Staff

Chair of the steering committee: Kari Lehtilä

Director of doctoral studies in Environmental Studies: Elinor Andrén

Head of Department: Karin Ebert

Secretary: Karin Lindholm

Members of the steering committee for Environmental Studies:

Johanna Johansson
Rickard Lalander
Sara Sjöling
Thea Bisander (Doctoral student representative)
Oldouz Nejadibabadaei (Doctoral student representative)

Researcher, doctoral students and other staff:

Shafqat Ahmad

Shafqat Ahmad

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

My research focuses on understanding how lifestyle factors, genetics, metabolomics, proteomics, and microbiota may contribute to the pathogenesis of cardiometabolic disease.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD265

Elinor Andrén

Elinor Andrén

Professor

My research expertise is diatom stratigraphy mainly focused on the paleoecology/paleoceanography of the Baltic Sea. I teach Earth Science in the program Environment and Development

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD470

Ranjula Bali

Ranjula Bali

Professor

Professor of Economics

Social Sciences

ME312

Maria Bergman

Maria Bergman

Senior Lecturer

PhD

Head of School

Head of School

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD342B

Thea Bisander

Thea Bisander

Doctoral Student

I am a PhD student in Environmental Scienes. In my research I study greenhouse gas exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, specifically in coastal regions.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD471

Madeleine Bonow

Madeleine Bonow

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

Deputy Head of School

I'm a senior lecturer in environmental science and, associated professor in Geography, Deputy Head of School at School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD342C

Sara Braun

Sara Braun

Doctoral Student

I am a PhD student within environmental science. I am working with coastal habitats (e.g., seagrass meadows and saltmarshes) in the Baltic Sea and their carbon sink potential.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD471

Virginia Brenner Music

Virginia Brenner Music

Doctoral Student

I research on the contribution of contemporary environmental movements in the Western Balkans in facilitation of stability and sustanability of the region

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD473

Dawda Cham

Dawda Cham

Doctoral Student

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MA716

Martin Dahl

Martin Dahl

Associate Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

I am Associate lecturer in Environmental Sciences. My main research focus is on coastal Blue Carbon and functions and processes of the coastal environment as a natural carbon sink.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD439

Svante Dahlin

Svante Dahlin

Research Assistant

PhD student

School of Police Sciences

LO624

Patrik Dinnétz

Patrik Dinnétz

Senior Lecturer

Programme convenor

Lecturer in biology with focus on environmental science. My research is mainly focused on plant ecology, transformation of the periurban farming landscape, and tick borne diseases.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD267

Karin Ebert

Karin Ebert

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

Head of Department

Associate professor, sen. lecturer in environmental sciences and geographical information systems (GIS). Head of Department of Environment, Development and Sustainability Studies.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD434

Sara Forsberg

Sara Forsberg

Doctoral Student

I am doing a PhD in environmental science, my research focus on carbon storage and greenhouse gas emission in coastal habitats in the Baltic Sea, so called Blue Carbon habitats.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD471

Bartira Fortes

Bartira Fortes

Doctoral Student

PhD Candidate in Environmental Science within the Sustainability Challenges and Pathways research theme, specialising in Global Development Studies.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD476

Gloria L Gallardo Fernández

Gloria L Gallardo Fernández

Professor emeritus/emerita

I have focused on access to, use of, and governance of natural resources in Global South contexts, including grabbing processes, gentrification, and associated conflicts.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

Michael Gilek

Michael Gilek

Professor

Subject Coordinator

My research concerns environmental governance and difficulties in achieving environmental and sustainability goals. Especially relating to marine and coastal issues.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD467

Mats Grahn

Mats Grahn

Professor

I am a professor in evolutionary biology teaching and doing research within the subjects of ecology, genetics and spatial planning for sustainable development.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD469

Martin Gullström

Martin Gullström

Professor

My research concerns subtopics such as seascape ecology, coastal blue carbon, seagrass ecology/physiology, food-web ecology, fish/fisheries science and global change.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD268

Björn Hassler

Björn Hassler

Professor

Programme convenor

Professor and Excellent teacher in Environmental Science, with main focus on environmental problems, climate policy, sustainability and science communication.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD466

Anna Maria Jönsson

Anna Maria Jönsson

Professor

Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Daniela Kreber

Daniela Kreber

Doctoral Student

A doctoral student in Environmental Science exploring how communities negotiate technological futures through their engagement with inherited practices, technologies, knowledge.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MA715

Rickard Lalander

Rickard Lalander

Professor

Political scientist; sociologist; Latin Americanist; Professor in Global Development studies. Research in Global South settings, teaching development and environmental studies.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD421A

Pablo Lapuente Tiana

Pablo Lapuente Tiana

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MA716

Josefine Larsson

Josefine Larsson

Researcher

PhD

Researcher within the project: Health hazard in the Baltic Sea: the presence and the effect of fluorinated substances on Baltic Sea organisms.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD475

Kari Lehtilä

Kari Lehtilä

Professor

My research deals with forest biodiversity in Baltic Sea region, landscape and seascape ecology, urban ecology and environmental governance in low-income countries.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD269

Isabel Löfgren

Isabel Löfgren

Senior Lecturer

PhD

Programme convenor

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies. I am an researcher in media activism, media philosophy, visual cultures, media production, and artistic research.

