Torbjörn Åkesson von Schantz (born 16 March 1954 in

Vimmerby Vimmerby () is a city and the seat of Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 10,934 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Stångån is a small river running through the city. Vimmerby had its charter as early as the fourteenth century. The ...

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zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

and the former

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. Between 2013 and 2014 he was

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of the

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, and he then became rector of

. He earned his PhD in 1981 with the dissertation ''Evolution of group living, and the importance of food and social organization in population regulation – a study on the red fox (Vulpes vulpes)'' and was appointed as professor of zoology at Lund University in 2000. He was elected as a member of the university board in 2004.

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1954 births Living people Academic staff of Lund University 21st-century Swedish zoologists Rectors of Lund University People from Vimmerby Municipality {{Sweden-academic-bio-stub