Team - FreshRestore

Kim Magnus Bærum | PI

Kim Magnus is a freshwater ecologist with a special interest in understanding anthropogenic effects on the population dynamics of fishes. He is also involved in a range of other projects including incidental bycatch of seabirds, invasive freshwater species and solutions for migration barriers in streams. On his spare time he enjoys fishing, biking, traveling and hiking. In FreshRestore, Kim Magnus will lead WP 1, and have the role of PI.

Antti P. Eloranta | WP-leader

Antti Eloranta is working as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His new research group investigates natural variation in and human impacts on salmonid fish populations and food webs in Fennoscandian freshwater ecosystems. In the FreshRestore project, Antti Eloranta & co will compile stable isotope data from >100 Fennoscandian lakes to investigate the structure and function of lake food webs along large biogeographical gradients (WP3). He will also contribute to the development of nature-based solutions for mitigation of negative human impacts on European freshwaters (WP5). In his spare time, Antti enjoys fishing, hiking, cooking and music.

Javier Sánchez Hernández | WP-leader

Javier is a freshwater ecologist with a main research interest in fish trophic ecology, including competitive interactions, food-web modelling, ontogenetic diet trajectories, niche variation and biogeographic patterns in feeding. The research touches on a wide variety of aspects of trophic ecology theory including, for example, the exploration of competitive coexistence principles through food resource partitioning to understand stability and functioning of animal assemblages and ecosystems. Javier will lead WP 3, in collaboration with Antti, as well as contribute to the development of nature-based solutions for mitigation of negative human impacts on European freshwaters (WP5).

Pär Byström | WP-leader

Pär Byström is an aquatic ecologist with main research interest in the consequences of ontogenetic niche shifts for size-structured trophic interactions. His present research focus on how natural variation and anthropogenic changes in habitat/niche specific productivity impact lake fish population dynamics, species interactions and population size structure, using a combination of field studies and population modelling. On his spare time Pär enjoys ski touring, fishing, hunting and cooking. Pär will lead WP 2, in collaboration with Kim Magnus, and contribute to the development of nature-based solutions for mitigation of negative human impacts on European freshwaters (WP5).

Ignasi Arranz Urgell | Postdoc

Ignasi Arranz is a postdoctoral researcher interested in biodiversity science, and ecosystem functioning, especially in the context of global change over freshwater ecosystems. In general, his research is divided into three main lines: (1) a trophic ecology research studying aquatic food webs, (2) community ecology research studying patterns of diversity over spatiotemporal gradients, and (3) a biological conservation research for the preservation of biodiversity loss and developing management strategies. In FreshRestore, Ignasi will closely work with Javier in the WP3 in the comparative study among ecosystems at different latitudinal gradients. Visit his webpage for more information on his main interests.

Matthew Cobain | Postdoc

Mat, based at Jyväskylä University, is a stable isotope ecologist whose research has predominantly focused on quantifying the structure and functioning of fish communities. He is currently developing improved Bayesian spatial models to understand and map the drivers that underpin isotopic landscapes. In FreshRestore, he will be working closely with Antti Eloranta in WP3 to try and understand the prevailing environmental drivers of lake food-web structures across Fennoscandia through stable isotopes. If you can’t find him in the office, lab or field, then he will probably be on the badminton court.

Ossi Keva | Postdoc

Ossi is a postdoctoral freshwater ecologist working at the Univeristy of Jyväskylä. He has previously worked with anthropogenic impacts on freshwater food web functioning and biomolecule contents of different organism across the food webs. In FreshRestore project he will be comparing secondary consumer allochtony models based on Bayesian and simple linear approaches. Ossi will be working mainly with Antti Eloranta (WP3) with this subproject where the main goal is to better understand which environmental factors are driving consumer dependence on terrestrial energy sources.

Wojciech Uszko | Postdoc

Wojciech is a postdoctoral researcher based at Umeå University. He uses dynamic models, experiments and field data to study warming effects on aquatic food web dynamics and community size structure. In FreshRestore, together with Pär Byström he is involved in WP2, where he is developing physiologically-structured population models (PSPMs) to look at the effects of lake and stream habitat characteristics as well as global change pressures on fish population abundance, dynamics and size structure.

Raphael Filippelli | Postdoc

Raphael Filippelli, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, contributes to Work Package 4 (WP4) in collaboration with Berit Hasler. He is focused on integrating data from various work packages to develop integrated environmental-economic models. Raphael works in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of Nature-Based Solutions for enhancing lake ecosystems health. With expertise in environmental economics and mathematical modelling, he assesses the socio-economic impacts of restoration efforts, contributing to the project’s overarching goals of sustainable ecosystem management and conservation.

Berit Hasler | WP leader

Berit Hasler is an environmental economist with a specific interest in integrated environmental and economic modelling and analysis of agricultural ecosystem services. She has co-developed integrated environmental-economic models for Danish agriculture and aquatic ecosystems with Raphael Filippelli, Mette Termansen and other researchers at University of Copenhagen as well as at Aarhus University. She has done similar modelling work for the Baltic region, and she is involved in a number of projects on regulation of agriculture for water quality improvements, climate mitigation and biodiversity protection. In her spare time Berit enjoys hiking in the Norwegian mountains. In FreshRestore Berit leads WP4.

Casper Thon Hoffmann | Research assistant

Casper is a research assistant at the University of Copenhagen with a background in agricultural economics. In his studies, Casper particularly focused on topics related to optimal land and resource use and policy analysis, covering various aspects of the agricultural and food sectors in Denmark. As a research assistant, Casper is contributing to projects that utilize environmental-economic land use modelling for investigating policy scenarios, to give stakeholders an informed foundation for making important decisions. In the FreshRestore project, Casper contributes to Work Package 4 (WP4), in collaboration with Berit Hasler and Raphael Filippelli.