Experts on Urban Farming

Associate Professor
Jakob Magid

  • Recycling of waste and nutrients
  • Pollution and risks in urban farming
  • Cultivation systems in urban farming

jma@plen.ku.dk

 +45 35 33 34 91

Assistant Professor
Kristian Holst Laursen

  • Plant nutrients and food quality
  • Vertical farming
  • Organic plant production
  • Urban plant cultivation systems
  • Fertilization and plant growth

holst@plen.ku.dk

+45 35 33 37 28

Associate Professor
Dorte Bodin Dresbøll

  • Urban and peri-urban cropping systems
  • Protein crops
  • Ressource use efficiency
  • Intercropping

dbdr@plen.ku.dk

+45 35 33 34 52

Associate Professor
Christian Bugge Henriksen

  • Sustainable food systems
  • Local plant-based food production
  • Food forests, forest gardens and agroforestry
  • Environmental assessment and decision support systems

cbh@plen.ku.dk

+45 35 33 35 75

Professor MSO
Henrik Vejre

  • Definitions and theoretical framework in urban farming
  • Social aspects of urban farming
  • Types of urban farming in Europe
  • Externalities associated with urban farming
  • Urban agriculture
  • Planning of urban farming

hv@ign.ku.dk

+45 35 33 18 19

Teaching Assistant Professor -  Forest and Landscape College
Rasmus Halfdan Jørgensen

  • Applied plant ecology
  • Forest gardens / food forests
  • Agroforestry
  • Agro-innovation

rhj@ign.ku.dk

+45 93 56 52 63

Professor
Bent Egbjerg Mikkelsen

  • Cultivation & local communities
  • Smart Urban Regional Fooddata (SURF)
  • School gardens
  • Farm2School links
  • Alternative Food Networks (AFN)
  • Foodscape Studies

bemi@ign.ku.dk

+45 35 33 74 64

Associate Professor, Head of Section
Jesper Sølver Schou

  • Demand for urban farming products
  • Production systems and production economy
  • Externalities and public goods from urban farming
  • Technology and dissemination of technology
  • Potentials for production

jss@ifro.ku.dk

+45 35 33 69 01

Assistant Professor
Rebecca Leigh Rutt

  • Urban farming and environmental justice incl. ‘food justice’
  • Urban farming and urban political ecology
  • Aspects of access, public participation, and inclusion/exclusion

rlr@ifro.ku.dk

+45 35 32 69 84

Associate Professor
Michael Bom Frøst

  • Sensory Science
  • Gastronomy
  • Food experiences
  • Design Thinking
  • Consumer preferences

mbf@food.ku.dk

+45 35 33 32 07