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Hans Ulrick Riisgard
University of Sourthern Denmark, Denmark
Education M.Sc. (1976), Ph.D. (1979), D.Sc. (1982) from University of Copenhagen. Positions held 1977-1983: Experimental Zoophysiologist, Marine Pollution Laboratory, National Agency of Environmental Protection, Charlottenlund, Denmark. 1983-2008: Associate Professor, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark. 1997-2000: Guest Professor, Kristineberg Marine Research Station (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). 2008-present: Professor, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark.
My research has mainly contributed to filter feeding, bioenergetics and fluid mechanical analysis of filter-pumps in marine invertebrates; Assimilation, respiration, energy budgets, growth; Costs of growth; Growth efficiency; Biological filter-pumps; Biomixing; Fluid mechanics; Population grazing impact; Particle capture mechanisms; Benthic-pelagic coupling; Biological structure and nutrient dynamics; Grazing impact of benthic filter feeders; Implications of density driven currents for interaction between jellyfish and zooplankton. Several research sojourns, among them: Skidaway (USA), Woods Hole (USA), University of Wales (U.K.), Kristineberg Marine Research Station (Sweden)