Bo is Associate Professor in Conservation Biology. His main research interests are in landscape biology of threatened species, especially of butterflies, bumble bees and birds. He has written six popular science books and more than 100 articles. During the last 15 years Bo has been working as editor in different capacities: the Swedish Species Information Centre (2005 to 2009), the journal of Biological Conservation (2009-2010), and since 2010 as Editor-in-Chief of Ambio.
Wynand is an Associate Professor in Sociology, and he works as a rural sociologist at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. He studies the lives, work and environments of people, in country-sides of the global North and South, in relation to sustainability outcomes and transitions. He is interested especially in applying sociological theory to help understanding social-ecological interactions.
Erik is Professor in Sustainability Science. He has a background in landscape studies, natural resource management, systems and landscape ecology, geography, urban studies, and participatory research. Erik’s core interest is in understanding interactions between people and nature - what shapes them, and what they mean for people’s wellbeing and worldviews as well as for resilience and ecosystem integrity. Other than research, Andersson has 15 years of experience of working in the transdisciplinary interface between academia and the wider society and has also led several larger European projects investigating broad sustainability issues.
Neil Carter (this opens in a new tab) University of Michigan, USA Neil is an Associate Professor in Conservation Science. He has a background in spatial and wildlife ecology, human dimensions of wildlife management, and social-ecological systems. Neil's interdisciplinary research examines human-wildlife interactions in a global change context, focusing on the processes that facilitate and maintain coexistence. He has conducted fieldwork across a variety of contexts, including the American West and Midwest, South Asia, and East Africa.
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate - BECC, Lund University, Sweden
Nils is associate professor with the Environmental Politics Research Group and the Centre for Innovation Research at Lund University. He works on land use policy and conservation governance, particularly in forests. He has published on ecological fiscal transfers, green economy transitions, and ecosystem services. While originally from Germany and with a degree from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, he has worked in Brazil, Portugal, the US before coming to Sweden. Being trained as an ecological economist in public finance, he values methodological pluralism. Currently, he is deputy theme leader for biodiversity in the Strategic Research Area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service in a Changing Climate between Lund and Gothenburg Universities.
Alice's work focuses on the interface between conservation ecology and conservation action. This involves primary research on the distribution of species, drivers of loss, and the development of mechanisms to reduce biodiversity loss, reduce spillover risk through OneHealth approaches, and the development of frameworks to manage landscapes and species to enable a more sustainable future. Alice and her team utilise diverse data to enable the development of new approaches, then integrate this into policy and practice through her roles on various NGOs, IGOs and through UN meetings such as the CBD and CITES where their data has enabled the uplisting of various species for more effective conservation. By providing a bridge between science and filling key data gaps she hopes to enable a transition to a more sustainable, and biosecure future.
Arne Jernelöv
Arne has held Professorships in Environmental Toxicology, Biotechnology, Environmental Protection and Analysis of Natural Systems. His research focus has been on heavy metals, especially mercury, and persistent organic pollutants. He has studied and provided advice in connection with some fifty huge oil spills and other environmental disasters, including wars. He published more than 250 scientific articles, some 40 book chapters and 20 books. Currently, his scientific focus is on invasive species. He has been director of research at IVL (Swedish Institute for Water and Air Pollution Research), executive director of MRI (Environment and Space Research Institute) and IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) as well as head of FRN (Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research).
Alan is Senior Scientist at Scion, the New Zealand Forest Research Institute. He currently leads strategic government projects into sustainable forest bioenergy and diversification of forest management practice. He is an ecologist with nearly 20 years’ experience on global change, carbon accounting, and sustainable futures research in temperate, tropical and Arctic forests. His research outputs cross the fields of ecosystem carbon and decomposition, climate change impacts, nitrogen deposition, wildfire and nutrient dynamics, forest management, bioenergy, nature-based solutions and citizen science. Alan previously lectured at the University of Oxford and was Chair of the British Ecological Society Forest Ecology Special Interest Group for five years.
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson is professor in plant ecology. His research focus on forest history, dynamics and biodiversity conservation with a special interest in landscape ecology and restoration. In addition to basic understanding of forest ecosystems, he has also worked at the interface to applied conservation, landscape planning and policy. This include the role as advisor and expert in numerous national and international fora, for instance as a member in the Swedish Government Advisory Board on Biodiversity and as a representative at IPBES meetings. Recently he has also been involved in projects on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Zahra is an Associate Professor in Environmental and Engineering Geosciences for Sustainability in the Anthropocene at department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). She is director of Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO) and research area leader of Bolin Centre for Climate Research. She has successfully led and carried out interdisciplinary research with focus on understanding of earth and human systems to develop science, technology and innovation solutions to planet’s most pressing environmental challenges associated with the combined effects of changes in climate, land-use and water-use in terrestrial environments.
