Annual Report 2010 LTH

LUND UNIVERSITY

ANNUAL REPORT

2010FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, LTH

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Contents

Dean

First- and second-cycle education

Student intake

International cooperation

International student exchange

Third-cycle education

Research

EU research

Staff

LTH in the media

Honorary doctors

Scholarships and awards

Finances

Key performance indicators

The Board

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LTH invests in the futureLTH’s finances – good or bad?WE DID IT AGAIN! We did far too well! External research funding has continued to flow in and we have not been able to recruit new staff at the same rate. It also takes time to develop new infrastructure to equip new research fields. The mass media and the National Audit Office think it is bad practice to have so much unused fun-ding left at the end of the year. Explaining this to outsiders is an educational challenge but we will try.

LTH has a research budget of SEK 1 billion, of which almost 70 per cent is external research funding that our researchers apply for in competition with others. The first point to make is that we have done very well to attract so much research funding. At the same time, there is clearly an interest in what we do. The problem is that the economic in the form of direct government funding is so small. This creates insecurity, because a fall in research funding inevitably leads to a need to make redundancies.

This is unsustainable, in particular with regard to doctoral students, who have guaranteed employment during their research studies.

A wise research leader or head of department will make sure that there is financial security internally by creating a small reserve that can cover temporary reductions in external funding. In business it is possible to invest in property or shares, but in the autonomous university our only option is to pile up the money. The money cannot be transferred between different areas of activity either, because the research funding is awarded to carry out specific tasks. This is checked by the funding bodies in continual eva-luations.

In this “up-side-down economy”, I should be sad that we have a surplus of SEK 75 million for research. The fact that we have a surplus of SEK 5 million in first- and second-cycle education should rather be regarded as a small miscalculation in an education budget of SEK 500 million (i.e. a one per cent surplus). To be honest, despite everything, we are very pleased that our finances are good. A number of our heads of department remember redundancies when the finances were poor.


LTH invests in the futureLUND AND LTH seem to be attractive – the num-ber of applicants putting LTH as their first choice has risen by almost 10 per cent, which is much higher than for other schools of engine-ering in Sweden. Demographics and the reces-sion may also explain the high number of app-licants. Our students ‘over-produced’, that is to say, we exceeded the mandate for education that we have been given by the University. This is due to good students as well as to the extension of the engineering programmes to five years.

When we look to the future, we see a sharp demographic decline in student numbers in five or six years’ time, when we instead will hit an all-time low. We expect a large number of retirements at the same time as major research ventures such as ESS and MAX IV are established in Lund. In the light of this, we are investing in the future. If we want to see a change in the situation in five years, the investments must be made now!

At the moment we are working more for our successors than for ourselves. Our good financ-es mean that we can invest in employing younger researchers. We must invest in researchers who will have links to the major research facilities, ESS and MAX IV. Building up a research group takes at least five years, but it is not fully opera-tional until after 10 years. That fits in quite well, as ESS will then be complete and ready to enter operation.

With a view to the future, LTH decided to start a new engineering programme in Biomedical Engineering, which will start in 2011. It builds on the strong research that has been developed on the interface between LTH and the Faculty of Medicine. The programme is closely linked to electrical engineering with a solid foundation in mathematics, which means that students will not only be able to solve biomedical problems; they will also be able to link these to advanced engineering solutions. We hope in this way to maintain the high interest for studies at LTH,

even during the anticipated demographic decli-ne. In addition, we are increasing the number of women in classic ‘male’ vocational programmes.

SEK 15 million was set aside to improve the stu-dy environments for the students. The Building of Electro-technology (E-huset) is functioning as a pilot project. Our students have really taken an active part in the project. The renovation of the Building of Architecture (Arkitekthuset) has also begun. The idea is that it should feel excit-ing and inspiring to enter a building at LTH. It is here the future is to be created!

During the past year, Vattenhallen Science Cen-tre has been firmly established as a magnet for the public, with approximately 25 000 visitors over the course of the year. The Department of Astronomy at the Faculty of Science has been able to set up its planetarium in Vattenhallen. A spectacular waterfall and a digital climbing wall have been built with sponsorship from compa-nies and banks. The entire project is an invest-ment in the future. We believe that primary and secondary schools need support to raise interest in science and technology. LTH and Sweden need good students if we are to develop cutting-edge competence within engineering.

In December 2009 the Board took a decision to start work on a new strategic plan. This work has continued throughout the year with many meetings of boards and at departments. By discussing our future choices we have come quite a long way in our strategic work. There is a consensus on many choices of path.

In this annual report we naturally look back-wards, but with a focus on the future. Our 50th anniversary in 2011 will mark the start of many future investments. In 2010 we have put a lot of time into preparing for our jubilee year and we hope it will be a year to remember. We hope that many of our alumni will also come to LTH to celebrate with us.

ANDERS AXELSSON

Dean LTH


THE NUMBER OF FIRST-CHOICE applicants to LTH continues to increase! Competition for places has increased for almost all programmes. This competition has been created by a combination of demographics with large cohorts, the reces-sion, an ongoing increase in interest in science and engineering and LTH and Lund University’s good reputation. LTH is popular!

The artistic programmes – Architecture and Industrial Design – have grown over the year in their new form as ‘schools’. The Industrial Design programme is now completely divided into two parts – a three-year Bachelor’s degree and a new two-year Master’s programme that started in autumn 2010. The new Master’s programme was popular, with a total of 77 applicants, both national and international, for the 30 places. In response to the demands of industry for students skilled in automation engineering, LTH has started a new Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with automation at Campus Helsingborg. The first students were enrolled in autumn 2010 and there were a good number of applicants for the new programme.

During 2010, validation work has led to a de-cision to offer an MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering. The programme will be offered in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine and traditional engineering subjects will be interwo-ven with Medicine from day one. There is major interest in the programme, both from the strong medical engineering research at LTH, from the industry and among the local upper secondary school pupils who have been asked.

In the work to ensure high quality in education, focus this year has been on degree projects. The quality of the degree project will be emphasised as a heavily weighted indicator of quality for programmes in the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education’s upcoming evaluation system. We have therefore introduced the pos-sibility for students to evaluate their experiences of their degree project in the faculty-wide eva-luation system. The first data (for academic

year 2009/10) shows that the vast majority of students are satisfied with their degree projects, with 76% stating that they would recommend the place where they did their degree project to a friend. We have also started a project to deve-lop criteria for what we consider characterises a good degree project.

