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.

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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