Blue Food - Centre for future seafood

The purpose of Blue Food - Centre for future seafood, is to harness the enormous potential that exists in the production of nutritious food from Swedish waters and thus make Sweden a leading producer of sustainable seafood.

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News Webinars June 3, 2026

Watch the webinar “Large-scale Aquaculture – A Look at China”

Watch the webinar “Large-Scale Aquaculture – A Look at China” In April, a group of Blue Food researchers and doctoral students from KTH went on a study trip to China to examine the country’s large-scale algae cultivation and seafood production in collaboration with partner university Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In Blue Food’s latest open webinar, Fredrik Gröndahl, a researcher at KTH, and Vita Weitong Xu, a doctoral student at…

Research News May 28, 2026

Blå Mat's Young Researchers: Xiu Gao

Blå Mat’s Young Researchers: Xiu Gao Xiu Gao is a joint PhD student at KTH and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, where she has been conducting research on phytoplankton and nutrient concentrations. In her project at KTH, she analyzes, among other things, phosphorus flows in China’s seaweed industry over several decades using material flow analysis, in which she quantifies how much phosphorus…

Research News May 27, 2026

Blå Mat's Young Researchers: Rufa Mendez

Young Researchers at Blå Mat: Rufa Mendez Rufa Mendez is a postdoctoral researcher at Chalmers University of Technology. She is investigating how species such as herring, oysters, and algae can be transformed into high-quality, sensorially appealing, and nutrient-rich food products through innovative processing methods, such as marine ingredient hybridization, while considering the availability and bioavailability of key micronutrients. In the project, Rufa explores biochemical and physical properties…

Research News May 26, 2026

Young Researchers at Blå Mat: Vita Weitong Xu

Young Researchers at KTH: Vita Weitong Xu Vita Weitong Xu is a joint Ph.D. student at KTH and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Her project focuses on understanding and analyzing large-scale algae production and generating knowledge that can benefit Swedish growers, while also providing insights into sustainable production that Chinese companies can…

Mathilda Karlsson, Uppsala University

“Marine observations with a focus on blue food – availability, extraction potential, and strategies for sustainable use”

Vita Weitong Xu, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

“Sustainable Scaling Up of the Seaweed Industry in Scandinavia and the Nordic Countries”

Laura Kvarnstrand, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

"Underwater Robotic Mapping with Fluorescence and Hyperspectral Analysis for Ecological Applications"

Sara Kurland, Uppsala University

"High-resolution temporal monitoring of marine biodiversity in Gotland"

Marica Andersson, GU

"Co-cultivation of fed and extractive species in Swedish land-based recirculating aquaculture systems"

Pontus Gunnarsson, SLU

"Effect of next generation feed sources on aquaculture manure in plant/microbial production, on gut biota and metabolic effect on the fish as food"

John Axelsson, Chalmers

"Valorization of whole/gutted small herring and sprat into protein-enriched ingredients"

Mar Vall-Llosera Juanola, Chalmers

"Stabilization and Ulva sp. biomass and it's effects on nutritional properties, microstructure, technofunctionality and development of volatile compounds"