The work on the Bologna Process has now been rolled out throughout the education system at LTH; the planning is also complete for the final two years (the specialisation) on the engineering programmes. The benefits of coordination between the programmes is fully utilised and the aim is that the selection of courses on offer should be broad enough to cover all the specialisations, while the number of students per course must be high enough to cover the costs entailed in providing it. Through cooperation between education boards and research boards, a project has started during the year to map research groups and their links to second-cycle courses within the specialisations. The goal is to identify groups where access to skilled researchers/lecturers could become problematic within a few years, often because of upcoming retirements, and where strategic investments could therefore be required to cover the needs of the programmes.

In conclusion, we have many students with high expectations of LTH, and all staff have a major responsibility to create good conditions for these students so that they can leave LTH with many happy memories and a good education, and get a good start to their careers.


Ingrid SvenssonAssistant Dean for Education


Student intake

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HST HPR HPR/HST(%) EX HST HPR HPR/HST(%) EX HST HPR HPR/HST(%) EX

Master’s degrees in

Biotechnology 269 245 91 41 265 240 91 41 252 230 91 70

Computer Science 428 372 87 60 416 346 83 57 374 314 84 61

Environmental Engineering 257 232 90 24 221 195 88 38 208 192 92 46

Electrical Engineering 314 270 86 26 286 225 79 45 249 211 85 63

Industrial Management & Engineering 503 411 82 68 485 407 84 53 446 396 89 76

InfoCom 130 115 89 17 117 93 79 18 105 95 90 26

Chemical Engineering 175 159 91 30 175 157 90 45 166 151 91 31

Surveying 268 244 91 33 241 233 97 43 231 218 94 32

Mechanical Engineering 711 614 86 132 700 663 95 120 700 595 85 115

Risk Management 52 52 99 34 84 81 97 47 71 67 94 45

Engineering Physics 404 354 88 59 377 332 88 69 361 328 91 71

Engineering Mathematics 157 132 84 19 146 112 77 19 142 128 90 23

Nanoscience 211 179 85 22 202 182 90 33 185 157 85 15

Civil Engineering 526 465 88 87 490 446 91 70 456 412 90 78

Bachelor of Science in Engineering 3 2

Total Master’s degrees 4 406 3 842 87 655 4 206 3 713 88 700 3946 3494 89 752

Architecture 270 261 97 54 260 231 89 48 271 231 85 60

Bachelor of Science in Architecture 30 7

Fire Protection Engineering 178 152 85 46 149 137 92 53 150 139 93 45

Industrial Design 42 33 77 11 64 50 78 15 126 101 80 12

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design 68 65 95 20 53 47 89

Total Arch, FPE & ID 559 510 91 161 525 465 89 123 547 471 86 117

Bachelor’s degrees in

Biotechnology 0,5 1 3 1,05 4

Civil Engineering 306 270 88 44 278 242 87 59 249 214 86 26

Computer Science 99 66 66 10 79 71 90 8 63,8 55 86 14

Electrical Engineering 14 4 26 - 0 1 0,5 1,8 360 5

Geomatics

Chemical Engineering 2

Multimedia Engineering 0,22 3 1 1 1 1,25 6,5 520 8

Production Engineering 0,38 0,38 100

Software Engineering 0,38 0,0 - 1 1 0,5 0,65 130 1

Total Bachelor’s degrees 420 341 81 58 358 315 88 73 315,05 279 89 60

International Master’s programmes 279 81 97 278 206 74 69 178 151 85 56

Continuation programme for BSc graduates 1

Food Technology diploma 54 101 15 42 44 104 19 45 63 140 16

Foundation year 96 88 111 81 73 70 30,5 44

Free-standing courses, etc. 317 84 432 338 78 389 295 76

Technology Management (economics students) 4 15 19 131 31 30 97

Number of full-time student equivalents (FTE), annual performance equivalents (APE) and degrees awarded (DEG)


Source of Information leading to choise of LTH Reasons for choosing LTH

Where do our students come from?

Skåne Gothenburg StockholmCentral Sweden

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2010 2009 2010 2009 2010 2009 2010 2009 2010 2009

