Gösta Ekmans Laboratory

13/03/2026

Seed exchange FIKA with Basque cheesecake and some chocolate too!

13/03/2026

Professor Mats Alvesson, Lund University, held an intriguing and engaging seminar on the topic "Returning to meaning" yesterday. The seminar was hosted by Malin Freidle and Mats Nilsson at Gösta Ekman Laboratories.

29/01/2026

Today the neuropsychologist and long-time collaborator Tom Eek succesfully defended his PhD thesis on the sense of smell and Parkinson’s disease. Opponent was Linus Andersson from Umeå University. The dissertation session was at Linköping University. Great day and congratulations Dr Eek!

28/01/2026

Our visiting PhD student Alberto Petrin held an intriguing seminar on EEG preprocessing in combination with great Fika!

19/11/2025

Highly valuable workshop on how to write a succesful research application! With Håkan Fischer and Lisa Käll!

08/10/2025

The olfactory research team is represented at the Swedish Cognitive Science Society meeting in beautiful Lund!

06/10/2025

Gösta Ekman Laboratories take part in the Nobel Calling Stockholm activities. This time we are showing our sound labs and how we are studying auditory perception.
Our excellent guides portrayed; Malin Freidle, Mats E Nilsson (head sound lab), and Mingaile Greiciute.

21/09/2025

Maria Larsson in the jury of the first Falling Walls in Sweden.

Falling Walls Lab is a global platform that encourages early-career students and researchers to present their innovative ideas that break down barriers in science and society, inspired by the spirit and freedom symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall.

21/09/2025

Linguist Thomas Hörberg at ECRO presenting recent work on odor naming as a tool for cognitive and perceptual assessment.

23/05/2025

Today, Billy Gerfeldter earned his PhD in psychology! Great high-level discussions with opponent professor Johan Eriksson, Umeå University, the examination committee and audience. Excellent work Billy! We are so proud and happy for you!

12/05/2025

We celebrate Billy Gerdfeldter who finalized his thesis work on ”Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Sound Localization”. Supervisors were Stefan Wiens and Mats Nilsson. (1) Here a happy Billy receiving the thesis from the printing office and the subsequent nailing! (2) Bubbles, (3) Billy with his supervisors, and (4) main supervisor Stefan Wiens giving a creative speech! Doctoral defense on May 23, 1PM! Photo credit: Mingaile Greiciuté