The Meridian

Welcome to this Lund Observatory podcast where we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers. Astronomers, such as Nic and Rebecca, are not the only ones orienting themselves using the stars. Animals, big and small, also navigate by starlight. In this last episode of the third season we invited Prof. Marie Dacke from the Department of Biology over to

Welcome to this Lund Observatory podcast where we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers. Judith Korth joins the podcast this week and tell us about how she found her way into astronomy research, how she ended up here at Lund University and how she now studies distant worlds far beyond our own Solar System. In this third season we are also includ

Welcome to this Lund Observatory podcast where we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers. We are on a hunt for the invisible in this second episode of the third season of The Meridian. Ruth Pöttgen is a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics and she is studying fundamental particles and especially interested in finding that mysterious Dark

We are back, and we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers in this third season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast. Joining Nic Borsato and Rebecca Forsberg in this first episode of the third season of The Meridian is none other than NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk, professor at Penn State University in Kinesiology and Physiology, who looks in

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived,  giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers! In this last episode of the second season Nic and Rebecca get a visitor from the Department of Geology.  One does not always use telescopes to study the stars.  Chiara Paleari has been using ice cores to study our own star, the Su

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived,  giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers! Joining us on the Meridian today we have Colin Carlile, the former  director of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL).  He came to Sweden to  (successfully) head up the Swedish bid to locate the European Spallation  Source h

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers! Michael Way works at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where he is modeling planetary atmospheres, with a special interest for Venus and its history.  He was visiting Lund Observatory to give a talk at the Källén Semin

The  second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers! The European Southern Observatory, or ESO, is celebrating 60 years of scientific achievements in the southern hemisphere.  Sweden is one of the founding members of ESO, and several astronomers from Lund have been actively involved

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers!  In this third episode of the second season Nic and Rebeca chat about equality in science before inviting Nikolai Piskunov to the microphone.  Nikolai is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University.

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers!  In the second episode of the second season Nic and Rebeca invite Diane Feuillet to the microphone.  Diane is a researcher here at Lund Observatory working on galactic archaeology using stellar abundances, ages and kinematics.