is the daily leader of the laboratory and an associate professor at 糖果派对. He majored in Physics and Biology and worked with fish and seal biology in Sweden before starting a PhD in Denmark in marine bioacoustics. He works on hearing and sound production of marine mammals, birds and fish.
Kirstin Andersen Hansen (ATAP) is in charge of animal training and husbandry for all marine mammals and birds, both at the laboratory and at Fjord&Bælt. Her research focuses on hearing and behaviour of marine animals.
Jamileh Javidpour is an assistant professor at 糖果派对. She gained her MSc in marine fish biology in Iran and her PhD at GEOMAR in Kiel. She coordinates a Horizon 2020 project called Go Jelly which involves 15 institutions and industrial partners and addresses marine litters and two major increasing problems of coastal and shallow seas: jellyfish blooms and microplastic debris. for more information see:
is a professor emeritus in marine biology at 糖果派对 and specialized in the feeding ecology and physiology of marine invertebrates.
is a professor emeritus at the Department of Biology, 糖果派对. He is active in a few research projects, specifically the behavior of wild harbor porpoises to anthropogenic sounds (using “state-of-the-art” tags) and the evolution of hearing in harbor porpoises and other small odontocetes using high frequency narrow band biosonar.
Sonja Rasmussen is a laboratory technician at the Department of Biology. She visits Kerteminde every second week and take care of labs and their equipment. She is also responsible for safety routines at the lab.
Niels Christian With Møller helps with practical issues regarding the function of the lab, as well as maintenance and new research setups. He is at the lab about once every week.
Kasper Fjordside (Station technician): Responsible for boat and diving; lab maintenance, aquarium cultures, animal training & husbandry.
Hèloïse Hamel (Research assistant): Jelly fish biology, and drone studies of jelly fish and harbour porpoises.
Josephine Goldstein: Inflation-contraction behaviour of marine sponges, and the biology of jelly fish.
Adam Smith: Hearing and echolocation in toothed whales , and hearing and sound production in sea birds.
Lars Seidelin: Science outreach to high schools and the general public.
PhD student
Johanna Stedt (guest student, Lund University): Biology of harbour porpoises.
Master students
Lena Mannes: Auditory brainstem response in vertebrates. Supervisors : Jakob Dalsgaard and Magnus Wahlberg.
Louise Henriksen: Age determination of harbour porpoises. Supervisors: Sussie Pagh, Charlotte Tøstesen, Magnus Wahlberg.
Michaela Hjelm Hansen: Porpoise population modelling. Supervisors: Magnus Wahlberg and Owen Jones.
Samantha Nesbitt Sørensen: Hearing in penguins. Supervisor: Magnus Wahlberg
Guest scientists / students
Dennis Brennecke (PhD student, Hannover, Germany): Harbour porpoise behaviour around fishing gear
Seal team
Andreas Jagd Jensen
Christina Kaas Andersen
Gonzalo Mainar Drake
Agata Rowny
Panka Cser
Elisa Dinesen
Former PhD students
Kenneth Sørensen (2021). Hearing in marine birds.
Lars Seidelin (2019): Creating interest in marine biology and natural sciences: potentials and pitfalls of using livestream video and integrating it in a teaching program.
Lars Kumala (2017): Osculum dynamics, filtration activity and respiration in the demosponge Halichondria panicea
Josephine Goldstein (2017): Life-history stages of the jellyfish Aurelia aurita . towards a demographic understanding of jellyfish blooms.
Kirstin Anderson Hansen (2017): Hearing in air and underwater of the great cormorant.
Lara Delgado (2016): Ontogeny of echolocation in porpoises and dolphins.
Meike Linnenschmidt (2012): Hearing in the harbour porpoise
Former MSc Students
Maria Skov Rasmussen: Hearing in penguins. Supervisors: Magnus Wahlberg and Kenneth Sørensen
Malou Vittrup: Hearing in penguins. Supervisors: Magnus Wahlberg and Kenneth Sørensen
Luisa Kumpitisch:(MSc student, U Dresden, Germany): Biology of blue mussels.
Annika Schindel: (MSc student, Kiel University, Germany): Biology of mussels.
Nicoline Abiltrup Nielsen: Sound production in Hector's dolphins. Supervisors: Magnus Wahlberg and Steve Dawson
Freja Jakobsen: Bioacoustics of cod. Supervisor: Magnus Wahlberg
Sigga Rasmussen: Behaviour of wolves. Supervisors: Magnus Wahlberg, Lauren Robinson (postdoc) og Friederike Range (professor), Univ. of Vet. Medicine, Vienna
Spica Svendsen: Cognitive behaviour of parrots. Supervisors: Gert Christoffersen, Ole N Larsen, Sara Ortiz, Magnus Wahlberg
Hèloïse Hamel (ERASMUS student, University of La Reúnion): Porpoise reaction to boats.
Emil Bøgh Hansen: Hearing in turtles and birds. Supervisors: Magnus Wahlberg and Jakob Christensen Dalsgaard
Jonas Liechti (Denmark):Communication and interpretation in Danish exhibit centers
Claire Hermans (ERASMUS MSc project; Belgium): Hearing in harbour porpoises
Søs Gerster Engbo (Denmark): Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) demography; Supervisors: Owen Jones, Luca Börger and James Bull
Kasper Fjordside (Denmark): How to boost the interest in natural sciences using training and psychophysics. Supervisors Magnus Wahlberg and Lars Seidelin.
Kenneth Sørensen (Denmark): Underwater hearing in humans
Hector Fernandez (Spain): Cognition in marine mammals
Jacopo di Clemente (Italy): The effects of whale watching on humpback whales
Sara Ortiz (Spain): Cognitive studies of parrots
Alyssa Maxwell (Canada): In-air hearing thresholds of the great cormorant
Annika Toth (Germany): Hearing pathways in harbour porpoises
Malene Minds (Denmark): Mother-calf interactions in dolphins and porpoises
Daniela Prömper (Germany): Field study of porpoises using drones
Luca Gazetta (Italy): Detailed description of fossilized teeth from killer sperm whales
Joanna Sarnocinska (Poland): Harbour porpoise reactions to ship noise
Johannes Baltzer (Germany): The effects of wind farm constructions on harbour porpoises
Nina Bircher (Switzerland): Harbour seal sound production
Johanna Stedt (Sweden / Lund University): Harbour porpoise distribution around Kullaberg
Rasmus Sloth Pedersen (Denmark): Hearing in porpoises
Tina Huulvej (Denmark): Cormorants reaction to sound
Julia Madsen (Denmark): The effects of marine biology teaching programs on students
Sasia Johansen (Denmark): Hearing in the great cormorant
Lars Seidelin (Denmark): Hearing in the great cormorant
Former employees / visitors
Kim Lundgreen (research assistant)
Alyssa Maxwell (student helper)
Florian Lüskow (research assistant)
Maria Wilson (post doc)
Kirby Parnell (Fulbright scholar, 2018-2019): Harbour seal acoustic behavior
Sara Ortiz (Research Assistant): Drone recordings of marine mammals
