Joakim Larsson
Current research projects include: the role of pollution in the promotion of antibiotic resistance; exploration of the environmental resistome for novel resistance genes; surveillance of resistance in the human population using sewage bacteria; aquatic and aerial transmission of resistant pathogens; as well as both technical and societal measures to reduce environmental pollution with antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Joakim received his PhD in animal physiology in 2000 from the University of Gothenburg, and after two years of guest research at marine labs in Canada and USA, he decided to combine his interest for the environment with medicine. He became associate professor in human physiology in 2007 and full professor in 2013.