About Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF)

Organisation

Umeå Marine Sciences Centre is a unit at Umeå University within the Faculty of Science and Technology. Our activities are governed by Umeå University and also our strategic mission and vision.  Our Director is Professor Nick Kamenos and our Deputy Director Dr Siv Huseby

UMF vision and mission

Our vision is to be a leading contributor to Arctic, sub-Arctic and extreme environment knowledge creation. Read more about our vision and mission here.

Advisory council of UMF

The UMF advisory council meets at least twice a year, and the director of UMF is the principal rapporteur of the council.

Composition of the council:

• Sebastian Diehl (Professor, Umeå University, Chair)
• Piero Calosi (Professor, University of Quebec, International Representative)
• Linda Zetterholm (PhD student Umeå University, student representative)
• Göran Bergquist (Laboratory Engineer, Umeå University, staff representative)
• Tomas Brodin (Professor SLU, representative from another university in the region)
• Mats Tysklind (Professor Umeå University, representative Umeå University)
• Vacant, International Representative