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Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Ocean Physics (25302); Biological Oceanography (25310); Oceanography at Sea (25501)
Researh area: The microscopic world of plankton drifting in the world's oceans is as alien to us as anything from outer space. It is a world full of weird organisms, chemical patches and hydromechanical disturbances. My research focuses on this world, and how physics and evolution have shaped organisms, their behaviour and interactions. These micro-scale processes have implications well beyond their immediate scale. The biological pump for instance regulates how carbon is drawn down from the atmosphere into the deep oceans on a global scale, but is fundamentally driven by microscopic organisms. Through a mechanistic understanding of this micro-scale world, we can build up a robust and systematic understanding of marine ecosystems and their impact at the global scale.
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Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Researh area: I study ecology and physiology of marine invertebrates. I focus on several topics including hydrogen sulfide, low oxygen, aerobic and anaerobic respiration. Most marine sediments contain high amounts of hydrogen sulfide, which is a very potent toxin. My research aims at identifying the adaptations, which allow invertebrates to survive in such sediments. I am also involved in projects concerning aquaculture of bivalves; here I study the optimization of growth and the effect of toxic algae species on the bivalves. Finally I am involved in a project which studies the biology and ecology of invasive species and the interaction with the native competitors.
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Senior Scientist
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Design of Survey and Monitoring Systems (25309)
Researh area: I work with the design of systems and technologies for underwater observation, to improve our understanding of the aquatic environment. Controlled experiments in the natural environment are complex and costly, therefore great care has to be taken in the design. Current efforts are concentrated on optical and acoustical imaging technologies and computer aided interpretation of data.
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Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Fisheries Oceanography (25311)
Research area: My primary research interest is understanding how climate variability, fishing and eutrophication affect production and distribution of fish in the sea and applying this knowledge to develop sustainable management policies for marine populations and ecosystems (e. g., how do we get more cod in the North Sea and when will we see bluefin tuna jumping in the Øresund again?). Topic areas include fish population ecology and dynamics, fish larvae, and physical-biological interactions and processes in marine ecosystems and foodwebs. I study a variety of species (e. g., cod, sprat, herring, bluefin tuna, jellyfish) throughout the northeast Atlantic including the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas, and collaborate with physical oceanographers, modellers and marine historians.
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Senior Scientist
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Fisheries Systems – Management and Modeling (25312)
Research area: I have been working on modeling of fisheries systems, mixed fisheries, management strategies, fleet dynamics and stock assessment since 1996, on various European case studies. For this, I have been working in close collaboration with other biologists, economists and social scientists all over Europe, and is using a wide range of useful assessment and modeling tools. Currently, my main research topics are the management of mixed fisheries with conflicting single-species objectives, as well as developing management strategies in collaboration with Stakeholders. Beside, I am strongly involved in the European advisory system.
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Christian Skov
Senior Scientist
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Applied Aquatic Ecology (KU028); Recreational Fishing (25320); Aquatic Field Work (25324)
Research area: My research focus on fisheries and fish behaviour of freshwater fish. I study individual fish behaviour and try to scale individual behaviour to population levels, e.g. how do variations in individual behaviour as well as interactions between individuals, influence population dynamics and trophic cascades. In relation to management of fisheries I have a broad interests, but management of lake dwelling fish has special focus.
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Colin Stedmon
Associate Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Ocean Physics (25302); Aquatic Ecosystem Management (25318); Oceanography at Sea (25501)
Research area: What appeals to me about aquatic science is its multidisciplinary nature. As a result my research interests nearly always lie along an interface between disciplines of chemistry, physics and biology. This includes using the chemical signatures of seawater to infer circulation pattern and trace currents; modeling underwater light penetration based on both living and dead water constituents; examining the availability of marine organic matter (the marine equivalent of soil) to microbes sea water and subsequent role in global carbon cycle; and following the supply and turnover of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous) in natural waters and how they are changing either due to climate change or human activities.
