Åshild Krogdahl

Åshild Krogdahl is a Professor in the Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH) and leader of the Nutrition Group at the Aquaculture Protein Centre, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence. She joined NVH in 1993 after 10 years of teaching and research in animal nutrition at the Norwegian University of Agriculture and six years at the associated Institute for Aquaculture Research. She is now responsible for the course in Animal Nutrition at NVH and teaches nutrition of monogastric animals. Her research focuses on interactions between food components and intestinal physiology in various monogastric animals (fish and humans included), with the goal of revealing the effects of antinutrients on digestive processes, transport and immune functions of the gut and on nutrient partitioning in the body. Presently, the Atlantic salmon is her main experimental animal. She is a referee for the journals Aquaculture, Aquaculture Nutrition, and Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. She has served as an advisor or consultant to numerous committees and professional societies, including Deputy President in the Senate of the Norwegian Research Council (1986-1989), Representative of Norway in EU's Cost Action 98 (1995-1999), Leader of the Advisory Board of Directorate of Fisheries Institute of Nutrition (1998-2002), and Leader of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (2004-present). Dr. Krogdahl earned her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. at the University of Oslo.