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In my teaching and research, I work with plant ecology and topics related to nature conservation. My area of ​​research is in plant ecology, and mainly deals with the different strategies plants can adopt under different conditions. Resource sharing within different clonal plants, seed dormancy, gene flow between cultivated and wild plants, and interactions between soil organisms and crops or wild plants are examples of the systems I have worked with. My ongoing research projects are about applying the knowledge of resource sharing and growth patterns of clonal plants to develop methods to manage invasive alien clonal plants such as Japanese knotweed. We are investigating how heat treatments can work as a control method against Japanese knotweed. We also study the effect of pig rooting on Japanese knotweed. The projects are financed by the Swedish Transport Agency in collaboration with Formas, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and HaV. I am also interested in the role of seed dispersal in relation to invasive alien plants such as Japanese knotweed and its close relatives.

At Halmstad University I participate in the research program TRAINS (Transformation, Innovation and norm Sciences), which is part of the focus area Smart cities and communities. The research program TRAINS started in 2024.

In addition to teaching and research, I have previous experience from the scientific journals through my position as an editor at the editorial office Oikos (https://nordicsocietyoikos.org/oikos-editorial-office).