Aquaculture researchers at SLU

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Beatrix Alsanius

Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.

• Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
• Contact page Beatrix Alsanius.

Håkan Asp

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems and Technology. 

• Area of expertise: hydroponics, plant nutrients, urban agriculture.
• Contact page Håkan Asp.

Kartik Baruah

MFSc, MSc, PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management. 

• Area of expertise: fish health and stress management, host-pathogen interactions, bioactive compounds, germ-free artemia, feed additives.
• Contact page Kartik Baruah.

Lotta Berg

Professor at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.

• Area of expertise: animal welfare, rearing, handling slaughter, stress.
• Contact page Lotta Berg.

Stefan Bertilsson

Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.

• Area of expertise: environmental microbiology, aquatic microbial ecology, environmental genomics, aquatic food webs.
• Contact page Stefan Bertilsson.

Karl-Johan Bergstrand

Researcher at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.

• Area of expertise: aquaponics.
• Contact page Karl-Johan Bergstrand.

Patrik Bohman

Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.

• Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
• Contact page Patrik Bohman.

Dirk-Jan De Koning

Professor at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.

• Area of expertise: breeding, genetics, genomics.
• Contact page Dirk-Jan De Koning.

Lennart Edsman

Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.

• Area of expertise: freshwater crayfish, conservation, genetics, epigenetics, economics, rural entrepreneurship, natural resource management.
• Contact page Lennart Edsman.

Albin Gräns

Researcher at the Department of Animal Environment and Health. 

• Area of expertise: animal welfare, stress, handling, stunning, slaughter.
• Contact page Albin Gräns.

Willem Goedkoop

Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.

• Area of expertise: Mussel farming, freshwater food webs, natural resource management.
• Contact page Willem Goedkoop.

Gustav Hellström

Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.

• Area of expertise: compensatory release programs (hydropower), tracking stocked hatchery fish in the wild, telemetry, ecology, invasive, biologging/physiology.
• Contact page Gustav Hellström.

Henrik Jeuthe

Researcher at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.

• Area of expertise: fish reproduction, aquatic ecology.
• Contact page Henrik Jeuthe.

Sofie Joosse

Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development.

• Area of expertise: (fish) food systems - incl. production, intermediation and consumption - and food system change.
• Contact page Sofie Joosse.

Alin Kadfak

Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development.

• Area of expertise: global supply chains, resource governance, labour rights, policies and developing countries.
• Contact page Alin Kadfak.

Sammar Khalil

Researcher at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.

• Area of expertise: aquaponic, microbial biostimulants, hydroponic, product quality, fish feed in relation to plant nutrients.
• Contact page Sammar Khalil.

Khrystyna Kurta

Postdoc at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.

• Area of expertise: application of next generation sequencing in aquaculture genomics and breeding.
• Contact page Khrystyna Kurta.

Ershad Ullah Khan

Researcher at the Department of Energy and Technology.

• Area of expertise: hydroponics, aquaponics and process optimization, waste resources (nutrients, energy and water) recovery etc.
• Contact page Ershad Ullah Khan.

Anders Kiessling

Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.

• Area of expertise: general aquaculture, product quality, new feed sources, welfare, biofloc.
• Contact page Anders Kiessling.

Micaela M. Kulesz

Researcher at the Department of Economics.

• Area of expertise: 
• E-mail to Micaela M. Kulesz.

Markus Langeland

Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.

• Area of expertise:  nutrition, feed, alternative proteins, fish physiology, production systems.
• Contact page Markus Langeland.

Per-Anders Langendahl

Lecturer at the Department of Economics.

• Area of expertise: analysing innovation and entrepreneurial processes using qualitative research methods.
• Contact page Per-Anders Langendahl.

Torbjörn Lundh

Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.

• Area of expertise: nutrition, nutritional physiology, metabolism, feed.
• Contact page Torbjörn Lundh.

Most Tahera Naznin

Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.

• Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, urban and controlled environment horticulture, indoor vertical farming, food quality (phytochemicals & antioxidant).
• Contact page Most Tahera Naznin.

Parisa Norouzitallab

Researcher at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.

• Area of expertise: epigenetics, brood stock management, animal health, crustacean immunology, stress management and larvae culture.
• Contact page Parisa Norouzitallab.

Christos Palaiokostas

Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.

• Area of expertise: genetics, breeding, genomics.
• Contact page Christos Palaiokostas.

Stefan Palm

Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.

• Area of expertise: population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions.
• Contact page Stefan Palm.

Sabine Sampels

Researcher at the Department of Molecular Sciences; Strukturbiologi.

• Area of expertise: fish and fish product quality (composition, sensory, nutritional value, storage stability), lipid metabolism.
• Contact page Sabine Sampels.

Johan Törnblom

Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.

• Area of expertise: aquatic landscape ecology/Natural resource management.
• Contact page Johan Törnblom.

Anti Vasemägi

Professor at the Department of Aquatic Resources.

• Area of expertise: genomics, population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions, disease resistance and tolerance.
• Contact page Anti Vasemägi.

Aleksandar Vidakovic

Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.

• Area of expertise: feed, fish nutrition, fish physiology, alternative protein sources, insects feed.
• Contact page Aleksandar Vidakovic.

Staffan Waldo

Analyst at the Department of Economics.

• Area of expertise: economics and natural resource management.
• Contact page Staffan Waldo.

Jean W.H Yong

Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.

• Area of expertise: natural resource management like waste circular economy, aqua waste characterisation; fish-plant (including seaweeds, aquatic plants, crops) co-cultivation.
• Contact page Jean W.H Yong.

Örjan Östman

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.

• Area of expertise: natural resource management, fish biology and ecology, behavioural ecology, environmental assessments.
• Contact page Örjan Östman.