Professorial Inauguration Ceremony

The professorial inauguration of 2026, comprising of the inauguration lectures and the ceremony, will take place 23-24 April. This year 11 professors from Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala will be inaugurated at SLU Ultuna. Closer to the installation ceremony, you will be able to watch presentation videos about the professors, and after the lectures have been completed, these will also be published on each professor's page.

Illustrations od cat, beetle, city, cow, sheat, carbon dioxide, water molecule, microscope, DNA string, horse and some others in different shades of green.

New Professors: From Agricultural History to Resilient Food, Forest Management, Surgery and Innovation

On 23–24 April the new professors will give their inauguration lectures at SLU Uppsala. Join us online or on site i Ultuna at Campus Ultuna, Almas allé 10. No registration is required.
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Meet the professors of 2026
A woman walking on a field with green crops.

Lucia Gutierrez

Professor of crop breeding and crop diversity

A man wearing a cap is standing on the entrance to an old building, turned against the camera.

Jesper Larsson

Professor of agrarian history

A woman stands among dairy cows in a free-range barn.

Mikaela Lindberg

Professor of ruminant nutrition

A man and a woman in white lab coats talking in a lab, by a microscope.

Johan Lundqvist

Professor of toxicology

A man in a blue shirt leans on a big tree trunk in front of an old building.

Kes McCormick

Professor of business development and sustainable innovation

A man standing in a stream with a landing net. Behind him green trees.

Brendan McKie

Professor of freshwater ecology

A smiling woman wearing a green tshirt standing in a deciduous forest with a few other people.

Emma Holmström

Professor of silviculture

A surgeon wearing scrubs, glasses and a surgical mask standing in an operating room.

Odd Höglund

Professor of small animal surgery

A man is squatting in a field, looking at the ears of grain.

Valentin Picasso

Professor of cropping systems

A smiling woman standing by a horse.

Marie Rhodin

Professor of domestic animal anatomy

A person standing by a mossy cliff collecting samples in tubes.

Levi Yant

Professor of plant genetics

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