Our Doctoral Students
At the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, many doctoral students work in a wide range of research areas. Here, you'll find a list of them and their supervisors. If you'd like to learn more, you can click through to their personal pages for contact details and additional information.
Hans Alexandersson
Supervisor: Henrik Aronsson
Project: Adaptive management - a strategic approach to monitoring and following up conservation objectives in nature conservation areas.
Charlotte Alvord
Supervisor: Elisabeth Jönsson Bergman
Project:
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Marica Andersson
Supervisor: Kristina Sundell
Project: Co-farming of Fed and Extractive Species in Swedish Landbased Rericulating Aquaculture Systems: Effects on Water Quality, Health and Welfare
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Heléne Aronsson
Supervisor: Sören Faurby
Project: Macroecology as a tool for informing sustainable businesses
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Benedikte Austad
Supervisor: Johan Höjesjö
Project: Effects of the invasive brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) on the behaviour and ecology native brown trout (Salmo trutta)
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Alexandra Barry
Supervisor: Anne Bjorkman
Project: Morphological and physiological plant traits affecting ecosystem productivity in a warming Arctic tundra
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Madeleine Berry
Supervisor: Johan Höjesjö
Project: Migratory patterns and productivity potential of juvenile sea trout
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Lina Birgersson
Supervisor: Joachim Sturve
Project: Effects of mixtures of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in fish models
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Katrin Björnsdottir
Supervisor: Anne Bjorkman
Project: Fate of the Arctic carbon balance
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Patrik Cangren
Supervisor: Bengt Oxelman
Project: Simultaneous species delimitation and phylogenetic inference in Silene L
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Elena Costa Prado
Supervisor: Henrik Sundh
Project: Obstacles and fear – Food neophobia in seafood consumption
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Nauras Daraghmeh
Supervisor: Pierre de Wit
Project: Chromosomal inversions in seaweed flies (Coelopa spp.) and their role in adaption and speciation
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Raneesha De Fonseka
Supervisor: Henrik Sundh
Project: Effects of alternative marine based feed and feeding regimes on appetite, growth and intestinal health of Atlantic salmon to improve smolt quality
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Alexandra Dombrowski
Supervisor: Henrik Nilsson
Project: Systematics and Ecology of Nordic Hymenogaster
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Helen Ekvall
Supervisor: Ola Nordqvist
Project:
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Astrid Fridell
Supervisor: Lasse Tarvainen
Project: Assessment of suitable tree species for future urban environments in northern Europe
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Geerte de Jong
Supervisor: Anne Bjorkman
Project: Phenology in the changing Arctic
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Alexandre Gibau De Lima
Supervisor: Christine Bacon
Project: Phylogenomic and taxonomic study of Senna Mill (Leguminosae, Cassieae)
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Daniela Gómez Martinez
Supervisor: Natàlia Corcoll Cornet
Project: Effects and adaptation mechanisms of freshwater microorganisms to micro pollutants and microbial pollution
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Adrian Hill
Supervisor: Christine Bacon
Project: Patterns of abundance and diversification in neotropical palms
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Hampus Holmberg
Supervisor: Johan Uddling Fredin
Project: Climate change influence on tree leaf physiology in tropical montane rainforests
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Tobias Jansson
Supervisor: Henrik Nilsson
Project: Defining the overlooked fungal genus Hymenogaster Vittad
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Foteini Kappa
Supervisor: Karin Hårding
Project: Investigation of the feeding behavior and the role of harbour seals in the marine food web
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Emil Karlsson
Supervisor: Adrian Clarke
Project: Functional genomics of fatty acid/lipid biosynthesis and metabolism in marine diatoms
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Eleftherios Kasiouras
Supervisor: Lynne Sneddon
Project: Investigation of pain and humane stunning in crustaceans
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Victoria Keller
Supervisor: Christine Bacon
Project: Human impact on biodiversity over time focusing on Polynesian palms
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Azora König Kardgar
Supervisor: Bethanie Carney Almroth
Project: Chronic toxicity of microplastics in fish species
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Diana Laura Labastida Jaimes
