Organisation
SLU Risk assessment of plant pests is placed under the NJ faculty at SLU and the activities are led by a steering committee with members from SLU, the Swedish Board of Agriculture and the Swedish Forest Agency. Operationally, two analysts work full time in the unit.
Analysts
Niklas Björklund
Niklas has the main responsibility for the risk assessment of macro-organisms (insects in particular). He has worked full time as a risk analyst since 2017 and has a background as an associate professor in forest entomology.
Johanna Boberg
Johanna has the main responsibility for the risk assessment of microorganisms. She has worked full time as a risk analyst since 2017 and has a background as a forest pathologist and has, among other things, worked with invasive species of fungal pathogens.
Read more about Johanna Boberg.
Steering committee
- Riccardo Bommarco, Professor at the Department of Ecology, SLU, chairman
- Kristof Capieau, Chief Plant Health Officer, The Swedish Board of Agriculture
- Lovisa Eriksson, Adviser, The Swedish Board of Agriculture
- Lennart Svensson, Forestry specialist, The Swedish Forest Agency
- Anna Berlin, Researcher at the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, SLU
- Johan Stenberg, Professor at the Department of Plant Protection Biology, SLU
- Åke Olson, Researcher at the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, SLU
- Pär Aronsson, Head of Faculty Administration at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, faculty office (administrative support)