Lund total 52 54 9 10 12 10 7 8 2 2

Helsingborg total 73 79 5 6 5 3 6 3 1 2

Engineering Physics 64 46 4 13 2 14 9 9 2 0

Enginering Mathematics 48 40 12 5 8 15 4 20 8 5

NanoScience 46 64 5 6 11 8 5 11 5 0

Electrical Engineering 63 70 5 3 3 7 8 3 2 2

Computer Science 63 66 9 1 12 10 7 7 1 1

InfoCom 64 63 11 4 14 11 0 13 2 0

Mechanical Engineering 58 56 8 10 13 10 5 7 1 2

Industrial Management & Engineering 35 45 13 17 23 16 8 11 2 1

Civil Engineering 49 56 14 14 7 7 7 8 4 2

Environmental Engineering 40 38 12 19 11 10 10 11 4 3

Surveying 43 35 6 14 17 9 12 8 0 6

Chemical Engineering 68 65 10 4 5 2 5 5 3 7

Biotechnology 51 53 14 11 8 10 12 5 4 1

Architecture 41 57 7 9 25 9 9 9 3 6

Industrial Design 37 58 15 19 33 16 0 3 4 0

Fire Protection Engineering 39 32 6 13 13 13 13 13 2 3

Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering 74 94 3 2 5 2 3 4 1 0

Bachelor in Civil Engineering – Railroad Construction 69 71 6 9 6 4 9 4 1 1

Foundation Year 89 81 4 4 0 4 0 4 0 5

2010 2009 2008

LTH prospectus 12 14 18

Friends 26 21 19

Internet 37 30 30

Family 20 17 17

Visit to LTH 14 13 13

Other LTH students 4 8 7

Teachers 5 3 3

School Career Advisors 3 3 3

Close to home Good reputation City of Lund

2010 38% 78% 70%

2009 39% 73% 61%

2008 37% 72% 58%

2007 39% 73% 67%

2006 34% 72% 65%

2005 37% 67% 68%

2004 39% 67% 68%

2003 40% 70% 68%

2002 35% 67% 68%

2001 37% 65% 72%

2000 40% 58% 67%

1999 40% 54% 65%

1998 41% 53% 65%

1997 37% 34% 47%

1996 48% 37% 27%

1995 54% 26% 39%


Proportion of women admitted

Source of information leading to choise of LTH programme 2010

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

MSc programmes 27% 32,5% 28% 28% 27%

BSc programmes 24% 21% 24% 18% 20%

Architecture 57% 53% 60% 55% 59%

Fire Protection Engineering 32% 29% 22% 24% 21%

Industrial Design 52% 42% 50% 69% 56%

International Master’s Programmes 41% 26% 27,5% 26% 25%

Prospectus Friends Internet Family Visit to LTH LTH-students

LTH total 12 26 37 20 14 4

Engineering Physics 9 32 19 22 18 4

Enginering Mathematics 9 26 39 22 26 0

NanoScience 12 9 36 9 19 5

Electrical Engineering 16 23 37 19 19 4

Computer Science 10 33 24 23 15 4

InfoCom 7 25 43 25 21 4

Mechanical Engineering 11 41 22 28 18 4

Industrial Management & Engineering 12 34 38 24 7 7

Civil Engineering 17 27 33 26 10 8

Environmental Engineering 15 15 56 14 15 8

Surveying 25 27 27 25 11 3

Chemical Engineering 10 19 31 19 21 5

Biotechnology 15 22 42 19 8 4

Architecture 4 32 43 16 7 3

Industrial Design 9 32 36 23 18 0

Fire Protection Engineering 14 25 57 12 5 3


Erik Iveroth – President of TeknologkårenErik Iveroth, president of Teknologkåren (TLTH), looks back on 2010 as a year filled with exciting events and wonderful, enthusiastic people.

“The enthusiasm and commitment we saw in connection with the freshers’ activities and the protests against CSN’s regulations was fantastic. And it has made a difference. Despite the fact that mandatory students’ union membership has been abolished, 80 per cent of students still want to be members of the union, and follo-wing our protests, CSN has now been forced to revise its rules”, says Erik Iveroth.

Here is a small selection of the many exciting events that have affected Teknologkåren’s mem-bers:

» The housing shortage was less acute and TLTH did not have to put up military tents on campus.

» The learning environment project, which includes the renovation of E-huset, was approved.

» TLTH joined LUS, creating a united voice towards the University.

» 2010 was also a carnival year with many LTH students getting involved.


LTH IS, AND SHOULD BE, an international educa-tion and research environment. While high-class research naturally takes place in international networks and is measured with an international yardstick, education must be internationalised through deliberate measures. LTH’s strong in-ternationalisation gives us a competitive advan-tage. In the 2010 survey of all new students, 27 % said that the good opportunities for study abroad contributed to their decision to apply to LTH. However, there are large disparities bet-ween the programmes and these are in line with the interest shown by students later on in their studies.

Many students decide not to go abroad on an exchange because they want to study courses within LTH’s specialisations in the second cycle. One new initiative is therefore to offer students on some programmes the opportunity to study one semester within their compulsory under-graduate block abroad, in a form of structu-red exchange. In 2010, such an agreement was signed with the University of Connecticut and in autumn 2010 a total of eight students from the programmes in Civil Engineering, Industrial Economics and Biotechnology were nominated for the spring semester 2011.

LTH offers opportunities to take double degrees through cooperation with a large number of leading universities. This year the first students from Keio University and Kyushu University in Japan have come to Lund to take a double degree and three students from LTH have been nominated to study at our Japanese partners.

LTH offers many attractive exchanges that att-ract more applicants than there are places. This places high demands for a fair and transparent selection and nomination process. In May 2010 the Dean Anders Axelsson decided new rules that came into force in autumn 2010. The rules are to be evaluated in 2011, but the experiences from 2010 are very good.

The dominant issue in 2010 was, however, the introduction of tuition fees for students from outside the EU/EEA. During the past year, Lund University has invested heavily in beco-ming Sweden’s most attractive study destina-tion. The preparatory work has been very com-plex, but has worked very well on the whole within the University. Despite this, LTH expects a fall in student numbers of at least 50% in 2011 compared with 2010, when we received 160 new Master’s students.

Interest in exchanges is increasing strongly after falling off around 2008 and the number of nominations increased this year for all our exchanges. The total number of outgoing exchange students increased by 12% compared with 2009. The number of incoming students has fallen by 10% because LTH has been restrictive in receiving students above its agreed level in the light of the overproduction and the housing shortage. The restraint in allowing exchanges has not, however, been allowed to impact negatively on LTH’s students.

LTH has a goal that 25% of students who gra-duate from one of the long programmes are to have studied abroad. In 2010 the figure reached was 19.9%, compared with 24.4% in 2008. The reasons are partly a fall in the number of degree projects carried out abroad and partly the decli-ne in the number of outgoing students in 2008.

International cooperation

Per WarfvingeAssistant Dean for International Relations


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2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Architecture 25 24 34 40 29

Fire Protection Engineering 1 1 2 2 3

Computer Science 6 4 7 7 14

Industrial Design 5 yrs 8 23 11 12 17

Industrial Design 3 yrs 8

InfoCom 1 0 2 3 4

Electrical Engineering 5 4 2 4 6

Industrial Management & Engineering 73 70 38 40 67

Biotechnology 17 14 11 21 18

Chemical Engineering 2 6 8 6 5

Surveying 12 4 6 3 6

Mechanical Engineering 17 20 25 22 27

Mechanical Engineering with Industrial design 7

Risk Management 1 0 0 2 4

Engineering Physics 21 19 10 26 30

Engineering Mathematics 5 9 7 10 9

Civil Engineering 12 12 17 9 8

Environmental Engineering 18 11 4 13 15

Nanoscience 14 12 12 12 9

Master’s projects 41 37 73 80 62

Internship course 45 26 35

Total 331 296 304 312 333

Architecture Fire Protection Engineering

MSc in Engineering

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OVER THE PAST YEAR, Lund University has worked to draw up an action plan for quality assurance and quality enhancement in third-cycle education 2011–2012. In addition, a lot of energy has gone into preparations for Education Quality 2011 (EQ11), which has the aim of raising the quality of all education at Lund University. Third-cycle education is included in the self-evaluation questionnaire, where the questions concern all three cycles. Apart from this, third-cycle education will be addressed in a special questionnaire on the fulfilment of the targets in the Qualifications Ordinance.

A new, expanded credit-bearing introduction course for doctoral students at LTH has been developed this year. It will be offered in English every semester starting from spring 2011. The local regulations for third-cycle education have been updated so that they are in line with the changes in the Higher Education Ordinance. Work has been started on credit transfer for courses in the third cycle.

