Research

Here you can read about the Blue Mat's research areas, the young researchers' projects and other research projects.

Research areas

Blue Food has defined seven research areas that can help promote Swedish seafood production and consumption.

Sustainability and resilience

Research area 1

Laws and rules

Research area 2

AI and digitalization

Research area 3

Primary production - aquaculture

Research area 4

Wildlife resources and ecosystem improvement

Research area 5

Processing and product development

Research area 6

Consumers and the market

Research area 7

Blue Food's young researchers

Central to Blue Food are the research projects carried out by Blue Food's young researchers - PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. They will lead to new knowledge and new seafood experts.

Sara Kurland, Uppsala University

High-resolution temporal monitoring of marine biodiversity in Gotland

Evangelia Zioga, KTH & DTU

Taste-sea: Sea vegetables with enhanced flavor for future sustainable foods

Kristina Bergman, KTH

Developing better methods for the sustainability assessment of seafood

Marica Andersson, GU

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

Mar Vall-Llosera Juanola, Chalmers

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

John Axelsson, Chalmers

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

Elena Costa, RISE and University of Gothenburg

Barriers and fears - food neophobia in seafood consumption

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

Niklas Warwas, University of Gothenburg

Circular marine feed ingredients for Nordic aquaculture

Adrianus Both, Uppsala University

Using stable isotopes to identify sustainable food fish in a coastal ecosystem on Gotland - Avslutat

Other research projects

Here you will find additional research projects in or related to Blue Food.

"Sustainable industrial production of fish using AI and advanced data analysis"

Torbjörn Johansson, IVL

Satellite project

Blue Mat's satellite projects can be found on a separate page.

Here you will find Blue Mat's research areas, including cross-cutting research areas, during period 1 (2021-2024 ). A large number of projects started in the first period have continued into period 2.