New professors 2026

The professorial inauguration of 2026, comprising of the inauguration lectures and the ceremony, will take place 23-24 April. This year 12 professors from Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala will be inaugurated at SLU Ultuna. Lectures and presentation videos about each professor wil be found here when produced. Until then the new professors from last are presented below.

Meet the new professors of 2025
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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