During the year, the number of research degrees awarded at LTH has been at a relatively low level. This is an effect of the sharp decline in the number of students admitted to research studies in 2004 and 2005. The good news is that the number of doctoral students being admitted has risen, which is partly due to the fact that LTH has been successful in attracting external research funding. The proportion of women is just over 30%, which roughly corresponds to the proportion of female students at LTH.

The doctoral student section of TLTH has provided active and committed members to the research boards and research committees, with a strong focus on improving education. A successful mentorship programme (PLUME) has been started.

Third-cycle education

Ulla HolstDeputy Dean

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Total number enrolled 161 114 134 105 121 86 107 167 139 167 171

Women (%) 32 39 30,5 34 26 34 33 30 27 35 32

PhDs awarded 69 94 112 121 117 135 127 114 95 81 69

Women (%) 40 27 30 32 34 24 28 29 33 26 33

Licentiates awarded 33 42 43 38 59 73 63 91 77 56 67

Women (%) 27 19 32,5 16 30 27 30 24 22 21 19

Research students


2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Total number enrolled 161 114 134 105 121 86 107 167 139 167 171

Women (%) 32 39 30,5 34 26 34 33 30 27 35 32

PhDs awarded 69 94 112 121 117 135 127 114 95 81 69

Women (%) 40 27 30 32 34 24 28 29 33 26 33

Licentiates awarded 33 42 43 38 59 73 63 91 77 56 67

Women (%) 27 19 32,5 16 30 27 30 24 22 21 19

Sven Lidin – Professor of Chemistry2010 WAS A YEAR of change for Professor of Chemistry Sven Lidin. It was the year he was headhunted to Lund from Stockholm University. Here he will make sure that Sweden’s – and primarily LTH’s – researchers take advantage of the opportunities already brewing with the construction of ESS and MAX IV.

“Swedish researchers will not have priority to experiment at ESS. Competition for radiation time will be fierce. On the other hand, we know that this type of facility generates a huge amount of hi-tech support services that must also be available in the vicinity. It is important to start working out now what is needed so that we can adapt the direction in which we are heading”, he explains.

So it is excellent, to take one example, that there are people at LTH who know most of what there is to know about public procurement of software – something which ESS is likely to need in large quantities. Or that there are others who can assist visiting researchers by producing a certain type of protein, or other sensitive material, that does not survive transport by post.

Professor Lidin also finds time for a bit of his own research. This is primarily on thermoelectricity; together with others including Heiner Linke, professor of nanoscience, he studies how waste heat can be converted into electricity.


Research at LTH continues to develop in a very positive manner. LTH benefits greatly from being an important part of Lund University’s strong research environments, where multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation is developing strongly.

During the past year, a lot of effort has been put into starting up the strategic research areas; research groups from LTH participate in 11 of the 12 areas awarded to Lund University. The areas of greatest involvement for LTH are na-noscience and nanotechnology; IT and mobile communication; e-science; and manufacturing engineering. Coordinators, boards, academic reference groups, consumer groups, commu-nications officers and administrators have been appointed. The work on the first report for the Swedish Research Council, which had to be sub-mitted at the beginning of 2011, began at the end of the year.

The major investments in research infrastruc-ture in Lund, in the form of MAX IV, ESS and now Ideon Life Science Village, will be of great importance to LTH, while they will also requi-re long-term investments in research linked to these areas.

The principles for the financing of research infrastructure in Sweden have been changed so that greater responsibility for local infrastructure has been given to the universities, while the national research infrastructure is financed at national level by the Swedish Research Council (through the Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI).

In line with this, Lund University has put aside funds for which the faculties can apply, and LTH has received support for a number of faculty-wide investments. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), which has previously funded a significant proportion of LTH’s infrastructure, will be focusing on infrastructure of national importance in the future.

At the same time, KAW has introduced a new excellence programme with grants for research projects with high academic potential, where the universities are expected to take large responsi-bility for prioritising and co-financing. LTH has made several applications in the first round.

Over the past year, LTH has received a number of major research grants from the research councils, including two large grants within the field of combustion engineering. Two young researchers, from Atomic Physics and Immunotechnology, have received grants within the SSF programme “Future Research Leaders”. One of this year’s ‘female Nobel Prizes’, which are awarded to one outstanding female researcher from each continent, went to a researcher in Atomic physics.

Research

Ulla HolstDeputy Dean


LTH’S RESEARCHERS CONTINUE to be highly active in the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme, which started in 2007. In total, LTH researchers are involved in 50 of the University’s 144 projects, which corresponds to 35%. In total, these projects are expected to bring in approximately EUR 22 million to LTH in EU grants. Our participation is spread across most of the research fields in the Framework Programme, but it is strongest in Information and communication technologies (ICT); Energy; Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies (NMP); and Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology (Food). Three collaborative projects involving several European institutions are coordinated by researchers at LTH.

Four researchers at LTH have been awarded individual five-year research grants from the European Research Council (ERC). These grants have been won against very stiff international competition. Three senior researchers, Professor Anne L’Huillier, Atomic Physics, Professor Bengt Sundén, Heat Transfer, and Professor Marcus Aldén, Combustion Physics, have been awarded ERC advanced grants and Professor Fredrik Kahl, Mathematics, has been awarded an ERC starting grant.

The final projects in the previous Framework Programme, FP6, are currently coming to an end – around ten are still ongoing at LTH. In total, LTH has participated in over 100 projects in FP6. LTH’s researchers are also active in other EU-funded projects, for example the energy research programme Intelligent Energy Europe, the Public Health programme and the Structural Funds programme.

EU research

Framework Programme FP7 Number of Projects

Cooperation

Health 2

Food/KBBE 5

ICT 15

NMP 5

Energy 5

Environment 1

Transport 4

SSH

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Security 1

Ideas

ERC Advanced Grants 3

ERC Starting Grants 1

People

Samarbetsprojekt (ITN mfl) 3

Individual Fellows 2

Capacities

Research Infrastructure 2

Science in Society

Research for SME 1

Total LTH 50

Total LU 144

Proportion of total projects 35%

EU grants (EUR) 21 916 812

EU Seventh Framework Programme FP7


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OVERALL, THE NUMBER of people employed at LTH has increased since the trough in 2008. The increase during 2009 continued throughout 2010. The number of full-time equivalent doctoral students has increased the most, from 345 in 2008 to 412 at the end of 2010. The number of administrative staff increased between 2008 and 2009 as the School of Aviation became part of LTH. In 2010 there was no increase in the number of administrative staff.

