Styliana Vasileiadou, a PhD student in the Department of Pediatrics, is one of three recipients of the Hejdenberg scholarship awarded by the Asthma and Allergy Association. She receives the scholarship for her studies on how living environment and food intake early in life can prevent allergies.

As a member, you will have access to a forum where a selection of Sweden’s leading younger researchers will meet to discuss and address issues that in a significant sense affect research and science. Depending on your interests, you will be given the opportunity, for example, to conduct research policy influence work, develop your ability for popular science communication, inspire children and young people to care about science, and grow in the role of academic leader. As the activities are based on the members of the academy, priorities and activities will change over time. What is constant, however, is a high level of commitment by the members. More information: https://www.sverigesungaakademi.se/inval2020

Akademiliv congratulates Lars Börjesson, who has been appointed professor of surgery, in combination with a position as chief physician with a focus on colorectal surgery. He researches on the surgical treatment of ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory bowel diseases, where various forms of reconstructive surgery can help patients, but also cause many complex problems. In addition to this patient group, Lars Börjesson studies patients with functional bowel problems. Lars Börjesson is the director of studies for the medical program and responsible for education at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, and has also long been the course leader for the surgical course in the medical program. In his work to create a new 6-year, credential-based medical program, he is responsible for semester 11, which includes long placements within hospital care.

Tikka Roti has now taken a Christmas break. The food truck will be back outside Academicum on Tuesday, January 7, where it continues to serve Indian and Pakistani street food every weekday from 11am to 1pm. In addition to the regular menu, Greek Street Food and Pakistani Biryani, which is a spicy rice dish, will be served during week 2 and 3. Both of these dishes cost 65 SEK.

The regular newsletter from Akademiliv takes a break from Thursday, December 20. The newsletter will be back on Wednesday, January 15. We wish all readers a wonderful winter holiday!

Akademiliv congratulates Caterina Finizia, who has been appointed professor of ear, nose and throat diseases, combined with her position as a university hospital consultant at the ENT-clinic. She is also R&D director at Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SU). Caterina Finizia has been the main supervisor for ten PhD-students and is currently a supervisor for three PhD-students. She has been leading a research group for many years, whose main research area is head neck cancer, focusing on new treatment methods for complications after head neck cancer treatment for improved function and health-related quality of life, which also include some translational projects. Based on her scientific and pedagogical competence and drive, Caterina Finizia wants to join and stimulate and facilitate research, education, development and innovation within Sahlgrenska Academy and SU with collaboration, both nationally and internationally.

It is time to make sure that 2019 publications are registered in the GUP database. The University of Gothenburg’s research is reported in the University’s annual report, through statistics from the GUP database (University of Gothenburg’s publications). Register all scientific publications, published in 2019, no later than Tuesday, January 7, 2020. Remember especially to provide complete and accurate information for author affiliation, publication year, ISBN / ISSN and doi, from the original publication.
Publications lists of institutions and individual researchers can be found in the GUP database under the Publications tab or via the GU web.
Questions? contact GUP support: gup@ub.gu.se or 031-786 66 71.

From February next year, the university will introduce a new collaboration tool, where it is possible to effectively share documents and collaborate in them, both internally and externally. With the tool you will be able to collaborate on files, easily search for documents and co-write with your colleagues, even those who do not work at the university. The collaboration tool will be available to all staff, and is intended to be used for collaboration between employees, but not with students. The introduction will take place gradually during the spring, and more information will come after the turn of the year. Here you can read more about the project: https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/projekt-process/aktuella-projekt/samarbetsverktyg/

The journal Fokus recently published auniversity ranking of its own, which rank the Swedish higher education institutions based on the cost they have per accrued quotation and production points from researchers affiliated with the institution. The University of Gothenburg as a whole is in this ranking placed as number ten, but in the category of medicine and life sciences, two professors at Sahlgrenska Academy take first and second place: Kaj Blennow and Henrik Zetterberg. Other researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy who are ranked high in this ranking are Fredrik Bäckhed, who is ranked second in the social sciences (sic!), And Chritsopher Gillberg, who is sixth on the list in psychology and pedagogy. Read more in Focus (requires login): https://www.fokus.se/2019/10/topplista-har-ar-sveriges-mest-citerade-forskare/

 

The Bibsam Consortium has negotiated a new agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier. The agreement, which applies from 1 January 2020, means that Swedish researchers and students will have unlimited access to articles from the publisher’s more than two thousand journals. In addition, research articles will be able to be published immediately openly in the publisher’s journals. The publication within the agreement is expected to be approximately 3,800 articles per year. The new agreement runs for three years and will take effect on January 1, 2020.

• Read more in the Staff Portal: https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/aktuellt/nyheter-detalj/nytt-avtal-med-elsevier-klart—ger-ater-tillgang-till-over-2000-tidskrifter.cid1656645;jsessionid=hzpubnekbc6wmkucdv45yml1?skipSSOCheck=true
• Read more about the agreement on the website of the Royal Library