Honorary doctors

Each year, the faculties at SLU have the opportunity to recognize outstanding researchers or professionals by awarding them honorary doctorates, thereby strengthening their ties to the academic community of the faculty. The 2025 honorary doctors will receive their degrees during the doctoral award ceremony in Uppsala on 4 October. On 3 October, they will give public webcast lectures.

Honorary doctors of 2025
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Erik O.R. Bengtsson

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Torbjörn Lundström

Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Per Modig

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Josef Nygren

Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Olli Peltoniemi

Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Maggie Roe

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Michael J. Wingfield

Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

Honorary doctors of 2024
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Kenneth Alness

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

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Antonia Ax:son Johnson

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

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Tom Hobbs

Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Mats Karström

Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Hans Lindberg

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Delia Grace Randolph

Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Honorary doctors of 2023
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Malcolm Bennett

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Björn Embrén

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Lars Ericson

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

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Peter Forssberg

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

Honorary doctors of 2020-2022
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Rune Andersson

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Brenda Bonnett

Honorary doctor of veterinary medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Madeleine Fogde

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

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Sarah Gurr

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Gunnar Rundgren

Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Science at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Mikael Rönnqvist

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Monika Stridsman

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Shakuntala Thilsted

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Honorary doctors of 2019
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Helena Bjarnegård

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Irena Creed

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

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Kerstin Lindbladh-Toh

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Natasha Raikhel

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Thomas Randolph

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Pamela Ronald

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

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Jason Shogren

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

Honorary doctors of 2018
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Heidi Andersson

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Vera Bitsch

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

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Cathy Carlson

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

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Louise Fortmann

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

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Eleanor J. Milner-Gulland

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

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Anders Wall

Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Honorary doctors from previous years

SLU awarded six new honorary doctors at the doctoral award ceremony on 7 October 2017. 

Film from the doctoral award ceremony 2017 (SLU's Youtube channel)


The Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Jonathan Jones

The Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

Edgar B. Cahoon
Catharine Ward Thompson

The Faculty of Forest Sciences

Patrik Alströmer

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Lawrence R. Schaeffer
Erik Teske

This year's honorary doctors' lectures were held on 7 October and the doctoral award ceremony took place on 8 October.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

Bill S. Hansson

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Preben Kristiansen
Roland Jonsson

Faculty of Forest Sciences

James Clark

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Glen Broderick
Lillemor Wodmar

Six prominent researchers has become honorary doctors in 2015. They held their lectures on October 2 at Ultuna, the day before the degree conferment ceremony on October 3.

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Detlef Weigel

Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

 Charles Francis

Faculty of Forest Sciences

Juha Hyyppä
Hans Eliasson

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Gunnela Ståhle
Brian Perry

LU's five honorary doctors appointed in 2014 gave their open lectures on October 3, 2014. The conferment ceremony took place on Saturday October 4, at SLU in Uppsala.

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Isabella Lövin
Ingmar Börjesson

Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

Guillermo "Gil" Penalosa

Faculty of Forest Sciences

Ottoline Leyser

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Sandra Edwards

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) has now awarded this year’s honorary doctorates, four in number. The fifth was awarded last year, but the recipient was not able to attend the doctoral conferment ceremony at that time.

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Susan L Senecah

Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

Martine Dorais

Faculty of Forest Sciences

Andrés Weintraub Pohorille

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Helena Jonsson
Pekka Olson

All continents of the world are represented among SLU's nine honorary doctors appointed in 2012. They cover scientific areas such as horse feed, livestock production, entomology, plant genetics, cereal and vegetable cultivation, forest science and statistics.

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Bengt Ehnström
Catherine Bastien

Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Agricultural Science

Mark Peoples
Mahmoud Solh

Faculty of Forest Sciences

Godwin Kowero
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Christina Planck
Agronomy Henning Steinfeld

The honorary doctors from the four faculties at SLU gave their lectures on October 7, 2011. The conferment ceremony took place on October 8, 2011, at SLU in Uppsala.

See the recording of the lectures here

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Susan Humphries
Francisco Telémaco Talavera Siles
Andrew Sharpley

Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Agricultural Sciences

Barbara Lee
Kornelia Smalla

Faculty of Forest Sciences

Maria Norrfalk
Karl-Gustaf Löfgren

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Paul B. Siegel
Mats Törnquist

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Anders Wejryd
Phil Ineson
Janet I. Sprent

Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Agricultural Sciences

Jörg Hartung
Anne Whiston Spirn

Faculty of Forest Sciences

John Pastor
Jan-Åke Lundén

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Ole Lind
Marian C. Horzinek

Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

Fredrik Sjöberg
Dr Rob Samson

Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Agricultural Sciences

Kim Hummer
Alba Marian Cotes Prado

Faculty of Forest Sciences

Felicity Huntingford
Werner Kurz
Gunnar Olofsson

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Temple Grandin
Barbro Soller