Staff - Full-time equivalents

Newly appointed professors

The number of senior lecturers has fallen over the past two years, from 180 to 170, while the num-ber of professors has increased from 154 to 158. This change is due to the promotions from senior lecturer to professor that took place during 2010. Over the same two-year period the number of postdoctoral fellows has risen steadily from 115 to 154 full-time equivalents.

Three externally recruited professors took up posts at LTH this year, JASJIT SINGH (Industrial Design), SVEN LIDIN (Inorganic Chemistry, specialising in solid materials) and ROBERTO CROCETTI

(Construction Engineering). Former adjunct professor KENNETH M. PERSSON was given a perma-nent post (Water Resources Engineering).

Seven senior lecturers were promoted to professor during the year; LARS WADSÖ (Building Materi-als), PATRICK JANNASCH (Polymer Technology), MAGNUS PERSSON (Water Resources Engineering), VIKTOR ÖWALL (Electrical Construction), MARIA SANDSTEN (Mathematical Statistics specialising in statistical signal processing) and OKSANA MONT (Sustainable Consumption and Production at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics).


Teaching staff appointments, promotions and readerships 2006–2010

New visiting professors

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THE NUMBER OF appointments and promotions has increased strongly over the past four years. This is particularly clear for senior lecturers and associate senior lecturers.

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A clear increase in the proportion of promotions from senior lecturer to professor has been seen in the period 2001–2010. The number of new readers at LTH is around 25 per year, apart from a sudden fall in 2007–2008.

DAWN TILBURY (Automatic Control), JUNE WERNER (Computer Science, Hedda Andersson Chair), VALARIE DAGGETT (Biotechnology, Lise Meitner Chair)

ANNA LEDIN (Water and Environmental Engineering specialising in organic micro-pollutants in urban waters), ANNIKA CARLSSON-KANYAMAN (Environment and Energy Systems) and MATS

ÖBERG (Building Materials specialising in holistic life cycle design).


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As can be seen from the diagram, LTH still has faces a major challenge to achieve gender equality, with a 40%–60% ratio of women to men in some categories of staff. This applies in particular to teaching positions, where the proportion of men is higher the higher the position. The proportion of female professors is only 15% and the equivalent figure for senior lecturers is 24%. However, 33% of doctoral students are female, which indicates a possible recruitment base for continued teaching careers. However, even among the postdoctoral fellows, the proportion of women has fallen to 28%. Within administration, 80% of the staff are female and we would also like to see a change here.


Gender equality and equal opportunitiesResources have been made available for the underrepresented gender in the form of financial support, which has resulted in four women having the opportunity to spend part of their time during 2011 on other duties that promote their careers.

The holder of the Lise Meitner* Visiting Chair in 2010 has been Professor Valerie Daggert from the USA.

The working group has continued its work on the recruitment project Flickor på Teknis, which is a collaboration with a large number of upper secondary schools in southern Sweden. Several departments at LTH are involved.

During 2010 LTH has arranged the Future Female Leader Award in collaboration with our partner companies, in which a female engineer, architect or industrial designer wins an 18-month traineeship programme at three of the four partner companies.

Most departments work actively on their choice of course literature and pictures to illustrate course catalogues and other presentation material, arrange lunch meetings for students with children, ensure that the induction programme includes something that enables all minority groups to relate/feel welcome, and take care to make everyone feel that they are seen and acknowledged in teaching situations. Every year LTH’s study guidance service delivers mentorship training together with TLTH, where information is provided on the various forms of discrimination, attitudes, etc.

Genombrottet

The professional development course for lectu-rers in higher education teaching and learning forms the core of the academic development unit Genombrottet’s activities. In 2010, 250 LTH staff (150 lecturers and 100 doctoral stu-dents) undertook a total of 510 weeks of qua-lifying training. In addition, Genombrottet has given 70 weeks of training in higher education teaching and learning for participants from other parts of Lund University. Within the framework of all courses, project reports are submitted on various higher education teaching and learning issues related to teaching at LTH. A number of the projects have been presented externally in different contexts. Over the past year, Genombrottet’s educatio-nal development activities – training in higher education teaching and learning, educational consultancy, evaluations, research on higher education teaching and learning, knowledge dissemination, meeting places and assessment of teaching qualifications – have attracted a lot of attention both nationally and internationally through a number of invitations and visits to LTH.

* Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was the first to identify fission. She was born in Vienna and studied at the universities of Vienna and Berlin. Together with the German physical chemist, Otto Hahn, she was involved in the discovery of the element protactinium in 1918.


LTH in the mediaA NEW EVALUATION of the SI method at LTH. A smart bag that can identify fake medicines in developing countries. And surprising findings on how good normal food can be at reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These are three examples of news items from LTH that have been in the media during 2010.

During the year, LTH sent out almost 50 press releases. Many bring dividends, while others pass by unnoticed. A number of them are trans-lated into English and sent out to international journalists. Around 25 per cent of LTH’s total media publicity stems from press releases.

A large number of LTH representatives are seen in the press and responsibility for LTH’s media image is thus shared between many parties. When LTH figures in the media, the mention is usually news about research or researchers giving an expert opinion – it is less commonly news about students and education.

LTH is almost always mentioned in a neutral or positive tone in the media, rarely in negative terms. As usual, Sydsvenskan is the source that reports the most on the University.

LTH has also strengthened its presence in social media. In the autumn a Twitter account was started and approximately 1 000 people have ‘liked’ LTH’s Facebook page.


Honorary doctorsHENRIK ALMEIDA, broadband expert and head of Ericsson’s unit for research on broadband on copper (DSL), is responsible for Ericsson’s research and standardisation within broadband communication on the copper network.

Henrik Almeida has an exceptional ability to lead and inspire research. He has built up a world-leading research group within the field of broadband and has broken the world record for bits/second over telephone wires (500 Mbit/s). Through his close cooperation with LTH, Dr Almeida has opened the doors to Ericsson’s research operations. He has demonstrated strong personal commitment to doctoral students and given them the opportunity to spend long periods of time at Ericsson. With great sensitivity and creativity, Dr Almeida has ensured that their research results and choices of problems have been of both high academic quality and high technical relevance.

