Lund University Programme for Global Excellence 2025
It comprises the Lund Global Visiting Professors' Programme and the Lund Global Research Fellows Programme.
Global Visiting Professors’ Programme
Visiting Professors at the Faculty of Science
Yingda Cheng
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, USA.
David Edwards
Professor of Plant Ecology (2000), Department of Plant Sciences and Centre for Global Wood Security, University of Cambridge, UK.
Mike Jetten
Professor of Ecological Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Science (RIBES), Radboud University, The Netherlands.
Radu Laza
Professor, Stony Brook University , USA
Johannes Lehmann
Professor, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, USA.
Katerina Lipka
Professor of experimental particle physics, University of Wuppertal and DESY Hamburg, Germany.
Chelsea Dvorak Specht
Barbara McClintock Professor of Plant Biology and Biodiversity, Section of Plant Biology and the LH Bailey Hortorium, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, USA.
Anne Straube
Professor, University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School & Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, UK.
Visiting Professors at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
Aynne Kokas
C.K. Yen Professor, Miller Center for Public Affairs, Director, University of Virginia East Asia Center, Professor, Media Studies, University of Virginia, USA.
Shelley Boulianne
R. Klein Research Chair in Communication Studies (full professor rank), Mount Royal University, Canada.
Max Weiss
Professor of History, Associated Faculty in Comparative Literature, Princeton University, USA.
Morten Storm Overgaard
Professor, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Giovanni B. Bazzana
Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, Harvard University, The Divinity School, USA.
Edyta Roszko
Research Professor in Social Anthropology, Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.
Visiting Professors at the Faculty of Medicine
Robert Cramer
PhD, Belk Endowed Professor and Violence Prevention Center Associate Director, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
Patrick MacDonald
Professor, University of Alberta, Canada.
Sarah Rowland-Jones
Professor of Immunology, University of Oxford, UK.
Visiting Professors at the Faculty of Social Sciences
Victoria Canning
Professor in Criminology, Lancaster University, UK.
Michael Hall
Dean's Chair in Marketing, Sustainability and Society, Massey University Business School, New Zealand.
Nadia Kaneva
Professor of Strategic Communication, Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies, University of Denver, USA.
Magdalena Nowicka
Head of Department Integration, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research DeZIM e.V. and Honorary Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Zoe Robinson
Zoe Robinson, Professor of Sustainability in Higher Education, Keele University, UK.
Jonathan Scourfield
Professor of Social Work, Cardiff University, UK.
John Östh
Professor in Urban Analysis, Oslomet University, department of Built Environment, Oslo, Norway.
Visiting Professors at the Faculty of Law
Linda Gröning
Professor in Law, Law faculty, University of Bergen, and Centre for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway.
Thérèse Murphy
Professor, School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
Dan Svantesson
Professor, Bond University, Australia.
Visiting Professors at the Lund University School of Economics and Management
J. David Hacker
J. David Hacker, Professor, Department of History and Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.
Iuliana Ionita-Laza
Professor, Columbia University, USA.
Francisco Liñán
Full Professor of Entrepreneurship, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
Jørgen Modalsli
Professor, Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
Global Research Fellows
Fellows in AI
Haein Cho
Carbon Management Specialist, Samsung Electronics, South Korea.
Ye Hong
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Lukas J. Meier
Fellow, Harvard University, USA.
Stig Strandbæk Nyman
Research assistant, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Eleni-Ira Panourgia
INTERSECT Visiting Research Fellow for Fall 2025, University of Copenhagen, Teaching and Research Fellow, Gustave Eiffel University, France.
Danqing Shi
Research Associate in Machine Learning, University of Cambridge, UK.
Sukrit Singh
Damon Runyon/NCI K99 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
Fellows in strategically prioritised research areas
Adriano De Falco
Post-Doc, University of Bologna, Italy.
Jennifer Graham
Postdoctoral researcher, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.
Adam Koberinski
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University, Canada.
Kaizhen Li
Senior Postdoc Researcher, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Juliana Streva
IGLP Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, USA.
Linnéa Nordlander
Assistant professor of human rights and sustainability, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
About Lund University Programme for Global Excellence
In 2025, a total of 45 exceptional researchers were recruited through the programme, strengthening Lund University’s position as a premier destination for top global talent. One candidate will be formally appointed in spring 2026.
This landmark investment—amounting to SEK 105 million—is funded through university-wide strategic allocations. Of this, SEK 75 million supports the Assistant Professors, while SEK 30 million is dedicated to the Visiting Professors.
News article 2 February 2026: Unprecedented interest in Lund University’s international recruitment
Read more about the recruitment campaign and upcoming announcements.