shortened version of the course "Teaching and Learning in Higher Education – Theory and Practice", which is offered by the faculty. The course consists of two parts: self-study and teacher-led sessions, totalling two weeks of qualifying training in teaching and learning in higher education. You can register for:- The self-study part only, which starts on 1 June; registration deadline 15 May.
- The whole course, with both self-study and teacher-led sessions. The self-study part will take place between 1 June and 15 August. The teacher-led sessions will be offered on two different occasions, in October and November. You choose one of the two dates when you register. The registration deadline is 15 May.
Read more and register for the course on the faculty’s internal website |
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The EU project Hanseatic League of Science (HALOS) on infrastructure for research and innovation in life science invites you to a webinar on how you can engage industry in your science research in connection with the use of the major research infrastructures MAX IV, ESS, DESY and European XFEL. Time and place: 25 March from 12:00 to 13:00 via Zoom.
Read more and register for the webinar (halos.lu.se) |
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| Research Services invite you to two webinars on the Marie Skłodowska Curie programme (MSCA), within Horizon Europe. The programme is a career development and mobility initiative featuring opportunities for individual mobility, in the form of postdoc positions and graduate schools in collaboration with European partners. The two webinars are: |
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The EU project Hanseatic League of Science (HALOS) and Helmholtz-Lund International Graduate School (HELIOS) invite you to a digital workshop aiming to stimulate future collaborations and activities. The workshop is intended for researchers in life science and physics in the Baltic Region. Time and place: 20 April from 09:00 to 16:00 via Zoom. Registration deadline 6 April.
Read more and register for the workshop (desy.de) |
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Doctoral students can now sign up for an introductory course on research data management, against the background of current developments concerning data management plans, data collection, data documentation and data publishing. The course is worth two credits and is offered from 20 April to 17 May. The registration deadline is 10 April.
Read more and sign up for the doctoral students’ course (nateko.lu.se) |
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| Victor Olariu, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, will hold an associate professorship lecture entitled ”Cell reprogramming: from a systems perspective”. Time and place: 28 April from 15:00 to 16:00 in the Lundmark Room, Astronomy Building. |
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Lund University and others invite you to a conference on ‟Gender Dimensions in Physics and other Math-Intensive Research and Teaching”, which will include lectures, exchange of knowledge, discussions and networking. The conference will be held digitally and on site in Lund 22–23 June.
Read more and sign up for the conference (desy.se) |
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Nathalie Feiner, researcher at the Department of Biology, was interviewed about a new study solving a genetic mystery that has long puzzled the world’s lizard researchers. The study concerns the brown anole species, whose females either have a diamond-shaped or v-shaped dorsal pattern. The study shows that the difference depends on mutations in a single gene. ‟It is likely that this mutated gene gradually slows the cells’ ability to migrate. When the cellular brake is applied, the diamond pattern appears; if not, you get the v-pattern”, says Feiner.
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| Daniel Mikkola, doctoral student at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, was interviewed about a new study concerning the speed and movement patterns of white dwarves – a type of star which was once normal-sized but has collapsed after using up its nuclear fuel. ‟Thanks to observations from the Gaia space telescope, we have succeeded for the first time in determining the three-dimensional distribution of speed for the hitherto largest catalogue of white dwarf stars. This provides us with a detailed picture of their speed structure, which is completely unprecedented”, says Mikkola. |
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| Caroline Isaksson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biology, was interviewed about the dos and don’ts of feeding passerine birds. Isaksson explained that you can benefit the birds by giving them a varied diet during the winter, when it is difficult for them to find their own food. The diet can consist of things like seeds, nuts and dried insects. |
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| Anders Hedenström, Professor at the Department of Biology, was interviewed about a new study indicating two previously unknown behaviours in the black swift. It emerges that the North American bird species does not land during its migration lasting just over eight months. The study also revealed that, when the moon is full, the black swift rises to extreme heights where, by all accounts, it catches insects by moonlight. ‟This behaviour is very exciting and reminiscent of the vertical movements in relation to moonlight seen in zooplankton in the oceans, for example”, says Hedenström. |
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| Katarina Hedlund, Professor at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, answered a reader’s question on the extent to which worms can dig in hard soil. ‟When the soil is hard, it is usually because it is dry, in which case the worms simply rest and wait for rain. They then dig again once the rain has wet the soil, making it softer. During dry spells, the worms move around in previously dug tunnels”, writes Hedlund. |
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| Susanne Åkesson, Professor at the Department of Biology, responded to a listener’s questions about white-tailed eagles and their eating habits. |
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| Håkan Wallander, Professor at the Department of Biology, was interviewed about soil on the podcast Artpodden. Among other things, Wallander explained what the swarming earth consists of and the threats facing the world’s topsoil. |
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| Ulf Arup, Museum Director at the Biological Museum, was interviewed in connection with the marked increase in the number of lichens on Halland’s Väderö island over the past 30 years. The latest inventory shows that there is once again a great diversity of lichens on the island. This indicates that the air has become better and cleaner. |
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The Faculties of Humanities and Theology invite you to this year’s HT days with many popular science presentations on the theme of hope and despair. Some lectures will be given in English. Time and place: 8–9 April at LUX.
HT Days programme (ht.lu.se) |
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You can now sign up for the Lundaloppet run, which will take place on 7 May. As usual, the University will cover the registration fee for its employees.
Sign up for Lundaloppet (staff.lu.se) |
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