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Contact

Senior scientist Karl-Martin Vagn Jensen, telephone: 8715 8121, e-mail: karl-martinv.jensen@agrsci.dk

Department of Agroecology -

  • Hygiene pests in the food industry, flies and midges on cattle and pests in museums
  • Chemical control and resistance
  • Weaver ants in the context of biological control of pests in Africa

Associate professor Lise Stengaard Hansen, telephone: 8715 8113, e-mail: lises.hansen@agrsci.dk

Department of Agroecology -

  • Pests in storage facilities: insects and mites in grain stores, in food processing and in museums
  • Study of insect biology, manifestation, detection and monitoring, prevention and development of control strategies, primarily through biological control and other non-chemical approaches

Senior scientist Ole Kilpinen, telephone: 8715 8114, e-mail: ole.kilpinen@agrsci.dk

Department of Agroecology -

  • Ectoparasites such as chicken mites, bedbugs, fleas and ants
  • Orientation behaviour and chemical communication between insects, and between insects and their surroundings

Associate professor Michael Kristensen, telephone: 8715 7521, e-mail:michael.kristensen@agrsci.dk

Department of Agroecology -

  • Molecular biological methods
  • Focus on origin, frequency and biological significance of genetic coding for resistance in houseflies and cockroaches, but has also worked with headlice and bedbugs and with molecular taxonomy in biting midges

Senior scientist Henrik Skovgård, telephone: 8715 8115 , e-mail: henrik.skovgaard@agrsci.dk

Department of Agroecology -

  • Vector biology and integrated control of pests within primary livestock farming, particularly with the biological control of flies by using parasitoids or other beneficials
  • Epidemiological studies with flies and biting midges as vectors

Senior scientist Tove Steenberg, telephone: 8715 8123 , e-mail: tove.steenberg@agrsci.dk

Department of Agroecology -

  • Insect pathology and microbiological control of insects, particularly with insect-pathogenic fungi
  • Spread, adaptation and natural enemies of the Harlequin Ladybird, a new invasive species