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Lisa Ahrens

PhD student,

Presentation

I’m a PhD student at the Department of Molecular Sciences at SLU in the research group AMB lead by Prof. Anna Schnürer.

The main aim of my PhD project is to address the different challenges that is related to enhancement to agricultural biogas production. The focus is on manure digestion as well as addressing questions regarding to biogas production from crop materials. 

Teaching

BI1440 Genetics, Cell Biology and Microbiology, autumn 2023 (lab teacher)

BI1421 Microbiology, spring 2024 (lab teacher)

BI1440 Genetics, Cell Biology and Microbiology, autumn 2024 (lab teacher) 

Master thesis supervision

Wilma Högman – Autumn 2024 

"Biogasproduktionens temperaturberoende i efterrötkammare" 

Emmanuella Kwakye – Spring 2025

"Serial anaerobic digestion on agricultural substrates"

Cooperation

My PhD project is part of the Biogas Solutions Research Center, BSCR, which is a competence center with collaborations between SLU, Linköping University and several partners within private and public sector. 

Background

MSc in Biology with a specialisation in Microbiology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

BSc in Biology/Molecular Biology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Supervision

Main Supervisor: Anna Schnürer

Co-supervisor: Sepehr Shakeri Yekta 

Co-supervisor: Anna Karlsson