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Blue SDU - Department of Biology
Alexander H. Treusch, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Blue interests: Marine microbial ecology; Microbial community structure and function in oxygen minimum
zones; Changes in microbial community composition in the Swedish Byfjord in response to an engineered
oxygenation; Succession of microbial communities in sediments during a costal realignment project at
Gyldensteen (Fynen)
Research area and projects: Environmental microbiology; microbial community structure in freshwater
and marine ecosystems; Archaea; Thaumarchaeota; archaeal lipid metabolism; nitrogen and carbon
cycling; environmental changes due to anthropogenic influences; climate change; molecular microbial
ecology; metagenomics, -transcriptomics, -proteomics
Teachings: Microbiology (BB509); Aquatic Microbial and Molecular Ecology (BB201); A Sustainable Future
(BB530); First Year Science Project (FF501)
Donald Eugene Canfield, Head of Centre, Professor, PhD Yale University Nordic Center for Earth
Evolution (NordCEE)
Erik Kristensen, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Blue interests: Benthic flora and fauna development in relation to ecosystem restoration; estuarine
eutrophication; and coastal realignment.
Research area and projects: Impacts of benthic flora and fauna on sediment biogeochemistry in coastal
marine ecosystems; eelgrass restoration and ecosystem functioning; benthic fauna and bioturbation in
marine sediments; mangrove biogeochemistry and foodweb dynamics; stable isotopes and estuarine
ecology.
Teaching: Ecology (BB510); Marine Ecosystems (BB832); Aquatic Microbial and Molecular Ecology (BB201).
Harald Hasler-Sheetal, Post-Doc, Department of Biology
Blue interests: Global carbon cycle/budget, arctic biological carbon pump, carbon sequestration by
seagrasses, Invasive species
Research area: metabolomics, linking molecular approaches to ecosystems level marine eco-systems
biology, assessment of marine plants to sequestrate carbon, effect of global climate change on carbon
sequestration, effect of global climate change of marine plants, effect of arctic glacier meltdown on the
biological carbon pump. I am fascinated by the approach of scaling up information on molecular level to
ecosystem level and thereby finding biomarkers for environmental changes/stress.
Teaching: Aquatic biology, metabolomics (summer course)
Henrik Holbech, Associate professor, Department of Biology (Ecotoxicology)
Blue interest: Ships ballast water treatment and verification of treatment efficiency, invasive species,
aquatic ecotoxicology of chemicals and heavy metals, development of standardized test methods.
Research area and projects: Verification of organism viability after different types of ballast water
treatment (in collaboration with DHI, Hoersholm). Effects and biomarkers of endocrine disrupting
chemicals in the aquatic environment (Funded by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency), Heavy
metals in the aquatic environment. Pharmaceuticals in the environment. International test guideline
development (OECD, EU). Hazard and Risk assessment of chemicals.
Teachings: Ecotoxicology, pharmaceutical toxicology, molecular toxicology, risk assessment of chemicals,
endocrinology.
Magnus Wahlberg, Associate Professor, Marine Biological Research Center, Department of Biology
Research interests: Marine bioacoustics; Marine biology Outreach
Research projects: Hearing in air and underwater (seals, whales and marine birds); Echolocation in
harbour porpoises; The effects of noise on harbour porpoises and other marine mammals; The effects of
noise on fish; Marine biology outreach
Teachings: Marine mammal biology, bioacoustics, scientific outreach
Jane Ebsen Morthorst, Assistant professor, Department of Biology (Ecotoxicology), Environmental
Protection Agency
Blue interest: Recreational use of nature, Restoring good environmental conditions, Biomonitoring of
chemicals and heavy metals, Science and research communication, Sustainability, Environmental
awareness in company profiles
Research area and projects: Endocrine disrupting chemicals in the aquatic environment
(Hormonforstyrrende stoffer), Heavy metals in food and the aquatic environment, Fish and bivalve
physiology and reproduction, Development of biomarkers, Biomonitoring, Test guideline development
(OECD)
Teachings: Ecotoxicology, Scientific writing, Heavy metals in our environment and food, Graphic design,
Zoology, Career mangement for biologists, Development of interdisciplinary courses for high schools
(adventure race, diving physiology of humans and animals, adventure race, fish physiology, team building
and group work).
Kim Lundgreen, PhD student, Department of Biology
Blue interests: Ballast water management, invasive species, ecosystem dynamics, zooplankton,
phytoplankton, marine and freshwater invertebrates.
Research area and projects: I am working with the methodologies involved in improving assessment of
organism viability in treated ballast water from ballast water management systems onboard ships.
Teachings: Scientific Diver Course (BB840), Pharmaceutical toxicology B (BB524), Molecular toxicology
(BB807) at the Department of Biology
Link for website: Project description
Knud Ladegaard Pedersen, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Mogens Flint, Associate Professor, CLEAR, Department of Biology