Boards and committees

Last changed: 23 April 2025

The faculty's decision-making body is the faculty board. The board is supported by several advisory and preparatory committees.

Members of the faculty board are elected by the electoral assembly, while members of the other committees are appointed by the faculty board or dean. See the faculty´s delegation of authority.

The committees are the faculty's coordinating body for their different areas of responsibility.

Faculty Board

Term of office from 1st January 2025 to 31st December 2027.

Noél Holmgren
Dean
010-4784093
noel.holmgren@slu.se

Pär Ingvarsson
Deputy Dean
018-673230
par.ingvarsson@slu.se

Members

  • Cecilia Sundberg, Department of Energy and Technology
  • Hanna Bergeå, Department of Urban and Rural Development
  • Helena Hansson, Department of Economics
  • Jens Olsson, Department of Aquatic Resources
  • Sara Hallin, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
  • Ulf Grandin, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment

Deputy

  • Mats Larsbo, Department of Soil and Environment
  • Markus Schmid, Department of Plant Biology

Student representatives

  • Dorotea Lidman, Chair, Ultuna Student Union (ULS)
  • Carl-Jakob Olsson, Chair, the Union for Students of Agricultural and Rural Management (LMK)
  • Emma Bromark, graduate student representative

Vice deans

  • Göran Bergkvist, Vice Dean of Agricultural Sciences Infrastructure and Collaboration
  • Petra Fransson, Vice Dean of Doctoral Studies
  • Ida Kollberg, Vice Dean of First and Second cycle Education
  • Jens Olsson, Vice Dean of Environmental Monitoring
  • Klara Fischer, Vice Dean of Internationalisation

Other boards

The Docent Appointment Board

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Helena Hansson, Chair
Anna Schnürer
Anke Fisher
Brendan Mckie

Group deputies
Elisabet Lewan
Mattias Eriksson
Marcos Lana
Mattias Sköld

In addition, the committee includes one member appointed by Sluss, as well as a personal substitute for this member.

Contact: Eva Enström, eva.enstrom@slu.se

The Academic Appointment Board

1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025

Noél Holmgren, noel.holmgren@slu.se
Robert Hart
Seema Arora Jonsson
Sara Hallin

Group deputies
Tomas Pärt
Anna Gårdmark
Björn Lindahl

In addition, the committee includes one member appointed by Sluss, as well as a personal substitute for this member.

Contact: Kristine Koch, kristine.koch@slu.se, Sarah Hedenskog, sarah.hedenskog@slu.se, Eva Enström, eva.enstrom@slu.se

The PhD Education Board  

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Petra Fransson, chair
Magnus Huss
Jesper Larsson
Gordana Manevska Tasevska
Sigrun Dahlin

Deputy
Björn Vinnerås

In addition, the committee includes one member appointed by Sluss.

Contact: Sabine Sampels, sabine.sampels@slu.se

Programme board  

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Ida Kollberg, Chair (NJ)
Karin Hakelius, member (NJ)
Pernilla Tidåker, member (NJ)
David Ljungberg, member (NJ)
Jens Sundström, member (NJ)
Georg Carlsson, member (LTV)
Vacant, member (S)
Cecilia Kronqvist, member (VH)
Student representative LMK (until 30 June 2025)
Two student representatives ULS

Group deputies
Björn Rogell
Vacant

NJ:s representative in the LTV Faculty's programme board
Sabina Braun

NJ:s representative in the S Faculty's programme board
Anna Berlin

NJ:s representative in the VH Faculty's programme board
Gulaim Seisenbaeva

Contact: Zsuzsanna Sundström, zsuzsanna.sundstrom@slu.se

The Environmental monitoring and assessment board

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Jens Olsson, Chair
Håkan Berglund
Johan Dannwwitz
Pia Geranmayeh
Helena Linefur

In addition, the committee includes one member appointed by Sluss.

Contact: Kristine Koch, kristine.koch@slu.se

Samverkansnämnden

Pending a future decision by the Vice Chancellor regarding a new collaboration organization at SLU, the collaboration committee is currently dormant.

Contact: Kristine Koch, kristine.koch@slu.se

Committees

Faculty board working committee

1st April 2022 to 31st March 2025

Noél Holmgren, Chair, noel.holmgren@slu.se
Pär Ingvarsson, Deputy Dean
Ida Kollberg, Vice Dean
Jens Olsson, Vice Dean
Petra Fransson, Vice Dean
Göran Bergkvist, Vice Dean

Student representative: Dorotea Lidman, Chair of Ultuna Students Union (ULS)

Contact: Marie Forsberg, marie.forsberg@slu.se

Global development committee  

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Linley Chiwona Karltun, chair
(Members to come)

Contact: Kristine Koch, kristine.koch@slu.se

Gender equality and equal opportunites committee

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Noél Holmgren, Chair

In addition, the committee includes one member appointed by Sluss.

Steering group SLU FältForsk

1 April 2022 to 31 March 2028

Göran Bergkvist, Chair
Karin Hamnér,
Anna Larsson, Swedish Board of Agriculture
Anders Lindgren, Lantmännen R&D
Jonas Bodenhem, Hushållningssällskapet Sjuhärad
Mattias Norrby, Stiftelsen lantbruksforskning (SLF)

Contact: Pär Aronsson, par.aronsson@slu.se

Scholarship committee

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Anders Larsolle, chair
Shon Ferguson
Anneli Lundkvist

Contact: Marie Forsberg, marie.forsberg@slu.se

Committee of August T Larssons visiting research fellow
program

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028

Gulaim Seisenbaeva, Chair
Ali Moazzami
Hanna Bergeå

Deputy
Matthew Low
Björn Lindahl

Contact: Kristine Koch, kristine.koch@slu.se

Councils

Head of Department Council

Dean (chair), Deputy dean, Vice deans, Heads of departments and the head of SLU Swedish Species Information Centre.

Contact: Marie Forsberg, marie.forsberg@slu.se

Facilities Management Council

1st July 2022 to 30th June 2025 

Contact: Pär Aronsson, par.aronsson@slu.se 

Facilities Management Council at the Ecology Centre 

Martin Weih, chairperson and director, martin.weih@slu.se
Pär Aronsson
David Back
Carolyn Glynn
Sönke Eggers
Astrid Taylor
Student representative

Employee organizations with presence and speaking rights

Facilities Management Council at Biocentrum

Mats Sandgren, chairperson and director, mats.sandgren@slu.se
Pär Aronsson
Pär Ingvarsson
Nils Högberg
Magnus Åberg
Vadim Kessler
Studentledamot

Employee organizations with presence and speaking rights

Facilities Management Council at MVM

Lars Sonesten, chairperson and director, lars.sonesten@slu.se 
Pär Aronsson
Mats Linde
Johan Stendahl
Anders Sandström
Björn Vinnerås
Studentledamot

Employee organizations with presence and speaking rights