- Anders Hans Karlsson
Prof. Anders Hans Karlsson (born
July 22 ,1959 ) is a Swedishscientist andagronomist working inDenmark since 1996. Karlsson was born inVästerås ,Sweden , and is the son of Hans Valter Karlsson (b. 1931) and Gunvor Agnes Matilda Kyller (b. 1938), and he grow up in the small townHallstahammar , 2o km west ofVästerås , in the provinceVästmanland .In 1989 Karlsson received his
M.Sc. degree inAgronomy (Animal science andMeat science ), and in 1993 he received hisPh.D. degree inMeat Science. Both these degrees was received from theSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) inUppsala ,Sweden . In January 2004 he was appointedProfessor at theUniversity of Copenhagen (KU) inMeat Science. He also act as the Head of theMeat ScienceResearch Section, which is a part of the Department of Food Science,University of Copenhagen Faculty of Life Sciences inCopenhagen (Frederiksberg C),Denmark . Since 2004 he is the Chairman for the Danish Meat Science Board (Kødforskningsudvalget; see link below).In 2007, he was appointed by the
EU Commission to coordinate a 5-year Integrated Project under the 6th Framework Program titled Q-PorkChains. This projeect is one of the largest initiatives in Food Science ever supported by the EU. The total budget for the project is 20.7 million € (see project link below), of which 15.0 million € comes from EU.References
* [http://en.ifv.life.ku.dk/faggrupper/koed.aspx Anders Hans Karlsson home page at Copenhagen University]
* [http://www.q-porkchains.org Home Page for the EU Integrated Project Q-PorkChains]
* [http://www.danishmeat.dk/smcms/slagteriteknologi/Om_SF/Koedforskudv_SF/Index.htm?ID=2846 Home page for the Danish Meat Science Board - Kødforskningsudvalget]
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