| Kenneth Wärnmark, professor at the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded this year’s Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry. He was chosen to receive the SEK 1.6 million in prize money for his pioneering work on supramolecular chemistry and organic synthesis. |
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The interdisciplinary network SASNET (The Swedish South Asian Studies Network) has announced a planning grant worth SEK 75,000 for Lund researchers who are preparing relatively large applications for funding. The research project must have a connection to South Asia. The application deadline is 16 September.
Read more and apply on the SASNET website |
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Two research programmes SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) and Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP-HS) have announced a joint call for funding for interdisciplinary research projects. You can apply for funding of up to SEK 500,000. The application deadline is 1 September.
Read more and apply for funding on the SciLifeLab website |
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Researchers can now apply to spend 3-10 months in an interdisciplinary environment at Hamburg University as part of the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) fellowship programme. The application deadline is 31 October.
Read more and apply for the programme (hias-hamburg.de) |
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You can search for calls for applications and funding bodies from all over the world and across all research areas in Pivot-RP. You can even search for grants to take part in academic conferences and postdocs funding.
Read more about how to use Pivot-RP (staff.lu.se) |
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Lund University strives to be accessible to everyone, regardless of any functional impairment. You will find information about digital accessibility, as well as support and tools to help you make your teaching materials accessible on the Teaching and learning online website.
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Sustainability, equal opportunities, ethics and reflection are values that should be part of all higher education. But how can we teach this so that it also enriches students’ scientific studies? You can learn all about this in the course “Education for scientific literacy – sustainability, equality and ethics,” which will be given in long and short versions, starting 12 October. The course includes a number of workshops, which are open to all teaching staff within the faculty, regardless of whether you plan to take the whole course or not.
The first workshop, “Education for scientific literacy – Introduction,” will be held on 12 October, from 13:15 to 16:00. The registration deadline is 5 September.
Read more about the course and how you can sign up on the faculty’s internal website |
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Award-winning theoretical physicist Constantino Tsallis, from the Brazilian Center for Physical Research, will give a popular science lecture about entropy during his visit to Lund University. Entropy is a measure of the degree of disorder in a system and can be used, for example, in medical diagnostics to increase the number of true positive results and reduce the number of false positive results. Time and place: 6 September, from 16:00 to 18:00, Lundmarksalen, Astronomihuset, as well as Zoom. Anyone interested is welcome.
Read more about the lecture (lu.se) |
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The Lund University Conference on Teaching and Learning will be held on 17 November and is aimed at all teaching staff. This year’s conference theme is “Lifelong Learning and Higher Education: New (and Old) Perspectives.” The registration deadline is 1 November. The deadline for contributions is 1 September.
Read more and register for the conference (ht.lu.se) |
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| Sofia Feltzing, professor at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Dainis Dravins, professor emeritus at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, and Urban Eriksson, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, have been interviewed about the spectacular images produced by the James Webb telescope. “These are the deepest pictures of the universe by far, including a galaxy that is 13.1 billion years old,” says Feltzing. |
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| Marcus Stensmyr, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about how the substance nootkatone, which can be found in grapefruits, affects mosquitos. “Mosquitos hate it! And not only that, but it also seems to be toxic for them. It causes them to spasm. We don’t know exactly how it works, but we know it works,” he says. Stensmyr has also been interviewed about three things you did not know about mosquitoes. |
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| Emma Kritzberg, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed by several news outlets about how organic matter from forests is making our lakes turn brown. |
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| Markku Rummukainen, professor at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science and the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed by several media outlets about climate change and how we can limit global heating. |
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| Emma Kärrnäs, doctoral student at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about the Reverdin’s blue butterfly, which has not been spotted in Sweden for the last three years. Kärrnäs has taken DNA from the Swedish Museum of Natural History’s collection of Reverdin’s blues and is now searching abroad for close relations to the butterfly. “There is a chance we can reintroduce it back to Sweden. That would be fantastic. But the fact that this is necessary at all is regrettable,” she says. |
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| Andreas Nilsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Geology, has been interviewed about a new study in which researchers reconstructed changes in the Earth’s magnetic field over the last 9,000 years. Nilsson explains that the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening over the last 200 years. He does not believe, however, that the weakening will lead to a reversal of the poles, that is, that the north and south poles will swap places. “There seems to be a regularity to it. These changes build up for 400 years, then the magnetic field recovers without the poles reversing,” he says. |
