My name is Erik Borgström and I am just about to start my work as a project assistant in SandLife. SandLife is a nature conservation project with Lund University and the CABs of Skåne, Halland and Kalmar as project partners, aiming at preserving and restoring sand steppe and other sandy biotopes in southern Sweden. These biotopes declined drastically around 100-200 … Läs mer →

My name is Elin Johansson and I have started to work as personnel administrator at the Department of Biology, since April 2017. My tasks is to support you with HR administration and questions you may have regarding this. Prior to this I worked at Tetra Pak and Sony Ericsson’s HR department. I have a degree in Master of Social Science. … Läs mer →

Hey! My name is Martin Škerlep and I just started a PhD at the aquatic ecology department. I will be studying how land-use affects browning of fresh waters (brownification). More specifically, my studies will focus on how different types of land-use affect mobility of iron and organic matter in soils. I will work under supervision of Emma Kritzberg. I am … Läs mer →

I recently received funding from the Carl Tryggers Foundation to begin a postdoc project with Staffan Bensch. I will work on the genetics and evolution of host specificity in malaria parasites of birds. I’m originally from San Diego, California. I did my undergraduate work at UC Santa Barbara and my PhD at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. From there I … Läs mer →

I have just started at LU as a new senior lecturer in the Molecular Cell Biology Unit. I was born in Belgium and completed my PhD at Ghent University. In 2007, I moved to the University of Western Australia to continue my research as a post-doc and Research Assistant Professor. Having returned to Europe, my new lab will be focusing … Läs mer →

Victoria’s interests are in applying genomic techniques to organisms in order to better understand evolutionary relationships and the patterns and processes of molecular evolution and diversification both at intra- and inter-specific levels. Victoria completed her PhD at The University of Auckland, New Zealand with Thomas Buckley and Richard Newcomb. For her thesis, she used genomics techniques to investigation various evolutionary … Läs mer →

I started working as a post doc in March together with Jörgen Ripa and Jacob Johansson in ThePEG, at the Evolutionary Ecology unit. Last year I defended my thesis in computational mathematics at Umeå University in northern Sweden. My research is about understanding bumblebee coexistence and response to environmental change. To do this I use optimization and techniques from adaptive … Läs mer →

I am returning to Sweden after nearly two decades abroad. I completed my undergraduate education at UC Berkeley in California, my Masters and PhD at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, and then did two post-docs in Brazil – one at the University of São Paulo and another at São Paulo Federal University in Diadema. Since my undergraduate years, … Läs mer →

Hi everybody! My name is Jan Olsson and I’ve just started working at the Department of Biology as a research journalist. For many years I worked as a reporter and news editor at different media companies. For the last year I have been a press officer at the Faculty of Science at Lund University. My role at the Department of … Läs mer →