Dr. Freya Olsson
FORMER MEMBER
POSTDOCTORAL NETWORK | Global Change Center
Freya Olsson
Postdoctoral Associate
Faculty Mentors: Drs. Cayelan Carey & Quinn Thomas
Department of Biological Sciences
freyao@vt.edu
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In 2025, Dr. Olsson took a position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Freya was a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Quinn Thomas and Dr. Cayelan Carey in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech. She is interested in integrating process-based modelling and field measurements to better understand the interaction of physical processes and ecosystem functioning and improve the management of freshwater ecosystems.
Freya joined Virginia Tech in Summer 2022 after completing her Ph.D. at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Lancaster University, where she investigated the impact of water residence time changes on lake ecosystem functioning. Freya’s work at VT combines fundamental and applied research across the fields of freshwater ecology and environmental modelling, combining open-source software, sensor observations, and hydrodynamic models to develop forecasts of water quality in lakes and reservoirs across the continental U.S.
Last updated September 2025.
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