Research Positions
October 2018 - Present
Researcher, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
May 2016 - October 2018
Postdoctoral Research Associate, San Diego Zoo Global, San Diego, USA
Education
2016 - PhD Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
2011 - MSc Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
2008 - BSc Natural Resources Conservation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Supervisory Role
2017 - Julia Jansson, MSc, Masters Thesis (30 Credits)
2015 - Robert Spitzer, MSc, Masters Thesis (30 Credits)
2014 - Joanna Fahlen, MSc, Masters Thesis (60 Credits)
Teaching
2012 - 2016 - Guest Lecture for Conservation Biology, SLU, Umeå
2014 - 2015 - Guest Lecture and Lab Coordinator (2014 only) for Management of Fish and Wildlife Populations, SLU, Umeå, Sweden
2012 - Computer Lab Assistant, Computational Methods for Massively Parallel Sequencing, SciLife, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Professional Memberships
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (member since 2014)
Society for Conservation Biology (member since 2014)
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (member since 2015)
Society for the Study of Evolution (member since 2015)
American Society of Naturalists (member since 2017)
American Genetic Association (member since 2018)
The Genetics Society (member since 2018)
Publications
Giangregorio, P., Norman, A.J., Davoli, F., Spong, G. (2018) Testing a new SNP-chip on the Alpine and Apennine brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations using non-invasive samples. Conservation Genet Resour. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-018-1017-0
Norman AJ, Stronen AV, Fuglstad G-A, Ruiz-Gonzalez A, Kindberg J, Street NA, Spong G (2017) Landscape relatedness: detecting contemporary fine-scale spatial structure in wild populations. Landscape Ecology doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0434-2.
Spitzer R., Norman AJ, Schneider M and Spong G. (2016) Estimating population size using single-nucleotide polymorphism-based pedigree data. Ecol Evol. doi:10.1002/ece3.2076
Aaron B.A. Shafer, Jochen B.W. Wolf, Paulo C. Alves, Linnea Bergström, Guy Colling, Love Dalén, Luc De Meester, Robert Ekblom, Simone Fior, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, A. Rus Hoezel, Jacob Hoglund, Evelyn L. Jensen, Michael Krützen, Anita J. Norman, E. Martin Österling, N. Joop Ouborg, John Piccolo, Craig R. Primmer, Floyd A. Reed, Marie Roumet, Jordi Salmona, Michael K. Schwartz, Gernot Segelbacher, Jens Thaulow, Mia Valtonen, Philippine Vergeer, Matthias Weissensteiner, Christopher W. Wheat, Carlese Vilà, Piotr Zieliński (2016) Reply to Garner et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 83-84.
Norman AJ and Spong G. (2015) Single nucleotide polymorphism-based dispersal estimates using noninvasive sampling. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1588
Shafer ABA, Wolf JBW, Alves PC, Bergström L, Bruford MW, Brännström I, Colling G, Dalén L, De Meester L, Ekblom R, Fawcett KD, Fior S, Hajibabaei M, Hill JA, Hoezel AR, Hoglund J, Jensen EL, Krause J, Kristensen TN, Krützen M, McKay JK, Norman AJ, Ogden R, Österling EM, Ouborg NJ, Piccolo J, Popovic D, Primmer CR, Reed FA, Roumet M, Salmona J, Schenekar T, Schwartz MK, Segelbacher G, Senn H, Thaulow J, Valtonen M, Veale A, Vergeer P, Vijay N, Vilà C, Weissensteiner M, Wennerström L, Wheat CW, Zieliński P (2015) Genomics and the challenging translation into conservation practice. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 78–87
Norman AJ, Street NR, Spong G (2013) De Novo SNP Discovery in the Scandinavian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos). PLoS ONE 8(11): e81012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081012
For a more detailed CV, please contact me.