Sharon Hill

My long‐term basic research goal is to understand the ultimate mechanisms regulating the evolution of haematophagous (i.e., blood-feeding) behaviour in arthropods. I am also committed to the protection of people at risk by the innovation of new chemosensory­‐based vector control tools suitable for integration into vector control platforms in use around the globe.

Grants
2022 Mosquito taste space (dnr 2021-01459), Formas
2021 Mosquito Odor Space Quantification Underpins Innovation of Tools for Odor-based control (dnr 19: 141), Carl Trygger Stiftelsen
2020 Evolution of the malaria mosqiuto's odour space (dnr 2019-03926), Vetenskasrådet (VR)
2020 Max Planck Institute for next generation chemical ecology (nGICE), SLU and MPI
2018 (dnr), VR UForsk
2018 (dnr ), Formas
2017 (dnr ), Crafoord Stiftelsen
2014 (dnr ), Crafoord Stiftelsen
2013 (dnr ), Crafoord Stiftelsen

PhD level
Neurobiologi av insekter (PSL0018) (in English) (course responsible; kontakta Sharon)
Ethics and Philosophy of Science (P000101) (in English) (course responsible)
How to write and publish a scientific paper (PLG0049) (in English)

Master's level
Elective course
Chemical Ecology for Sustainable Insect Pest Control (BI1346) (in English) (course responsible)

Associate professor (sv. docent)
2013

Courses in education
Teaching in higher education, basic course (3 weeks), 2011
Course in doctoral supervision (3 weeks), 2012
Project course, advanced course (4 weeks), 2012
Teaching in higher education, step 2 (2 weeks), 2013
Course in grading and assessment (3 days), 2017
Applied active e-learning (2 weeks), 2018
Supervisor training for experienced PhD supervisors (3 days), 2022

Current employment
Researcher in the chemical ecology of disease vectors, SLU, 2013-

Associate professor qualification (sv. docentur)
Associate professor in chemical ecology, SLU, 2013

Assistant professor
Assistant professor in chemical ecology, SLU, 2012

Postdocs
Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, 2009-2010
Chemical ecology, SLU, 2006 

Postgraduate education
PhD in insect neuroscience and developmental biology, University of Toronto, Kanada, 2005
MSc in zoology, University of Toronto, Kanada, 1996

Undergraduate education
BA(h) in biology and English, Queen's University. Kanada, 1993

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SLU Future One Health
As a Hub Coordinator for the transdisciplinary research platform SLU Future One Health, I facilitate interactions among researchers working with human and animal health as connected with nature and environment. The goal is to broaden research networks, both internal and external to SLU, thereby strengthening One Health transdisciplinary research while contributing to science-based policymaking.