Researchers at SVA

Aleksija Neimane

Research area :Wildlife, wildlife diseases, pathology, One Health

Alfredo Acosta

Research area :Alfredo’s research is focused on simulation of antibiotic resistance therapies in pigs, disease spread modelling and surveillance systems.

Research area :Major focus is i) understanding the mechanism behind pathogenesis, ii) developing new vaccine candidates and iii) developing new diagnostic tools for highly pathogenic viral zoonoses.

Ann Högberg

Research area :Feed safety

Anna Omazic

Research area :Zoonoses, infectious diseases, ticks, tick-borne diseases, infectious diseases in reindeer, climate change, One Health

Anton de Jong

Research area :Cryptosporidium, Giardia, ticks, waterborne parasitic infections

Arianna Comin

Research area :Epidemiologic analysis of animal health and welfare data, design and evaluation of animal health surveillance systems and disease spread modelling.

Ásgeir Ástvaldsson

Research area :Molecular microbiology, infection biology, bioinformatic, WGS

Bo Segerman

Research area :Development of bioinformatic methods, analysis of large-scale “omics” data and studying molecular dynamics

David Persson

Research area :Viral infections, immunology and immune response, method development.

Dinah Seligsohn

Research area :Mastitis, infectious diseases, ruminants, camelids, sustainable food production

Emil Wikström Lassa

Research area :Pathology and disease development in African Swine Fever

Emma Hurri

Research area :Mycoplasma bovis, Health and welfare in calves

Erik Ågren

Research area :Veterinary pathology, wildlife diseases

Erika Chenais

Research area :Epidemiology of infectious animal diseases, mainly in the global south.

Estelle Ågren

Research area :Her work focuses on research and development of surveillance, epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. Salmonella in cattle has been a focus for her research during the last years.

Eveliina Breukers

Research area :Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex – what is missing for effective control?

Fernanda Dórea

Research area :Data analysis for decision making in animal health, in particular for the design of surveillance. Transforming data to information, the most effective and accessible way, is the goal of her research.

Gema Vidal

Research area :Infectious diseases, endemic diseases, animal welfare, machine learning, causal inference, applied methods, rural development.

Gittan Gröndahl

Research area :Her research focuses on infectious diseases and polyneuropathy in horses. Strangles and equine influenza have been particularly in focus.

Gunnar Andersson

Research area :Development of statistical methods for interpretation of results from sampling and disease surveillance. Development of methods for interpretation of forensic results. Risk assessment of hazardous substances in animal feed.

Hanna Skarin

Research area :Molecular microbiology and food safety

Helena Eriksson

Research area :Infectious poultry diseases

Henrik Uhlhorn

Research area :Health and Disease in Swedish Wildlife

Hyeyoung Kim

Research area :Integrating GIScience methods and applications into disease modeling and applying quantitative spatial analysis methods to epidemiological and environmental issues.

Ivana Rodriguez Ewerlöf

Research area :Disease spread modelling, network analysis of animal movements, digitalisation, animal health and welfare.

Jenny Frössling

Research area :Works with various epidemiological issues related to surveillance, control, diagnostic methods and risk factors for serious infectious animal diseases.

Jonas Johansson Wensman

Research area :Infectious diseases, small ruminants, sustainable livestock production

Josefine Elving

Research area :Researcher within the area of health related environmental microbiology and feed safety. The research focus on fecally transmitted pathogens and their behavior outside their host and risk for disease transmission through the environment e.g. via water and feed.

Karin Artursson

Research area :Studies of Staphylococcus aureus in mastitis with a holistic view, from genetics to clinic. Development of communication models in the areas of biosecurity and One Health.

Karin Bergström

Research area :Her research focuses on AMR, and infectious diseases in horses.

Karin Persson Waller

Research area :Mastitis and other udder diseases in ruminants.

Karin Wallin Philippot

Research area :Infectious diseases in reindeer

Karl Ståhl

Research area :Infectious disease epidemiology and disease control, with main focus on exotic animal diseases

Lijo John

Research area :Virus-host-interactions, mRNA-vaccine, antivirals

Linda Engblom

Research area :Feed safety

Malin Grant

Research area :Epidemiology, biosecurity/infection control, disease control, disease surveillance and poultry.

María Rincón Gracia

Research area :AMR

Mate Zoric

Research area :Lameness in pigs is a major welfare concern. Research including comparison of the long term efficiency of treating lameness with and without pain relief and also examination whether lameness as piglet predispose to lameness later in life.

Mikael Leijon

Research area :Infectious diseases; Metagenomics; Aetiology; Bioinformatics

Mikaela Klahr Fritz

Research area :The role of intestinal flora in preventing weaning diarrhea in pigs

Mikhayil Hakhverdyan

Research area :Research is focused on development of molecular assays for pathogen-specific detection of nucleic acid sequences in animals. Experience in different real-time PCR design, application and in droplet digital PCR, primer and probe design, assay optimization and validation. A focus in recent years has been Circovirus infection in pig and wild boar.

Oskar Nilsson

Research area :Antibiotic resistance and use of antibiotics

Per Wallgren

Research area :Researches clinical and subclinical diseases in pigs with the aim of curing or even better preventing diseases. Healthy pigs are climate smart because diseases require energy. Healthy pigs do not need antibiotics and therefore also contribute to preserving the durability of antibiotics.