New professors 2025

The professorial inauguration of 2025, comprising of the inauguration lectures and the ceremony, took place on May 8-9. This year 10 professors from Umeå and Uppsala were inaugurated at SLU Ultuna.

Subtitled lectures

On Thursday 8 May and Friday 9 May the new professors gave their inauguration lectures at SLU's campus in Uppsala. The webcast lectures are currently being subtitled and will reappear on each professor's webpage by the end of August at the latest.
Meet our new professors
A woman leads a dog in a collar over a series of obstacles.

Anna Bergh

Professor of veterinary nursing

A woman and three men, all of them wearing suits and nametags, sit on green chairs in a row, smiling into the camera.

Sofia Boqvist

Professor of veterinary public health

A man in a black shirt sits in front of desk with a computer and a tablet.

Anton Grafström

Professor of forest inventory and sampling

Two persons in white lab coats standing in a laboratory looking at something in a grey rack.

Ingrid Hansson

Professor of veterinary bacteriology

An outdoorsy person squatting in the forest mounting technical equipment in a piece of moss.

Jonatan Klaminder

Professor of soil science

A person standing in a barn looking down into a box containing piglets.

Jens Malmkvist

Professor of applied ethology

A man and a woman wearing green coats study a small plant in a greenhouse.

Charles Melnyk

Professor of plant physiology

A person standing in a lab pipetting.

Totte Niittylä

Professor of plant physiology

Two persons sitting in open trunk of a car, holding remote controls, one of the persons are looking at a drone hovering in the air.

Rubén Valbuena

Professor of forest remote sensing

A woman with dark hair sitting in front of her computer programming.

Giulia Vico

Professor of ecology

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