Elisabeth Karlstad Larsen graduated with a Merit in MSc
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security from Lancaster
Univeristy September 2015. For her master's degree she worked
on the transnational project WATBIO (Development of improved
perennial non-food biomass and bioproduct crops for
water-stressed enviornments), investegating how contrasting
genotypes of Poplar responds to drought, for bioenergi
purposes. The investigation included both a greenhouse trial
and a fieldplot investigation. She presented her work at the
Perennial Biomass Crops for a Resource Constrained World, in
Hohenheim Germany up on submition. After graduation she
continued to work for the Environment Centre at Lancaster,
researching the connection between plant root growth and
phosphorus deficiency in bedding plants. After finishing her
research at Lancaster in 2016 she got accepted for a PhD in
Ecology, a position developed as a collaboration between CEAM
and the University of Alicante. She is now working on the
VERSUS project, in the eco-hydrological part of the research
(Work packages 4, 7 and 8). |