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Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Genetic Methods in Aquaculture (25315); Genetic Methods in Fisheries and Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation (25313)
Research area: My research is focused on describing "genetic variation that matters" in marine fish. This is achieved by identifying and investigating the spatial and temporal variation in genes coding for important adaptive traits. Some of the genes we are interested in are related to growth, sexual maturity and tolerance to extreme temperature and salinity, which are of importance to wild fish as well as fish kept in aquaculture.
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Henrik Gislason
Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Fisheries Ecology and Assessment (25307); Aquatic Ecosystem Management (25318)
Research area: I am interested in fish life histories and fish community dynamics. Fish interact by eating each other and by competing for resources and this influences their growth, mortality and reproduction. My research has focused on quantifying the interactions in order to understand how they shape the possibilities for sustainable harvest of marine fish stocks. This has involved the collection of information on fish diets and fish life history parameters, construction of multispecies models and quantification of the ecosystem effects of fishing.
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Senior research scientist, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Vet)
Affiliated professor, University of Copenhagen
Course at the MSc program: Diseases and Veterinary Aspects related to Aquaculture (24201)
Research area: Fish diseases in aquaculture and in wild populations. The main focus is on bacterial infections: isolation of aetiological agens, identification by pheno- and genotyping methods, epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance. Interaction between host and pathogen, virulence factors and pathogenicity studies. Prevention and treatment of fish diseases (e.g. vaccines, antimicrobial agents).
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John Fleng Steffensen
Professor mso
University of Copenhagen
Research area: My main research interests concerns respiration and circulation physiology of fish, including adaptation to hypoxia (water with lower than normal oxygen level), hypercapnia (water with higher than normal carbon dioxide level), as well as adaptation to low temperature of Arctic and Antarctic fish. In addition my research focus on exercise physiology of fish – ranging from individual to fish schools – i.e. metabolic rate at different swimming speeds, cost of swimming, and models of oxygen levels within fish schools. Finally I am involved in several aquaculture related projects, including optimizing growth and measuring and transmitting oxygen level in close vicinity of individual fish among up to 50.000 other fish in commercial marine fish pens.
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Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Mathematical Biology (25303); Differential Equations in Biology (25304); Computational Marine Ecological Modelling (25314); Projects in Aquatic Science and Technology (25323)
Researh area: My main interest is to understand how life in the ocean is organised and how it reacts to perturbations like fishing, species removals/invasions or climate change. More specifically I work on: trait-based models of life in the ocean (www.oceanlifecentre.dk), size-structured models of marine ecosystems (spectrum.stockassessment.org), and fisheries induced evolution.
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Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Courses at the MSc program: Freshwater Organisms as Environmental Indicators (KU025); Applied Phycology (KU027); Applied Aquatic Ecology (KU028)
Research area: My research focuses on ecological, taxonomical and life cycle studies of dinoflagellates and other marine algae. I work with historical indications of environmental changes (marine palaeo-ecology), combining the fields of biology and geology, often in collaboration with geologists and geographers. This field includes studies of long-term trends in eutrophication and nutrients in the coastal zone and of salinity changes over time in marine environments. I have also been involved in the description of several species new to science.
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Research Scientist
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Biological Oceanography (25310)
Research area: My research concentrates on functioning of the pelagic ecosystems, in particular with regard to food-web processes and vertical fluxes. These processes have a central role in determining, respectively, the trophic transfer efficiency, and the efficiency of the ocean biological pump. The trophic transfer efficiency of the food web eventually determines the food availability of the planktivorous fish (such as herring), while the efficiency of ocean’s biological pump determines how much of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions the ocean can take up and how long it sequesters it.
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Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Course at the MSc program: Applied Aquatic Ecology (KU028)
Research area: I am working with ecology and biology of marine viruses. Viruses are important components in marine ecosystems and play significant roles in structuring the marine food webs, influencing biogeochemical cycling in the oceans, and as key drivers of microbial evolution. I investigate these aspects of viral activity from field studies and by experimental approaches to virus-host interactions under controlled conditions in the laboratory.
