Joakim Larsson

Joakim Larsson is a Professor in Environmental Pharmacology at the Department of Infectious Disease, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD in animal physiology in 2000 in 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. From 2016 he is director for the multidisciplinary Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) at University of Gothenburg, involving more than 100 researches from six faculties. Larsson has (co)-authored more than 150 papers, and he is among the 1% most highly cited researchers on Web of Science according to Clarivate Analytics. His earlier work on environmental pollution from drug manufacturing, and his research on selective concentrations of antibiotics has contributed various management initiatives across the world. The research of his own research group focusses today mainly on the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance. Current research projects include e.g. research on: the role of antibiotics and biocides in the development (selection, transfer) of antibiotic resistance; understanding the evolutionary history of antibiotic resistance acquisition in pathogens; exploration of the environmental resistome for novel resistance genes; surveillance of resistance in the human population using sewage bacteria; environmental transmission of resistant pathogens; as well as both technical and societal measures to reduce environmental pollution with antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria.