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Aquaculture researchers at SLU
Last changed: 03 October 2022
Aquaculture-related research is taking place at all four faculties at SLU. If you are interested in this field and want to get in touch with SLU-researchers, you can find researchers and their expertise related to aquaculture below.
Animal health
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.
- Contact page Kartik Baruah.
Patrik Bohman
Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
- Contact page Patrik Bohman.
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.
- Contact page Elin Dahlgren.
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.
- Contact page Parisa Norouzitallab.
Lo Persson
Researcher at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
- Area of interest: hatchery-rearing of salmonids, life history and ecology of wild salmonids, fish migration, salmon health
- Contact page Lo Persson.
Animal welfare
Lotta Berg
Professor at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.
- Area of expertise: animal welfare, rearing, handling slaughter, stress.
- Contact page Lotta Berg.
Patrik Bohman
Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
- Contact page Patrik Bohman.
Albin Gräns
Researcher at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.
- Area of expertise: animal welfare, stress, handling, stunning, slaughter.
- Contact page Albin Gräns.
Anders Kiessling
Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: general aquaculture, product quality, new feed sources, welfare, biofloc.
- Contact page Anders Kiessling.
Aquaponics
Beatrix Alsanius
Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
- Contact page Beatrix Alsanius.
Karl-Johan Bergstrand
Researcher at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics.
- Contact page Karl-Johan Bergstrand.
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.
- Contact page Sammar Khalil.
Most Tahera Naznin
Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, urban and controlled environment horticulture, indoor vertical farming, food quality (phytochemicals & antioxidant).
- Contact page Most Tahera Naznin.
Breeding and genetics
Stefan Bertilsson
Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of expertise: environmental microbiology, aquatic microbial ecology, environmental genomics, aquatic food webs.
- Contact page Stefan Bertilsson.
Dirk-Jan De Koning
Professor at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: breeding, genetics, genomics.
- Contact page Dirk-Jan De Koning.
Lennart Edsman
Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: freshwater crayfish, conservation, genetics, epigenetics, economics, rural entrepreneurship, natural resource management.
- Contact page Lennart Edsman.
Henrik Jeuthe
Researcher at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: fish reproduction, aquatic ecology.
- Contact page Henrik Jeuthe.
Khrystyna Kurta
Postdoc at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: application of next generation sequencing in aquaculture genomics and breeding.
- Contact page Khrystyna Kurta.
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.
- Contact page Parisa Norouzitallab.
Christos Palaiokostas
Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: genetics, breeding, genomics.
- Contact page Christos Palaiokostas.
Stefan Palm
Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions.
- Contact page Stefan Palm.
Anti Vasemägi
Professor at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: genomics, population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions, disease resistance and tolerance.
- Contact page Anti Vasemägi.
Crustaceans
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.
- Contact page Parisa Norouzitallab.
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.
- Contact page Kartik Baruah.
Patrik Bohman
Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
- Contact page Patrik Bohman.
Lennart Edsman
Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: freshwater crayfish, conservation, genetics, epigenetics, economics, rural entrepreneurship, natural resource management.
- Contact page Lennart Edsman.
Economics
Per-Anders Langendahl
Lecturer at the Department of Economics.
- Area of expertise: analysing innovation and entrepreneurial processes using qualitative research methods.
- Contact page Per-Anders Langendahl.
Staffan Waldo
Analyst at the Department of Economics.
- Area of expertise: economics and natural resource management.
- Contact page Staffan Waldo.
Environmental assessment
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.
- E-mail: oskar.agstam@slu.se (CV-page missing)
Patrik Bohman
Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of interest: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
- Contact page Patrik Bohman.
Hanna Carlberg
Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: feed and nutrition, environmental impact.
- Contact page Hanna Carlberg.
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.
- Contact page Elin Dahlgren.
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
- Contact page Martyn Futter.
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.
- Contact page Brian Huser.
Stefan Palm
Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of interest: population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions.
- Contact page Stefan Palm.
Lo Persson
Researcher at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
- Area of interest: hatchery-rearing of salmonids, life history and ecology of wild salmonids, fish migration, salmon health
- Contact page Lo Persson.
Örjan Östman
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of interest: natural resource management, fish biology and ecology, behavioural ecology, environmental assessments.
- Contact page Örjan Östman.
Farmed-wild fish interactions
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.
- Contact page Elin Dahlgren.
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.