Henrik Almeida is a pioneer in the development of cooperation between academia and industry. Through a good understanding of the similarities and differences between research carried out at universities and in industry, he has been able to make these boost one another. His support has significantly strengthened LTH’s research both in terms of content and finances. He also plays an important part in the continued development of research at LTH as the creator of forms of cooperation, developer of new projects, and influential anchor for research financing and technical relevance. His wide international network of contacts is important in the formation of projects and research goals.

Professor and architect SIR PETER COOK is the founder of the epoch-making and radical group Archigram. He has worked at some 20 schools and has lectured at between 250 and 300. He has taught several of the world’s most renow-ned architects (at AA/London) and has since then educated a new generation as director and professor at the Bartlett School of Architectu-re, UCL, London. His worldwide renown also stems from his books, and from his writing in the leading journal Architectural Review. Just over five years ago, he surprised the world once again with one of the most radical and exciting buildings of our time (Graz, 2003).

Since 2005 Professor Cook has been a visiting professor at the School of Architecture in Lund. During this time he has provided invaluable contributions to the school in the form of direct teaching work and generous access to his outstanding personal network within the field of architecture. The School of Architecture has seen a noticeable improvement in the quality of students’ performance as a result of this and today there are a large number of young architecture lecturers from different parts of the world at the school. Sir Peter Cook has also served as a generous mentor to the school’s management through his long experience of leadership from some of the world’s most highly renowned schools of architecture.


Scholarships and awardsProfessor THOMAS LAURELL at the Department of Measurement Technology has secured con-tinued support of SEK 5.6 million for the project “Integration of new biomarkers for prostate cancer diagnostics on high sensitivity nanotextured microchips” from the Strategic Research Foun-dation, the Swedish Research Council and VINNOVA jointly.

MARCUS ALDÉN, Professor of Combustion Physics, has received EUR 3.5 million for five years from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project “Development and application of laser diagnostic techniques for combustion studies”

Professor HEINER LINKE, Solid State Physics, has received SEK 800 000 a year for three years from the Swedish Energy Agency for the project “Nanowires for high efficiency conversion of heat to electricity”.

Professor PER-ERIK BENGTSSON, Combustion Physics, has received SEK 800 000 a year for three years from the Swedish Energy Agency for the project “Laser diagnostics for the fuel in combus-tion processes with advanced coherent Raman techniques”.

MARIA JOHANSSON, a researcher in architecture and the built environment, has received SEK 4 million for the project “Urban architecture that supports a sustainable mode of transport – walking” from Formas.

MARIE PAULSSON, Professor of Food Technology, has received SEK 1.3 million for the project “Milk genomics - the importance of genes for technological properties of milk products”.

THOMAS LAURELL, Professor of Measurement Technology, has also received SEK 1.3 million for the project “Chip-integrated analysis of raw milk for direct quality control in the milk industry”.

ELIN ÖSTMAN, researcher in Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, has received a planning grant for the project “Development of new food processes for processed food for young children”.

Senior lecturer CHUANSI GAO at the Division of Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology at the Department of Design Sciences has received SEK 2.3 million from AFA Försäkring to study the link between friction on different surfaces and work shoes in different materials.

ANNE L’HUILLIER, Professor of Atomic Physics, has received a ‘female Nobel prize’, awarded by the United Nations body UNESCO and the L’Oréal Foundation. Anne L’Huillier received the prize of USD 100 000 for her work to develop a technique to film quick movements lasting no longer than an attosecond. Her research team was the first to capture the movement of an electron on film.

LTH researchers JOHAN MAURITSSON, Atomic Physics, and JOHAN MALMSTRÖM, Immunotech-nology, have each received SEK 10 million from the Strategic Research Foundation (SSF) and the title “Future Research Leader”.

ANDERS MIKKELSEN, researcher in Synchrotron Radiation Physics at Lund University, has been awarded SEK 13 million in one of the European Research Council’s grants to young researchers (known as starting grants). The money will be used for Dr Mikkelsen’s research in nanophysics, which will be carried out in cooperation with other researchers at the Nanometer Consortium.

BENGT JOHANSSON, Professor of Combustion Engines at LTH, has received SEK 89 million from the Swedish Energy Agency, industry stakeholders and the University to continue his research within the competence centre for combustion processes (KCFP).


RAJNI HATTI KAUL, Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Greenchem research pro-gramme, received the Chemical Engineering Prize – in the form of half a kilogram of silver – which is awarded annually by Svenska Kemiingenjörers Riksförening (SKR).

The environmental award Årets Miljöprofil 2010 has been awarded to Dr KARIN ADALBERTH for building Sweden’s first energy-plus house, Villa Åkarp.

Professor SUNE SVANBERG, Atomic Physics, received the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) Great Gold Medal for “particularly outstanding work within academia”.

Professor Emeritus KARL-JOHAN ÅSTRÖM, Department of Automatic Control, has received an award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), an international organisation based in the UK. He has been named a “Ruby Author” after submitting articles for decades.

Senior lecturer ROBERT JÖNSSON was appointed president of the Society of Fire Protection Engi-neers (SFPE) in 2010. He became the first president of the international organisation to work outside North America.

Professor LARS SAMUELSSON received the regional Morotspriset 2010, a prize awarded to “the leader in Skåne who is best at inspiring his or her staff to perform and to develop”.

GUSTAF OLSSON, Professor Emeritus at the Division of Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation has received the IWA Publishing Award from the International Water Association. He received the prize for his work as editor-in-chief of the journal Water Science and Technology, which publishes around 800 articles a year.

LOUISE HAMMARBERG and CHRISTER GERDIN from Technology Management at LTH and EHL have been awarded the Stora Property-priset 2010, with a value of SEK 50 000, for their degree project “Why are profitable energy-efficient investments not made?” In addition, they have recei-ved the Sweco prize for best degree project, worth SEK 25 000.

This year’s Franke scholarship from Längmanska kulturfonden of SEK 50 000 went to ALEXANDER

MIRHOLM, the engineering student behind LTH’s chemistry advent calendar.

MARTIN WESTIN and ERIK KARLSSON have been awarded SEK 20 000 by Sveriges Ingenjörer for their degree project on the best techniques for the certification of oil and gas extraction.

MUSTAFA AL HAMAMI has received an energy scholarship of SEK 25 000 from the property com-pany Ekstas, in memory of Ivar Franzén, for his degree project “Improving energy efficiency of the ‘Million Programme’”.

