Gustaf Ramel and Margret Bauer become LTH’s honorary doctors
They have made an outstanding professional contribution characterized by scientific excellence, significant importance for research infrastructure, or significant importance for society. LTH Faculty Board has decided that two individuals will be appointed honorary doctors in 2026.
– Published 17 December 2025
Gustaf Ramel – innovative and resilient agriculture
For several years, the Division of Water Resources Engineering at LTH (Faculty of Engineering at Lund University) has collaborated with farmer and landowner Gustaf Ramel.
Among other things, Gustaf Ramel played a decisive role when the division initiated and coordinated WATERAGRI, a project within EU Horizon focusing on water, environment, and agriculture, which ran from 2020–2024.
– As an innovative farmer, Gustaf Ramel is a key actor in the transition to more sustainable and resilient agriculture in a changing climate, says Annika Olsson, Dean of LTH.
Margret Bauer – process control and big data
Professor Margret Bauer’s research field is process control. She has worked together with the process industry and focused on challenges related to big data and data analytics.
Since 2020 she has been working at Hamburg Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW Hamburg), Germany. Between 2021–2024, Margret Bauer was also Lise Meitner Professor at LTH.
Margret Bauer has also been a driving force in “Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control,” a multi-year project that identifies and presents women who have made important contributions to the development of control engineering.
– This is important work since control engineering has historically been strongly male-dominated. Through collaborations with many colleagues, primarily at the Department of Automatic Control, Margret Bauer has had a valuable impact on education, research, and collaboration, and has been an inspiration for the entire LTH, says Annika Olsson.
Honorary doctor at LTH and Lund University
The doctoral conferment ceremony at Lund University is the year’s grand ceremony and academic celebration. On this occasion those who have completed their doctoral degrees during the year are honoured, as are the distinguished individuals who are appointed honorary doctors.
The new doctors are honoured with the outward signs of doctoral dignity: diploma, ring, hat, or laurel wreath – the insignia of scholarship.
Those appointed honorary doctors at LTH have made an outstanding professional contribution of importance to LTH’s research activities. The contribution is characterized by scientific excellence, significant importance for research infrastructure, and/or significant importance for industry or society connected to LTH’s research.