CV – Henrik Svedäng
Lysekil, 27th of November 2014
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/ Department of Aquatic Resources/ Institute of Marine Research,
Turistgatan 5,
S-453 30 Lysekil, Sweden
e-mail: henrik.svedang@slu.se
tel: +46(0) 727169072, skype: phsvedang
Examinations
BSc at Uppsala University 1983
PhD in Limnology, Uppsala University 1991
Associate Professor in Marine ecology at Göteborg University 2009
Positions
Scientist at Swedish Board of Fisheries, Coastal Laboratory in Öregrund 1992-1998
Scientist at Swedish Board of Fisheries, Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Lysekil 1999-2009
Scientific coordinator at the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment head office in Göteborg 2010-2011
Senior Scientist at Department of Aquatic Resources, IMR in Lysekil since 2012
Scientific merits
48 peer-reviewed publications, 21 as first author
64 international and national reports, conference contributions, 32 as first author
11 Newspaper articles and popular science publications, 9 as first author
On-going research
Advancing our understanding of fish migration patterns and population connectivity: New-generation instrumentation
for mapping isotopes and elements in otoliths (The Swedish Research Council Formas)
Collaboration project with the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment (HMI) ”Marine history”(HMI funding)
CodS –restauration and management of cod in the Skagerrak/Kattegatt (EU Regional project ”Interreg”)
Buffer-Partially protected areas as buffers to increase the linked social-ecological resilience (Biodiversa)
Stock identification in the Baltic Sea (funded by HaV)
Growth in Baltic cod (funded by HaV)
Growth in the Kattegat cod (Funded by Lifewatch)
The most recent organised scientific conferences
Discussion with the social scientist Doug Wilson from Ålborg University in Denmark concerning the scientific work
within ICES ”The Paradoxes of Transparency”, Göteborg 2010.
Organised the annual scientific conference for Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment in Göteborg 21-22nd
October 2010: “The ecosystem approach in theory and practice – what do we know, where are we?”
Assignments
Commissioned at Swedish delegate for the following working/ study groups within ICES: WGBFAS 2005-2010 such
as WGNNSK, SIMWG.
Education
Lecturing at several universities
Opponent at Olof Engstedt’s dissertation at Linné University, Kalmar, in 2011.
Assistant tutor for PhD Francesca Vitale, who defended her thesis at Göteborg University in 2008
Assistant Tutor for PhD student Selma Pacariz, who defended her thesis at Göteborg University March 2013
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