Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, discussed, among other things, the conditions for conducting good research and the responsibilities of researchers today. The focus was on three areas: research politics, the administrative structure and finally the academic leadership. He also shared his experiences from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and their proactive way of working as well as the importance of the Academy's basic task – to protect Swedish research.
The next seminar, and the last one of this year, will take place on 6 December from 16:00 to 17:00 in Lundmarkssalen (Lecture Hall), Astronomy Building. Our guest is John Renner Hansen, Niels Bohr Institute and former Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, Copenhagen University. The invitation will be sent out shortly.
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The Research Board’s working group for research infrastructure has now decided who will receive money from the university-wide investments in support for local research infrastructure. Among them are three applications from the Faculty of Science:
- ESS Securing current service levels and opportunities for protein sciences for Lund University researchers at the Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3). Applicant: Wolfgang Knecht, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology.
- Supercritical fluid chromatography coupled to inductive coupled plasma with mass spectrometry detection (SFC/ICP-MS) for the analysis of metals, minerals, and organometallic compounds. Applicant: Charlotta Turner, professor at the Department of Chemistry.
- Table-top x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy, a Gateway to better science and large-scale facilities. Applicant: Jens Uhlig, senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry.
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Swedish researchers who have finished their doctoral studies can now apply for a Fulbright Sweden grant for research or lectures at American universities for the academic year 2023/2024. The application deadline is 9 January.
Read more and apply for the grant (fulbright.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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The Canvas learning platform has several external applications and proprietary integrations that allow you to add extra functionality to your courses. Some examples are:
- Ally – a tool for creating accessible documents
- Conferences – a tool for organising lectures
- Google apps and Office 365 for using documents
- MATLAB Grader that makes it possible to use MATLAB Coding Problem directly in your Canvas course area
- Teams for digital meetings
- Urkund/Ouriginal for plagiarism checks
- TimeEdit for scheduling
Read more about external applications and integrations in Canvas (education.lu.se) |
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Welcome to a digital meeting where Lund researchers active on one or several social media platforms share their tips and insights. There will also be a chance for a discussion and to ask questions. The webinar is aimed primarily at researchers and doctoral students, but anyone interested is welcome to attend. Time and place: 23 November, from 12:00 to 13:00, via Teams.
Read more and sign up for the webinar (staff.lu.se) |
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The WINGS network invites you to its annual meeting, in which Katrin Marçal, journalist and author, will give a keynote lecture. During the meeting you will also get an insight into current initiatives related to gender equality and diversity at the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering (LTH). Time and place: 8 December, from 13:00 to 15:45 in Lundmarksalen, Astronomihuset.
Read more and sign up for the meeting (docs.google.com) |
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Research staff are invited to a meeting on the Swedish system for ethics review of research involving humans (including personal data). The meeting will be held by Mats Johansson, research ethics advisor at Lund University. Time and place: 15 December from 12:00 to 12:45 via Zoom.
Read more and register for the meeting (staff.lu.se) |
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| Johanna Alkan Olsson, senior lecturer at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been interviewed about how cities can adapt to a changing climate and simultaneously contribute to a better quality of life. “When you look specifically at the issue of urban planning, you discover that there are many advantages to organising our cities around less traffic. Cleaner air, less noise and safer roads,” she says. |
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| Ingemar André, professor at the Department of Chemistry, has been interviewed for an article about the AI program Alphafold, which makes it possible to solve one of science’s most complex problems with the touch of a button – how proteins fold into complex 3D structures. André believes that there will be new AI tools that might go in a different direction to Alphafold. Instead of starting with a sequence of amino acids, they will start from the desired shape of a protein and then generate the amino acid frequency. From there, it is a short step to making the protein itself, for example in bacteria. “These methods do not yet exist, but variants in this direction are emerging. It is a very exciting development,” he says. |
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| Sofie Ceberg, senior lecturer at the Division of Medical Radiation Physics, was one of seven researchers from Lund University who competed to present their research in a quick and interesting manner to upper secondary school pupils in Helsingborg. Ceberg’s presentation was about how radiation helps save lives. |
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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 UN’s COP27 climate conference in Egypt. “The negotiations are a process in which every step and every meeting is important. The summit in Glasgow last year saw new initiatives, such as the programmes for increased ambition on emissions reduction and adaptation. The concretisation of these programmes at this year’s meeting is very important as global emissions continue to rise and climate impacts multiply – it is becoming increasingly clear how little time we have to reverse the trend,” he says. |
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In the latest edition of LUM, Cheryl Sjöström, coordinator at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, talks about the interdisciplinary ClimBEco Graduate Research School. Helena Alexanderson, professor at the Department of Geology, has been interviewed about the new centre for luminescence research. Hans Linderson, research engineer at the Department of Geology, talks about the dating of the beams in the King’s House. Anders Örtegren, communications officer at the Department of Biology, has been featured in a personal profile. And Johan Kjellberg Jensen, doctoral student at the Department of Biology, lists his five tips for reaching children and young people with research.
LUM webpage (staff.lu.se) |
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| Ola Olsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about biodiversity and the ongoing wave of extinctions. “It is absolutely desirable to stop the mass extinction. Partly for ethical and moral reasons, but also because our quality of life will be worsened in many aspects. It will be more expensive to live if we allow too much biodiversity to disappear. And I think we can stop this mass extinction if we really try,” he says. |
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| Arne Hegemann, researcher at the Department of Biology, is co-author of an opinion piece on the conflict between cormorants and the fishing industry. |
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