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Prof. Kimberly Nicholas is a sustainability scientist at Lund University in Sweden. She has published 60 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals; writes for publications such as Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist; and is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World, and the monthly climate newsletter We Can Fix It. She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Her work has been featured by outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, WIRED, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Vox, and USA Today. Born and raised on her family’s vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University.
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Longer BioDr. Kimberly Nicholas is Full Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund, Sweden’s highest-ranked university.
She is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World (Putnam/Penguin Random House, March 2021), and writes for publications including The Guardian, Scientific American, New Scientist, Elle, Decanter, and Carbon Brief. She is the Founder of We Can Fix It, a consultancy offering strategy, public speaking, events, coaching, and writing to galvanize high-impact climate action. Her Substack with actionable, evidence-based advice for facing the climate crisis with facts, feelings & action has over 5,800 subscribers. In her research, she studies the connections between people, land, and climate, with the goal of stewarding ecosystems to support a good life for everyone alive today, and leave a thriving planet for future generations. Her professional mission is to keep carbon out of the atmosphere. She has published over 60 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals. Her research has been honored with the Innovation in Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America and as one of the top five Milestone articles published in Environmental Research Letters since 2005. She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Recent engagements have included keynotes for Stanford Founders' Circle (donors who have given over $1 million to the University), the Swedish Association of Museums, and livestreamed events for thousands of people, such as the launch of a new European Union Climate Action program, and as a featured guest on a New Scientist webinar. Her research has been featured in outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, WIRED, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Vox, and USA Today, and she has been profiled in Elle, New Scientist, Science, and The Guardian. Born and raised on her family’s vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. Her current research project is focused on communicating high-impact climate action through developing a personalized guide, podcast, and social media. Recent research includes a collaboration with the Municipality of Lund to radically reduce climate pollution; The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground, studying the flight-free movement in Sweden; and using digital communication to improve traveler satisfaction with public transport. She recently led a five-year investigation of sustainable food systems in Europe, including the first comprehensive mapping of €61 billion of annual public spending under the Common Agricultural Policy. She has taught courses in the LUMES masters' program in Sustainability Science including Earth Systems Science, focused on climate science and solutions; Rural Systems and Sustainability; Quantitative Methods in Sustainability Science; and Writing for Change. She recently co-taught the course "Storytelling for Science in the Climate and Ecological Emergencies." She served as Director of PhD Studies at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) from 2019-2021, and has mentored 39 masters' students, as well as half a dozen PhD students and several postdocs. |
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