Arve Lynghammar
Job description
Research and education in fish biology
Research Group leader Genetics 2025–
Error rendering component
Research interests
Fish taxonomy, systematics, ecology and population genetics. Skates (Rajidae) is of main interest, but also Arctic fishes in general. I am more interested in fish species others does not care about.
Subject editor fish systematics in the journal Marine Biology Research 2019–
Member of IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group 2021–2025
Editor for fish nomenklature, Artsdatabanken
Teaching
BIO-2406 Fish Biology (course responsible H2026– )
BIO-2506 Marine Biodiversity (fish lectures and lab 2019 – )
BIO-3015 Arctic system ecology and climate change (lecture and seminar H2021 – )
BIO-2506 Introduction to Fish Biology (course responsible 2019 – 2025)
FSK-2050 Bacheloroppgave for fisheries and aquaculture (course responsible 2022 – 2023)
FSK-1120 Akvatisk biologi for fiskeri- og havbruksvitenskap – partly course responsible and responsible for the fish Spring 2019
Occasionally contributing in BIO-2010 Marine Ecology, BIO-1104 Zoology and others
Member of research group / centre
CV
2018 – Associate Professor at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science
2015 – 2018 Coordinator, researcher and lecturer at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2010 – 2014 PhD from UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2007 – 2010 Master's degree in Evolutionary Biology and Systematics/taxonomy in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2004 – 2007 Bachelor degree in ecology, ethology and evolution at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology