The Faculty of Science has prepared a plan consisting of the following elements:
- Continuity plan for the Faculty of Science in the event of a power shortfall warning and brief temporary disconnection of electricity
- Supplement to the continuity plan – for first and second-cycle education
- Communication plan in the event of a power shortfall warning and power cuts
Read the plan on the faculty’s internal website |
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| At their meeting on 14 December, the board decided to approve the faculty’s Action Plan for Sustainable Development 2023–2026, and to earmark funding for graduate schools and course packages within the faculty between 2024 and 2028. The faculty was also brought up to date on the ongoing work concerning the establishment of activities in Science Village and about strategies for long-term staff recruitment and development within the faculty. |
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Several researchers at the Faculty of Science are to receive research funding in the first call for applications in the doctoral and postdoc project that forms part of WISE (The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability).
- Anders Mikkelsen, professor at the Department of Physics, receives funding for the project “Efficient Earth Abundant Aluminium Nanoplasmonics”
- Emma Sparr, professor at the Department of Chemistry, receives funding for the project “Photocatalytic nanoparticles for potent antimicrobial effects in water purification”
- Kenneth Wärnmark, professor at the Department of Chemistry, receives funding for the project “Development of a photocatalytic system based on iron for large-scale production of fuels”
- Marie Skepö, professor at the Department of Chemistry, receives funding for the project “Clay as a carrier for polyphosphate fertilizers in agriculture”
- Tönu Pullerits, professor at the Department of Chemistry, receives funding for the project “Covalent organic framework-based hybrid photo-catalytic system for efficient CO2 to fuel conversion”
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Several researchers at the Faculty of Science receive funding from the Formas call for applications that is aimed at researchers early in their careers.
- Jessica Knapp, postdoc at the Department of Biology, receives funding for a project examining interdisciplinary perspectives on bees in agricultural landscapes.
- Kaj Hultén, researcher at the Department of Biology, receives funding for a project on more sustainable angling, specifically the effects of catch-and-release on the character traits, social interactions and population structures of predatory fish.
- Minchao Wu, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, receives funding for a project on the role of ecosystem recovery after stress in future climatic extremes (PERClimX).
- Lettice Hicks, researcher at the Department of Biology, receives funding for a project on the optimisation of carbon sequestration and soil fertility for sustainable agriculture.
- Albert Carles Brangarí, researcher at the Department of Biology, receives funding for a project studying soils and weather to establish how ploughing changes the capacity of arable land to sequestrate carbon.
- Liam Kendall, postdoc at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, receives funding for a project examining the economic significance of interaction between various species of pollinator and aiming to bring order to the links between biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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Lena M Jönsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Medical Radiation Physics, receives the Lund students’ prize for excellence in teaching 2023 for her outstanding efforts in education. Part of the jury’s rationale was as follows: “Lena deploys different kinds of teaching in order to broaden students’ perspectives and is accomplished at integrating theoretical learning with practical elements. According to Lena, each student is unique, which is why she uses several different methods to adapt her teaching.”
Read the news item (staff.lu.se) |
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| The prize is awarded to a successful biochemist or molecular biologist who is working in Sweden and obtained their PhD no later than 1 January 2011 (with some exceptions). The award includes a medal and SEK 35,000. The deadline for nominations is 13 February. |
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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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If you participate in the work to design and structure courses and programmes, you can now register for a new course about the use of digital technology to support teaching and assessment. The course includes three workshops to be held in the period 3 March – 28 April.
Read more and sign up for the course (education.lu.se) |
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During this month, eight new theses will be presented at the Faculty of Science.