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Associale professor
Course at the MSc program: Pre-harvest Impact on Post-harvest Quality
Research area: Linking biological measures within physiology and immunology with quality parameters in aquaculture production. Linking the molecular changes and markers in the live fish with quality parameters in the fish product. The research approach is molecular and is based on genomic, proteomic and immunological assays.
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Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Course at the MSc program: Applied Aquatic Ecology (KU028)
Research area: I have during my employment as environmental biologist in consultative engineering emphasized applied research, evaluation and communication of scientific information and environmental assessment strategy. In detail I have dealt with environmental effects on benthic communities of oil and chemical industry, and stood for restoration projects of riverine landscape. As scientist I have been working in studying the significance of planktonic community structure for the productivity of the sea and for the benthic-pelagic coupling. The work has mostly been based on field campaigns, entailing ship boarded cruises in the Baltic Sea region. I also participated on the Galathea 3 leg in the Indian Ocean (Oct-Nov 2006).
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Senior Scientist
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Aquatic Ecosystem Management (25318); Freshwater Organisms as Environmental Indicators (KU025)
Research area: I have been focusing on the ecology and population dynamics of freshwater fish, mainly in rivers. My projects have been centered around individual fish behavior and the consequent mortality or predation. I have used the latest technology in the field of biotelemetry and studied the effects of capture, handling and tagging fish. I am involved directly in the national salmon management plan, the cormorant management plan and the EU initiated eel management plan. My experience with the Water Framework Directive comes from 3 years working for the EU Commission (JRC, Italy) on coordinating the pan-European intercalibration of methods to use fish as Biological Quality Elements. I have also been involved in fish projects in the Columbia River (USA) and the Mekong River (Laos).
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Senior Scientist
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Fish Capture Technology (25308)
Research area: Development and innovation of selective and sustainable fishing gears for commercial use. Methods to avoid unwanted bycatch and catch of juveniles. Fish behaviour in relation to fishing gears. Development of underwater methodology to assess the performance of fishing gears.
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Head of Section for Aquaculture
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Advanced Course in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems - Design and Application (25322)
Research area: Research interests are focused on recirculation technology, mitigation of environmental effects from fish farming and the linkage between nutrition, recirculation and environment. Within recirculation general aspects and biofiter kinetics as well as technology development are covered. Efforts on reducing discharge includes effects of different cleaning devices, mass balances and different types of end-of-pipe treatments including sludge handling and sludge hydrolysis, denitrification and filtration. In recirculation systems by far the major input is from fish waste originating from the fish feed. Therefore, defining system input through feed and digestibility is a very important area for system design, system operation and nutrient discharge. The linkage between these different research areas are a major focus of my present work.
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Per Juel Hansen
Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Courses at the M.Sc. program: Experimental Aquatic Ecology (KU024); Applied Aquatic Ecology (KU028)
Research area: I study the biology of marine planktonic protists (algae and protozoa), how they function and how they interact with each other and with the environment. Currently, I work mostly with toxic algae that kills fish, specifically with identification of new algal toxins associated with fish kills, regulation of toxin production in algae and the role of the toxins in prey capture in mixotrophic protists (i.e organisms which simultaneous use of photosynthesis and food uptake) via the projects "HABFISH", "MarBioShell" and "MarinVac". Besides, this I study the trades offs in mixotrophic protists in the project "Ocean Life". Finally, I study how microbial communities respond to ocean acidification as well as to elevated pH which is found during algal blooms.
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Associate Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Aquaculture – Applied Biology (25306); Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (25316); Fish Nutrition and Bioenergetics (25321)
Research area: My research interests are focused on the physiology of fishes - from the organ level to the whole animal. My main research area is energetics, in particular how physical, chemical and biological conditions affect the way fish utilize and partition their energy intake. The focus of this research is on optimizing rearing conditions in order to improve production in aquaculture, reduce environmental impact and improve animal welfare. I am also interested in cardiovascular physiology, particularly related to the exchange of gases and the effects of saturation levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen, and finally I have an interest in technological aspects of aquaculture, especially related to oxygenation and degassing.
