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The duo to lead LTH
One is a professional board member and sailing enthusiast who pickles her own herring. The other is dedicated to clarity, owns a pug and writes a book recommendation blog. Together, Charlotta Falvin and Viktor Öwall will lead LTH for the next few years – Charlotta as chair of the board and Viktor as dean.
Nanotechnology facility planned in Lund
A production facility for start-ups in the field of nanotechnology may be built in the Science Village in Lund, a world-class research and innovation village that is also home to ESS, the European Spallation Source. “With this new facility, we want to create the conditions to enable new companies to develop from the R&D phase to full production, [...]
Funding for Lise Meitner version 2.0
Time to apply for funding for "Lise Meitner version 2.0: recruitment of visiting professors and adjunct professors of the underrepresented sex at the Faculty of Engineering, LTH." Application deadline: 2015-03-31. For further information please contact Jeffrey Armstrong on 046-222 7103 or email jeffrey.armstrong@kansli.lth.se.
Students create gluten-free banana flour
Food waste is completely bananas, according to a group of Master’s students in Food Technology at Lund University in Sweden. In fact, a significant amount of the 100 million tonnes of bananas produced annually worldwide is discarded before it even reaches consumers.
Water innovation project for Indonesia wins scholarship competition
On Saturday 10 January, a prize ceremony was held in Jakarta, Indonesia for the winners of the Blue Bag Water Innovation Award 2015 – a challenge where students from Indonesia could present their own innovative ideas on how to help solve the water problems in Jakarta. The first prize was awared to Alisa Febriani for her idea on a water conservation [...]
Virtual sphere is new ”touch-free keyboard”
A group of Lund University engineering students have designed a touch-free interface that enables advanced control of digital devices – simply by twisting and tapping an imaginary sphere. WATCH: Virtual sphere that controls your gadgets When Örs-Barna Blénessy and Holger Andersson met at Lund University, they were writing a lab report one day [...]
LTH’s researchers pave way for cheap solar-generated electricity
Nanowires are the key to making the solar cells of the future much more efficient. Nanotechnology researchers in Lund have spent a couple of billion Swedish crowns over the past 10-15 years on academic and industrial research and development of nanowires. The wires are semiconductor rods developed with specialised technology in research [...]
New honorary doctorates at LTH
The Faculty of Engineering LTH at Lund University has decided to award the honorary doctorate degrees for 2015 to Martin Gren, founder of Axis; Colin Carlile, previous MD at ESS; and Liesbet Van der Perre, electronics professor from Belgium. ”Martin Gren is a role model for entrepreneurship and leadership. He has, for example, offered numerous [...]
ERC Starting Grant for researcher in combustion
Edouard Berrocal, a researcher in combustion physics at Lund University, has been awarded one of the most prestigious grants available to young researchers: an ERC Starting Grant. The grant is worth EUR 1.5 million and will enable him to spend the next five years investigating what happens in the crucial moment at the start of combustion when the [...]
LTH will lead the Magalhães network
Lund University, Faculty of Engineering LTH, has until 2016 the presidency of the network Magalhães which gathers 16 leading universities in Latin America and 19 in Europe. The network aims to strengthen collaboration in education and research in engineering and architecture between the continents. LTH co-founded the network in 2005. The network [...]
Sugar beets could become blood substitute
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that sugar beets produce haemoglobin. They now hope that this haemoglobin could serve as a blood substitute – a substance that is currently in short supply. WATCH: HOW TO PRODUCE HAEMOGLOBIN FROM SUGAR BEETS “Previously, it has been presumed that certain plants produce this iron protein [...]
Mapillary puts your photos on the map
Mapillary, an app developed by Lund University senior lecturer Jan Erik Solem, crowdsources street view images. The company has now joined forces with OpenStreetMap, the world’s biggest free, editable map service. If you live in a small town, or have booked a vacation in a remote location, you’ve probably encountered this problem: there are no [...]
Detecting heart failure with new mathematical methods
Using a magnetic resonance imaging device and new mathematical methods, researchers have obtained a better tool for observing blood flow in the heart. This could make it easier to detect heart failure, which is a common problem among the elderly. The research was carried out by doctoral student Johannes Töger, who works at the Division for [...]
Super detector tracks toxic algae
A ’super detector’ that can track the traces of a lump of sugar in the Baltic Sea – that was the starting point for a potentially life-saving technique developed at Lund University in Sweden. The method detects toxic algae blooms in drinking water.
Solar energy can now heat your shower
A simple ”smart control” box invented by a PhD student at Lund University in Sweden has made it possible to connect solar panels to your boiler - without making any changes to the existing hot water system.