Student MARION GUEGAN was awarded SEK 20 000 by the construction company Rambölls for her degree project, “Climate warming effects on hydropower demand and pricing in California”.

LINDA-MARI FRIDSTRÖM and SIGFRID VON SETH received a scholarship of SEK 15 000 from Avfall Sverige for their degree project “Certification of sewage for use as fertiliser on agricultural land”.

Svenska Byggingenjörers Riksförbund (SBR) has rewarded the best construction students at Cam-pus Helsingborg with scholarships of SEK 5 000 each. This year KATRIN ALMQUIST and SALAM

JASSIM were the winners.

LU RACING’S hybrid racer car, which is built each year by a group of students, came second in the environmentally friendly cars class in the event at Silverstone.

(Not an exhaustive list)


Amanda Haux – education coordinator at Vattenhallen Science Centre LTH

This year was a record year for Vattenhallen Science Centre at LTH. In total, Vattenhallen has now received over 23 000 visitors, of whom 8 100 were schoolchildren, since it opened in 2009. Educa-tion coordinator Amanda Haux is pleased with the figures and the many activities that Vattenhallen has put on during the year. Among her personal favourites are Kulturnatten (Culture Night), the inauguration of the planetarium and water power exhibition, and the engineering fairs with secon-dary school pupils.

Vattenhallen particularly attracts younger visitors on school trips. Half of all pupils who visit are aged 4–12 and the other half are 13–17. The visits, which last approximately two hours, open with a talk where the children are given a short presentation of LTH. Those over the age of 12 receive a presentation entitled “What does an engineer do?”

“One of this year’s new attractions is an electronic climbing wall, the DigiWall, which was installed in the autumn. It is a hybrid of a climbing wall, a computer game and a musical instrument and is very popular!” says Amanda Haux. The DigiWall will also be used as a programming exercise for older pupils.


“LUND UNIVERSITY IS ROLLING IN MONEY”, we read in the press. LTH is responsible for a large part of the University’s surplus. LTH’s accounts for 2010 show a surplus of SEK 78.5 million, of which SEK 4.8 million is for education. The accumulated result – the public agency capital – amounts to SEK 267.4 million, of which approximately SEK 80.5 million is for education. The majority of the public agency capital within research is at departmental level, while the majority of the capital for first- and second-cycle education is at central level within LTH. In addition, LTH has allocated grant funding of SEK 615 million for budget year 2011!

As a result of the Government’s increase in the size of research grants, with very large sums of money being given to the funding bodies to al-locate to universities and university colleges, the system has received funding on a scale that has never been seen before. The University has not been able to expand its operations quickly enough. Because the research grants are time-limited and must be paid back if not used, the research groups choose to use this funding be-fore the direct government funding. The result is that the public agency capital increases at the same time as the unused grant funding is defer-red to a later period.

The requirements for co-financing also mean that strong environments that receive large grants receive additional direct funding that is often not needed in the development phase, but which could rather have been provided at a later stage of the project. Increased use of grant funding will mean a reduction in deferred funding, while use of direct funding decreases, with an increase in public agency capital as a result. Over the next few years, LTH will invest large sums in renovation, redecoration and equipment within projects such as the renovation of A-huset and the renovation of E-huset to create attractive study environments. This will entail use of LTH’s central public agency capital.

Within a few years, LTH’s research operations will have increased and the research will use the reserves that have been created in previous years. The major challenge is to adapt the increased costs so that the activities correspond to the funding allocated.

Finances

Per Göran NilssonHead of the Faculty Office


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Statement of financial performance (SEK thousand)

Balance sheet (SEK thousands)

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Operating revenues (ex. transfers)

Direct government funding 845 355 779 406 714 461 711 670 707 383

Revenues from commissions, fees and other remuneration 139 982 147 030 150 121 149 933 139 415

Revenues from grants 547 927 529 897 480 960 440 347 424 771

Total 1 533 264 1 456 333 1 345 542 1 301 950 1 271 569

Operating costs (ex. transfers)

Cost of Premises 233 040 232 209 228 236 222 326 207 128

Operating costs 197 606 280 871 280 499 261 862 243 570

Cost of Staff 845 008 797 309 758 715 740 929 744 895

Overhead costs 126 478 106 516

Total (ex. depreciation) 1 402 132 1 310 390 1 267 450 1 225 117 1 195 593

Profit/loss before depreciation 131 132 145 943 78 092 76 833 75 976

Depreciation 53 012 52 367 52 849 55 175 57 816

Profit/loss after depreciation 78 120 93 577 25 243 21 658 18 160

Financial income and costs

Net surplus/deficit 385 73 12 011 7 777 3 169

Change in capital before adjustment

Kapitalförändring före justering 78 505 93 650 37 254 29 435 21 329

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Assets

Fixed assets 135 377 122 301 135 314 143 655 161 971

Accounts receivable, advances and other accounts owing 21 542 24 485 30 931 41 822 31 830

Accrued revenue 97 460 87 439 84 182 53 284 63 662

Other current receivables 17 219 23 321 26 932 30 661 5 762

Cash 757 429 691 328 510 286 439 537 373 761

Total assets 1 029 027 948 874 787 645 708 959 636 986

Liabilities and agency capital

Agency capital

Capital brought forward 199 517 105 996 68 742 39 184 15 906

Capital movement -10 642 -6 067 -6 067 -5 615 -5 603

Change in capital for the year 78 505 93 649 37 254 29 436 21 328

Total 267 380 193 578 99 929 63 005 31 631

Liabilities

Other current liabilities 40 333 0 221

Loans 0 33 440 40 371 47 709 27 950

Liquidity loan 0 24 750 35 750 41 250

Accounts payable 17 993 10 516 46 204 17 880 29 926

Prepaid revenue 711 930 657 415 570 881 505 189 467 435

Other liabilities 31 684 28 841 30 260 39 205 38 794

Total 761 647 755 295 687 716 645 954 605 355

Total liabilities and agency capital 1 029 027 948 873 787 645 708 959 636 986


Revenue and costs for each activity 2010 - 2006 (before internal eliminations)

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Total LTH (SEK million)

Revenue 1 539 1 470 1 389 1 332 1 326

Costs 1 461 1 376 1 352 1 303 1 305

Profit/Loss 78 94 37 29 21

Agency capital 267 194 91 63

First- and second-cycle education (SEK million)

