Contact: Sustainable Development

idat@ifro.ku.dk

Phone: +45 35 33 17 42
Mobile: +45 60 22 34 10

Ida Theilade (Chair)  

Professor
Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)

Description:
Ida Theilade has worked with management and conservation of tropical forests for the past 25 years. Her main research interests are in the areas of indigenous knowledge and natural resource management in relation to agricultural systems and tropical forests.

hfr@nexs.ku.dk

Phone: +45 35 33 38 60

Henrik Friis

Professor
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (NEXS)

Description:
The last thirty years Henrik Friis has done research with collaborators in Africa and Asia. The focus of his research has been nutrition in relation to infections (i.e. parasites, TB and HIV), but also pregnancy and lactation, early growth and development, chronic diseases and interactions between infectious and chronic diseases.

Niels Fold

Professor 
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN)

Description:
Niels Fold’s research addresses the relationship between economic-geographic globalization processes and local responses, primarily examined through the analytical lens of global value chains (GVCs). He has specialized in agro-industrial value chains that connect producers in the Global South and consumers in the Global North.

nscharff@snm.ku.dk

Phone: +45 35 32 11 07

Nikolaj Scharff

Head of collections
Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM)

Description:
Nikolaj Scharff has the responsibility for all geological, botanical and zoological collections. His primary fields of research are phylogeny and comparative morphology of spiders in general.

peho@plen.ku.dk 

Phone: +45 35 33 24 14
Mobile: +45 30 50 77 14

Peter Engelund Holm

Professor 
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN)

Description:
Peter Engelund Holm works at the Section for Environmental Chemistry and Physics.

om@ign.ku.dk

Phone: +45 35 32 25 29

Ole Mertz

Professor 
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN)

Description:
Ole Mertz' research and teaching responsibilities focus on global environmental change, land use transitions and food security in the Global South. Specifically, he has worked for two decades on the dynamics of forest-agriculture frontiers looking at how changes in land use affect socio-economic and environmental systems.

lj@food.ku.dk

Phone: +45 35 33 32 30
Mobile:+45 29 35 47 33

Lene Jespersen

Professor

Department of Food Science (FOOD)

Description:

Lene Jespersen is a professor of microbiology and fermentation and has worked with traditional fermentation methods from West Africa for the past 25 years - always in close collaboration with local researchers and the industry. The aim is to build and increase the capacity of traditional West African fermentation methods in order to strengthen the local economy. 

Anja Hansen

Special Advisor
ah@science.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 33 23 85

Anneliese Leithoff Christensen

Student Assistant
alc@science.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 33 64 67