Lund University

Profile

Lund University, established in 1666, is a full-scale university ranked as one of the top 100 in the world with education and research in eight faculties and three campuses in Southern Sweden. Lund University host 42,000 students (6,000 international) and 7,680 employees in an international environment collaborating with 600 partner universities in over 70 countries. One of its strengths is food studies along the whole food chain – from plants to consumer.

Competences and capabilities

LU has a unique breadth in fields of expertise:

• Analytical chemistry
• Biosafety and biotechnology
• Climate and environment
• Cognitive science
• Consumption and retail
• Nutrition, diabetes and gut microbiome
• Food technology and packaging
• Materials science and nanotechnology

Infrastructure:

• Food Engineering Pilot Hall
• Humanities lab
• Laboratories for Virtual Reality
• Mass spectrometry centre