Fredrik Jutfelt

He has received the research grant ERC Consolidator from the European Research Council for the years 2021–2026 (2 million Euro).

More recently, his research topic changed to climate change physiology, investigating how both ocean acidification and temperature affects fish. The research on ocean acidification was highly publicised following a paper published in the scientific journal Nature. The article «Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes» was published in 2020 and is already (2022) highly cited. It had earlier been suggested that coral reef fishes were threatened by ocean acidification causing severe behavioural abnormalities. The new results of the study showed that ocean acidification, which is a serious threat to fishes, doesn't dramatically affect the behaviour of coral reef fish. However, both coral reefs and the associated fishes are threatened by rising CO2 levels.

Jutfelt was a member of the NTNU Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme during 2017–2021. The participants of this group are scientists who are internationally recognized in their field.

In 2006 he graduated with a PhD at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, with the thesis The intestinal epithelium of salmonids : transepithelial transport, barrier function and bacterial interactions. After finishing his PhD, he was a postdoc at the University of Gothenburg in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway. In 2010–2014 he was employed as an Assistant professor at the University of Gothenburg, and in 2015 he was employed as an associate professor at the Department of Biology, NTNU, where he was promoted to full professor in 2021.

Fredrik Jutfelt (born 1975) is a Swedish scientist. His field of study is animal physiology, and his current research focus is on the effects of warming and ocean acidification on the physiology and behaviour of fish. He is a professor at the Department of Biology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, where he is the leader of the animal physiology section. His research group is called the Jutfelt Fish Ecophysiology Lab, and they investigate how fish respond physiologically and behaviourally to changes in the environment. Much of the research is based on laboratory studies of zebrafish, and he has built a zebrafish research facility at NTNU. The research group also studies the impacts of climate change on marine animals.