81 new doctors to be conferred at LTH

The doctoral degree conferment ceremony is Lund University’s largest academic celebration. During the ceremony, PhD graduates who have defended their doctoral theses during the year at one of the University’s nine faculties are formally conferred.

As a symbol of their new academic status, each PhD graduate receives three insignia: the diploma, the doctoral hat (or laurel wreath), and the ring.

During the traditional ceremony, honorary doctors appointed by the faculties are also conferred, while those who received their doctoral degrees fifty years ago are awarded the title of jubilee doctor (doctor jubilaris).

The academic procession departs from AF-borgen to Lund Cathedral at 12:00 noon. The ceremony lasts approximately three hours, and the procession is expected to return to the University Main Building between 3:00 and 4:00 PM. The public is welcome to watch the procession to and from the Cathedral, but the ceremony itself is open to invited guests only.

The conferment act begins with an address from the Vice-Chancellor and is followed by the conferral ceremonies of the nine faculties, during which the new doctors are conferred. The entire ceremony is conducted in Latin.

A cannon salute is fired several times during the ceremony as a tribute to the principal participants of the conferment act:

• each presenter is saluted with one shot
• each faculty’s jubilee doctors receive one collective shot
• each honorary doctor is saluted with one shot
• the newly conferred doctors of each faculty are saluted with two shots

Beginning at 12:00 noon and continuing at regular intervals throughout the afternoon, a total of 50 salute shots will be fired in Lundagård by the Wendes Salute Battery.

After the conferment act, one of the new PhD graduates delivers a ceremonial address — an oratio — to the University. The ceremony concludes with a Latin prayer by Bishop Johan Tyrberg.

Doctoral degree conferment ceremonies have been held in Lund since 1670. LTH held its first and so far only independent ceremony in 1967. Since 1969, LTH has been part of Lund University.

More information about the doctoral degree conferment ceremony

Livestream of the Ceremony

The doctoral degree conferment ceremony in Lund Cathedral will be livestreamed on YouTube starting at 12:00 noon CEST.

Livestream link to the doctoral degree conferment ceremony on 29 May 2026 at 12:00 noon – YouTube

Honorary Doctors

LTH has appointed Gustaf Ramel and Margret Bauer honorary doctors for 2026. The title of honorary doctor at LTH is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding professional contributions of significance to LTH’s research activities. Such contributions are characterised by scientific excellence, substantial importance to research infrastructure, and/or significant impact on industry or society connected to LTH research.

The Division of Water Resources Engineering at LTH has collaborated with farmer and landowner Gustaf Ramel on innovative and resilient agriculture through the WATERAGRI project, which focused on water, environment and agriculture during the years 2020–2024.

Margret Bauer, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), has played a leading role in “Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control”, a multi-year project highlighting women who have made important contributions to the development of automatic control engineering. Between 2021 and 2024, Margret Bauer also served as Lise Meitner Professor at LTH.

More information about LTH’s honorary doctors

Jubilee Doctors

As a tribute to previous generations, the ceremony also celebrates those who earned their doctoral degrees fifty years previously by bestowing upon them the title of jubilee doctor, or doctor jubilaris.

During the ceremony, the jubilee doctors are awarded a new diploma. In 2026, LTH will award six jubilee doctors a new diploma:

• Harald Andersson (absens)
• Ulf Borison Peder Hjorth (absens)
• Gunnar Lindberg (absens)
• Gunnar Ohlén (absens)
• Nils Rydbeck (absens)
• Göran Wihlborg

LTH congratulates the following 81 doctors after completed doctoral examinations:

• Mostafa Abdollahpur
• Faseeh Ahmad
• Elham Akbari
• Jakob Allansson
• David Andersson
• Nikolina Barchan
• Benjamin Bondsman (absens)
• Edvin Bågenholm-Ruuth
• Alice Callanan
• Gareth Callanan
• Jundie Chen
• Lea Christierson
• Agnieszka Czachura
• Satabdee Dash
• Rubina Davtyan
• Frida Ekstrand
• Juanita Francis
• Ellinor Frank
• Lina Frennesson
• Magnus Fries
• Miaoxin Gong
• Gunnar Granlund
• Harald Havir
• Lisa Heldt
• Kevin Hult Blixt
• Charlotte Högberg
• Sofia Högstrand
• Gabriela Ibieta Jimenez
• Johan Ingvarson
• Emma Johnson
• Mikael Kervall (absens)
• Behshid Khodaei
• Azin Khodaverdi
• Tove Kristensen
• Roger Larsson
• Marcus Lindén
• Tova Lindh
• Margherita Lisco
• Fredrik Lund
• Martin Lundberg
• Filip Malmberg
• Irja Malmio
• Jaime Manriquez Rodriguez
• Franziska Martens
• Germán Miranda Santos
• Olivier Moliner
• Cong Hoan Vu Nguyen
• Maximilian Nitsch
• Reyhaneh Norooz
• Camilla Nyquist Magnusson
• Michelle Ochsner
• Silvia Orejuela
• Jimena Ortiz Sempertegui
• Leonard Papenmeier (absens)
• Ivar Persson
• Viktor Persson
• Dino Pjanić
• Pablo Edmundo Prado Velasco
• Arturo Prieto Llorens
• Momina Rizwan
• Luis Sánchez García
• Michiel Sandra
• Florian Schott
• Jon Selimi
• Ashkan Sheikhi (absens)
• Viktor Sincic
• Filip Sjövall
• Stefan Susnjar
• Karolina Södergren
• Laetitia Tanqueray
• Erik Tegler
• Pex Tufvesson
• Manu Upadhyaya
• Francesca Vergani
• Gustaf Waldemarson
• Simon Wozny
• Esra Yilmaz
• Kailun Zhang (absens)
• Yue Zhao
• Yuchen Zhou
• Arvid Åkerblom