Matilda Hultman new study counsellor at the Department of Marine Sciences
Matilda Hultman is the new study counsellor at the Department of Marine Sciences. She will also work in the Ocean Blues project. She has studied biology, and has also worked as a teacher, and she hopes that she can encourage the interest and knowledge of the ocean to future generations.
What will you be working with here?
I am employed as a study counsellor, where I substitute for Grazzia Matamoros. I will mainly work with the master's programme in Sea and Society, and the master's programme IMBRSea. I will guide both prospective and accepted students, administer courses and admissions within the programmes, enable contact networks for alumni, and a lot of other related things.
During the spring, I will also work part-time for the Centre for Sea and Society within the Ocean Blues project, which offers lectures aimed mainly for upper secondary school pupils. We already have a few lectures coming up, which feels great!
What did you do before?
Since spring 2022, I have worked as a study counsellor and international coordinator at the Department of Biology and Environmental Science. I have a degree in biology, and I later studied pedagogy and didactics to become a subject teacher in biology for primary and secondary schools. Before I started as a study counsellor, I worked as a secondary school teacher in NO and mathematics.
What do you do when you are not working?
My interests vary quite a bit, but I tend to stick to silver and goldsmithing, beer brewing, and climbing. My most newly started project is sewing clothes. Everything seems so fun that it's hard to prioritise.
Anything else you want to share?
The reason I decided to study biology in the first place was, of course, that I wanted to become a marine biologist. Life took me in a slightly different direction, but that makes it extra fun to "come full circle" by now working at a Marine Sciences department.
I really like the idea and realisation of spreading interest, commitment, and knowledge – that was also, of course, the reason why I chose the teaching track. So it feels really exciting to be able to work together with inspiring research activities and education, and, through my tasks, hopefully contribute to passing on the interest and knowledge of the ocean to future generations.