Peter Sunde

Peter Sunde is professor in applied wildlife ecology at Aarhus University, Department of Ecoscience. His current research focus on wildlife ecology and human-wildlife issues in cultivated landscapes, spanning from classical wildlife ecology and population conservation to human-wildlife conflicts and citizen based population monitoring. Most of his working time is devoted to terrestrial mammals (especially wolf, deer and hare), but he also work on population conservation of little owls. he is also provides advisory on wildlife management issues for the Danish Environmental Agency.

Peter took his MSc on feeding ecology of Eurasian lynx (1996) at the University of Copenhagen in association with Norwegian Institute of Nature Research, after which he for some years worked on raptor and owl ecology (PhD: 2001, Univ. of Copenhagen, postdoc: 2002-04, Lund University and 2005-6 Univ. of Copenhagen). In 2006 he was employed as senior researcher at the Danish National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) that later became part of Aarhus University. He was appointed professor in 2020.