| Göran Sandberg, executive board member of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), talked about how the Wallenberg Foundation worked in the past and how their work has developed to the present day. The aim is that everyone who applies for a grant should have the same conditions. The Foundation has several strategic initiatives to support both young and more experienced researchers. However, according to Sandberg, not only is the research at universities central, but he believes that teaching is perhaps the universities biggest and most important task – where a mature, competent student is created by teachers and researchers. Göran Sandberg also highlighted how we need to discuss the autonomy of the universities and their democratic role even more in the future. |
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Hans Ellegren, permanent secretary at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, will speak about research now and in the future. Some of the questions that will be addressed are: Universities as administrative authorities – where are we heading? Does Sweden have too many researchers? And how can we strengthen academic leadership? Time and place: 8 November from 16:00 to 17:00 in Lundmarksalen, Astronomihuset, and via Zoom. Please note that the seminar will be held in Swedish. The registration deadline is 4 November.
Register for the seminar via the faculty’s internal website |
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Two researchers at the Faculty of Science have been granted multi-million funding awards by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
Sara Linse, professor at the Department of Chemistry, will receive SEK 27 million to investigate the helper proteins – chaperones – that make up 20 per cent of the total amount of protein produced in the body. The role of the chaperones is to prevent our functional proteins from folding incorrectly or getting stuck together, which can lead to diseases.
Mathieu Gisselbrecht, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, will receive SEK 26 million for the study of quantum entanglement. The aim is to develop methods of measurement and theories so that the researchers are better able to understand the entanglement between electrons emitted by matter. |
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The University has announced funding for researchers and doctoral students who have a project with innovative potential and a clear positive impact on ecological, social or economic sustainability. You can apply for funding of up to SEK 150,000 per project. The application deadline is 20 November.
Read more and apply for funding from the Sustainability Fund (staff.lu.se) |
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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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Digital tools and teaching are the focus of a new unit that will coordinate and develop assistance, support and training for learning environments – digital as well as campus-based. The unit is a permanent continuation of the project Teaching and Learning Online. The unit’s director is Bo-Anders Jönsson.
Read about the new Unit for Educational Services (education.lu.se) |
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The University’s strategic research areas invite you to three workshops during the autumn:
- Workshop: "Gender equality, diversity and inclusion in research environments". Time and place: 7 November from 09:00 to 13:00 in Belfragesalen, BMC, and via Zoom. The registration deadline is 6 November.
- Workshop: "Interdisciplinary influence – defining results and effects". Time and place: 22 November from 08:30 to 13:00 in room 60-12-015, CRC Malmö, or via Zoom. The registration deadline is 15 November.
- Writing policy briefs (date to be confirmed)
Read more and sign up for the workshops about sustainability (staff.lu.se) |
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Tomorrow, 28 October, 25 new professors will be inaugurated at a ceremony in the Main University Building auditorium, which will be followed by an informal reception in Pelarsalen. The event is open to all those interested; registration is not required.
Read more about the inauguration (staff.lu.se) |
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Welcome to a memorial seminar in honour of Christer Samuelsson and his career as a researcher and radiation protection physicist at Lund University. The programme includes contributions from a number of colleagues with whom Christer collaborated. Time and place: 11 November from 13:00 to 14:30 in room 2005-2007, Carl Bertil Laurells gata 9 in Malmö, and via Zoom. For coffee and cake, register by 7 November.
Read more and register for the seminar (the programme will be published shortly) (msf-malmo.lu.se) |
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LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science invites researchers and PhD students to the event "IPDD - Structure-based Drug Design meeting". Researchers have the opportunity to submit abstracts and participate in the programme. Time and place: 14–15 November at the LINXS premises.
Read more and register for the event (linxs.se) |
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The strategic research area BECC and the platform LU Land invites you to the seminar "How fair and effective is the political process to decide and implement a post-2020 global biodiversity framework?". During the seminar, invited experts will discuss the possibilities for implementing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework that will be finalized and adopted at the UN conference COP15 in December. Time and place: 25 November from 10:00 to 15:00 in Lund and via Zoom. The registration deadline is 17 November.
Read more and register for the seminar (becc.lu.se) |
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Over the course of the month, nine new theses will be presented at the Faculty of Science.
