Department of Animal Science
Aarhus University

http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/peter.lund@agrsci.dk

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Curriculum Vitae – Peter Lund Born: August 3rd, 1970, Denmark.   Education: 2002 PhD The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Copenhagen. 1997 MSc Agric. The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Copenhagen.   Employment: 2018- Professor in Sustainable Dairy Production, Dept. of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. 2007-2018 Senior scientist, Department of Animal Science, AU Foulum, Aarhus University, Denmark. 2002-2007 Scientist, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences 1998-2002 PhD-student, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen 1997-1998 Research assistant, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences   Web & Orcid: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/peter.lund@agrsci.dk 0000-0002-9113-4500   Research interests: Member of the Animal Nutrition and Environmental Impact group. Research activities focus on improved utilisation of nutrients in dairy cows. Runs a lab including an animal friendly open circuit calorimeter system to measure enteric methane from single dairy cows in their normal daily environment. Holds a permit for experiments with rumen, duodenum and ileum fistulated dairy cows, where rumen metabolism and digestion of nutrients in the different parts of the gastro intestinal tract is quantified.   Teaching: Responsible for the master courses “Project in Sustainable Animal Nutrition”, “Animal Production Practices”, and “Quantitative Animal Nutrition and Physiology”. Responsible for PhD-course “Introduction to Animal Nutrition and Feeding”. Responsible for the course-portfolio on Animal Science/AgroBiology. Co-responsible for the Erasmus Mundus program ”Sustainable Animal Nutrition and Feeding”. Has supervised 10 PhD-students.   Other activities: Policy support for Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries regarding nutrient efficiency and excretion and the effect of animal production on climate. Chair for the governmental advisory committee for the continuous evaluation of the national standard values for loss of nutrients from farm animals. Responsible for the annual calculations of standard values for nutrient excretion (N, P) from ruminants in Denmark. Member of the national committee on plant nitrogen requirements, nitrogen prognoses, and nitrogen content in farm animal manure. Danish representative in the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse gases (GRA Livestock) and in the Feed Evaluation Network. GRA comprises 49 member countries and 15 partners (e.g. EU, World Bank, World Farmers Organisation). Member of the steering group for iCLIMATE at AU. On the editorial board of “Livestock Science” and “Journal of Agricultural Science - Cambridge”. On PhD-evaluation boards in The Nederlands (x2), Norway, Sweden and Denmark (x2). International evaluator of research proposals: Germany, Belgium (x2), Canada (x3). Qualified as full professor (2018) at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.   Current projects: “CEDERS” EU-project, Danish project partner. This project focus on reducing greenhouse gas emission per kg milk in Europe, and develop new inventories. “Partitioning of nitrogen excretion” project leader. The aim of this project is to develop equations for prediction of N excretion in faeces and urine of different cattle. “Smartcow” EU project, Danish project partner. This project focuses on development of new techniques for reducing methane emission and nitrogen excretion from dairy cows. “Manure Standards”. Danish project partner. EU project focusing on quantifying loss of nitrogen and phosphorous from different production systems in Northern Europe. “Oregano for dairy cows”. Project leader. Investigation of the usability of Danish organic oregano as methane mitigation strategy. “Reduced climate-fingerprint on cow- and farm level”. Project leader. Project (2019-2022) funded by the Danish Milk Levy Fund aiming at reducing carbon footprint of Danish milk production. “Effect of grass and maize silage on enteric methane”. Project leader, Ministry Grant/Aarhus University Governmental support. “Effect of sugar beets on enteric methane”. Project leader, Ministry Grant/ Aarhus University Governmental support. “Effect of addition of enzymes on enteric methane” Project leader. Private company (confidential). Total project budget 2007-2018: +50 mio. DKR.   Recent publications (methane): Danielsson R, Ramin M, Bertilsson J, Lund P, Huhtanen P. 2017. Evaluation of a gas in vitro system for predicting methane production in vivo. Journal of Dairy Science. 