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SHORT CURRICULUM VITÆ (updated January 2014)
LARS RYLANDER (born December 13, 1964)
Married, three children (born 2001, 2003, and 2004)
Affiliation
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, LundUniversity, Lund
Address: Alwallhuset, Skånes universitetssjukhus i Lund, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46 46222 1631 Email:
Thesis
Date: March 7, 1997.
Affiliation: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, LundUniversity
Supervisors: Professors Lars Hagmar and Ulf Strömberg, LundUniversity,
Title: Dietary exposure to persistent organochlorine compounds and health effects in women and their infants - Epidemiological studies on birthweight, cancer incidence, and mortality.
Associate professor (docent)
In Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, LundUniversity, 2001.
Present and recent professional appointments
- Researcher in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology,
LundUniversity since December 2006.
- Senior lecture in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology,
LundUniversity2003-2006.
- Chief epidemiologist at Occupational and Environmental Medicine, LundUniversity
Hospital 1997- (leave of absence since December 2003).
- Research Engineer at the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
1991-1997.
Paternal leave:
In total about 15 months (6 months during 2001-2002; 2 months during 2004; 4 month during 2005, 3months during 2006).
Scientific supervision (PhD students)
Finished
Lars Rylander was main supervisor
- Kerstin Nilsson (January 2013), at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
Lars Rylander was assistant supervisor
- Christel Björk (October 2012); Hannah Nenonen (April 2011);Jonas Richthoff (April 2007);Tarmo Tiido (May 2007), all at the Department of Molecular Reproductive Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
- Anna Axmon (March 2003); Anna Rignell-Hydbom (May 2005) both at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
On-going
Lars Rylander as main supervisor
Ebba Malmqvist (since November 2009); Kristina Mattsson (since June 2012), both atthe Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
Lars Rylander as assistent supervisor
- Jonatan Axelsson (since 2009); Gunilla Malm (since 2013), both at the Department of Molecular Reproductive Medicine, LundUniversity, Sweden.
- Amanda Ode (since 2011); Hanna Weimann (since 2011), both at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,LundUniversity, Sweden.
- Sigridur Bara Fjallgard (since 2012), at the Division of Endocrinology, Lund University, Sweden.
Grants (Lars Rylander as the main applicant)
- FORMAS: Hur påverkar hormonstörande miljögifter och luftföroreningar
fostertillväxten?; 3489000 kr (410000 EURO, 2014-2016, Dnr 2013-1205).
- VR: Exposure to endocrine disruptors and coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes;
2100000 SEK (245000 EURO, 2012-2014)
- FORMAS: Air pollution and type 1 diabetes; 1 850 000 SEK (215000 EURO, 2009-
2010, Dnr 216-2008-1109).
- FORMAS: Air pollution and reproductive health; 1 620 000 SEK (190000 EURO,
2007-2008, Dnr 2006-0276).
- FAS: Persistent organochlorine pollutants and type 2 diabetes; 2200000 SEK
(255000 EURO, 2007-2009, Dnr 2006-276).
- Nordic Cancer Union: Health outcomes among infants whose fathers had been treated
for cancer – a register-based study comparing assisted and non-assisted conceptions;
1985000 SEK (230000 EURO; 2007-2009)
Collaborations
Continuous collaborations with national and international PhD-researchers. Is e.g. participating in a project financed by the EU (CLEAR - which is a continuation of a previous project (INUENDO – Human risk for biopersistent organochlorine in the environment [
Others
Scientific publications
130 published international original peer-review papers, 28 full length published abstracts, about 150 conference abstracts and 6 reports (in Swedish) from the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund. H-index=31 (December 2013)
Examples of international courses
1. EEPE’s Three weeks residential summer course in Epidemiology,1992 in Florence, Italy (EEPE=European Educational Program in Epidemiology).
2. NEEI’s Three weeks residential summer course in Epidemiology, 1994 i Boston, USA (NEEI=New England Epidemiology Institute).
3. Four one week courses given by NIVA(Nordic Institute for Advanced Training in Occupational Health): "Third international seminar on occupational hazards and eproduction", 1994, Turku, Finland/ "First International Symposium on Occupational safety and Health among Seamen, Fishermen and employees in the Fish Industry", 1995, Torshamn, Faroe Islands / "Fourth international seminar on occupational hazards and reproduction", 1999, Saariselkä, Finland /"Fifth international seminar on occupational hazards and reproduction", 2004, Naantali, Finland.
Educational experience
- Continuously involved at the Programme for medical training at LundUniversityas a lecturer/seminar tutor since 1993. Course leader for the selective course “Reproductive medicine”.
- Course leader and lecturer at the course “Biostatistics and Epidemiology” within the METALUND research school.
- Responsible at three occasions for the five weeks course in Environmental epidemiology at the Programme for Biomedical Laboratory Science, at the University of Kalmar. I had about half of the lectures at each occasion.
- Continuously lectures in epidemiology/environmental epidemiology/biostatisticsat the Lund Institute of Technology, HalmstadUniversity and KristianstadUniversity.
Examples of Societies and Expert Council
- Member of the Toxicological Council at the Swedish Chemical Agency (KEMI) since January 2011.
- Member of the EFSA’s working group (European Food Safety Authority) regarding “Mercury in food – updated opinion”, 2012.
- Member of the board in the Swedish Epidemiological Society (secretary 1998-1999, treasurer 2000-2004, resposible for SVEP’s home page 1998-2003 and programme at Läkarstämman 2001-2004).