Christer Jansson Email Address

Director of Plant Sciences at EMSL and PNNL

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland Washington is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) government research laboratory. The Laboratory focuses on research and development related to waste management, environmental restoration, global environmental change, energy and national security.

My research background and expertise is in plant biochemistry. I currently hold the position of Director of Plant a Sciences at the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). I moved to PNNL from Berkeley, CA in 2014 where I was a Senior Staff Scientist and Deputy Program Lead in Bioenergy at the Earth Sciences Division (ESD), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Prior to that I was Head of the Department of Plant Biology & Forest Genetics, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden, where I held the Professor Chair in Molecular Cell Biology from 1999-2008. During 1994-1999, I was Professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Stockholm University. I received my Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Lund University, Sweden, and completed my postdoctoral research at the Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University. My research revolves around plant, algal, and cyanobacterial biochemistry and molecular biology. Specifically, I'm interested in exploring plant genotypic diversity, and in understanding how the plant genotype interacts with environmental variables to shape the phenotype of the plant and the integrated plant-microbiome-soil-atmosphere interactome. I have published close to 120 papers in journals and books and supervised a large number of graduate students and postdocs. I have served on several research panels and committees, including the Swedish Research Council for Natural Sciences (VR) and the Committee for Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA).