Honorary doctors 2026
Doctoral degrees will be conferred on the faculties' honorary doctors for 2026 at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony on 29 May. Information about the honorary doctors' lectures will be updated regularly on this page throughout the spring.
The faculties' honorary doctors for 2026 have been appointed and will receive their degrees at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony in May.
Honorary doctor, in Latin doctor honoris causa, is a distinction awarded by a faculty. Honorary doctorates are awarded to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the University or society, and whom the faculty wishes to honour and welcome into its research community.
It is often academics from other universities who are awarded honorary doctorates, but honorary doctors frequently come from outside the academic world as well.
School of Economics and Management
- Sigrid Hemels, Professor of Tax Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Professor of Tax Law Appointed Honorary Doctor at LUSEM – lusem.lu.se
28 maj | Honorary doctor lecture
Honorary Doctor lecture: Sigrid Hemels – lusem.lu.se
Faculty of Humanities
- Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music at University College London
- Gry Worre Hallberg, Artistic Director of the performance group Sisters Hope
27 May | Honorary doctor lecture
Open Lectures by the Faculty of Humanities 2026 Honorary Doctors – ht.lu.se
Faculty of Law
- Mia Korpiola, Professor of Legal History at the University of Turku
- Stefan Reimer, Justice of the Supreme Court
Honorary Doctorates 2026 – jur.lu.se
Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts
- Rainer Honeck, Concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic
Rainer Honeck is the new honorary doctor at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts – arts.lu.se
Faculty of Medicine
- Jonna Bornemark, Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University
- Sara Heyman, Foreign Correspondent Radio Sweden
27 May | Honorary doctor lecture
Faculty of Science
- Jannette Carey, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, USA
- Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn, Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney, Australia
28 May | Honorary doctor lecture
Meet the 2026 Honorary Doctors in Science and Engineering – lu.se
Faculty of Social Sciences
- Frank Biermann, Professor of Global Sustainability Governance at Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Professor at National University of Singapore, Singapore
New honorary doctors at the Faculty of Social Sciences – sam.lu.se
27 May | Honorary doctor lecture
Meet the 2026 Honorary Doctors at the Faculty of Social Sciences – sam.lu.se
Faculty of Engineering
- Margret Bauer, Professor of Automation at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), Germany
- Gustaf Ramel, Farmer
Gustaf Ramel and Margret Bauer become LTH's honorary doctors – lth.se
28 May | Honorary doctor lecture
Meet the 2026 Honorary Doctors in Science and Engineering – lu.se
Faculty of Theology
- Bjørn Eidsvåg, Artist and Musician
- Scott Spurlock, Professor of Scottish and Early Modern Christianities at the University of Glasgow
28 May | Honorary doctor lecture
- Amen – conversation and song with Bjørn Eidsvåg, honorary doctor of the Faculty of Theology – ht.lu.se (in Swedish)
- Open Lecture by Faculty of Theology 2026 Honorary Doctor Scott Spurlock
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