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. 

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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.  

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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.

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 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. 

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 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. 

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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. 

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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. ​

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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.

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

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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
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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. 

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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

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

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24. Isabell Burian. "It is up in the air : academic flying of Swedish sustainability academics and a pathway to organisational change." (Main supervisor: Murray Scown) 






23. Laura Siepmann (Uppsala University).
"Winegrowers’ motives and barriers to convert to organic farming in Pfalz and Rheinhessen, Germany." (Thesis in OPERAs project)
Blog post: Wine, almond blossoms, and earthworms- reflections from fieldwork. 
Blog post: Organic farming through winegrowers' eyes- popular science summary of the thesis results. 

22. Ellen Redford. "Rosé tinted glasses? How a new wine region can adopt existing low carbon practices." (Thesis in OPERAs project)


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21. Pontus Ambros. "Bridging to the common ground, adapting to climate change through a sustainable estuarine land use. A study of the Inner Forth, Scotland." (Thesis in OPERAs project)


​20. Noor Nasir. "Down the Yellow Brick Road: Youth Engagement and Intergenerational equity at the Global Landscapes Forum." Blog post on the Global Landscapes Forum: "Evaluating the Youth in Landscapes Initiative: A leading example of genuine intergenerational collaboration"
  

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19. Shrina Kurani. "Forget about carbon – let’s go on holiday! Using tourist values to conserve seagrass meadows."
Research in the OPERAs ecosystem services project described here. See blog post "Seagrass in the Mediterranean" here. 
LinkedIn profile. 


18. Marius von Essen. "Cork before Cattle: Quantifying Ecosystem Services in the Portuguese Montado and Questioning Ecosystem Service Mapping." Research in the OPERAs ecosystem services project described here, with blog posts for on quantifying cork and carbon sequestration here, and on issues with quantifying services here. Currently pursuing a PhD at Stanford University in conservation. LinkedIn profile. 


17. Seth Wynes. "Carbon and curriculum: Towards an evidence-based climate change education in Canada."  See Seth's curriculum on high-impact climate actions for high-school students here. Currently PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Canada. 



16. Rhianna Dean: “The lot of the farmer: Climate change adaptation in the Victorian wine industry.” Currently Senior Project Officer, Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales, Australia. LinkedIn profile here. 






15. Verena Hermelingmeier: “Harmonizing OPERAs voices: An investigation of different perspectives on the ecosystem services concept and their implications for research and practice.”  Research in the OPERAs ecosystem services project described here. Currently a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy in their Berlin Office, and independent Design Thinking workshop leader. 


14. Klara Winkler: “More than wine: Cultural ecosystem services in vineyard landscapes.” Research in the OPERAs ecosystem services project described here. Currently a postdoc at McGill University, Canada. LinkedIn. 



13. Nadia Karami. "The Food Short List: Recommendations for Swedish consumers to reduce the environmental impact of their food choices."


12. Luisa Fernanda Suarez Rozo. "We are what we eat Investigating enabling factors for dietary change and sustainable diets in Skåne." Currently policy analyst in Colombia. LinkedIn profile.  




11. David Lam. “Environmental impacts in global value chains: Using Hot Spot Analysis to identify priorities for improving the sustainability of German coffee production and consumption.”  Currently Consultant for Corporate Responsibility at Schlange & Co. GmbH, Hamburg, Germany. 



10. Þórhildur Ósk Halldórsdóttir. “Local food in Iceland: Identifying behavioral barriers to change towards increased production and consumption.”  View a poster summarizing this research here. Currently Head of Statistics and Analysis at the Office of the Mayor and Chief Executive Officer of the City of Reykjavík, Iceland. 






​9. David O’Byrne. “Sustainability now! A review of the current state of academic programmes in sustainability.” Revised article published in Sustainability Science. Currently PhD student in Sustainability Science at LUCID, Lund, Sweden. 




8. Kate Whitfield. “Walking in two worlds… and not doing too well in either: Investigating vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change in Nunavut, Canada.” Currently Operations Coordinator at the Network for Business Sustainability at Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada. 


7. Cormac Woods. "A cross national comparative study on the utilisation of private forestry in the development of local wood energy supply chains." 



​6. Leila McElvenney. “Can Africa feed the world? Land acquisitions as a food security solution.” (co-supervised with PhD candidate Torsten Krause). Currently Environmental Coordinator at the University of Cambridge. 



5. Mulugeta Gessei. “Towards improving smallholder agriculture: Role of climate information services in Ethiopia.” (co-supervised with PhD candidate Elina Andersson)





4. Kyle Clark. “Urban food forestry: low-hanging fruit for improving food security?” Revised article published in Landscape Ecology in 2013. Currently Director of Sustainability at EnSave, Inc, in Burlington, Vermont. 



3. Salome Hallfreðsdóttir. “Eco Schools – Are They Really Better? Comparison of Environmental Knowledge, Attitude and Actions between Students in Environmentally Certified Schools and Traditional Schools in Iceland.” Now at Landvernd, The Icelandic Environment Association. 



2. Chia Sui Hsu. “Resilience in space: an experimental analysis of resilience in urban flood management in the Taipei Basin.”  Currently PhD candidate, Department of Human Geography, Lund University. 



1. Joshua Darrach. “The role of youth in climate negotiations: An exploratory study into the effects of constituency status on youth participation in the UNFCCC.” Currently office manager, Camp Arowhon, Ontario, Canada.