- Contact page Gustav Hellström.
Stefan Palm
Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions.
- Contact page Stefan Palm.
Lo Persson
Researcher at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
- Area of interest: hatchery-rearing of salmonids, life history and ecology of wild salmonids, fish migration, salmon health
- Contact page Lo Persson.
Anti Vasemägi
Professor at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: genomics, population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions, disease resistance and tolerance.
- Contact page Anti Vasemägi.
Feed and nutrition
Hanna Carlberg
Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: feed and nutrition, environmental impact.
- Contact page Hanna Carlberg.
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.
- Contact page Kartik Baruah.
Anders Kiessling
Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: general aquaculture, product quality, new feed sources, welfare, biofloc.
- Contact page Anders Kiessling.
Torbjörn Lundh
Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: nutrition, nutritional physiology, metabolism, feed.
- Contact page Torbjörn Lundh.
Aleksandar Vidakovic
Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: feed, fish nutrition, fish physiology, alternative protein sources, insects feed.
- Contact page Aleksandar Vidakovic.
Food safety
Beatrix Alsanius
Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
- Contact page Beatrix Alsanius.
Food systems
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.
- Contact page Sofie Joosse.
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.
- Contact page Alin Kadfak.
Integrated fish and plant production
Beatrix Alsanius
Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
- Contact page Beatrix Alsanius.
Håkan Asp
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: hydroponics, plant nutrients, urban agriculture.
- Contact page Håkan Asp.
Karl-Johan Bergstrand
Researcher at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics.
- Contact page Karl-Johan Bergstrand.
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.
- Contact page Sammar Khalil.
Most Tahera Naznin
Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, urban and controlled environment horticulture, indoor vertical farming, food quality (phytochemicals & antioxidant).
- Contact page Most Tahera Naznin.
Jean W.H Yong
Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management like waste circular economy, aqua waste characterisation; fish-plant (including seaweeds, aquatic plants, crops) co-cultivation.
- Contact page Jean W.H Yong.
Microbiology
Beatrix Alsanius
Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, food safety, microbial ecology, plant production.
- Contact page Beatrix Alsanius.
Stefan Bertilsson
Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of expertise: environmental microbiology, aquatic microbial ecology, environmental genomics, aquatic food webs.
- Contact page Stefan Bertilsson.
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.
- Contact page Sammar Khalil.
Natural resource management
Patrik Bohman
Research Assistant at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, methodological development, animal welfare, animal health.
- Contact page Patrik Bohman.
Lennart Edsman
Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: freshwater crayfish, conservation, genetics, epigenetics, economics, rural entrepreneurship, natural resource management.
- Contact page Lennart Edsman.
Willem Goedkoop
Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
- Area of expertise: Mussel farming, freshwater food webs, natural resource management.
- Contact page Willem Goedkoop.
Lo Persson
Researcher at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
- Area of interest: hatchery-rearing of salmonids, life history and ecology of wild salmonids, fish migration, salmon health
- Contact page Lo Persson.
Johan Törnblom
Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: aquatic landscape ecology/Natural resource management.
- Contact page Johan Törnblom.
Anti Vasemägi
Professor at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: genomics, population genetics, farmed-wild fish interactions, disease resistance and tolerance.
- Contact page Anti Vasemägi.
Staffan Waldo
Analyst at the Department of Economics.
- Area of expertise: economics and natural resource management.
- Contact page Staffan Waldo.
Jean W.H Yong
Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management like waste circular economy, aqua waste characterisation; fish-plant (including seaweeds, aquatic plants, crops) co-cultivation.
- Contact page Jean W.H Yong.
Örjan Östman
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Aquatic Resources.
- Area of expertise: natural resource management, fish biology and ecology, behavioural ecology, environmental assessments.
- Contact page Örjan Östman.
Product quality
Anders Kiessling
Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
- Area of expertise: general aquaculture, product quality, new feed sources, welfare, biofloc.
- Contact page Anders Kiessling.
Most Tahera Naznin
Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Area of expertise: aquaponics, hydroponics, urban and controlled environment horticulture, indoor vertical farming, food quality (phytochemicals & antioxidant).
- Contact page Most Tahera Naznin.
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.
- Contact page Sabine Sampels.
Reproduction
Henrik Jeuthe
Researcher at the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
- Area of expertise: fish reproduction, aquatic ecology.
- Contact page Henrik Jeuthe.