Culture and Education

PC245

Alba Mayorga Delgado

Alba Mayorga Delgado

Doctoral Student

I am doing a PhD on how the behaviour of key marine species in the Baltic Sea's seagrass meadows affects GHG /blue carbon and how this affects their surrounding.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD458

Oldouz Nejadibabadaei

Oldouz Nejadibabadaei

Doctoral Student

I study social-spatial inequalities in segregated urban areas and the role of urban planning in advancing environmental and social justice in marginalized communities.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD473

Mats Nilsson

Mats Nilsson

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

I am teaching environmental and development economics. I also do some teaching on heterodox economic theories and practice. My research interests gravitates around electricity

Social Sciences

ME311

Mona Petersson

Mona Petersson

Senior Lecturer

I teach in geography and environmental science. The focus in my research is landscape processes and the interaction between man and nature.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD416

Tove Porseryd

Tove Porseryd

Researcher

PhD

My main research interest is within anthropogenic effects on the aquatic ecosystem with a focus on environmental pollutants.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD472

Sarah Ramsay

Sarah Ramsay

Doctoral Student

My research is about how emotions are experienced and expressed in agro-environmental politics and how they help shape decision-making, political positions, and farming practices.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD458

Anushree Sanyal

Anushree Sanyal

Researcher

Associate Professor

My research is on studying changes in sediment revived diatom populations subjected to human and climate induced environmental stress across evolutionary timescales.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD477

Fred Saunders

Fred Saunders

Professor

Programme convenor

Fred Saunders is a professor researching political ecology, ocean governance, and social-environmental justice in sustainability transformations.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD427

Shivangi Shreya

Shivangi Shreya

Doctoral Student

I am a doctoral student in Environmental Social Science, working on Stakeholder Engagement in Wetland Restoration Projects in Stockholm County

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD421B

Nandita Singh

Nandita Singh

Researcher

Associate Professor

I am engaged in research and teaching in the field of water and environmental management and governance.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD474

Sara Sjöling

Sara Sjöling

Professor

Professor in environmental science

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD465

Tatiana Sokolova

Tatiana Sokolova

Doctoral Student

I research the politics of knowledge in sustainability transformations: how knowledge, imagination and action are co-produced by diverse actors.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD476

Christian Sommer

Christian Sommer

Lecturer

Deputy Director

Vice deputy for the department of environment, development and sustainability studies, in charge of staffing and office and teaching spaces.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD433

Patrick Spets

Patrick Spets

Doctoral Student

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD439

Helen Sundberg

Helen Sundberg

Doctoral Student

In my PhD project, I research ways of translating Managed Aquifer Recharge in a way that is practically implementable in a local context. I deal with sustainability in practice.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD421B

Ralph Tafon

Ralph Tafon

Associate Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

Programme convenor

Sustainability transformations: climate justice, just transtion; ocean justice, power, youth climate justice & activism (litigation & civil disobedience).

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD475

Johanna Thunborg

Johanna Thunborg

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences. Research on pathways to a low carbon society, collaborative platforms and forest governance.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD468

Oscar Törnqvist

Oscar Törnqvist

Researcher

PhD

Using archaeological and historical sources, I investigate the pre-modern ecology of the Baltic to form better ecological baselines for managing marine resources, mainly fish.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

Gaëlle Van Laere

Gaëlle Van Laere

Doctoral Student

Seagrass colonisation of the Baltic Sea, Blue Carbon, Climate Change

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MA715

Rikard Warlenius

Rikard Warlenius

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

Senior lecturer in environmental science Associate professor in Environmental social science I teach and do research mainly on climate and energy transformations

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD475

Charles Westerberg

Charles Westerberg

Doctoral Student

My research concerns pathways towards multifunctional coastal and marine landscapes - landscapes where socio-economic and ecological goals and values are harmonized.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD266

Qian Zhang

Qian Zhang

Senior Lecturer

PhD

Programme convenor

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science Keywords: migration, agriculture, environmental governance, rural development, political ecology, digital geography

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD477

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