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| Anna Persson, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been interviewed about gardens and their importance to plants and wildlife. “There is a common feeling that nature is somewhere else. But the truth is, many species are better suited to gardens and parks than open countryside. For wild bees and many other pollinators, gardens are extremely important,” she says. |
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| Mattias Ohlsson, professor at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, was interviewed about his seminar “Smart och rättvis vård med forskning på hälso- och sjukvård” (Smart and fair care through healthcare research), which was held at Almedalen Week. During the seminar, Ohlsson explained how a lack of available health data is an obstacle for the development of AI within healthcare. |
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| Irene Lehner, research engineer at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, and Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, have been interviewed about the Norunda research station, where they measure, among other things, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “It is going up all the time. We haven’t seen any impact of the pandemic,” says Lehner. |
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| Ulf Ellervik, professor at the Department of Chemistry, was interviewed about the chemistry of love for International Kissing Day, on 6 July. Ellervik explains that kissing sets off an explosion of chemical signals in the brain. |
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| Susanne Åkesson, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a video that shows a herring gull swallowing a live rat on Värnhemstorget in Malmö. Åkessons says that it was a very large catch and it will take a long time for the gull to digest it. |
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| Dainis Dravins, professor emeritus at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, has been interviewed about supermoons, a phenomenon that makes the moon appear larger than usual. “The reason is that the moon is closer to Earth than normal, while also being lit up,” says Dravins. |
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| Håkan Wallander, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about the fertile black soil of Ukraine. Wallander explains that the soil was formed after the last ice age, when soil material melted out of the glaciers and was then dispersed by the wind, and that the rich soils have built up over many thousands of years. |
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| Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about how the large Arctic research network INTERACT is being affected by the freezing of collaborations with government institutions in Russia. |
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| Åke Lindström (professor), Sissel Sjöberg (researcher) and Johan Bäckman (technical coordinator), all at the Department of Biology, have been interviewed about their summer field trip to the mountains of Jämtland, where they studied the great snipes that come there to breed. |
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| Tina D’Hertefeldt, researcher at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a research project that is investigating whether rooting pigs could be used to combat the invasive Japanese knotweed. |
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| Torbjörn Fagerström, professor emeritus at the Department of Biology, and another researcher have written an opinion piece about how crops edited with CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors could contribute to increased productivity and reduced environmental impact in Europe. |
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| Helena Hansson, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been interviewed about how trees planted in urban environments can improve biodiversity and human well-being. |
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| Eric Warrant, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a new study which shows that the African death’s-head hawkmoth can fly long stretches in a straight line, from point A to point B, no matter the direction of the wind. Warrant calls it a pioneering piece of research. |
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| Dan Hammarlund, professor at the Department of Geology, has been interviewed about a new study on forest growth, development and species composition over the last 10,000 years across a large area of the northern United States. Hammarlund says that the study provides important perspectives on the potential of forests to sequester carbon. |
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| Edith Hammer, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about her specially constructed microchip, which can be used to study microorganisms underground and in real time. |
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| Henrik Smith, professor at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, was interviewed about a new report from the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBS). The report states that a million species face the threat of extinction, and the situation is becoming increasingly acute. |
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| Torbjörn Tyler, curator at the Biological Museum, has been interviewed about growing wild plants from seed. “Most wild plants are easy to grow. It is essential for them to be able to survive out in nature. Plants that are difficult to cultivate from seed are in the minority,” he says. |
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| Åke Lindström, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed concerning the many migratory birds that leave Sweden to fly further south. |
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| Marcus Stensmyr, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about the origins of the fruit fly, how they get into our homes and how we can get rid of them. Stensmyr suggests setting a trap in the form of a brandy glass filled with a fruity vinegar and a little dishwashing liquid. |
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| Bengt Nihlgård, professor emeritus at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about ragwort, which is toxic to animals and humans. “It has spread quickly in the last few years, which I interpret to mean that changes in the climate have proved favourable to it,” he says. |
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| Lina Eklund, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about climate-induced migration and conflict in the book “Världen som väntar: Vårt liv i klimatförändringens Sverige” (The World that Awaits: Our Lives in Climate-Changed Sweden), by Peter Alestig. |
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