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.

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.

Principal Investigators

• Olof Berglund – Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Fate and effects of emerging contaminants
• Per Carlsson – Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Invasive zooplankton, climate change, harbour porpoise
• Charlie Cornwallis – Professor
  Research interests: Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Sociality
• Anja Felmy – Associate Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Predicting contemporary evolution, environmental effects, Trinidadian guppies
• Kaj Hulthén – Researcher
  Research interests: Partial migration, landscape of fear, catch and release
• Emma Kritzberg – Professor
  Research interests: Biogeochemistry, terrestrial-aquatic linkages, brownification
• Anders Nilsson – Professor
  Research interests: Behaviour, migration, predation, fish, connectivity
• Anders Persson – Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Stream ecology, connectivity, wetlands
• Karin Rengefors – Professor
  Research interests: Phytoplankton biogeography, genetic diversity, algal blooms
• Erik Selander – Senior Lecturer
  Research interests: Plankton ecology, chemical sensing and signalling

Post docs

• Caroline Björnerås
  Research interests: Metal and carbon biogeochemistry in aquatic systems
• Johanna Stedt
  Research interests: Harbour porpoise foraging ecology
• Karla Münzner
  Research interests:  phytoplankton ecology, harmful algal blooms, biogeochemistry

PhD students

• Flavio Di Giorgio
  PhD project: Environmental drivers of rapid evolution in Trinidadian guppies
• Alice Gredeby
  PhD project: Linking fungal decomposition to the mobilization of dissolved organic carbon: implications for biogeochemistry and brownification
• Isa Hendriks
  PhD project: in-situ zooplankton monitoring using new optical and computational methods
• Kevin Jones
  PhD project: Mechanisms and measures to reduce hypoxia and brownification in the Baltic Sea
• Harmony Lautrette
  PhD project: Beyond toxicity: Exploring behaviour, metabolism and trait variability under chronic pollution
• Antonios Myriadikis
  PhD project: Biogeochemistry, Decomposition, Peatland forestry, Fungi, Surface water browning
• Sandra Rabow
  PhD project: Algal blooms and extreme weather events

Visiting scientists

• Anna Borgström
  Research interests: Multi-functional wetlands in the landscape
• Emma Johansson
  Research interests: Intraspecific variation in toxin production in cyanobacteria
• Corrie Nyquist
  Research interests: Water quality and impacts of cyanotoxins on beneficial insects. Phytoplankton, limnology, pollinators
• Johanna Sjöstedt
  Research interests: Aquatic microbiology, climate change effects, carbon cycling
• Franca Stábile
  Research interests: Fate and effects of nanoparticles in freshwater systems

Research engineer

Marie Svensson

Emeritus

• Christer Brönmark
• Edna Granéli
• Wilhelm Granéli
• Lars-Anders Hansson
• Olof Regnéll