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								<h3>Anders Andersson (PI)</h3>
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                                    			<p>Anders received his PhD in 2005 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology after graduate studies on functional genomics on Archaea. Thereafter he conducted postdoctoral studies at the Karolinska Institute, University of California Berkeley, and Uppsala University, working on metagenomics approaches to study microbial communities of different environments (the human gut microbiota, biofilms of acid mine drainage, and bacterioplankton of lakes and the Baltic Sea). In 2010 he returned to KTH, starting his tenure track and building up the Environmental Genomics group at Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm. In 2022 he was promoted to professor.</p>
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								<h3>Krzysztof T. Jurdzinski (PhD student)</h3>
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							<p>Krzysztof is interested in how evolution and ecology shape microbial genomes, diversity and functioning. Using tools of data analysis, phylogenomics and bioinformatics he wants to connect genomic changes to physiology and role in ecosystem functioning of the microbes. He has a background in biochemistry (BSc, Jagiellionian University) and finished SciLifeLab Master’s programme in Molecular Techniques in Life Science (joined between Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University and KTH).</p>
                                    			<p>He joined ENVGEN first as a summer intern (2021), then for a short research project (2021-2022) and his Master’s thesis (2022). Starting from 2022, he is a PhD student in a <a href="https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2021-05563_VR">project</a> focused on evolution of brackish microbiome. He also studies adaptation and dispersal of bacterial in a broader context, as well as factors driving microbial diversity.</p>
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								<h3>Karin Garefelt (PhD student)</h3>
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							<p>Karin studies marine microbiomes in the seas around Sweden, focusing on transforming large datasets into ecological insights about plankton communities. She is working with high-throughput technologies, and combines high-throughput imaging (Imaging FlowCytobot) with metabarcoding to integrate and compare the different types of information. The research involves fieldwork on research ships, lab work and bioinformatic analysis. </p>
							<p>Karin first joined ENVGEN for her MSc thesis in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology at KTH, and continues the project into her PhD studies (2023-). Since January 2026, she’s been collaborating with the Baltic Sea Center to study atmospheric emissions from phytoplankton at Askö Laboratory.</p>
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								<h3>Emma Bell (Researcher)</h3>
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							<p>Emma’s research focuses on understanding how bacteria, archaea, and viruses contribute to biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem processes. She uses meta-omic approaches that apply across diverse microbial habitats to understand how microorganisms interact with each other and the environment.</p>
							<p>Emma first joined the Environmental Genomics group in 2023 with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship to explore <a href="../projects.html#visible-project">virus-host interactions in the Baltic Sea</a>. Since 2025, she has continued as an associated researcher leading the <a href="../projects.html#sealab-project">SeaLab</a> research group at the Baltic Sea Centre at Stockholm University.</p>
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				    Agrima Bhatt (KTH)</br>
				    	
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                                        <h3>Alumni</h3>
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					Samuele Storari (Project student) </br>
					Eloïse Dotto (Project student) </br>
					Fanny Johansson (MSc student). Presently at Cellcolabs. </br>
					Jens Hulterström (Project student) </br>
					Luis Fernando Delgado (PhD student). Presently at University of Luxembourg. </br>
					Maria Prager (Research Engineer). Presently at University of Gothenburg. </br>
					Ela Iwaszkiewicz (Postdoc). Presently at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. </br>
					Ireen van Dolderen (Project student). Presently at RE-PEAT. </br>
					Vesna Grujcic (Postdoc). Presently at Stockholm University </br>
					Cecilia Furugård (MSc student). Presently at Linköpings universitet. </br>	
					Ziling Deng (MSc student)</br>
				    Johannes Alneberg (PhD student). Presently at NGI/Scilifelab.</br>	
				    Conny Sjöqvist (Postdoc). Presently at Åbo Akademi University.</br>
			        Yue Hu (PhD student). Presently at Chinese Academy of Sciences. </br>
			            Luisa Hugerth (PhD student). Presently at Uppsala University.</br>	
			            Olov Svartström (Postdoc). Presently at Swedish Public Health Agency.</br>
			            Jurg Brendan Logue (Postdoc). Presently at SLU.</br>	   					    
                                    Daniel Lundin (Postdoc). Presently at Linnaeus University.</br>
                                    Brynjar Smári Bjarnason (MSc Student). Presently at Controlant. </br>
                                    Ino de Bruijn (MSc Student, Bioinformatician). Presently at 	
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.</br>
                                    Hussein Shokry (MSc Student). Presently at University of Copenhagen.</br>
				    Caroline Lilliebjörn (MSc Student). Presently at H&M Group. </br>
                                    Florian Heigwer (Project Student). Presently at German Cancer Research Center.</br>
                                    Nasir Abbasi (Project Student). Presently at BRIC - BoRdeaux Insitute of onCology.</br>
                                    Hugo Wefer (Project Student). Presently at Swedbank.</br>
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