- Eric Fagerberg, “Assessing the structural and dynamical properties of concentrated solutions of the disordered proteins Histatin 5 and its tandem repeat”
- Jan Brabec, “Applications of diffusion MRI: Tensor-valued encoding, time-dependent diffusion and histological validation”
- David K Olsson, “Nonlinear Optics Studies on the MAX IV Storage Rings”
- Björn Annby-Andersson, “A General Formalism för Continuous Feedback Control in Quantum Systems”
- Inda Brinkmann, “Coastal signals of environmental changes: foraminifera as benthic monitors”
- Humberto Itriago, “The maintenance of telomeres in the budding yeast Naumovozyma castellii”
- Anna Stenvall, “The Importance of Dosimetry and Radiobiology in Nuclear Medicine – Quantitative methods and modelling”
- Dafne Ram, “Birds and butterflies at the forest-farmland interface”
- Yen-Po Liu, “Surfaces and interfaces of low dimensional III-V semiconductor devices”
Search for doctoral theses in the University’s research portal
See forthcoming public defences of theses – lu.se |
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| Kenneth Wärnmark, professor at the Department of Chemistry, was interviewed about Germany becoming the first country to launch trials of a railway line powered only by hydrogen. However, production of hydrogen today requires both electricity and noble metals. Wärnmark talked about his own ongoing research which will hopefully lead to the large-scale production of hydrogen, using solar energy and iron. “Our research is based on aping natural photosynthesis, in which carbon dioxide is basically turned into sugar. In our case, we are going to turn water into a fuel, and that gives us hydrogen,” he says. |
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| Lina Eklund, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about a new report which warns that extreme heatwaves could make parts of the planet uninhabitable and cause one person in ten to be a climate refugee by 2050. Eklund says that an increasing number of researchers are proposing planned relocations of people from areas at risk of becoming uninhabitable and that resettlement projects should be included in climate adaptation measures. |
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| Johan Lindgren, senior lecturer at the Department of Geology, was interviewed about the remains of large carnivorous dinosaurs that lived in Skåne around 200 million years ago. Lindgren explained that the discovery, in a disused quarry near the town of Bjuv, could provide clues as to why dinosaurs – and not some other group of animals – managed to take over the world, |
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| Stefan Andersson, professor at the Department of Biology, was interviewed about a berry-picker’s discovery of white lingonberries. Andersson said he believed it was down to a simple mutation that has interfered with a particular stage in the production of the berries’ usual red pigment. |
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| Professor Natascha Kljun and researcher Anders Båth, from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, have been interviewed about the Norunda research station outside Uppsala. Researchers there can follow carbon dioxide flows at the same location before logging, during the cutting phase and onwards into the planting and juvenile forest stage. “These kinds of measurements are not available anywhere else. Our long measurements enable us to measure exactly what happens after clear cutting. We also measure more processes than usual, such as vegetation, soil and microbes, as well as nitrous oxide and methane,” said Kljun. |
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| Thomas Pugh, senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about a comprehensive risk analysis of how the world’s forests will be affected by climate change in the future. The study shows that southern boreal forests in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as some forests in Africa and the Amazon, will be particularly vulnerable in the years up to 2100. |
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| Markku Rummukainen, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, was interviewed about the new government’s climate policy measures. Expanded nuclear power, more vehicle charging posts and investment in carbon capture are some of the features. Rummukainen says that the proposals are good ones, but that they are not sufficient to achieve our society’s climate transition. |
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| Julian Melgar, researcher at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a new study showing that male and female animals are affected differently by collaboration and competition in social groups – something that can determine what size groups work best. The results show that this is largely down to males and females simply having different interests. Melgar explains that the male ostrich is driven mainly by competition with other males and thrives best in small groups, as the only male. The female ostrich, meanwhile, is driven by cooperation with both males and females, and as a result also thrives in larger groups. |
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| Henrik Smith, professor at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, was interviewed about the new research project “Limits to the expansion of organic farming in Sweden.” In time, Smith hopes that the project will contribute proposals for measures that could increase agricultural production without compromising on farming’s environmental successes. “We want to help provide inspiration for sustainable agriculture in general – not just organic farming,” he says. |
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| Sven Lidin, Dean of the faculty, was interviewed about the work environment situation at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics. |
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| In a time of increasing requirements for data protection, information security and IT security, it is important that all employees use secure data storage services. The university-wide IT function, LDC, provides four storage services that the Faculty of Science pays for on behalf of the faculty’s departments, up to and including 2023. These services are Research project storage (R:), Organisation storage (L:), Collaboration storage (S:) as well as the storage of sensitive information (LUSEC). Contact the IT manager at your department for more information and help with ordering storage services. |
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