Description

We work with research and education on interactions and processes in aquatic systems along the entire salinity gradient, from small streams, ponds and lakes to near-shore and pelagic systems in the oceans. We conduct research at a multitude of organizational levels, from molecules to organisms and from individual behaviours to ecosystem processes.

Research

In our research strategy we aim to have a wide and diverse research portfolio with fundamental research on speciation processes, predator-prey interactions, regime shifts in shallow lakes, dispersal and migration in aquatic organisms and biogeochemistry. In addition, we perform research on topics with high environmental and societal value, including emerging pollutants, climate change effects, algal blooms, and invasive species. See more on the individual web-page links below.

More about us

Principal Investigators

• Olof Berglund – Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Fate and effects of emerging contaminants
• Christer Brönmark – Head of the Aquatic Ecology Unit, Professor
  Research interests: Predator-prey interactions, phenotypic plasticity
• Per Carlsson – Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Invasive zooplankton, climate change, harbour porpoise
• Mikael Ekvall – Researcher
  Research interests: Effects of nanoparticles in aquatic food web
• Lars-Anders Hansson – Professor
  Research interests: Phenotypic integration, climate change, nanoparticles
• Arne Hegemann – Researcher
  Research interests: Partial migration, immune function, eco-physiology
• James Herbert Read – Researcher
  Research interests: Behaviour, social information, cognition
• Johan Hollander – Researcher
  Research interests: Speciation, phenotypic plasticity, eelgrass ecology
• Kaj Hulthén – Researcher
  Research interests: Partial migration, landscape of fear
• Emma Kritzberg – Professor
  Research interests: Biogeochemistry, terrestrial-aquatic linkages, brownification
• Anders Nilsson – Professor
  Research interests: Behaviour, migration, predation, fish
• Viktor Nilsson – Researcher
  Research interests: Evolutionary ecology of growth and development
• Anders Persson – Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Stream ecology, connectivity, wetlands
• Olof Regnéll – Researcher
  Research interests: Biogeochemistry, Mercury, Selenium
• Karin Rengefors – Professor
  Research interests: Phytoplankton biogeography, genetic diversity, algal blooms
• Johanna Sjöstedt – Researcher
  Research interests: Aquatic microbiology, climate change effects, carbon cycling
• Pablo Urrutia Cordero – Researcher
  Research interests: Cyanobacteria, pollination, ecosystem functions

Post docs

• Hannah Blossom
  Research interests: Phytoplankton physiology and evolution, toxic algal blooms
• Rosie Lennon
  Research interests: eco-immunology, partial migration
• Romana Salis
  Research interests: Climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services
• Margarida Soares 
  Research interests: Carbon cycling, brownification, microbial ecology

PhD students

• Anna Borgström
  PhD project: Multi-functional wetlands in the landscape
• Emma Johansson
  PhD project: Intraspecific variation in toxin production in cyanobacteria
• Nan Hu
  PhD project: Global level effects across trophic levels in marine species
• Kevin Jones
  PhD project: Mechanisms and measures to reduce hypoxia and brownification in the Baltic Sea
• Sandra Rabow
  PhD project: Algal blooms and extreme weather events
• Franca Stábile
  PhD project: Fate and effects of nanoparticles in freshwater systems
• Johanna Stedt
  PhD project: Harbour porpoise foraging ecology
• Gustaf Ekelund Ugge
  PhD project: Molecular biomarkers of chemical stress in a freshwater mussel     

Visiting scientists

• Georgina Brennan – Researcher
• Corina Brussard – Hedda Andersson Visiting Professor

Research engineer

Marie Svensson

Emeritus

• Sven Björk – Professor
• Edna Granéli – Professor
• Wilhelm Granéli – Professor