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2026-01-09

Professor Ingemar Wadsö passed away on November 6th, 2025 at the age of 95 years. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1954 and his PhD in 1962, both at Lund University. Ingemar then remained scientifically active at his Alma...[more]
2025-12-09

Davide Schirone, a researcher at the Division of Physical Chemistry, is interested in how vegan proteins work. He recently completed a study on how pea proteins are broken down in the body. Schirone and his international research...[more]
2025-11-27

The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, endowments for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology – Chemistry, has decided to award Nicole Galenkamp a research grant of 170 kSEK for the project entitled “Neuropore -...[more]
The Arrhenius Plaque 2025 goes to Karin Schillén, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Lund University
2025-11-14

Karin Schillén defended her PhD in 1994 in Uppsala under Professor Wyn Brown, who was one of the pioneers in light scattering techniques and modeling of scattering data. During her postdoctoral period with Professor Per Claesson...[more]
2025-11-06

Marshall Machingauta was awarded the Elsevier poster prize at the ECIS conference, 7-12 September, Bristol, UK for poster “Sponge Phase Lipid Nanoparticles for Biomolecular Delivery: Microfluidic Synthesis and Membrane...[more]
2025-10-28

What keeps spaghetti from disintegrating in boiling water? The answer, according to new research, is gluten. The amount of salt in the water also has an unexpected significance. Using advanced techniques, researchers examined the...[more]
2025-10-17

Here in the context of a science slam for secondary school students. https://forskargrandprix.se/ferdinand-fandrei/ The function of skin is one of the many important cases where understanding of biomolecular assembly...[more]
2025-10-17

Solution viscosity is a key quantity for high concentration formulations of monoclonal antibodies suitable for subcutaneous injection. A dramatic increase of the viscosity with increasing antibody concentration is frequently...[more]
2025-10-01

Emma Sparr, Professor at the division of Physical Chemistry, together with colleagues from LU and other Swedish universities, has received SEK 1.2 million in network funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) to prepare the...[more]
2025-09-22

On September 18, the ESS Lighthouse: Colloids and Interfaces in Food and Pharma (CaIFF), lead by Professor Martin Malmsten, was officially inaugurated. CaIFF focuses on out-of-equilibrium multi-phase colloidal systems,...[more]
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