Subject areas responsible

Last changed: 23 December 2025

After a comprehensive review, the LTV Faculty has decided on a new structure for the faculty’s subject areas. The result is 20 subject areas (previously 25) distributed across six departments. The new structure, with new subject areas responsible, will come into effect on 1 January 2026

Department of People and Society

Business Management – Kes Mccormick
Environmental Psychology – Caroline Hägerhäll

Department of Biosystems and Technology

Biosystems Engineering in Horticulture and Agriculture – Thomas Prade
Animal-centered Environments – Rebeka Zsoldos
Horticultural and Agroecological Systems – Georg Carlsson

Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management

Landscape Governance and Management – Thomas Randrup
Design of Landscapes – Caroline Dahl
Landscape Planning – Anders Larsson
Vegetation Design and Function – Åsa Ode Sang

Department of Urban and Rural Development

Landscape Architecture – Design Helena Nordh
Landscape Architecture – Urban Ecology  Marcus Hedblom
Landscape, Planning and Society  Mattias Qviström

Department of Plant Breeding

Genomics and Phenomics of Plant Diversity – Cecilia Hammenhag
Applied Genetics and Crop Genetic Improvement – Kimmo Rumpunen
Plant Biotechnology and Functional Genomics – Per Hofvander
Plants and the Environment – Larisa Gustavsson
Plant Product Quality Improvement – Ramune Kuktaite

Department of Plant Protection Biology

Chemical Ecology – Rickard Ignell
Integrated Plant Protection – Johan Stenberg
Resistance Biology – Erik Andreasson


Contact

Christina Lunner Kolstrup
Dean at the faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science

Telephone: +4640415030, +46730881634
E-mail: christina.kolstrup@slu.se