Telephone: +47 934 66 746
E-mail: kjetil.hindar@nina.no
Department:
NINA laksefisk
Knowledge areas
Population genetics, salmonid fishes, hybridisering, escaped farmed salmon, conservation biology, genetically modified organisms.
Key qualifications
Thirty-five years experience as a researcher on salmonid ecology and genetics; 8 years as a research director; >100 scientific publications; project leader on several Research Council of Norway projects, including a Knowledge platform on interactions between escaped farmed and wild salmon; experience from EU projects (leading one), BiodivERsA and Swedish research council projects; comprehensive international network
Education
1992: Dr. philos., University of Oslo.
1981: MSc, University of Oslo.
Experience
Employment:
2019 - present: Senior principal research scientist, NINA
2010 - 2018: Research director, NINA
1988 - 2010: Research scientist, NINA, Trondheim (senior research scientist from 1989; principal research scientist from 1994; senior principal research scientist from 1997)
1987-1988: Research scientist, Directorate for Nature Management, Trondheim
1985-1987: Research scientist, Norsk Biotech A/S and Norsk Bioakva A/S, Sandnes
1982-1985: Research scholar, University of Oslo (Norwegian Fisheries Research Council)
Commissions of trust:
National boards: WWF Norway board of directors, 1994-1999; Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, 1998-2008 (personal appointment by government); Scientific Advisory Committee for Atlantic Salmon Management, 2009-2012; Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (Panel on Alien Organisms and trade in Endangered Species (CITES)), 2015-present.
International boards: Norwegian delegate to international workshops on monitoring of genetically engineered organisms (OECD, Council of Europe, EFSA); Swedish Research Committee on Ecological Risks of Transgenic Organisms (SNV), 1994-1996; IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group, 1997 – present; IUCN Salmonid Specialist Group, 2010 – present; International evaluation of the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, 2003; European Science Foundation, Conservation Genetics programme, 2004-2009; Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada: Independent Expert Panel on Aquaculture Science, 2018.
Organization of international scientific meetings:
Conservation of Biodiversity for Sustainable Development, Røros, Norway, 1990, Research Council of Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Environment. Co-leader of organizing committee; 110 participants; proceedings published as Sandlund, O.T., Hindar, K. & Brown, A.H.D. (eds.) 1992. Conservation of Biodiversity for Sustainable Development. Scandinavian University Press, Oslo.
The Brundtland Commission’s Report – 10 Years, Oslo, Norway, 1997, Research Council of Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Environment. Member of organizing committee; 150 participants; proceedings published as Bang Søfting, G., Benneh, G., Hindar, K., Walløe, L. & Wijkman, A. (eds.) 1998. The Brundtland Commission’s Report – 10 Years. Scandinavian University Press, Oslo. 237 pp.
Conservation Genetics: Integrating Population Genetics and Conservation Biology, Trondheim, Norway, 2009, European Science Foundation. Leader of organizing committee; 125 participants; proceedings published as Bijlsma, K., Loeschcke, V. & Ouborg, N.J. (guest editors) 2010. Special Issue: ESF-ConGen: Integrating population Genetics and Conservation Biology. Conservation Genetics 11: 347-669.
Supervision and teaching:
Supervisor for 3 dr. scient. [PhD] students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim (Ingrid Bysveen Mjølnerød, PhD 1999; Jarle Tufto, PhD 1997; Kjartan Østbye, PhD 2005); co-supervisor for 4 PhD students (Line E. Sundt-Hansen, NTNU, PhD 2008; Lena Neregård, Göteborg University, PhD 2008; Jisca Huisman, NTNU, PhD 2012; Øyvind Solem, NTNU). Supervisor for post-docs at NINA: Ola H. Diserud, Ditte Hendrichsen, Grethe Robertsen, and Geir H. Bolstad.
Major research grants (project leader):
Commission of the European Communities (CEC), 1994-1996: Hybridisation between escaped farmed Atlantic salmon and brown trout (co-ordinator).
Research Council of Norway (RCN), 1997-2001: Defining Evolutionarily Significant Units in northern fishes.
RCN (FUGE I), 2003-2006: Quantifying biological risks of growth-enhanced transgenic salmon. 6 mill. NOK.
RCN, 2006-2008: Hybridisation between Atlantic salmon and brown trout in Gyrodactylus-infected rivers: consequences for population viability. 0.9 mill. NOK.
RCN, 2010-2012: Allee effects in Atlantic salmon caused by parasite infestation and interspecific hybridisation with brown trout. 6 mill. NOK.
FORMAS (Sweden), 2010-2014: Smoltpro - sustainable smolt production, an integrated approach (assistant co-ordinator; co-ordinator is professor Jörgen Johnsson, Göteborg University) 20 mill. SEK.
RCN, 2012-2015: Knowledge platform – Quantifying genetic effects of escaped farmed salmon on wild salmon (QuantEscape) 20 mill. NOK.
BiodivERsA, 2014-2017: SalmoInvade - Causes and consequences of invasions of aquasystems by non-native salmonids. (steering committee; co-ordinator Jörgen Johnsson, Göteborg University.) 1 mill €.
RCN, 2016-2020: Quantifying ecological effects of introgression of farmed on wild salmon (QuantEscapeII) 20 mill. NOK.
Languages
Norwegian (mother tongue) English (fluent), a little German and French.
Worked in
Canada, 1982. Research scholar, Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Sweden, 1984. Research scholar, Division of Population Genetics, Stockholm University.
USA, 1994. Visiting scholar, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley, CA.
Conference contributions
International conferences/workshops (Invited): 2014: Key note, International Conference on Integrated Salmon Biology II, Vancouver. 2012: European Aquaculture Society, Prague, Czech Replublic. 2011: American Fisheries Society, Seattle, WA. 2003 SALGEN Symposium, Westport, Ireland. 2002: COMPASS workshop, Stanford University, CA. 2001: University of Massachusetts: Marine Aquaculture and the Environment. Boston, MA. 2000: World Aquaculture Society: Behavioral and genetic interactions between escaped farm and wild salmon. Nice, France.1990 (organizing committee): Conservation of Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development, Røros, Norway.
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