Mikael Karlsson
Senior Lecturer in Climate Change Leadership
mikael.karlsson@geo.uu.se
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Mikael Karlsson is Associate Professor in Environmental Science and has a PhD in Environment and Energy systems. For several years he was the president of the Swedish Nature Protection Society and he has also been the president of Europe’s biggest collaborative organisation for environmental groups, EEB. Mikael has worked as a researcher at Södertörns Högskola and KTH, as well as Karlstad University, where he developed the subject of Environmental Science. He is a board member of the Forest Association and The Nuclear Waste Council, active in the Swedish Government´s council for environmental issues and has worked in several environmental expert groups in Sweden and the EU. Today he is member of the EU Commission’s group on energy intensive industry.
Aarti Gupta
Zennström visiting professor 2025
Aarti Gupta is Zennström visiting professor in the CCL team from March to July 2025. She is a Professor of Global Environmental Governance at Wageningen University and a prominent researcher in the intersections of science, technology and global governance, particularly in climate issues. She has a leading role in the international Earth System Governance Project network.
Frank Biermann
Zennström visiting professor 2025
Frank Biermann is Zennström visiting professor in the CCL team from March to July 2025. He is a Professor of Global Sustainability Governance at Utrecht University, has researched effective and just climate policies for three decades. He was an early pioneer in addressing how planetary-scale governance systems can be built and strengthened to achieve global sustainability goals.
Eva Alfredsson
Researcher
eva.alfredsson@geo.uu.se
Eva Alfredsson has a PhD in human geography. She is also a senior analyst at Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, under the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise. Eva´s work is concentrated to analyses related to sustainable economic development and green structural change. Her research interests are on how to transition to a sustainable inclusive economy. She is currently part of the research project FAIRTRANS.
Eva has been an expert in the Swedish government committee preparing for the Swedish Climate Law. She has also been an expert in the parliamentary committee investigating how to achieve a fossil independent transport system. Eva is a member of Future Earths Working Group on the Political Economy of Sustainable Consumption and Production and a senior advisor to the think tank Global Challenges.
Daniel Lindvall
Researcher
daniel.lindvall@geo.uu.se
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Daniel Lindvall has a PhD in Sociology and has been doing research on issues related to democracy and climate policies, especially the capacity of democratic governance to cope with the climate crisis. He has also an interest in socioeconomic consequences of the climate and energy transformation. He is the author of several books, such as Upphettning – Demokratin i klimatkrisens tid and Folkstyret i rädslans tid. He has for several years worked for the Swedish government and has been principle inquiry secretary in several government inquires, such as the Democracy Commission. He has also worked for the European Union and other international organisations. Beside research on issues on climate and democracy, Daniel has done research on peace reconciliation with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also working as a consultant for the company 2050 Consulting.
Jayne Glass
Researcher
jayne.glass@geo.uu.se
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Jayne Glass is a Researcher in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, and holds a PhD in Sustainability Studies. Jayne has predominantly conducted research on land ownership, environmental governance, and rural community resilience. Most recently, she has been working on collaborative landscape governance in the UK and Sweden. Jayne has authored and edited several books, such as Managing Scotland’s Environment, Rural Poverty Today and Land Reform in Scotland. Before moving to Sweden, she worked in the UK at the University of the Highlands and Islands and Scotland’s Rural College. Jayne was an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh between 2016 and 2024, in recognition of her contribution to postgraduate teaching and supervision in sustainable development and stakeholder participation. She has acted as an independent adviser on rural land use and policy to the Scottish Government and the Council of Europe Congress of Regional and Local Authorities.
Laila Mendy
PhD student
laila.mendy@geo.uu.se
Laila is a PhD student looking at societal transformations to Net Zero 2045 in Sweden. She is interested in the role of intermediaries in the era of Post-Truth. She has a Masters in Sustainable Development from Uppsala University. Previously, Laila worked as a coordinator for the Zennström visiting professorship in Climate Change Leadership. She has worked with sustainability courses at CEMUS and developed new courses in climate change and global health and coordinated PhD education in Climate Change Leadership.
Jens Ergon
PhD student
jens.ergon@geo.uu.se
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Jens Ergon is a PhD-student at the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, and works within the national research program FAIRTRANS (Fair Transformations to a Fossil Free Future). Prior to his PhD-studies Jens Ergon has worked as a professional science journalist for 20 years, mostly at the Sveriges Television (SVT), the Swedish national public service television company, focusing on issues around climate change and the challenges of a green transformation. He has produced documentaries, features and written extensively about the issues. His latest book is Omställningen – tio år som kommer att förändra världen (Leopard förlag, 2016). Jens Ergon has originally studied physics and engineering, and has a licentiate degree in theoretical physics from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm.
Frida Öhman
PhD student
frida.ohman@geo.uu.se
Frida is a PhD-student in the Climate Change Leadership team. She works within the research project Landpaths looking at the governance arrangements within each landscape and how they affect multifunctionality. Later on she will contribute to the project by presenting governance recommendations regarding multifunctionality. Previously, Frida has worked at the Swedish migration board and as an environmental coordinator at Region Uppsala. She has a Bachelor in political science and a Master in Sustainable development from Uppsala university.
Oskar Lindgren
PhD student
oskar.lindgren@geo.uu.se
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Oskar is a PhD student in the Climate Change Leadership team. He works mainly with the research program FAIRTRANS (Fair Transformations to a Fossil Free Future) looking at public acceptance and support for sufficiency-oriented policies. Such policies focus on reducing excess consumption and production while simultaneously enabling those who have too little resources to fulfill basic human needs. Prior to joining the CCL team, Oskar has worked as a research assistant at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and as a sustainability consultant. He has a Masters in Sustainable Development from Uppsala University.
Anna Berg Grimstad
PhD student
anna.berg-grimstad@geo.uu.se
Anna is a PhD student in the Climate Change Leadership team. She is part of the Naturvårdsverket funded Navigate project that looks at synergies and barriers between political strategies for climate and biodiversity. She is also involved in other CCL projects, for example, looking at the debate on forest-based bioenergy. Previously, Anna worked as a research assistant with projects concerning gender mainstreaming in the EU Green Deal and climate and biodiversity policy in the forestry sector. She has a Master’s in Sustainable Development from Uppsala University.
Judith Lundberg-Felten
Project-coordinator
judith.lundberg-felten@geo.uu.se
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Judith is project-coordinator for the Climate Change Leadership team. She coordinates activities related to the Zennström professorships and works with communication, organisation, courses and administrative tasks for the CCL team and in the Landpaths project.
Judith holds a PhD and docentship in plant biology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her interest is the forest ecosystem and how we can transition to a sustainable future where we balance conserving forest ecosystems and using trees as a renewable energy source.