This is the steering board for SLU Future Faculty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Dr Magdalena Bieroza |
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Chair of the SLU Future Faculty Research: I am studying water quality controls in agricultural landscapes. These include mainly changing weather and flow conditions and land management. I focus on understanding pollution pathways of nutrients, phosphorus and nitrogen, in order to better mitigate their losses to streams. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Maja Malmberg |
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Vice-chair of the SLU Future Faculty Research: I'm fascinated by infectious diseases, in particular the agents causing the diseases and their interactions with the surrounding microorganisms. The overall aim of my research is to address questions in infection biology using high-throughput sequencing technologies. Currently, this is done in two projects; 1) A project in Uganda where the focus is on ticks and tick-borne diseases, and 2) a project on viruses able to cause neurological disease in Swedish piglets. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr David A. Agar |
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Research: My research deals with energy and material applications and the feasibility of renewable energy technologies in industry. Areas of activity include pyrolysis of forest-based biomass and industrial by-products, pelleting and energy economics. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Daiana De Oliveira |
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Research: I am an animal welfare and behavioural scientist and I work on developing translational research that ties basic science to practical outcomes of individuals exposed to a positive and enriched early life environment. My research focus on positive welfare and emotions, the benefits of pleasant experiences (physically and psychologically) and how it is expressed by domestic animals in practical conditions. Ultimately my general research goal is to promote and support an overall positive and sustainable life quality at the farm. My current projects are to assess the effects of early socialization of dairy calves and the potential benefits on health and stress coping development and to study cow-calf systems in dairy production and its potential benefits for the welfare of cows and calves. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Anita J Norman |
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Research: I work with genetics to better understand wildlife populations and their population processes. For example, I use genetic relatedness to identify dispersal preferences (e.g. male-biased dispersal) in a population and whole genomes to infer how inbred a population is. I am also interested in wildlife diseases and how genetics can play a role in the susceptibility of individuals. My work is highly computational and you can almost always find me in front of my computer running scripts. That’s why in my personal time, I love to be outdoors.
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Dr Ellinor Spörndly-Nees |
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Research: I am interested in how animals function, both at cellular and structural level. I am fascinated by the animal anatomy and physiology. Right now, I am studying horse hoofs. Why can some horses preform at high level without shoes and while others cannot? I am working with RNA sequencing and histology as well as functional anatomy. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Ramesh Vetukuri |
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Research: I am a researcher working on sustainable ways of controlling plant diseases at the Department of Plant Breeding in LTV faculty. I am currently focused on two projects, one of them is about understanding how oomycete and fungal pathogens manipulate plant defense. The other project is on exploiting the biological activity of beneficial bacterial and fungus for plant disease control. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Karin Eklöf |
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Research: My research is about biogeochemistry of mercury in forest ecosystems. I am interested in the transformation and mobilization of mercury in both soils and waters and how these are influenced by man-made perturbations, such as forestry activities. Goals for the Future Faculty:
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Dr Elias Andersson |
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Research: My research deals with various social and organisational aspects of forestry and natural resource management with a specific focus on gender. The overall focus of my research is on the intersection between work, nature and politics. Currently, I'm mainly engaged in the project Prosperous forest which explores forest-related service market in Northern Sweden and Finland from the perspective of forest owners and businesses. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Magdalena Bieroza |
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Chair of the SLU Future Faculty Research: I am studying water quality controls in agricultural landscapes. These include mainly changing weather and flow conditions and land management. I focus on understanding pollution pathways of nutrients, phosphorus and nitrogen, in order to better mitigate their losses to streams. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Maja Malmberg |
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Vice-chair of the SLU Future Faculty Research: I'm fascinated by infectious diseases, in particular the agents causing the diseases and their interactions with the surrounding microorganisms. The overall aim of my research is to address questions in infection biology using high-throughput sequencing technologies. Currently, this is done in two projects; 1) A project in Uganda where the focus is on ticks and tick-borne diseases, and 2) a project on viruses able to cause neurological disease in Swedish piglets. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Assem Abu Hatab |
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Research: Economics and sustainable management of agricultural and natural resources; international food and agricultural trade and trade policy analysis; Demand analysis and commodity markets; the dynamics of urbanization in relation to resource use, agricultural production systems and food security in arid and semi-arid zones in developing countries. Goals for SLU Future Faculty: My overall goal is to contribute to developing active and energetic network of early career researchers at SLU to achieve the following:
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Dr Maria Vilain Rørvang |
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Research: I am interested in how animals perceive and interact with their physical and social environment. My research focus is in particular the motivations of animals and their cognitive capacities, which I aim will ultimately improve the housing systems and management, as well as enhance the enjoyment of humans and animals working/living together. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Tim Horstkotte |
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Research: The focus of my research lies on social-ecological systems and the management of natural resources in arctic and boreal multiple-use landscapes. Often related to resilience thinking, my case studies involve reindeer husbandry in Sweden, but also in Norway and Finland. Goals for the Future Faculty:
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Dr Kristina Karlsson Green |
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Research: I work with evolutionary ecology and am currently studying phenotypic plasticity during range expansion of a pest insect. I’m very interested in exploring the possibility to apply knowledge from evolutionary ecology within agriculture, for example in my new project on the evolution of insecticide resistance. Goals for the Future Faculty:
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Dr Eliza Maher Hasselquist |
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Research: I’m an ecologist who has a background in natural resource management, and uses tools from stream ecology, biogeochemistry, and hydrology to study the effects of ecosystem management on waterways and their riparian zones in order to ensure high water quality and biodiversity while balancing societal needs for forest products. Goals for SLU Future Faculty:
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Dr Karin Eklöf |
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Research: My research is about biogeochemistry of mercury in forest ecosystems. I am interested in the transformation and mobilization of mercury in both soils and waters and how these are influenced by man-made perturbations, such as forestry activities. Goals for the Future Faculty:
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