Current Ph.D. students

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Department of Agricultural Engineering

Frank W. Oudshoorn
The contribution of innovative technology to sustainable development of organic dairy production in Denmark and in the Netherlands, with the automatic milking system as a case.

Tavs Nyord
Development of injection equipment for landspreading of mechanically separated slurry and nutrient rich liquid, produced in a high technology slurry separation plant (biofertilizers), with the special addition to minimize the ammonia loss by landspreading

Maibritt Hjorth
Development of techniques for the separation of plant nutrients of manure

Anders Michael Nielsen
Monitorering og optimering af bioforgasning af husdyrgødning og energiafgrøder

Ana Sambra
Agricultural Biomass Supply Chain Management

Ole Green
Data acquisition and modelling for process control during agricultural biomass storage

Johanne Lindstrøm
Information feasibility and rational agency as the basis for ICT design in multi-purpose, multi-agent networks

Chayan Kumer Saha
Mass Transfer Processes of Odorants in Aerial Boundary Layers

Department of Agroecology and Environment

Marie Trydeman Knudsen
Environmental assessment of selected imported organic agricultural products

Seyed Hamid Ahmadi
Study of soil water dynamics under partial root drying (PRD) irrigation for developing water saving irrigation strategies

Panneer Peramaiyan
Regional food security after large-scale conversion to organic agriculture

Ngonidzashe Chirinda
Influence of cropping systems on greenhouse gas emissions

Daniel Karlsson
Soil moist dynamics (HOBE)

James Mutegi
Effects of tillage, catch crops and drop rotations on soil carbon sequestration and nitrous oxide emission

Anders Lindblad Vendelboe
Mobilization, transport and straining of soil colloidal particles as influences by soil architecture

Florence Bedoin
Development of grassland based multifunctional beef production systems (chains)

Michal Adam Brozyna
Nitrogen cycling and losses in cropping systems with biogas energy production

Maria Knadel
Sensor-based mapping of carbon stocks in organic soils in Denmark

Marie Eden
Understanding and quantifying the spatial and temporal dynamics in structural stabilization and the characteristics of soil pore space

Siri Pugesgaard
Sustainable landuse - bioenergy production

Ravi Patil
Impact and Adoptions in Cropping Systems to Climate Change

Peter Stubkjær Andersen
Temporal and spatial quantification of farm and landscape functions

Mostofa Amin
Environmental fate of pathogens and hormones applied to agricultural land in treated slurry

Carolyn Schäfer
Net ecosystem exchange of carbon in organic soils: Role of vegetation and microbial methane turnover

Anna Flysjö
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Milk and Dairy Product Chains

Amin Garbout
3D quantification of soil architecture based on micro-CT scanning images

Fatemeh Razzaghi
Optimising crop production under restricted water ressources

Verena Adolf
Annual food crops with improved tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses

Department of Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition

Maja Jacobsen
Development of an animal model within nutritional immunology to study the effect of organic food on health.

Karoline Blaabjerg
Degradation of inositol phosphates in the gastrointestinal tract of pigs

Tina Skau Nielsen
The biological activity of phytoestrogens in organic and conventional milk

Jehan Frans Ettema
Economics of diseases causing dairy cattle lameness at herd level

Sine Nygaard Langerhuus
Ernæringens indflydelse på immunfunktionen i en grisemodel for postoperativ karproteseinfektion

Birgitte Marie Løvendahl Raun
Alcohols in dairy cow nutrition

Asger Nissen
The influence of colostrum on calf inflammatory response towards gram positive and gram negative bacteria

Justyna Gorzecka
Quantifying risk factors for reproduction in dairy cattle

Lone Hymøller
Vitamin D Status and Supply in Organic Dairy Cows

Liat Romme Thomsen
Feeding behaviour of socially housed, growing animals

Anders Bjerring Strathe
Stochashastic growth and composition models

Kristina Ulrich Sørensen
Bone dynamics and function in livestock

Mogens Larsen
Small intestinal starch digestion in relation to nutrient metabolism in dairy cows

Linda Rosager Duve
The social needs of calves – how are they best provided for in dairy production?

Betina Amdisen Røjen
Efficient nitrogen utilization in lactating dairy cattle - nitrogen metabolism and urea recycling

Adam Christian Storm
Implementing rumen sensors and dynamic modeling in feed evaluation systems for dairy cows

Marlene Fredborg
Infectobesity: Development of a screening method to study the impact of gut bacteria n human gut metabolism

Lene Vammen Søndergaard
Methods to diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in a transgenic minpig model: Behavioural characterization

Janne Pleidrup Andersen
Mapping the immune response in poultry during parasite infection

Karina Elkjær
Influence of the uterine environment and energy status on likelihood of pregnancy in Danish dairy cows

Christian Clement Yde
NMR-based metabonomics as a tool to elucidate changes in the biochemical profile of biofluids after consumption of diets with contrasting dietary fibre composition

Henrik Vestergaard Poulsen
Characterization of the factors influencing the microbial production of reduced sulphur-containing compounds in the gastrointestinal tract of in pigs and in fresh slurry

Lindsay Kay Whistance
Health planning and development of health promoting strategies in organic dairy herds

Liselotte Puggaard
Phosphorus metabolism and utilisation in cattle

Bodil Højlund Nielsen


Henrik Sejersen
A proteomic-based identification of biomarkers for hepatic lipidosis – a comparative approach with focus on cattle and pigs

Stine Lønnerup Christensen
Proteomics for identification of biomarkers in relation to mastitis type and rumen acidosis

Department of Food Science

Ann Louise Jørgensen
Direct-Affinity Reverse Extraction (DARE) screening for bioactive food-derived peptides

Simon Metz Pedersen
A nutrigenomic approach in the elucidation of basic molecular mechanisms for the action of probiotic bacteria - An NMR-metabolomic study of biofluids and tissues.

