Aquaculture researchers at SLU
All four SLU faculties conduct research related to aquaculture. Below you can find SLU researchers working in this field and read about their areas of expertise.
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Aquaculture-related research at SLU
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.
Patrik Bohman, Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
Elin Dahlgren, Environmental assessment specialist at the Institute of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua) & coordinator of SLU's participation in the Baltic Sea Science Center.
- Area of interest: fish health, thiamine and algal toxins.
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.
Lotta Berg, Professor at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.
- Area of expertise: animal welfare, rearing, handling slaughter, stress.
Patrik Bohman, Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
Albin Gräns, Researcher at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.
- Area of expertise: animal welfare, stress, handling, stunning, slaughter.
Anders Kiessling, Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: general aquaculture, product quality, new feed sources, welfare, biofloc.
Beatrix Alsanius, Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
Karl-Johan Bergstrand, Researcher at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics.
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.
Stefan Bertilsson, Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of expertise: environmental microbiology, aquatic microbial ecology, environmental genomics, aquatic food webs.
Dirk-Jan De Koning, Professor at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: breeding, genetics, genomics.
Lennart Edsman, Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: freshwater crayfish, conservation, genetics, epigenetics, economics, rural entrepreneurship, natural resource management.
Henrik Jeuthe, Researcher at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: fish reproduction, aquatic ecology.
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.
Christos Palaiokostas, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: genetics, breeding, genomics.
Stefan Palm, Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions.
Anti Vasemägi, Professor at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: genomics, population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions, disease resistance and tolerance.
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.
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.
Patrik Bohman, Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
Lennart Edsman, Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: freshwater crayfish, conservation, genetics, epigenetics, economics, rural entrepreneurship, natural resource management.
Per-Anders Langendahl, Lecturer at the Department of Economics.
- Area of expertise: analysing innovation and entrepreneurial processes using qualitative research methods.
Staffan Waldo, Analyst at the Department of Economics.
- Area of expertise: economics and natural resource management.
Oskar Agstam-Norlin, Postdoctor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of interest: Farm impact assessment with a focus on both water quality and sediment.
Patrik Bohman, Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of interest: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
Hanna Carlberg, Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: feed and nutrition, environmental impact.
Elin Dahlgren, Environmental assessment specialist at the Institute of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua) & coordinator of SLU's participation in the Baltic Sea Science Center.
- Area of interest: fish health, thiamine and algal toxins.
Martyn Futter, Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of interest: aquaculture farm impact assessment with a focus on both water quality and sediment, mussel farming and certification schemes
Brian Huser, Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of interest: Farm impact assessment with a focus on both water quality and sediment.
Stefan Palm, Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of interest: population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions.
Örjan Östman, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of interest: natural resource management, fish biology and ecology, behavioural ecology, environmental assessments.
Elin Dahlgren, Environmental assessment specialist at the Institute of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua) & coordinator of SLU's participation in the Baltic Sea Science Center.
- Area of interest: fish health, thiamine and algal toxins.
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.
Stefan Palm, Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions.
Anti Vasemägi, Professor at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: genomics, population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions, disease resistance and tolerance.
Hanna Carlberg, Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: feed and nutrition, environmental impact.
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.
Anders Kiessling, Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: general aquaculture, product quality, new feed sources, welfare, biofloc.
Aleksandar Vidakovic, Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: feed, fish nutrition, fish physiology, alternative protein sources, insects feed.
Beatrix Alsanius, Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
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.
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.
Beatrix Alsanius, Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
Håkan Asp, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: hydroponics, plant nutrients, urban agriculture.
Karl-Johan Bergstrand, Researcher at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics.
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.
Beatrix Alsanius, Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
Stefan Bertilsson, Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of expertise: environmental microbiology, aquatic microbial ecology, environmental genomics, aquatic food webs.
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.
Patrik Bohman, Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
Willem Goedkoop, Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of expertise: Mussel farming, freshwater food webs, natural resource management.
Johan Törnblom, Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: aquatic landscape ecology/Natural resource management.
Anti Vasemägi, Professor at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: genomics, population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions, disease resistance and tolerance.
Staffan Waldo, Analyst at the Department of Economics.
- Area of expertise: economics and natural resource management.
Örjan Östman, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, fish biology and ecology, behavioural ecology, environmental assessments.
Anders Kiessling, Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: general aquaculture, product quality, new feed sources, welfare, biofloc.
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.
Henrik Jeuthe, Researcher at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: fish reproduction, aquatic ecology.