Hello! I am a new postdoc in the Pheromone group under Olle Anderbrandt and Christer Löfstedt. I am an organic chemist (MSc 2008) with a PhD (2012) in Chemical Ecology.
Before moving to Lund in June 2015, I worked for three years as a postdoc in the Entomology group at Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus, Nova Scotia (Canada). My work was focused on the host-marking pheromone of blueberry fruit fly and the use of essential oils as bio-pesticides in innovative IPM techniques.
With the Pheromone group, I will work on the identification of pheromones and host plant volatiles for seed-eating weevils, and on the use of these compounds to develop environmentally friendly methods for monitoring and control of weevil populations in clover seed fields.
I am very happy for this great opportunity!
