Joakim Larsson is a professor of Environmental Pharmacology in the Department of Infectious Disease at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is Director for the Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) in Gothenburg, with more than 150 active researchers from 18 departments. His own research group focuses mainly on the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance, particularly antibiotic pollution, resistance evolution, wastewater-based surveillance and policy aspects.
Joakim has authored more than 200 scientific papers, and he has been on Clarivate’s list of highly cited researchers since 2018. He acts as scientific advisor to the Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs and the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). His work on antibiotic pollution from drug manufacturing and research on selective concentrations of antibiotics has contributed to various management initiatives across the world. In 2023 and 2024, he acted as lead consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) for the development of the Guidance on wastewater and waste management for manufacturing of antibiotics.