Søren Bang Nielsen
Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation analysis of interactions between specific milk

Morten Rahr Clausen
Mechanisms of selenium-mediated antioxidant effects in bovine milk and dairy products

Kathrine Bisgaard Christensen
Characterization of anti-diabetic compounds from selected medicinal plants

Ida Krestine Straadt
Cellular stress and metabolic responses to ante- and post mortem stress factors elucidated in primary porcine muscle cell cultures using confocal microscopy and NMR-based metabolic profiling

Sidsel Bennedbæk-Jensen
Mechanisms of off-flavour development in bread with extended shelf-life

Heidi Kildegaard
Step-by-step change of children’s preferences towards healthier foods

Heidi Najbjerg
In vitro studies on metabonomic responses to fatty acids

Jonatan Ahrens Dickow
LSI pasteurisation of milk and effect on microbiology, cheese maturation and protein denaturation

Sandie Mejer Møller
Integrated characterisation of food products quality and microbiological safety

Pernille Frederiksen
Cheesemaking properties – effect of milk yield and temperature treatment prior to cheese making

Bente Marianne Jensen
Whey protein fractions – Minimizing oxidation

Gaik Ming Khoo
Characterization of bioactive compounds in plants with anti-inflammatory effect

Brita Ngum Che
Health promoting properties of milk from cows fed green plant material - The role of phytanic acid

Department of Genetics and Biotechnology

Trine Villumsen
Marker integrated genetic evaluation

João Fadista
Characterization of structural genetic variation

Juan Li
Establishment of cell lines form transgenic porcine embryos for in vitro studies of Alzheimer’s disease

Gabriel Abreu
Statistical tools for analyzing functional genomic data

Claus Hedegaard
Transgenic Porcine Models for Human Neurodegenerative Disorders Focusing on Parkinson’s Disease

Li Jiang
Inference of Causative Genes Involved in Bovine Mastitis Resistance

Ye Yang
Genetic control of environment variation

Hanne Skovsgaard
Vurdering af embryokvalitet efter stresspåvirkninger

Lise Christina Deleuran
Frøkvalitet

Masoud Naderpour
AP/Resistens mod WCMV. Generation markers for bc-resistance genes against Bean common mosaic virus and Bean common mosaic necrosis virus in Phaseolus vulgaris

Lars Peter Sørensen
Prediction breeding values for pathogen-specific mastitis resistance in dairy cattle

Johanna Höglund
DNA based selection for functional traits in dairy cattle

Alice Juul Pedersen
Identification and analysis of genes with effect on the vernalization requirement in timothy (Phleum Pratense L.)

Bujie Zhan
Characterisation of global genetic variation of complex genomes using next generation ultra-high-throughput sequencing

Lene Conley
Gene expression analyses related to obesity, hormonal status and epigenetic change

Axel Skarman
Bioinformatics and statistical tools for integrated analysis of data from QTL and expression studies

Ying Liu
Improving porcine somatic cell nuclear transfer with soluble biological reprogramming factors

Lin Lin
Development of cloned pigs as metabolic disease models: Effects of physicochemical stress on developmental competence and tolerance to vitrification

Vivi Raundahl Gregersen
Milk Genomics - sequence informatics and asociation analysis

Pernille Andersen
Systembiologi: Integration af genekspressionsanalyse og genetisk variation

Zhang Yang
Glyco engineering of plant cells for controlled production of human O-glycosylation

Claus Krogh Madsen
Cloning and biochemical charaxterization of cereal phytases

Line Hjortø Buch
Muligheder og risici ved samarbejde mellem nordiske kvægpopulationer

Bujie Zhan
PhD student

Michael Wagner
NAC transcription factors in barley

Jeanette Hansen
Transcriptomic analysis of muscles

Alireza Ehsani
Aspects of genomic selection

Department of Horticulture

Nauja L. Jensen
Effects of partial root zone drying (PRD) irrigation on fruit yield and quality

Eline Kirk Mørk
Disease resistance in ornamental plants. Transformation of Aster with mildew resistance genes

Peter Maxin
Improving apple quality using post harvest hot water dipping to increase the stress tolerance of the fruit

Eleftheria Stavridou
Effects of catch crops on the content of sulphur (S) and selenium (Se) in Vegetables

Eva Grøndahl
The impact of cultivation-induced stress on flavonols in Buckwheat as medicinal plants

Department of Integrated Pest Management

Jonas Duus Stevens lekfeldt


Lihui Xu


Chris Khadgi Sørensen


Linda Kærgaard Nielsen


Mette Sønderskov


Sandra Lassen