Olov Sterner writes about the faculty’s summer party and the transition to new management at the turn of the year.
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Many researchers at the Faculty of Science have been awarded grants by the Crafoord Foundation.
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| Tönu Pullerits, professor at the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a total of SEK 5.8 million by the Swedish Energy Agency for his project on “Highly efficient stable solar cells from 2D perovskite”. |
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| Sara Blomberg, project manager at the Department of Physics, has received a prize for the best oral presentation at the European Conference on Surface Science, which recently took place in Hungary. The prize amounts to EUR 1 500. |
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| Linda Önnby, postdoc at the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded just over SEK 138 000 by the Åke and Greta Lisshed Foundation. The funds are to be used to establish an ozone laboratory for future studies of ozone chemistry and ozone treatments. |
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| Jan-Åke Nilsson, professor at the Department of Biology, has been elected president of the European Ornithologists’ Union, EOU. |
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Now is the time to apply for the Faculty of Science’s travel and research grants. The application deadline is 20 September.
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The last chance to apply for funding from the EU project MAX4ESSFUN is 26 October. The aim of the project is to promote interregional research collaborations using neutron radiation and synchrotron light. Even researchers who have already been awarded grants can apply. Contact kajsa_m.paulsson@med.lu.se if you have any questions.
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Teaching staff, researchers and administrators working to promote collaboration between European universities within Erasmus+ can now apply for travel grants. The application deadline is 29 September.
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Researchers and doctoral students can now apply to the Fulbright Arctic Initiative programme which aims to promote cooperation on issues concerning the Arctic. The application deadline is 16 October.
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Lund University is the first Scandinavian university to become a member of the British media outlet The Conversation. This entails an opportunity for LU researchers to communicate their research through media that reach an audience of many millions all over the world. On 20–26 September, Miriam Frankel, one of the editors of The Conversation, will be in Lund. Take the opportunity to discuss your writing ideas with her in an individual meeting. Book an appointment by contacting the faculty’s press officer lena.bjork_blixt@science.lu.se. If you want to find out more about how to publish your work through The Conversation, you can also attend Miriam Frankel’s open lectures on 21 September.
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The Faculty of Medicine invites you to a fair showcasing available infrastructure at Lund University in the field of Life Science. Time and place: 19 September from 14:00 to 17:00 in Lund (registration deadline 12 September), and 3 October from 14:00 to 17:00 in Malmö (registration deadline 26 September).
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| Vladimir Osipov, postdoc at the Department of Chemistry, was interviewed on the subject of his part in formulating a mathematical equation which provides an exact answer to how chaos behaves at the quantum level. “Yes, we have produced an exact equation. Personally, I am surprised that this was at all possible”, he says. |
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| Sverker Werin, professor at MAX IV, was interviewed in Kemivärlden Biotech about the inauguration of the world’s hitherto largest free electron laser, the European XFEL in Hamburg. “XFEL will become a centre, not only in Europe but in the world, for research requiring extremely intensive and extremely short x-ray pulses”, he says. |
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| Lars Råberg, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, was interviewed by Radio Sweden about how voles are affected by selective pressure from parasites. |
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| Martin N Andersson, researcher at the Department of Biology, was interviewed about a new study showing that the receptors enabling the primitive moth species eriocrania semipurpurella to find an individual of the opposite sex probably evolved from receptors that help the moths perceive the fragrances of plants. “More research on the receptors could potentially lead to more successful ways of fighting pests, for example by blocking the pheromone receptor so that the males cannot locate the females”, he says. |
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| Eric Warrant, professor at the Department of Biology, was interviewed by Radio Sweden about his research indicating that the Bogong moth navigates by using the Earth’s magnetic field. Among other things, Warrant mentioned the great interest in his research shown by industry and the military. |
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| Lars Råberg, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, was interviewed by several media outlets about how to protect oneself from ticks and the disease TBE. Råberg said that people who spend time in high risk areas should get vaccinated. The articles also feature Lars Lundqvist, who has worked at the Biology Museum for a long time. |
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| Next week, the Faculty of Science will launch its new internal websites for employees (one website in Swedish and one in English). These websites will replace the current internal web pages which you reach by clicking “For employees” in the top banner of the Faculty’s external website. |
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A new issue of Lund University’s Research Magazine has now been published. The current theme is “The Amazing Brain”.
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Thank you for all the brilliant contributions to the haiku competition at the faculty’s summer party. The winner among the 26 participants has now been declared: Per Lundberg (biology) got seven out of ten right. In joint second place, with six correct answers, were Jonatan Adolfsson (physics), Nils Hermansson Truedsson (theoretical physics), Katja Mankinen (physics), Eva Hansen (physics), Joel Olsson (chemistry), Christoffer Karlsson (chemistry) and Mats Hansson (biology). All these lucky winners will be rewarded with a specially designed faculty sweater. The overall winner will also receive a fabulous leather pen.
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