The faculty management wants to increase access to information about the faculty’s ongoing research, without creating extra work for the faculty’s researchers. Therefore, the management has decided that all new external contracts that are registered in LUCRIS during the registration process will also have a publicly visible project entry in the research portal. This will happen automatically for all contracts registered from 1 January this year. The project entry in the research portal will include the title of the contract, Principal Investigator (PI), timeframe and funder. As a PI, you will receive an email from the system when the information is visible.
To ensure project information is more complete, it is useful if you add more information about the project, such as the project description, other participants from Lund University and partners. During the course of the project, you can also add information on the resulting publications and activities. If you do not wish your contract to be publicly visible, you can hide it.
Read about how to administer projects in LUCRIS (staff.lu.se) |
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Hanbang Zou, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biology, is to receive SEK 150,000 for the project “Fungal screening and microfluidic prototype test for developing fungal concrete band-aid”. The grant come from the University’s Sustainability Fund.
Read more about the project (staff.lu.se) |
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The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has announced funding worth SEK 60 million in a call for applications to establish a research centre to secure the availability of strategic raw materials. The research is to focus on the extraction and enrichment of metals. The deadline for applications is 11 May.
Read the call for applications (strategiska.se) |
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You can now nominate candidates for the Princess of Asturias Awards, which rewards outstanding achievements in fields such as technical and scientific research. The deadline for nominations is 2 March.
Read more and nominate candidates (fpa.es) |
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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 WINGS network invites you to a lecture by Ellen Kooijman, who will talk about her role in the design of the LEGO Research Institute, which features three women researchers in the natural sciences. There will be informal networking, canapés and cocktails after the lecture. Time and place: 2 February at 16:30, Hypoteket, Lund.
Read more and sign up for the WINGS event via Google Docs |
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The University research infrastructure Correlative Image Processing and Analysis (CIPA) is hosting an online seminar “Spectroscopic Data Processing and Analysis”, led by Carl Troein. Time and place: 15 February from 12:00 to 13:00, via Zoom. There is also the opportunity to participate in a follow-up workshop from 13:00 to 15:00. The registration deadline is 13 February.
Read more and sign up for the online seminar and workshop (staff.lu.se) |
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Seminars function well only if students are active and come prepared. However, students encounter different difficulties in preparing for seminars. Micol Mieli shares her tips and experiences in a new article that has been published on the Teaching and learning online website.
Read the article (education.lu.se) |
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| Christoffer Johansson, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a new study which shows that birds fly more efficiently by folding their wings during the upstroke. The results could mean that wing-folding is the next step in increasing the propulsive and aerodynamic efficiency of flapping drones. “We have built a robot wing that can flap more like a bird than previous robots. By measuring the performance of the wing in our wind tunnel, we have studied how different ways of achieving the wing upstroke affect force – and the energy required to produce that force,” says Johansson. |
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| Rebecca Forsberg, doctoral student at the Department of Physics, has been interviewed about the green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which is passing within visible distance of the Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. Forsberg explains why the comet has a greenish glow. |
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| Maj Rundlöf, researcher at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about new research that shows the extent to which honeybees are exposed to pesticides in pollen, nectar and the air. The results included the finding that pollen contains the most pesticide substances and often at high levels. Some of the substances are highly toxic, which means that the pollen can constitute a risk for bees. |
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| Anders Johansen, professor at the Department of Physics, has been interviewed about how the new James Webb Space Telescope can be used to find Earth-like planets and signs of extra-terrestrial life. “So far, over five thousand exoplanets have been discovered. These days, we believe most stars have planets. But in order to find planets similar to Earth, with our atmosphere, we have to be able to analyse them, which James Webb will be able to do,” says Johansen. |
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| Marie Dacke and Rickesh Patel, professor and researcher respectively at the Department of Biology, took part in a TV programme about the smartest geniuses of the animal kingdom in which they talked about how the mantis shrimp and the dung beetle navigate. |
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| Anna Arnadottir, research engineer at the Department of Physics, has been interviewed about NASA astronaut James Pawelczyk’s lecture for upper secondary school students at Vattenhallen Science Center. |
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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. Questions included how ants can survive an adventure in the microwave, why the acorn had triplets and if whistling magpies are common. |
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| Urban Eriksson, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, has been interviewed about the fact that researchers are being tasked with investigating who should answer extra-terrestrials if they seek contact. Eriksson explains that there is a protocol to follow, which is circulating at the UN among other places, but it does not explain who should answer. |
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| Per Henningsson, researcher at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about his children’s book “A Big Little Friend”, which is all about nature and friendship. He also talks about his research and his passion for birds. |
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| Martin Green, researcher at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a new report showing how bird species that breed in Sweden are faring. Green explains that many birds of prey, fish-eating birds and mountain birds are doing well. |
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As a member of teaching staff, you are obliged, regardless of the scope of your employment, to report any secondary employment annually in Primula. The registration deadline is 31 March. Even those who do not have secondary employment must report this.
Read more about reporting secondary employment (staff.lu.se) |
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