Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
I am an evolutionary biologist, interested in the intersection between behaviour, ecology, evolution and population biology. My research is both empirical and theoretical, and I integrate different methods to study the dynamics of natural populations on both micro- and macroevolutionary time scales.
I have a background in life-history evolution and I have subsequently complemented and expanded my field experimental research programme to also include population and quantitative genetics, genomics, phylogenetic comparative methods and theoretical modelling approaches.
I am interested in the interplay between various evolutionary forces in natural populations and the intersection between ecology and genetics. I study frequency-dependent selection processes, natural and sexual selection in natural populations, the genomics and ecology of sexual antagonism, the evolution of signalling traits (particularly colour), thermal adaptations and phenotypic plasticity. I do also contribute to, and publish on topics related to general evolutionary theory, the history of evolutionary biology and how evolutionary biology could help us to understand applied problems, such as in conservation or anthroprogenically driven evolution.
My current study organisms are insects (mainly Odonata; dragonflies and damselflies), but I have also done research on birds (blue tits and ostriches), reptiles (side-blotched lizards), freshwater isopods (Asellus aquaticus) and diving beetles.
Research Group
Henrik Frietsch (Master's student)
Benjamin Jarrett (Postdoc)
Stephen De Lisle (Researcher, collaborator)
Moritz Lürig (Postdoc)
Sofie Nilén (Master's student)
Karolina Pehrson (Master's student)
Masahito Tsuboi (Postdoc)
Alumni
Former PhD-students (Main advisor)
Jessica Abbott (PhD 2006)
Fabrice Eroukhmanoff (PhD 2009)
Tom Gosden (PhD 2008)
Kristina Karlsson-Green (PhD 2010)
Anna Runemark (PhD 2012)
John Waller (PhD 2018)
Beatriz Willink (PhD 2018)
Former postdocs
Sophia Engel
Natsu Katayama
Maren Wellenreuther
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Nolen, Z., Runemark, A., Wahlberg, N., Rundlöf, M. & Svensson, E.
2020/05/01 → 2024/05/01
Project: Dissertation
Svensson, E., Jarrett, B., Tsuboi, M., Lürig, M. & De Lisle, S.
2000/03/01 → 2067/01/08
Project: Other
Willink Castro, B., Svensson, E. & Cornwallis, C.
2014/08/01 → 2018/10/10
Project: Dissertation
Erik Svensson (Interviewee) & Daniel Rydén (Lyricist)
Activity: Other › Media participation
Erik Svensson (Interviewee)
Activity: Other › Media participation
Svensson, Erik (Recipient), 2003 Mar 15
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Erik Svensson (Manager) & Giuseppe Bianco (Manager)
Evolutionary ecologyInfrastructure