Subject areas at the NJ faculty

The persons who have an asterisk (*) by their names are appointed as supervisors by the Faculty Board but are not recruited professors.

Cluster Uppsala Biocenter

Department of Molecular Sciences

• Inorganic chemistry
  Responsible: Vadim Kessler
• Organic chemistry
  Responsible: Corine Sandström
• Structural molecular biology
  Acting responsible: Mats Sandgren – while Torleif Härd is Dean at the NJ Faculty
• Biochemistry
  Responsible: Peter Bozhkov
• Food science – structure and properties
  Responsible: Maud Langton
• Food science with focus on animal food
  Responsible: Åse Lundh
• Food science with focus on plant food
  Responsible: Roger Andersson
• Food biotechnology
  Responsible: Volkmar Passoth
• Microbial biotechnology
  Responsible: Anna Schnürer

Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology

• Plant pathology with focus on diseases in agricultural crops
  Responsible: Dan Funck Jensen
• Plant pathology with focus on epidemiology
  Responsible: Jiazu Zhan
• Soil microbiology
  Responsible: Sara Hallin
• Microbial metabolism
  Responsible: Hans Ronne

Department of Plant Biology

• Plant genomics and plant breeding
  Responsible: Pär Ingvarsson
• Plant virology
  Responsible: Anders Kvarnheden *
• Molecular cellbiology with focus on plants
  Responsible: Claudia Köhler
• Plant physiology
  Responsible: Charles Melnyk *
• Genetics
  Responsible: Adrien Sicard
• Molecular plant pest / disease interaction
  Responsible: Daniel Hofius

Cluster Ecology and Crop Production

Department of Ecology

• Ecosystems Ecology with a focus on terrestrial systems
  Responsible: Thomas Kätterer
• Agricultural Entomology
  Responsible: Riccardo Bommarco
• Insect ecology
  Responsible: Tomas Roslin
• Ecology and environmental research
  Responsible: Jan Bengtsson
• Landscape ecology
  Responsible: Tomas Pärt
• Wildlife ecology with focus in wildlife and damage caused by wild animals in the agricultural landscape
  Responsible: Petter Kjellander

Department of Crop Production Ecology      

• Crop production ecology with specialization in weed ecology and management
  Recruitment in progress
• Plant ecology
  Responsible: Martin Weih
• Agricultural cropping systems
  Responsible: Ingrid Öborn
• Short rotation forestry
  Responsible: Theo Verwijst
• Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden
• Crop science with focus on grass and forage
  Responsible: David Parsons

Cluster Landscape planning and Social sciences

Department of Urban and Rural Development

• Rural development with a focus on the Global South
  Recruitment in progress
• Rural development in Sweden and Europe
  Responsible: Seema Arora Jonsson
• Environmental communication
  Responsible: Anke Fischer
• Agrarian history
  Responsible: Patrick Svensson
• Political science with focus on governance of biodiversity
  Recruitment in progress

Department of Economics

• Business economics
  Responsible: Carl Johan Lagerkvist
• Business Administration specializing in entrepreneurship
  Responsible: Johan Gaddefors
• Agricultural and Food Economics
  Responsible: Helena Hansson
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
  Responsible: Rob Hart

Cluster Soil, Water and Environment

Department of Aquatic Resources

• Quantitative fish and fisheries ecology
  Responsible: Anna Gårdmark
• Fish biology with specialisation in population structure and genetics
  Responsible: Anti Vasemägi

Department of Energy and Technology

• Bioenergy technology
  Responsible: Åke Nordberg *
• Statistics with focus on biometry
  Responsible: Dietrich von Rosen
• Agricultural technology
  Responsible: Per-Anders Hansson
• Engineering
  Responsible: Girma Gebresenbet *

Department of Soil and Environment

• Biogeophysics
  Responsible: Nicholas Jarvis
• Soil mechanics and soil management
  Responsible: Thomas Keller
• Agricultural water management
  Responsible: Jennie Barron
• Soil biology
  Responsible: Björn Lindahl
• Soil chemistry
  Responsible: Jon-Petter Gustafsson
• Soil cycling
  Responsible: Anke Herrmann

Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment

• Environmental assessment
  Responsible: Kevin Bishop
• Environmental assessment with focus on aquatic biodiversity
  Responsible: Richard Johnson
• Organic environmental chemistry
  Responsible: Karin Wiberg
• Functional ecology limnic systems
  Responsible: Stefan Bertilsson