I am an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Lund University. My research focuses on the quantification and communication of uncertainty in scientific assessments and how uncertainty can be considered in decision making, in particular in the management of environmental systems under varying strengths in knowledge.
Uncertainty and Evidence Lab (UnEviL)
My research group focuses on the management of uncertainty and evidence in risk assessment, evidence synthesis and decision analysis. We discuss the principles and methods on conceptual and actual problems and we are not limited to a specific application.
Key interests
- Uncertainty in scientific assessments
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Subjective probability
- Bayesian analysis and modelling
- Ecologic-economic modelling
Selected applications
- Ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
- Invasive species
- Chemical safety
- Honey bee health
- Litter
- Species conservation
Leadership
2020 – Member of LU Futura (representing the Natural Science Faculty)
2018 – President of the Swedish Society for Risk Sciences (Riskkollegiet)
www.riskkollegiet.nu
2017– Research group leader Uncertainty and Evidence Lab
Uncertainty and Evidence Lab
2015–2017 President of the Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis
www.sra.org
2016 BECC action group: Evidence relying on simulation models and expert judgment.
About the project on portal.research.lu.se
2014–2018 Scaling up uncertain environmental evidence – Quality assurance in ecosystem service predictions (FORMAS project)
2015 STAKE Practices and barriers of stakeholder interaction – challenges for research projects
About the study at becc.lu.se
2014 Quality in knowledge – BECC action group
Education and awards
I have a Master of Science in Mathematics with a major in Mathematical Statistics, Lund University 2003. My Master thesis "Analysis of forest field data with a spatial approach" was awarded Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne Nova scholarship of 25,000 SEK 2004.
I also have a Master of Science in Forestry with a major in Forest Management, Swedish Agricultural and Forest University, 2000. My master thesis "Modelling spatial variability in low temperature at a landscape level" was awarded Arvid Lindman scholarship of 25,000 SEK in 2001.
2010 I defended my PhD thesis From data to decision – learning by probabilistic risk analysis of biological invasions. Prof Hugh Possingham was my opponent.
Award in the images of risk competition at ESREL 2016 of my image "The probability of a unique event".
Photo at evidence.blogg.lu.se
I received the Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award from the Society for Risk Analysis 2016.
Appointed Docent in Environmental Science at Lund University in June 2017. The Swedish title Docent corresponds to Associate Professor in the US or Reader in the UK.
My docenture lecture at evidence.blogg.lu.se
Current PhD students
Dmytro Perepolking (main supervisor), Ivette Raices-Cruz (main supervisor), Maria Blasi Romero, Per Gustavsson, Vladimir Stepanov (Liverpool University, UK)
Visiting PhD students
Indrani Govendor, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa – Oct 2016 to April 2017
Former PhD students
Jan Blanke, 2017
Sarfraz Iqbal 2013 Environmental modelling and uncertainty (main supervisor Feb 2012 – Feb 2013)
Postdocs
Niklas Vareman (2016–2017), Charlotte Baey (2016–2018), Jessica Knapp (2019-2020)
Current courses
Undergraduate
Introduction to biostatistics MASB11 Spring 2021
Applied ecotoxicology (lectures) spring 2021
Graduate
Sustainable Land Use Agenda2030 Spring 2021
Examples of previous courses
Risk, uncertainty and decision-making RUDM ClimBEco/FRAM/LUCRAM 2019 Oct–Nov 2019
Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Research ClimBEco/CEC 2019, 2020
Bayesian analysis and decision theory BADT ClimBEco 2018
Graduate course in Risk, Uncertainty and Decision making, NAMV002, ClimBeco/LUCID, October–November 2016.
Seventh school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), Aug 29 – Sep 2, 2016, Durham, UK.
Bayesian Analysis and Decision Theory NAMV001 – As a summer school August–September 2015.
Environmental risk analysis at Lund University MVEC12 (Lectures and assignments). Teaching students about quantifying uncertainty.
Applied Ecotoxicology LU BIOR52 (Lecture and exercise)
Conservation Biology (Lecture and exercise)
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
- Ullrika Sahlin, Inari Helle, Dmytro Perepolkin
(2021) Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 17 p.221-232
Journal article - Eva Forsgren, Jenny Henriksson, Lina Herbertsson, Ingrid Karlsson, Joachim R. de Miranda, et al.
