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Profiles and Features

Johanna BjörklundProfessor vid Institutionen för datavetenskap
Newly appointed professor wants to make AI less overconfident

Johanna Björklund aims to make today’s AI systems understand their own limitations.

Anna Baranowska-Rataj
Anna Baranowska-Rataj explores families’ health in the context of changing Arctic

Anna wants to investigate how critical life events, including migration, affect families’ health in the Arctic

Pedro Sanches
Pedro Sanches wants to make environmental data in the Arctic more understandable

Pedro Sanches wants to use design to make Arctic environmental data easier to understand and use.

A man wearing a blue labcoat, holding a tray of plants in a greenhouse.
Predicting how plants respond to their environment

How do genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment? Yanjun Zan aims to predict them.

student and a moose
"You'd be making a mistake if you don't go to Umeå"

An exchange semester in Umeå inspired Jesse West from USA to launch his own travel website.

Tecsam-nätverket besöker Umeå universitet
When Networks Meet: International Collaboration to Strengthen Mental Health

The collaboration between SOLH and the Catalan network TECSAM creates new opportunities for innovation.

Full list of Profiles and Features

Anders wants to reduce debris and interference in MRI
Anders Garpebring wants to get sharper and clearer results from images of cancerous tumors, with help of AI.
Published: 2022-09-02
Independent, knowledge-seeking students are the goal
Oskar Hemmingsson on taking a docentship, teaching and the challenges of the autumn.
Published: 2022-08-23
I want to show that their own wings carry
Maria Sandström, who was awarded the rose of the semester last spring, makes the students feel welcome.
Published: 2022-08-15
Psychiatric drugs may cause adverse cardiac event in young people
ADHD drugs has not been tested in combination with other drugs or in children with different conditions.
Published: 2022-08-15
Research strengthens the quality of life of older people
Annika Toots have focused on the promotion of health and well-being in older people.
Published: 2022-06-21
High-intensity interval training helps patients with COPD
Andre Nyberg wants to see if high-intensity exercise improve quality of life for people with lungdisease COPD.
Published: 2022-06-21
VR - The future of teaching
Is VR the new classroom technology?
Published: 2022-06-16
Swedish course for foreign scientists focuses on daring to speak
Questions and laughter abound when internationally recruited researchers meet for an intensive Swedish course.
Published: 2022-06-16
Genetics, environment and health
What particularly interests Sophia Harlid is how the environment affects us during sensitive time periods.
Published: 2022-06-01
The interest in people led to the medical profession
We have met Malin Sjöström and talked about the new medical school and her new exciting research idea!
Published: 2022-05-30
"Unequal conditions risk becoming normalised"
An Umeå-based analysis has been conducted on sexual harassment and gender-based vulnerability in academia.
Published: 2022-05-20
Umeå University takes a holistic approach to open science
The university-wide project for how to manage research data throughout their lifecycle.
Published: 2022-05-17
Towards a new reward system for open science
We met Gustav Nilsonne, to talk about reward systems and the present conditions for doing research.
Published: 2022-05-06
The professor who feels that anything is possible!
Per Lindqvist is the professor who is driven by his curiosity to understand everything a little better
Published: 2022-04-22
ROBUST portrait: Elin Nilsson
On antibiotic resistance, the future of milk, and the challenge of making the right choice as a consumer.
Published: 2022-03-28