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Senior Scientist and Head of Section for Management Systems
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Fisheries Systems – Management and Modeling (25312)
Fisheries systems – management and modeling Research area: My research areas cover fish population and fisheries dynamics/assessments, fisheries management research and bio-economic management evaluation tools, fisheries hydro-acoustics, and research survey design. I have coordinated several large national and international research projects (e.g. EU-FP6-EFIMAS; EU-ISDBITS; EU-FP5-EASE (co-coordinator)), conduct the ICES Norway pout assessment (North Sea), and am alternate national member of ICES Science Committee (SCICOM). I have experience as scientific advisor in Vietnam (DANIDA) for a year and have long experience as university teacher and student supervisor.
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Member of technical and administrative staff
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Marine Aquaculture (25305)
Research area: My main interest is rearing of marine fish larva with focus on nutritional aspects of live feed and its impact on the quality of fish produced. I currently work with amino acid assimilation in larval fish using radioactive tracers to quantify, assimilation, digestibility, catabolism etc. in larval fish. I have a broad interest in aquaculture and are currently also involved in projects investigating the possibilities for Danish fish farmers to culture fish offshore.
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Senior Scientist
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Aquatic Ecosystem Management (25318)
Research area: My research focuses on ecology and population dynamics of freshwater fish, mainly in lake ecosystems, but I also work with fishes in running water, including diadromous species. A main topic in my research has been effects of eutrophication and methods for and effects of lake restoration. I am also involved in research on the zoogeography of Danish freshwater fishes, rare and threatened species (red data list) and alien and invasive species.
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Thomas Kiørboe
Professor and Head of Section for Ocean Ecology and Climate
Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Biological Oceanography (25310)
Research area: I study the biology of marine plankton, sub-millimetre sized organisms that account for most of the biological processes in the ocean. The functional ecology of plankton is key to the understanding of the function marine food webs and the role of the ocean in regulating global climate and providing biological resources. I use observational, experimental, and theoretical approaches to reveal the fascinating life of plankton and their dependency of small-scale physical processes, and to understand their dominating role in marine ecosystems. Many videos of spectacular plankton phenomena can be viewed on my home page.
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Dr. Scient and Professor in environmental plankton ecology Technical University of Denmark
Course at the MSc program: Experimental Aquatic Ecology (KU024)
Researh area: My primary research interest is biological oceanography, with special emphasis on the roles of zooplankton in the marine food web. Extensive field work in Arctic, temperate and tropical ecosystems. Particular interested in the dynamics of arctic pelagic food webs in relation to climate change. Close cooperation with The Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC).
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Uffe Høgsbro Thygesen
Senior Scientist and Program Coordinator for the masters program in Aquatic Science and Techonology
Technical University of Denmark
Courses at the MSc program: Mathematical Biology (25303); Differential Equations in Biology (25304)
Research area: My research area is stochastic models of ecosystem dynamics. I work with the coupling between physical and biological processes, and between individual level and population level. I work with small-scale phenomena such as the physical and chemical environement around sinking marine snow and around copepods, and with regional-scale phenomena such as how larvae drift with oceanic currents or tracking fish using archival tags. Finally I am interested in optimization: How animals should behave, optimally, and the process of evolution.
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Øjvind Moestrup
Professor, Dr.Scient.
University of Copenhagen
Courses at the MSc programme: Freshwater Organisms as Environmental Indicators (KU025); Applied Phycology (KU027)
Research area: My main interest is ultrastructure (cell structure), taxonomy and evolution of algae and other protists. Algae are some of the oldest groups of organisms on earth, and this probably explains the huge diversity of algae, both at the unicellular and the multicellular level. Over the years I have had the opportunity to work on most groups of algae, with emphasis on marine microflagellates and on dinoflagellates, the latter from both freshwater and marine ecosystems. For many years our interest has also covered harmful algae, as a response to the increase in number of poisonings caused by algae in many parts of the world, which again is often caused by increase in nutrients in many aquatic ecosystems due to human activity. My research is based mainly on species isolated and maintained in culture in the laboratory and examined using a variety of techniques, including SEM, TEM, and – together with colleagues – DNA sequencing.
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