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4 Jun 2025
They are honoured for their outstanding teaching
Dedicated, pedagogical and popular - that's how two of the Department of Physics' teachers are described by the students themselves. Andreas Ehn and Kristina Eriksson Stenström hav...
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28 May 2025
Lund University to host International Physics Tournament this Summer
Secondary school students from 38 countries will gather in Lund to compete in the International Young Physicists’ Tournament – a competition that trains future scientists in proble...
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29 Apr 2025
Researchers have mapped a superconductor with multiple personalities
Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity without resistance and are used in electromagnets, antennas and power lines. Researchers have now studied a multifaceted ...
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25 Apr 2025
Students' finest award to Nina Reistad
Nina Reistad, Senior Lecturer in Physics, has been awarded the Educator of the Year award by the W-section of the Student Union of Technology at Lund University. She receives the a...
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11 Apr 2025
CERN’s Breakthrough Physics Prize highlights Lund University’s global impact
The global scientific community celebrates a major achievement as CERN’s four flagship experiments—ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb—receive the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Ph...
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4 Apr 2025
The role of nanowires as a support for the formation of model lipid membranes
Supported lipid bilayers are formed at a faster rate on light-guiding nanowires of high curvature than on conventional planar substrates, with single-vesicle resolution that proves...
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4 Apr 2025
Opening new exciting possibilities for the study of magnetic materials
A new relation could be a valuable tool for gathering new insights into the magnetic excitations of semiconductors and other materials with magnetic properties. In the future, it c...
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31 Mar 2025
Lund physicist wins prize for best thesis in 2025
Ann-Kathrin Raab is awarded the Swedish Physics Society's Oseen Medal 2025 for best thesis work in physics. Raab is being recognised for her groundbreaking research on ytterbium-ba...
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14 Mar 2025
Ruth Pöttgen awarded Tage Erlander Prize in Science and Technology 2025
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Ruth Pöttgen from Lund University the Tage Erlander Prize in Science and Technology 2025. Pöttgen is honored for her crucial role as ph...
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27 Feb 2025
Titanium and mysterious jet streams discovered on extreme exoplanet
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have made detailed observations of the mysterious exoplanet WASP-121 b. The discoveries of the ...