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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

Through Arctic Six, he connects Arctic environmental research with participatory design.

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

It's OK to have heart palpitations and get short of breath
Reproductive and sexual health in women and men with congenital heart disease is a fairly unexplored area.
Published: 2022-03-18
AI-teknologi – på frammarsch inom medicinen
Professor Jenny Persson sees great opportunities for AI in the field of medicine.
Published: 2022-03-09
Who benefits from gender equality
Maria Carbin, Professor of Gender Studies, investigates what underlying norms shape policy reforms.
Published: 2022-02-24
ROBUST portrait: Lucas Haskell
On social innovations for ecological crises, and ups and downs of doing a PhD.
Published: 2022-02-22
Designing the tax system in the best possible way
Thomas Aronsson, Professor of Economics, examines issues that all the world's politicians are grappling with.
Published: 2022-02-17
Women's hearts in focus for research
She is researching heart rate variability in women.
Published: 2022-02-01
CARE: Indigenous rights and open data
Indigenous peoples see open science both as progress and as a source of worry. One suggested solution is CARE.
Published: 2022-01-17
About hard to find topics in the library system
Can library search tools affect how we view research?
Published: 2022-01-16
Meet the only neuro/anestesiolog in Sweden
Magnetic camera as a research tool
Published: 2022-01-14
ROBUST portrait: Karl Johan Bonnedahl
On strong sustainability, social innovation and the existential dimension of research work.
Published: 2021-12-01
“All life is problem solving”
In his research Frank Figge tackles sustainability issues crucial for the future of mankind.
Published: 2021-11-15
Is ‘Lagom’ part of degrowth?
Fika Pitch on how the concept of 'lagom' in a Swedish context can be seen from a degrowth perspective.
Published: 2021-11-15
I saw the need for public health intervention
Cartrine Anyango, PhD student at the Department of epidemiology and global health, want to make difference.
Published: 2021-11-04
From subject teacher to professor
Maria Rönnlund, new professor of educational work, has studied pupils’ participation and influence at school.
Published: 2021-10-28
How sport is organised affects society
How do sport organisations distribute power and resources? Read interview with professor Josef Fahlén.
Published: 2021-10-25