Catherine Legrand

Managing Director and Dean
Executive office , School of Health and Welfare
Vice President for Sustainability
President's Office , Jönköping University
Presentation Publications

Catherine Legrand, Professor of Marine Ecology, started her position as Dean and Academic leader at the School of Health and Welfare in spring 2025.

Catherine has an extensive background in academia with experience in leadership in education and research, as well as sustainability and internationalization issues. She joins us from Halmstad University where she was Head of the School of Economics, Innovation and Sustainability. She has previously been Vice-Chancellor at Linnaeus University. She is appointed by the Swedish government as a member of the Water Delegation for the Water Authority of the Southern Baltic Sea Water District.

Catherine Legrand is Professor of Marine Ecology. Her research on aquatic microbes, mainly marine, linked to the health of aquatic ecosystems under human pressure is internationally recognized. A focus on innovative solutions contributes to clean water and clean air in a climate change perspective. The vision is to contribute to sustainable blue growth with innovative monitoring tools, algae technologies, renewable energy, high-value products and nutrient recycling. She involves students, communities and the private sector in research and teaching where there is room for experimentation, prototyping and creativity. She received VR's Swedish Science Impact Award in 2017 and has a solid network in the international research community, including in the Nordic countries.

Read more about Catherine Legrand's research here

Article

Nham, Q., Gordon, T., Farnelid, H., Legrand, C., Lindehoff, E. (2025). Mitigating Night Biomass Loss in Outdoor Pilot-Scale Mixotrophic Algal Cultivation of Monoraphidium minutum Using Flue Gas Condensate and Cheese Whey Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 122(10), 2688-2700. More information
Mollica, T., Farnelid, H., Lindehoff, E., Legrand, C. (2025). Smaller phytoplankton size-groups control the stoichiometry of the autotrophic community Limnology and Oceanography, 70(7), 1947-1961 Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons . More information
Weissenbach, J., Aguilera, A., Bas Conn, L., Pinhassi, J., Legrand, C., Farnelid, H. (2024). Ploidy levels in diverse picocyanobacteria from the Baltic Sea Environmental Microbiology Reports, 16(5), 1-9 West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons . More information
Pérez Blanco, E., Salomon, P., Carlsson, P., Legrand, C., Granéli, E. (2024). Population dynamics of dominant dinoflagellate species in the North Sea: in situ growth rates, photosynthetic potential, and losses due to parasitism Harmful Algae, 134. More information
Lindehoff, E., Mattsson, L., Olofsson, M., Svensson, F., Farnelid, H., Legrand, C. (2024). Biomass performance and stability of 5-year outdoor microalgal cultivation for CO2 removal from cement flue gas Bioresource Technology Reports, 25, 1-11 Oxford: Elsevier . More information
Nham, Q., Legrand, C., Lindehoff, E. (2024). Microalgal production and nutrient recovery under mixotrophic mode using cheese whey permeate Bioresource Technology, 410, 1-11 Amsterdam: Elsevier . More information
Aguilera, A. Alegria Zufia, J. Bas Conn, L. Gurlit, L. Śliwińska-Wilczewska, S. Budzałek, G. , ... Farnelid H. (2023). Ecophysiological analysis reveals distinct environmental preferences in closely related Baltic Sea picocyanobacteria Environmental Microbiology, 25(9), 1674-1695 Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc. . More information
Nham, T., Mattsson, L., Legrand, C., Lindehoff, E. (2023). Whey permeate as a phosphorus source for algal cultivation Water environment research, 95(4). More information
Fridolfsson, E. Bunse, C. Lindehoff, E. Farnelid, H. Pontiller, B. Bergström, K. , ... Hylander S. (2023). Multiyear analysis uncovers coordinated seasonality in stocks and composition of the planktonic food web in the Baltic Sea proper Scientific Reports, 13(1) London: Nature Publishing Group . More information
Alegria Zufia, J., Legrand, C., Farnelid, H. (2022). Seasonal dynamics in picocyanobacterial abundance and clade composition at coastal and offshore stations in the Baltic Sea Scientific Reports, 12(1). More information