(2020)
Report - Ullrika Sahlin, Martin Stjernman, Fabian Roger, Torbjörn Tyler, Ola Olsson, et al.
(2020) Utvärderingsrapport, 2020
Report - Åsa Knaggård, Daniel Slunge, Anders Ekbom, Maria Göthberg, Ullrika Sahlin
(2019) Environmental Science and Policy, 97 p.25-35
Journal article - Martin Stjernman, Ullrika Sahlin, Ola Olsson, Henrik G. Smith
(2019) Ecological Applications, 29
Journal article - Mark Holmes, Jonne Kotta, Anders Persson, Ullrika Sahlin
(2019) Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 229
Journal article - Hanna Holmquist, Jenny Lexén, Magnus Rahmberg, Ullrika Sahlin, Julia Grönholdt Palm, et al.
(2018) International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 23 p.2208-2216
Journal article - Jan Blanke, Niklas Boke-Olén, Stefan Olin, Jinfeng Chang, Ullrika Sahlin, et al.
(2018) PLoS ONE, 13
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin, Björn Klatt
(2018) CEC rapport
Report - Jan Hendrik Blanke
(2017)
Dissertation - Charlotte Baey, Ullrika Sahlin, Yann Clough, Henrik G. Smith
(2017) Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 24 p.505-527
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin, Lennart Edsman, Patrik Bohman
(2017)
Report - Ullrika Sahlin, Maj Rundlöf
(2017) Journal of Risk Research, 20 p.988-994
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin, Matthias C.M. Troffaes
(2017) Journal of Risk Research , p.1-8
Journal article - Johanna Häussler, Ullrika Sahlin, Charlotte Baey, Henrik G. Smith, Yann Clough
(2017) Ecology and Evolution, 7 p.1898-1908
Journal article - Jan Hendrik Blanke, Stefan Olin, Julia Stürck, Ullrika Sahlin, Mats Lindeskog, et al.
(2017) Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 239 p.385-398
Journal article - U. Sahlin
(2017) Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice - Proceedings of the 26th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2016 , p.51-51
Conference paper - Daniel Slunge, Olof Drakenberg, Anders Ekbom, Åsa Knaggård, Ullrika Sahlin
(2017)
Report - Ullrika Sahlin, Yf Jiang
(2016) Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 230 p.445-456
Journal article - Juliana Dänhardt, Henrik G. Smith, Mark V. Brady, Ullrika Sahlin
(2016)
Other - Ullrika Sahlin
(2015) Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 29 p.583-594
Journal article - Torbjörn Tyler, Thomas Karlsson, Per Milberg, Ullrika Sahlin, Sebastian Sundberg
(2015) Nordic Journal of Botany, 33 p.300-317
Journal article - U. Sahlin
(2015) Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems - Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015 , p.2797-2804
Conference paper - U. Sahlin, F. Di Maio, M. Vagnoli, E. Zio
(2015) Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems - Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015 , p.2613-2621
Conference paper - Ullrika Sahlin, N. Jeliazkova, T. Oberg
(2014) Molecular Informatics, 33 p.26-35
Journal article - Martin Stjernman, Åke Lindström, Ullrika Sahlin, Martin Green, Henrik G. Smith
(2014)
Report - Ullrika Sahlin, Laura Golsteijn, M Sarfraz Iqbal, Willie Peijnenburg
(2013) ATLA: Alternatives To Laboratory Animals, 41 p.91-110
Journal article - Margareta Söderström, Cecilia Boldemann, Ullrika Sahlin, Fredrika Mårtensson, Anders Raustorp, et al.
(2013) Acta paediatrica, 102 p.83-91
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin
(2013) ATLA: Alternatives To Laboratory Animals, 41 p.111-125
Journal article - M. Sarfraz Iqbal, Laura Golsteijn, Tomas Oberg, Ullrika Sahlin, Ester Papa, et al.