Revenue 507 475 470 462 485

Costs 505 472 454 453 446

Profit/Loss 2 3 16 9 39

Agency capital 77 84 83 67

Research & third-cycle education (SEK million)

Revenue 947 891 809 760 736

Costs 874 800 779 737 748

Profit/Loss 73 91 30 23 -12

Agency capital 187 122 23 -2

External commissions (SEK million)

Revenue 85 104 110 110 105

Costs 82 104 119 113 111

Profit/Loss 3 0 -9 -3 -6

Agency capital -1 -6 -6 -1

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006


Investments 8 916 3 347 4 581 2 956 13 588

Revenue* 478 376 440 228 418 367 424 367 484 973

Investments/Revenue 2% 1% 1% 1% 3%

Research & third-cycle education

Investments 36 584 44 602 39 281 32 902 63 926

Revenue* 874 560 870 212 790 160 733 149 709 481


External commissions

Investments 3 756 692 1 556 1 472 2 065

Revenue* 76 222 147 426 152 356 151 966 105 686


* Revenue excluding transfers

Investments (SEK thousands)


Key performance indicators

Unit 2010 2009 2008 2 007 2006

Direct government funding (1st&2nd) Mkr 478 440 417 424 439

Full-time equivalents achieved * Hst 6166 5 855 5 223 5 194 5 246

Annual performance equivalents achieved * HPR 5451 5 185 4 622 4 583 4 541

APEs/FTEs % 88% 89% 88% 88% 87%

Direct government funding per FTE tkr /Hst 78 75 80 82 84

MScs and Architecture degrees required by gov't 09-12 Antal 2625 2625 2800 2800 2800

MScs and Architecture degrees awarded 2010 Antal 709 823 812 724 801

Success rate % 27% 31% 29% 26% 29%

External revenue** (1st&2nd) Mkr 8 13 16 3 9

External revenue/government funding (1st&2nd) % 2 3 4 1 2

External revenue per FTE tkr/Hst 1 2 3 1 2

Total revenue** (1st&2nd) excluding commissions Mkr 486 453 433 427 448

Total revenue (1st&2nd) per FTE tkr 79 77 83 82 85

Senior lecturers Antal 204 198 194 176 164

FTEs per senior lecturer Hst/Lekt 30 30 27 30 32

Junior lecturers Antal 53 57 54 62 67

FTEs per junior lecturer Hst/Adj 116 103 97 84 78

* FTEs and APEs achieved at LTH departments (excluding courses taken at other faculties)

** Revenue excluding interest and transfers

Unit 2010 2009 2008 2 007 2006

First- and second-cycle education SEK million 13 27 22 13 12

Commissions/externally funded education % 3% 6% 5% 3% 3%

Research and third-cycle education SEK million 85 83 85 95 93

Commissioned R&3rd/externally funded R&3rd % 23% 24% 29% 33% 35%


External commissions


Research and third-cycle education

Academic staff

Unit 2010 2009 2008 2 007 2006

Direct government funding (R&3rd) SEK million 367 339 294 289 266

Direct gov’t funding (R&3rd)/direct gov’t funding (1st&2nd) % 77% 77% 71% 68% 61%

Swedish Research Council SEK million 148 125 116 93 84

FORMAS SEK million 47 31 29 28 23

Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research SEK million 60 56 40 45 42

EU SEK million 72 78 74 100 70

Swedish Energy Agency SEK million 64 56 46 42 48

VINNOVA SEK million 63 67 62 45 41

Total SEK million 454 413 367 352 308

External revenue/direct gov’t funding (R&3rd) % 124 122 125 121 116

Other external revenue (ex. commissions) SEK million 94 187 144 114 99

Other external revenue/direct gov’t funding (R&3rd) % 26 55 49 39 37

Total revenue, R&3rd (ex. commissions) SEK million 915 939 805 755 673

Third-cycle students FTEs Number 464 423 414 442 467

Licentiate degrees Number 31 42 43 38 59

Direct gov’t funding (R&3rd)/licentiate degree SEK million 12 8,1 6,8 7,6 4,5

Degrees/third-cycle student % 7 10 9 13

Doctorates % 67 94 112 121 117

Total revenue R&3rd per doctorate SEK million 13,7 10 7,2 6,2 5,8

Direct gov’t funding (R&3rd)/doctorate SEK million 5,5 3,6 2,6 2,4 2,3

Degrees/third-cycle student % 14 21 27 27 25

Professors % 156 151 157 161 164

Direct gov’t funding (R&3rd)/professor SEK million 2,4 2,2 1,9 1,8 1,6

Grants (R&3rd)/professor SEK million 3,5 4 3,3 2,9 2,5

Unit 2010 2009 2008 2 007 2006

Teaching staff with doctorates Number 360 349 351 337 328

Revenue (1st&2nd) per teacher SEK million 1,4 1,3 1,2 1,3 1,4

Revenue (R&3rd) per teacher SEK million 2,5 2,7 2,3 2,2 2,1

Revenue (1st&2nd+R&3rd) per teacher (ex. commissions) SEK million 3,9 4 3,5 3,5 3,4

FTEs per teacher Number 17,1 17 15 15 16

Licentiate degrees per teacher Number 0,09 0,12 0,12 0,11 0,18

Doctorates per teacher Number 0,19 0,27 0,32 0,36 0,36

The figures given above are accruals-based revenues and costs in research and third-cycle education, in contrast to the figures for external income in the section on finances

The number of lecturers etc. is expressed in full-time equivalents.


The Board 2010

Ola Troedsson, ChairmanIKEA Supply AG

Anders Axelsson, DeanProfessor

Kerstin GillsbroCEO, Jernhusen AB

Gerhard KristenssonProfessor

Ulla Holst, Deputy DeanProfessor

Solveig MelinProfessor

Lars-Erik WernerssonProfessor

Carl BorrebaeckProfessor

Agneta StåhlProfessor

Jan SternbyResearch Director Gambro Lundia AB


Christer NilssonResearch Engineer (TCO)

Daniel KristofferssonStudent

Per-Göran NilssonHead of Faculty Office

Teresa Hankala-JaniecTeaching Assistant (SACO)

Christian NilssonPostgraduate Student

Beatrice NordlöfFaculty Coordinator

Olov PetrénStudent

Representatives for staff organisations

Student representatives

Secretariat

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Documents

Annual Report 2010 LTH