Thomas is Professor in ecosystem ecology and elected fellow of The Royal Swedish Agricultural Academy (KSLA). He has a background in agronomy, soil science, ecology and environmental sciences. His research focuses on carbon and nutrient cycling in agroecosystems, particularly on agricultural management practices related to mitigation and adaption to climate change. He has (co-) authored about 200 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is very active in communicating his research with stakeholders along the food chain and the public.
Carina is Professor of Political Science with a focus on environmental policy and in particular climate change adaptation. She is (co) editor or author of eight books and (co) author of over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles/book chapters.
Emma is a professor in Aquatic ecology at the Department of Biology. She has a background in limnology, and has an interest in biogeochemistry - particularly the link between terrestrial, limnic and marine systems - and effects of environmental change. Much of her research revolves around terrestrial export of organic matter and iron to surface waters - what is controlling that export, and what the consequences are to the receiving system. Her research output overlaps the fields of biogeochemistry, microbiology, analytical chemistry and bacterial community structure/diversity, and the study systems include soils, lakes, streams, rivers brackish and marine environments.
Jamie Lorimer is Professor of Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford. His research explores public understandings of nature and how these come to shape environmental governance. Past projects have explored the histories, politics and cultures of wildlife conservation ranging across scales from elephants to the microbiome. Jamie is the author of Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature (Minnesota, 2015) and TheProbiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life (Minnesota, 2020). His current research explores transitions in agriculture in the context of growing concerns about the relationships between farming, biodiversity loss and global heating.
Madelene is Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Department of Thematic Studies, Environmental Change at Linköping University. She focuses her work on land use, forestry and food security often in combination of climate change, sustainability, as well as the processes of translating science into policy and practice.
Victoria is ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research focuses on Indigenous and local knowledge systems, including their benefits, drivers of change, and potential contributions to resource management. She has (co)authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and coedited three books. She has also been Lead author for the IPBES Global Assessment. Her current research on Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts is funded by the European Research Council.
Graciela is an ecologist with research interests in cross disciplinary research about socio-ecological systems, ecosystem services, and ecosystem accounting. She has research experience from South, Central and North America, Eastern and Western Africa, and Scandinavia. She has written more than 130 articles and is a lead author of the Global Assessment Report of The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Angelina is Associate Professor of Food Systems. Her expertise encompasses food production systems, land use and land cover change, ecological resilience and ecosystem services. Her experience draws from working across Latin American and UK food landscapes, and she is the Principle Investigator for TGRAINS, a UKRI-funded project on how to make UK regional food systems healthier and more environmentally sustainable and Maya Food RESULTS, a UKRI-funded project on how to strengthen Mayan biocultural food resilience. Angelina is also a board member of the Food Policy Alliance Cymru and part of the Expert Advisory Board to Welsh Government on Ecosystem Resilience and Restoration.
Jesper is a Professor of Economics. His research interests include environmental valuation of issues linked to water use and water management, as well as research on the economics of environmental policy and natural resource management in developing countries with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. He has published over 60 papers and has been associate editor of Ambio since 2007.
Michael is an Associate Professor in Systems Ecology at the department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences. He has a background in Marine Ecotoxicology and Ecophysiology, and has studied the effects of chemical pollution of coastal waters in temperate as well as tropical ecosystems. His current research focus is on environmental problems following aquaculture expansion in tropical seas.
David is Professor of Arctic Ecosystems Research in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. He is a marine scientist with a broad research background including the biology and chemistry of sea ice and associated waters in the Arctic and Southern Oceans and the Baltic Sea. He has also led research into the role of organic matter in aquatic systems and in particular land-ocean connections. He is widely published (>148 peer-reviewed papers) and has edited/authored 16 books, including several intended for non-specialist readerships. Previous to his role in Helsinki he was at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University for 24 years where he still holds an Honorary Professorship.
Maricela de la Torre Castro (PhD) is a Professor at Stockholm University (Dept. of Physical Geography). Her main interest resides in human-nature interactions and how the world can transform towards a more sustainable and just society. This is investigated through in-depth case studies in which ecological goods and services, patterns of resource use, management and governance regimes as well as the ecosystem base are considered. Her projects include seagrass small-scale fisheries and poverty, high-valued marine products such as sea cucumbers, social aspects of climate change and the important topic of gender in coastal settings; all to better understand institutional, management and governance processes. Maricela has strong collaborations with social scientists, especially political scientists.
Angela is Professor in Marine Ecology (Marine Botany). Her research interests include ecophysiological effects of climate change, including ocean acidification and effects of UV radiation, on primarily marine microalgae and cyanobacteria, in polar as well as temperate regions. She has a special interest in interdisciplinary research and her publication record includes more than 90 articles and book chapters.
