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Dean of LTH: It is time to choose!
I wish that many people, regardless of gender and background, will dare to take a chance and apply for our programmes in order to gain access to an exciting and enriching working life, writes LTH Dean Annika Olsson.
Artificial intelligence for asset allocation
Fifteen mathematicians will this year share SEK 25 million in grants within the framework of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation's mathematics programme. The programme makes it possible, among other things, for younger mathematicians to research at one of the world's foremost mathematical environments and then return to Sweden. Petter N Kolm [...]
LTH student awarded "Tech Girl of the Year"
Matilda Andersson, who is enrolled in the civil engineering programme in data technology at LTH, has been awarded "Tech Girl of the Year" by Microsoft. She wants to use the upcoming year to show that programming is a creative tool - which can be used to solve many different societal problems.
Fluorescent nanodiamonds successfully injected into living cells
As odd as it sounds, many scientists have attempted to place extremely small diamonds inside living cells. Why? Because nanodiamonds are consistently bright and can give us unique knowledge about the inner life of cells over a long time. Now physics researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in injecting a large number of nanodiamonds [...]
Recycled cotton becomes new fabric
A lot of us recycle our old textiles, but few of us know that they are very difficult to re-use, and often end up in landfills anyway. Now, researchers at Lund University's Faculty of Engineering LTH in Sweden have developed a method that converts cotton into sugar, that in turn can be turned into spandex, nylon or ethanol.
Clean in the right way
For obvious reasons, cleaning and sanitising have come under the spotlight during the Covid-19 pandemic. But how are we affected by the products and chemicals that are used? Karin Lovén recently defended her doctoral thesis in aerosol technology about how cleaning products affect the health of professional cleaners. Here, she lists facts about [...]
Dean’s blog: "We are not stronger alone"
I want to welcome companies and organisations – and LTH alumni – to contact me and LTH if you want to collaborate and join us on the journey towards a better world, together towards the Agenda 2030 goals and to benefit the world, writes Dean of LTH Annika Olsson.
How two spearheads in Lund become three
NanoLab Science Village will become – together with ESS and MAX IV – the third major research facility in the Brunnshög area in northwest Lund. The new lab will also help to support the establishment of Lund University in Science Village.
Dean's blog: A happy new year, together!
"The management team is, for example, eager to address matters relating to the increased encouragement and building of strong interdisciplinary research environments in collaboration with strategic partners in wider society.", writes LTH's new Dean Annika Olsson in her first blog post.
Model used to evaluate lockdowns was flawed
In a recent study, researchers from Imperial College London developed a model to assess the effect of different measures used to curb the spread of the coronavirus. However, the model had fundamental shortcomings and cannot be used to draw the published conclusions, claim Swedish researchers from Lund University, and other institutions, in the [...]
85 per cent of cough droplets blocked by surgical mask, experiment shows
Researchers at LTH have recorded coughs resolved at high temporal resolution - 8,000 images per second - and high detection sensitivity, using laser light scattering. This enabled them to count the number of droplets as well as measure their speed with high accuracy. The preliminary results show that only 15% of droplets pass through a low-cost [...]
ERC grant awarded to research project on protein motors
A new project that aims to build motors made of proteins has received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant, and will be coordinated by Lund University in Sweden.
An important societal stakeholder – to attract the best in the world
Annika Olsson and Heiner Linke will be LTH’s new Dean and Deputy Dean respectively. Now that the election has been held and the decision taken, they discuss the issues they want to work on in the new year. Creating strong research and education environments, building strategic relations with business and industry and developing LTH’s campus are [...]
Electron–spin dynamics studied on its natural time-scale
Researchers have used extremely short light pulses of attosecond duration (an attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second) and coincidence techniques to follow - in real time - how the electron spin (i.e. the angular momentum of the electron around its own axis) influences the absorption of a photon in a many-electron quantum system, the [...]
Unique research project on electrons awarded grant
A research project on how to observe and control the movement of electrons will soon commence at LTH thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.