Speaker

About the speaker: 

Annette Bruhn (AB) works as senior researcher at the Department of Ecoscience at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research focus is cultivation of macroalgae for emission capture and utilisation, optimising the use of macroalgae as a bio-resource and a solution for mitigating eutrophication and climate change. AB works in the cross field between biological oceanography and macroalgae ecophysiology, and always in transdisciplinary teams in cooperation with authorities and industry/SMEs. AB is co-founder of AlgaeCenter Denmark and the annual international Nordic Seaweed Conference, and leads the Marine Bioresource platform of the Aarhus University Center for Circular Bioeconomy.

Company info:

Aarhus University is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark, with 36 thousand students and 8.5 thousand employees. The university was founded in 1928 in Aarhus, Denmark. It comprises five faculties, Arts, Natural Sciences, Technical Sciences, Health, and Business and Social Sciences. It is home to over thirty internationally recognised research centres.

Department of Ecoscience, Faculty of Technical Sciences, delivers high ranking research and advisory work in the fields of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystems globally, with special focus on Denmark and the Arctic.