Prof. Avan Aihie Sayer
HealthAcademic Medicine
NordCEE, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark
Biological and related sciences , Environment, Health
Animal evolution and diversification, geochemistry, proxies for ancient and modern water column chemistries, developmental biology, tumor biology, cell stemness
To explore how environmental, molecular, or ecological factors contributed to the late but dramatic diversification of animals on Earth, by applying geochemical, molecular, biological, and paleontological methods and insight.
The 2014 Jan Bergström young geoscientist award, the Geological Society of Sweden
Danish, English, Swedish
Hammarlund, E.U., Gaines, R.R., Prokopenko, M.G., Qi, C., Hou, X-G. and Canfield, D.E. Early Cambrian oxygen minimum zone-like conditions at Chengjiang. In press. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Ahm, A.S.C., Bjerrum, C.J. & Hammarlund, E.U. Disentangling the recod of diagenesis, local redox conditions, and global seawater chemistry during the latest Ordovician glaciation. 2016. Earth and Science Planetary Letters (459), 145-156.
Zhang,S., Wang, X., Wang, H., Bjerrum, C.J., Hammarlund, E.U., Costa, M.M., Connelly, J.N., Zhang, B., Su., J. & Canfield, D.E. 2016. Sufficient oxygen for animal respiration 1400 million years ago. PNAS 113 (7), 1731-1736.
Hammarlund, E.U., Dahl, T.W., Harper, D.A.T., Bond, D.P.G., Nielsen, A.T., Bjerrum, C.J., Schovsbo, N.H., Schönlaub, H.P., Zalasiewicz, J.A. & Canfield, D.E., 2012. A Sulfidic Driver for the end-Ordovician Mass Extinction. Earth and Science Planetary Letters, 331-332C, 128-139.
Gaines, R.R.+, Hammarlund, E.U.+, Hou, X-G., Qi, C., Gabbott, S.E., Zhao, Y., Peng, J. & Canfield, D.E., 2012. The Mechanism of Burgess Shale-type preservation. PNAS 109, 5180-5184. (Shared first authorship+)
Dahl, T.W., Hammarlund, E.U., Anbar, A., Bond, D., Gill, B.C., Gordon, G., Knoll, A.H. & Canfield, D.E., 2011. Reply to Butterfield: The Devonian radiation of large predatory fish coincided with elevated atmospheric oxygen levels. PNAS 108 (9), E29. PhD
Hammarlund, E.U., Canfield, D.E., Bengtson, S., Leth, P.M., Schillinger, B. & Calzada, E., 2011. The influence of sulfate concentration on soft -tissue decay and preservation. Palaeontographica Canadiana 31, 141-156.
Dahl, T.W., Hammarlund, E.U., Anbar, A., Bond, D., Gill, B.C., Gordon, G., Knoll, A.H. & Canfield, D.E., 2010. Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish. PNAS 107 (42), 17911-17915.
El Albani, A., Bengtson, S., Canfield, D.E., Bekker, A., Macchiarelli, R., Mazurier, A., Hammarlund, E.U., Boulvais, P., Dupuy, J., Fontaine, C., Fürsich, F.T., Gauthier-Lafaye, F., Janvier, P., Javaux, E., Ossa Ossa, F., Pierson-Wickmann, A., Riboulleau, A., Sardini, P., Vachard, D., Whitehouse, M., Meunier, A. 2010. Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago. Nature 466 (7302), 100-104.
Sveriges Radio P1, Vetandets värld, the 14th of Sept. 2016: Hur uppstod djur på Jorden?
Article, Weekendavisen #37, 2016: Nedbrydning er det normale.
Article, Weekendavisen #01, 2016: Ilt nok, men hvor var dyrene?
Column, Weekendavisen #12, 2015: Fernis, fornuft og farlige drifter.
Article, Weekendavisen #11, 2015: Klodens stregkoder noteret i sten.
Sveriges Radio P3, Morgonpasset, the 6th of Dec 2014 on ‘Massutdöenden’.
Danmarks Radio P1, Hjernekassen, the 17th of Nov 2014 on ‘Udviklingen af liv’.
Danish National Research Foundation, annual meeting of the 7th of Nov. 2014: Women in Science – current research and thoughts.
Column, Weekendavisen #01, 2015: Kunsten at höste brainpower.
Column, Weekendavisen #42, 2014: Jagten på helligånden.
Article, Weekendavisen #38, 2014: I fossilminen.
Column, Weekendavisen #20, 2014: Nyd den ukendte stig.
Column, Weekendavisen #09, 2014: Livet flytter bjerge.
Column, Weekendavisen #50, 2013: Mind the gap.
Column, Weekendavisen #39, 2013: At favne det hele.
Column, Weekendavisen #28, 2013: Jorden som snebold.
Article, Weekendavisen #27, 2013: Krop og liv og kulstof.
Column, Weekendavisen #17, 2013: Ubekvemme spørgsmål.
Column, Weekendavisen #6, 2013: Med mikrober ved roret.
Column, Weekendavisen #48, 2012: Designet overlevelse.
Article, Forskning och Framsteg 14th June 2012: Djurlivets första katastrof skedde under havets yta.
Article, Forskning och Framsteg, 9th May 2012. Den första klimatkatastrofen kvävde livet i havet.
Article, HavsUtsikt, 1/2012. De första djurens hav och grav.
Article, Videnskab.dk, 27. Dec. 2012. Biologen: Fyld juleferien med levende fortællinger om liv.
Implicit bias awareness – how to harvest brainpower
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