I have just started my postdoc in the Vision Group and will be supervised by Ronald Kröger. My work will mainly concern foraging skills related to photoreceptor development in newly hatched fish larvae. Some species seem to readily find feed and are easily bred in animal facilities, whereas other species starve to death during their first days post hatching. These differences indicate that visual specializations exist already at very early stages of development. Using the larvae of marine and freshwater fish species I want to learn more about the function of the smallest of all vertebrate eyes.
I did my PhD work 2004-2009 at Lund University in the Animal Physiology group, where I focused on neuro-hormonal regulation of the pancreas in relation to nutritional status, growth and development in newly weaned pigs.
The last three years I have been employed by Lantmännen, Malmö as a Product Specialist/Feed Expert working with R&D of compound feed and mineral feed for ruminants.