- Virgínia Boix, “Graphene: Applications in Surface Science Studies”
- Josefin Martell, “Leave no trace: A non-destructive correlative approach providing new insights into impactites and meteorites”
- Adrian Nassirpour, “The Shape of Strangeness: Transverse Spherocity and Underlying Event studies of φ and its relation to Ξ in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions”
- Tor Sjöstrand, “Role of charge and spin fluctuations and their interplay in solids: A Green’s function approach”
- Ernst Dennis Larsson, “Towards a multiconfigurational description of the electronic structure in solids”
- Tommy Dam, “The influence of adhesion molecules on binding and protein organization in cell contacts”
- Joel Creutzberg, “Extending relativistic linear response theory to address solvent effects”
- Boris Louis, “Multi-dimensional microscopy, a tool to unravel material properties at the nanoscale”
Search for doctoral theses in the University’s research portal
See forthcoming public defences of theses – lu.se |
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| Several researchers from the Faculty of Science are co-authors of an opinion piece supporting youth organisation Aurora’s legal action against the Swedish state for inadequate climate policies. “Sweden is not taking the measures necessary to protect the rights of children and young people under the European Convention on Human Rights. This brings serious risks to life and health for younger generations, people in other countries and particularly vulnerable groups. This cannot continue,” write 1,260 researchers and academics in the article. |
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| Margareta Johansson and Jonas Åkerman, respectively research coordinator and senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, have been interviewed about their measurements of the permafrost on the Norwegian Arctic Island of Svalbard and in Abisko, northern Sweden. They also explained how thawing permafrost releases significant amounts of greenhouse gases that have a negative impact on the climate. |
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| Urban Eriksson, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, has been interviewed about researchers in the USA having made a breakthrough in the quest to make nuclear fusion a source of energy in the future. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in producing more energy in a process of fusion than that required to keep the process going. “This is the same source of energy that fuels the sun, and it produces a lot of energy. If we succeed with this process, which we surely will, then we have opened up the possibility to secure large amounts of clean energy that do not lead to any carbon dioxide emissions, nor much in the way or radioactive waste,” says Eriksson. |
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| Susanne Åkesson and Mikael Sörensson, professor and visiting lecturer respectively at the Department of Biology, answered listeners’ questions on the Radio Sweden programme, Naturpanelen. Amongst other things, they were asked about how woodlice find those wet swimming trunks, how certain animals see clearly both above and beneath the surface of water, and why spruce bark sometimes takes on a blue hue. |
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| Henrik Smith, professor at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, was interviewed about threatened plant and animal species and the UN’s COP15 Biodiversity Conference. “The biodiversity situation is acutely alarming. Goals set previously have not been met. This is both an ethical problem – does humanity have the right to drive species to extinction? – and a threat to our future wellbeing. Species contribute to a functioning biosphere that gives us various services. In a changing world, we do not know what species might become important in the future. The only sustainable strategy, therefore, is to preserve biodiversity – both common and rare species,” he says. |
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The latest issue of LUM contains interviews with Mathieu Gisselbrecht, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, Anders Irbäck, professor at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, and Carsten Peterson, expert at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, about the exciting world of quantum physics. Tommy Nylander, professor at the Department of Chemistry, talks about the food of the future. Karl Ljung, lecturer at the Department of Geology, was interviewed about his semester-long sabbatical at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. And Juliana Dänhardt, research coordinator at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, tells readers about the interdisciplinary collaboration initiative LU Land.
LUM’s website |
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| Johan Kjellberg Jensen, doctoral student at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, was interviewed about a study that shows the importance of indigenous trees for insects living in the city. The study shows that the quantity of insects and spiders was in some cases two to three times higher in indigenous trees compared with introduced trees. “We can demonstrate that this effect is strong, and that it is an important factor to take into account. At the same time, it is relatively easy to address – increasing the proportion of indigenous trees in the city is sufficient,” says Kjellberg Jensen. |
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| Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about a segment in the TV news programme Rapport, in which clearcut logging was presented as being climate-smart. “I am surprised by the segment on SVT. To present clearcut logging as being something positive for the climate is completely mad,” says Lindroth. |
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| Torbjörn Fagerström, professor emeritus at the Department of Biology is co-author of an opinion piece arguing that the Swedish Green Party should follow their Finnish sister party and revisit their stance on genetically modified crops. |
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| Henrik Smith, professor at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, is co-author of an opinion piece entitled “Climate law requires that the government changes policy.” |
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| Sören Svensson, professor emeritus at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about bird species that are particularly vulnerable when there are cats in the vicinity. Svensson mentioned robins and tree sparrows as examples. |
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| Sven Lidin (the faculty's dean), Daniel Mikkola (doctoral student at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics), Bibiana Prinoth (doctoral student at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics) and Anders Johansen (professor at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics) were interviewed about the reorganisation of the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, which will be dissolved as an organisational unit from 1 January 2023. Anonymous staff at the department have also been interviewed. |
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| The next issue of Insidan newsletter will be sent on 12 January. |
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