Lab Members
Read more about the wonderful students and early-career researchers I've mentored below, including over 30 masters' students, 7 PhDs, 2 postdocs and counting!

LUMES reunion, October 2015: Nine of my former master's students, originally from eight countries, now living all over the world, back in Lund!
Front row, left to right: Chia Sui Hsu (LUMES '11), Leila McElvenny ('12), Kim Nicholas, Rhianna Dean ('13), David O'Byrne ('11).
Back row: Nadia Karami ('13), Thorhildur Haldorsdottir ('13), Klara Winkler ('14), Kyle Clark ('11), Verena Hermelingmeier ('14).
Current Lab Members
PhD Students
Sara Ullström
PhD at LUCSUS "A Journey on the Ground: Rethinking aeromobile practices in the wake of climate change." Interview with Sara Part of the Formas "Takeoff of Staying on the Ground" project . |
Alumni
Postdocs

Murray Scown joined the lab in November 2016, where he led analysis of spatial patterns and drivers of European farming systems and their social, economic, and environmental outcomes. He is now a postdoc studying river deltas under climate, land use, and population change scenarios at Utretch University in the Netherlands. Previously, Murray was a postdoc at the US Environmental Protection Agency after receiving his PhD from University of New England in Armidale, Australia.

Stefan Olin led the ecosystem modeling for several projects, including an analysis of zero-emissions landscapes supported by the Crafoord Foundation, and an interdisciplinary project examining tradeoffs for ecosystem services under future land use scenarios in Sweden. Stefan holds a PhD and a joint postdoc appointment in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University.
PhD and Licentiate Students

Altaaf Mechiche-Alami
PhD Candidate in Physical Geography (co-supervised with Jonathan Seaquist) in the Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of the Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability, LUCID
Dissertation: "“Food security in a changing climate: The role of cropland intensification and land acquisitions across Africa.”
Defended 9 June 2020.
PhD Candidate in Physical Geography (co-supervised with Jonathan Seaquist) in the Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of the Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability, LUCID
Dissertation: "“Food security in a changing climate: The role of cropland intensification and land acquisitions across Africa.”
Defended 9 June 2020.

Klara Winkler
PhD, Oldenburg University, Germany.
Co-supervised with Bernd Siebenhüner.
Dissertation: "Once more with feeling: Harnessing human-nature relationships for the governance of social-ecological systems." Defended 31 August 2018.
Now a postdoc at McGill University with Elena Bennett.
PhD, Oldenburg University, Germany.
Co-supervised with Bernd Siebenhüner.
Dissertation: "Once more with feeling: Harnessing human-nature relationships for the governance of social-ecological systems." Defended 31 August 2018.
Now a postdoc at McGill University with Elena Bennett.

Emma Johansson
PhD in Physical Geography (co-supervised with Jonathan Seaquist).
Dissertation: “Large-Scale Land Acquisitions as a Driver of Socio-Environmental Change: From the Pixel to the Globe." Defended 14 September 2018. Currently a postdoc at LUCSUS.
PhD in Physical Geography (co-supervised with Jonathan Seaquist).
Dissertation: “Large-Scale Land Acquisitions as a Driver of Socio-Environmental Change: From the Pixel to the Globe." Defended 14 September 2018. Currently a postdoc at LUCSUS.

Torsten Krause
With Lennart Olsson, I co-supervised the PhD dissertation of Torsten Krause in Sustainability Science through LUCID. Dissertation: “Buying Conservation: Financial incentives for tropical forest conservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Completed September 2013. Torsten is currently a lecturer at LUCSUS.
With Lennart Olsson, I co-supervised the PhD dissertation of Torsten Krause in Sustainability Science through LUCID. Dissertation: “Buying Conservation: Financial incentives for tropical forest conservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Completed September 2013. Torsten is currently a lecturer at LUCSUS.

Finlay MacGregor
Licentiate in Sustainability Science, September 2017 (co-supervised with Lennart Olsson).
Licentiate thesis: “Does voluntary governance work? Insights from specialty coffee.”
3-minute video application for Regarding Coffee Speciality Coffee Symposium.
Licentiate in Sustainability Science, September 2017 (co-supervised with Lennart Olsson).
Licentiate thesis: “Does voluntary governance work? Insights from specialty coffee.”
3-minute video application for Regarding Coffee Speciality Coffee Symposium.
Researcher
Heather Schoonover
Heather was part of the lab from September 2015- September 2017, following several years experience applying her masters in business administration as part of the sustainability team at Starbucks Coffee. She led the Wine exemplar within the OPERAs project, and co-coordinated the 12 exemplar case studies within OPERAs. |
MSc Students
2020

30. Sebastian Maric
“Mobility Solutions in Swedish Municipalities.” Masters’ in Economics, Lund University.
“Mobility Solutions in Swedish Municipalities.” Masters’ in Economics, Lund University.

29. My Knutsson
“Kan våra jordar rädda klimatet?” [Can soil save the climate?] (in Swedish) Masters’ in Environmental Science, Lund University.
“Kan våra jordar rädda klimatet?” [Can soil save the climate?] (in Swedish) Masters’ in Environmental Science, Lund University.
2019

28. Mathieu Mal
Overcoming obstacles to Lund University’s Sustainability Goals. A case study on the use of behavioural insights in canteen settings
Intern at UN Procurement
Overcoming obstacles to Lund University’s Sustainability Goals. A case study on the use of behavioural insights in canteen settings
Intern at UN Procurement

27. Cristian Pons-Seres De Brauwer
Towards a citizen-driven low-carbon energy transition: Exploring the potential for collective investment schemes in community renewable energy in Europe to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Winner, Centre for European Studies’ Best Thesis Award 2019
Interview here
Starting a PhD at DTU in September 2019 in community wind energy.
Towards a citizen-driven low-carbon energy transition: Exploring the potential for collective investment schemes in community renewable energy in Europe to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Winner, Centre for European Studies’ Best Thesis Award 2019
Interview here
Starting a PhD at DTU in September 2019 in community wind energy.

26. Halley Rainer
From theory to practice. Food waste reduction strategies in literature and a case study of municipalities in Skåne, Sweden
Article in Sydsvenskan newspaper: Kommuner i Skåne tar stora steg för att minska matsvinnet. Flera av de intressantaste strategierna har med planering att göra
From theory to practice. Food waste reduction strategies in literature and a case study of municipalities in Skåne, Sweden
Article in Sydsvenskan newspaper: Kommuner i Skåne tar stora steg för att minska matsvinnet. Flera av de intressantaste strategierna har med planering att göra

25. Selja Snorradottir
The buzzing future of food. Opportunities and barriers for Denmark to normalise insects as a s sustainable meat alternative
The buzzing future of food. Opportunities and barriers for Denmark to normalise insects as a s sustainable meat alternative