Karin Östergren

Senior Forskare

Tel

+46 70 420 56 19

Email

karin.ostergren@ri.se

Location

Lund

ORCID

0000-0001-8038-1365

Is Senior Scientist at RISE and holds a position as Adjunct Professor at Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition, Lund University.

Research interests include sustainable and resource efficient industrial food production and food supply chain management including exploring the benefits of combining food process engineering and environmental system analysis, understanding the flows of products and raw material and information flow and their interactions as well as, on a higher level, understanding linkages to economy, policy and consumers behavior.

An important field of research concerns the determination of levels and causes of food losses and food waste along the food value chain.

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Circular food in practice: Collaboration for sustainable public meals

Towards a circular and resilient food supply chain in Västra Götaland. We work to increase resource efficiency in the food sector by giving underutilized side streams new value within the public meal sector. Our goal is to build a…

Sub-projects within the FINEST Centre

The FINEST platform is based on the Formas-funded FINEST Centre (2020-2024). The sub-projects that were part of the creation of the centre will continue in 2025 and end at the end of May 2026.

MicroOrc

The EU project MICROORC aims to develop sustainable technologies and materials to extend the shelf life of perishable foods, reduce food waste, and enhance food safety. The project also works on adapting regulations to keep pace w…

FAIRCHAIN

FAIRCHAIN seeks to enable small and mid-size farmers and food producers to scale up and expand production of nutritious food through competitive intermediate value chains at the local and regional levels. In Sweden, we focus on th…

The reason for reducing food waste must be made clearer

Up to a third of all the world’s food is discarded. Often completely unnecessarily. Although households are responsible for most food waste, there is much that can be done upstream to reduce post-consumer food waste.   “…

Nordic Wildberry Conference 2023

The Nordic Wildberry Conference was organized by RISE, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Umeå University, attracting researchers and companies from across the Nordic region. The conference was funded by Region V…

FINEST Doctoral students and Postdoctoral fellows

FINEST Publications

Here you will find scientific publications and published Master’s Thesis carried out within the framework of the project.

FINEST News

FINEST - Partners

The FINEST centre includes researchers from RISE, Chalmers and Uppsala University as well as fifteen industry representatives from the Swedish food chain.

Sustainable food

Quantifying environmental impact and identifying possibilities to improvement are key to a sustainable transformation of the food system.

Food waste

RISE offers broad expertise and customised solutions to increase resource efficiency and reduce food waste.

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