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Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Occupation: Professor
New President of the WPSA European Federation) Professor of nutrition, with poultry and human nutrition and feed technology as his current topics for teaching and research at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NULS). Since finishing his PhD on methods to reduce anti-nutritive effects of beta-glucans from barley in poultry diets, his research interests have centred around carbohydrates and diet structure-digestive system interactions.
Location: Akershus, Norway
Article published the October 13, 2025
Reviews made on the impact of intermittent lighting (IL) on broiler performance (Buyse et al., 1996; Rodrigues and Choct, 2017) attest to the consistency of such lighting programs in achieving better feed conversion rates. So far, no research has been conducted to assess the impact of IL on the susceptibility to and recovery from infectious diseases. We hypothesized that an IL program would increa ...
Article published the June 4, 2020
News published on May 4, 2018
The Feed Ingredient Course, organized by the University of Illinois and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, will take place in Madrid, Spain, from June 25th to 29th, 2018.
The program directors are Professor Hans H. Stein (University of Illinois, U.S.) and Professor Gonzalo Gonzalez Mateos (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) and the co-sponsors of this course are US Soybean ...
This member gave a presentation on May 9, 2017
At the following event:
21st European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition - ESPN 2017
Video published on July 3, 2014
Prof. Dr. Birger Svihus speaks about the conclusions of the EPC 2014 in Norway and also about his new responsabilities as the new president of the WPSA, European Federation.
This member gave a presentation on December 13, 2012
At the following event:
International Phytase Summit 2012
This member had joined Engormix
December 13, 2012