100(11):8881-8894. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2017-12675 Dijkstra J, Reynolds C, Metges C, Kuhla B, Lund P, Weisbjerg MR. 2018. Recovery test results as a prerequisite for publication of gaseous exchange measurements. Animal. 12(1):4-4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731117002397 Hellwing ALF, Weisbjerg MR, Brask M, Alstrup L, Johansen M, Hymøller L, Larsen MK, Lund P. 2016. Prediction of the methane conversion factor (Ym) for dairy cows on the basis of national farm data. Animal Production Science. 56:535-540. https://doi.org/10.1071/AN15520 Hellwing ALF, Lund P, Mogensen L, Vestergaard M. 2018. Growth, feed intake, methane emissions and carbon footprint from Holstein bull calves fed four different rations. Livestock Science. 214:51-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2018.05.003 Hristov AN, Kebreab E, Niu M, Oh J, Bannink A, Bayat AR, Boland TM, Brito AF, Casper DP, Crompton LA, Dijkstra J, Eugène M, Garnsworthy PC, Haque N, Hellwing ALF, Huhtanen P, Kreuzer M, Kuhla B, Lund P, Madsen J, Martin C, Moate PJ, Muetzel S, Muñoz C, Peiren N, Powell JM, Reynolds CK, Schwarm A, Shingfield KJ, Storlien TM, Weisbjerg MR, Yáñez-Ruiz DR, Yu Z. 2018. Symposium review: Uncertainties in enteric methane inventories, measurement techniques, and prediction models. Journal of Dairy Science. 101(7):6655-6674. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2017-13536 Løvendahl P, Difford GF, Li B, Chagunda MGG, Huhtanen P, Lidauer MH, Lassen J, Lund P. 2018. Review: Selecting for improved feed efficiency and reduced methane emissions in dairy cattle. Animal. 12(S2):336-349. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118002276 Niu M, Kebreab E, Hristov AN, Oh J, Arndt C, Bannink A, Bayat AR, Brito AF, Boland T, Casper D, Crompton LA, Dijkstra J, Eugène MA, Garnsworthy PC, Haque MN, Hellwing ALF, Huhtanen P, Kreuzer M, Kuhla B, Lund P, Madsen J, Martin C, Mcclelland SC, Mcgee M, Moate PJ, Muetzel S, Muñoz C, O'Kiely P, Peiren N, Reynolds CK, Schwarm A, Shingfield KJ, Storlien TM, Weisbjerg MR, Yáñez-Ruiz DR, Yu Z. 2018. Prediction of enteric methane production, yield, and intensity in dairy cattle using an intercontinental database. Global Change Biology. 24(8):3368-3389. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14094 Olijhoek D, Hellwing ALF, Brask M, Weisbjerg MR, Højberg O, Larsen MK, Dijkstra J, Erlandsen EJ, Lund P. 2016. Effect of dietary nitrate level on enteric methane production, hydrogen emission, rumen fermentation, and nutrient digestibility in dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science. 99(8):6191-6205. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2015-10691 Olijhoek DW, Hellwing ALF, Weisbjerg MR, Dijkstra J, Hojberg O, Lund P. 2016. Effect of short-term infusion of hydrogen on enteric gas production and rumen environment in dairy cows. Animal Production Science. 56(2-3):466-471. https://doi.org/10.1071/AN15521 Olijhoek DW, Løvendahl P, Lassen J, Hellwing ALF, Höglund JK, Weisbjerg MR, Noel SJ, McLean F, Højberg O, Lund P. 2018. Methane production, rumen fermentation, and diet digestibility of Holstein and Jersey dairy cows being divergent in residual feed intake and fed at 2 forage-to-concentrate ratios. Journal of Dairy Science. 101:9926-9940. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2017-14278 Söllinger A, Tveit AT, Poulsen M, Noel SJ, Bengtsson M, Bernhardt J, Hellwing ALF, Lund P, Riedel K, Schleper C, Højberg O, Urich T. 2018. Holistic Assessment of Rumen Microbiome Dynamics through Quantitative Metatranscriptomics Reveals Multifunctional Redundancy during Key Steps of Anaerobic Feed Degradation. American Society for Microbiology. Abstracts of the General Meeting. 3(4). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00038-18 Vanlierde A, Soyeurt H, Gengler N, Colinet FG, Froidmont E, Kreuzer M, Grandl F, Bell M, Lund P, Olijhoek DW, Eugène M, Martin C, Kuhla B, Dehareng F. 2018. Short communication: Development of an equation for estimating methane emissions of dairy cows from milk Fourier transform mid-infrared spectra by using reference data obtained exclusively from respiration chambers. Journal of Dairy Science. 101(8):7618-7624. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2018-14472 van Empel MJM, Makkar HPS, Dijkstra J, Lund P. 2016. Nutritional, technological and managerial parameters for precision feeding to enhance feed nutrient utilization and productivity in different dairy cattle production systems. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources. 11. https://doi.org/10.1079/PAVSNNR201611037   Number of publications: 261. Number of peer-reviewed: 71. h-index: 20.