Supervisor: Mats Andersson
Project: Spill the beans: The genetic basis of plant water use and drought tolerance of common bean cultivars in Rwanda
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Mattias Larsson
Supervisor: Johan Höjesjö
Project: Distribution of brook trout Salvenius fontinalis in Sweden and the response on native brown trout and ecosystems after removal
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Emily Lechner
Supervisor: Fredrik Jutfelt
Project: Physiological mechanisms limiting thermal performance in Icelandic three-spinned stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
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Charlotte Lennartsdotter
Supervisor: Henrik Nilsson
Project: Improving students´ biology writing: Boundary objects in fieldwork studies
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Leif Lithander
Supervisor: Frank Götmark
Project: Will there be room for woodpeckers in the Anthropocene? Conservation of the White-Backed Woodpecker in Sweden
Blandine Lyonnard
Supervisor: Mats Björkman
Project: Carbon balance of the Tundra in a changing climate
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Olivier Jean Leonce Manzi
Supervisor: Johan Uddling Fredin
Project: Drought and heat-induced mortality in tropical tree species
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Blair Matarlo
Supervisor: Luc Bussiere
Project: Pest resistance evolution in heterogeneous environments
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Ana Luisa Mejia Camacho
Supervisor: Natàlia Corcoll Cornet
Project:
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Francesca Molinari
Supervisor: Joachim Sturve
Project: Developing more sensitive biomarkers for contaminants of emerging concern in the marine environment
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Heidi Mortensen
Supervisor: Erik Sandblom
Project: Arteriosclerosis and heart pathology in farmed salmonids
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Hadis Mostafanezhad
Supervisor: Luc Bussière
Project: The role of biological control and host diversity for managing resistance evolution
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Thanh Nguyen Duc
Supervisor: Ingela Dahllöf
Project: Microbial community in Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) and its interactions with water quality
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Bonaventure Ntirugulirwa
Supervisor: Göran Wallin
Project: Suitability of different native tree species in different regions of Rwanda with respect to climate change
Wilhelm Osterman
Supervisor: Anne Bjorkman
Project: The importance of self- and insect reproduction in Arctic species and ecosystems, and the consequences on polyploid establishment
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Leon Pfeufer
Supervisor: Fredrik Jutfelt
Project: It’s getting hot in here: physiological mechanism that limit thermal performance and determine upper thermal tolerance in fish
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Kai Sattler
Supervisor: Anne Bjorkman
Project: Predicting Species' Responses and Carbon Cycling Consequences in a Warming Arctic
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Minna Seppänen Panas
Supervisor: Mats Andersson
Project: Digitala och verkliga platsers möjligheter för lärande av biologisk mångfald - ett multimodalt socialsemiotiskt perspektiv på undervisning i formella och semiformella undervisningssituationer.
Triranta Sircar
Supervisor: Henrik Aronsson
Project: Link between antimicrobial biocides and the development of antibiotic co- and cross resistance in aquatic microbial communities
Patrik Svedberg
Supervisor: Thomas Backhaus
Project: Data assessment strategies for improving the environmental risk assessment of complex exposures
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William Tejler
Supervisor: Sören Faurby
Project: Interaktioner mellan växtätare, vegetationsstruktur och klimat/Unraveling the interactions among herbivory, vegetation structure and climate
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Mafalda Tomas
Supervisor: Fredrik Jutfelt
Project:
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Kim van Maldegem
Supervisor: Cornelia Spetea Wiklund
Project: Ion transporters in Chloroplast membranes from Arabidopsis thaliana and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Esteri Viitanen
Supervisor: Henrik Aronsson
Project: Sustainable saline farming using wheat - with emphasis on transcription factors
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Nicklas Wallbom
Supervisor: Elisabeth Jönsson Bergman
Project: Physiological underpinnings of growth deficiencies in vaccinated fish in aquaculture
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Zhicong Xie
Supervisor: Annemieke Gärdenäs
Project: Impacts of repeated extreme weather on trees' functioning and services in forests and urban environments - modelling approaches based on experiments
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Etienne Zibera
Supervisor: Göran Wallin
Project: Production of key Afromontane tree species along an elevation gradient in Rwanda
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