Agneta Andersson

Biography

Agneta Andersson is a Professor in Marine Pelagic Ecology at Umeå University in Sweden. She has long experience in marine science and leads a research group focusing on marine microbial ecology. Andersson has published >100 articles in scientific journals including Nature, PNAS and Science. She has been the Director of Umeå Marine Sciences Centre. Presently she is coordinator of a Swedish Strategic Research Environment, EcoChange, - Ecosystem dynamics in the Baltic Sea in a climate change perspective. It is an interdisciplinary research program financed by the Swedish Government, focusing on climate change effects on the food web function and distribution of pollutants in the marine ecosystem. About 60 scientists at different Universities and research Institutes in Sweden are involved in EcoChange. Andersson performs education at the basic and advanced University level, and has been supervisor of 15 PhD students. To ensure societal relevance of the research, she has close collaboration with decision makers and stakeholders within the marine area. Andersson has extensive international collaboration and is part of international networks, such as HELCOM´s phytoplankton expert group. She is engaged as evaluator of academic job applications, research proposals and manuscripts submitted to scientific journals. Andersson is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' National Committee for Global Environmental Change.

Research Interest

marine microbial ecology