(2013) Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32 p.1069-1076
Journal article - Nils Lubbe, Ullrika Sahlin
(2012) Applied Energy, 92 p.473-479
Journal article - Stefan Brandmaier, Ullrika Sahlin, Igor V. Tetko, Tomas Oberg
(2012) Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 52 p.975-983
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin, Tobias Rydén, Cecilia D. Nyberg, Henrik Smith
(2011) Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2 p.500-508
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin, Monika Filipsson, Tomas Oberg
(2011) Molecular Informatics, 30 p.551-564
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin, Henrik Smith, Lennart Edsman, Göran Bengtsson
(2010) Journal of Applied Ecology, 47 p.1044-1052
Journal article - Ullrika Sahlin
(2010)
Dissertation - Mora Aronsson, Cecilia Nyberg, Ullrika Sahlin
(2008) Fauna och Flora: populär tidskrift för biologi, 103
Journal article
Conferences
Upcoming conferences
- none planned yet
Past conferences
- Society for Risk Analysis US 2020
- SETAC North America 2020
- Nordic chapter Risk Conference Kaunas november 5-6 2020
- SETAC Dublin 2020
- Nordic Chapter Risk Conference Copenhagen Nov 7-8
- ESREL 2020 PSAM 15 Venice 21-26 June
- ESREL2019 Hannover
- RISKUT 2019 - a conference about teaching risk (organiser)
- Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) GORDON research conference Vermont 2019 - I gave a talk about uncertainty in individual predictions
- Society for Imprecise Probability SIPTA July Belgium
- Bayes@Lund2019 7 May (organiser)
- SETAC 2019 - Helsinki
- Jont EFSA/Bfr International Conference on Uncertainty in Risk Analysis Feb 21-22 2019
- SRA Nordic chapter Stavanger Nov 8-9 - I gave a tutorial here
- EFSA Conference Sept 18-21
- SRA Europe Östersund - June 2018
- Bayes@2018 - April 12th 2018
- CEE in Paris April
- SRA Nordic chapter conference Finland Nov 2-3
- BayesDays at Liverpool (I will give a tutorial on Quantifying uncertainty using data and experts see program)
- SRA Europe Lissbon, Portugal 19-21 June
- The Cambridge Risk and Uncertainty (RUC) Conference June 12-14th
- Bayes@Lund2017 - for the 4th time on April 19th and 20th Twitter #bayeslund17
- The Annual meeting of the Swedish Professional Beekepers, Nyköping 2017
- SRA, San Diego, USA, December 2016 - uncertainty according to EFSA & what is robustness to uncertainty
- ESREL Glasgow, UK, 25-29 September 2016 - paper on small data and conflicting information
- SRA Nordic, Göteborg, Sweden, 14-15 November 2016 - the new SRA glossary
- First International Conference of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Stockholm, Sweden, 25-27th August, 2016
- SRA Europe Bath, UK, 20-22nd June, 2016 - presentation on small data and statistics
- Bayes@Lund2016 Feb 5th, Lund, Sweden. - what do we mean by evidence really?
- SRA Nordic chapter conference Lund 16 - 17 November
- ESREL 2015 7-10 September 2015
- WPMSIIP 8th Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability, Munich Sept 5th 2015.
- SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, 3 - 7 May 2015, Julia held an excellent presenation of what we call Information Quality Impact Analysis
- The European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA) 2015 12-14 May. Poster “Who decides the treatment of knowledge-based uncertainty – decision makers, assessors or the epistemic situation?”
- SRA Europe Maastricht 15-17 June 2015 - The Nordic Chapter under SRA Europe is now up an running.
Workshops - Sahlin
Uncertainty analysis in predictive assessments Nov 2020
Evidence synthesis Nov 2019
BayesDays Liverpool October 21-22 2019
Quantifying uncertainty by precise and bounded probability. Liverpool January 2019, Berlin February 22nd 2019
Uncertainty in scientific assessments South Africa Workshop Durban January 2019
Quantifying uncertainty by probability. Lund October 10th.Stavanger November 7th 2018
Stakeholders - Sahlin
Work interacting with stakeholders
The European Food Safety Authority - member of the cross cutting working group on uncertainty (from nov 2019)
The Swedish Board of Agriculture - Indices for biodiversity in grasslands
A report on data collection and analysis of winter loss in Sweden is finished as part of the project Samverkan för god bihälsa.
The project Gaming for better decisions under uncertainty is finished.
This is where you can download the risk analysis of signal crayfish report
Pollinera Sverige - Swedish pollination network
Independent expert in the MUST-B working group at EFSA
Risk analysis on the signal crayfish for the Swedish Water Agency
The Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis
Work on promoting Bayesian methods in research - annual mini conference Bayes@Lund