Meet our research team! Our team includes a broad set of competences of relevance for addressing the challenges in greening finance and financing green: ranging from monitoring and measuring biodiversity and assessing its effects on economies and investments; to developing usable investment tools and examining how biodiversity is, and should be, dealt with in policy and regulation to ensure its protection.
Work Package 1
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Prof. Fredrik Ronquist
Work Package 1 Leader Swedish Museum of Natural History Prof. Ronquist's research interests include biodiversity informatics infrastructure, e-DNA techniques to study biodiversity, and Bayesian methods for analyzing problems in evolution and biodiversity. -
Dr. Mats Töpel
Senior Researcher SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Dr. Mats Töpel is a senior researcher in bioinformatics and DNA-sequence analysis specialising in biodiversity monitoring using environmental-DNA (eDNA) techniques. -
Dr. Emma Granqvist
Researcher Swedish Museum of Natural History Dr. Granqvist is a computational biologist focusing on biodiversity and evolution. Her recent research combines mathematical modelling with Bayesian statistics to gain insights from environmental DNA.
Work Package 2
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Dr. Juan Carlos Rocha
Work Package 2 Leader Stockholm Resilience Centre Dr Rocha's research questions center on understanding critical transitions – from regime shifts in ecological systems – to collective action in society, and cascading effects in ecosystems. -
Sean Fagan
Research Assistant Stockholm Resilience Centre Sean’s research focuses on building community resilience and preparedness for societal transitions. His work includes social dimensions of glacial lake outburst floods and energy transitions. -
Dr. André Pinto da Silva
Postdoctoral Researcher Stockholm Resilience Centre André is interested in interdisciplinary approaches for biodiversity conservation under different socio-economic pathways. His expertise lies in spatial ecology, macroecology, & conservation biology.
Work Package 3
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Dr. Ben Caldecott
Work Package 3 Leader Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Dr. Caldecott specialises in environment, energy, and sustainability issues and works at the intersection between finance, public policy, and academia, having held senior roles in each domain. -
Dr. Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu
Research Fellow Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Dr. Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu is a complex systems scientist whose research focuses on developing methods to assess nature-related financial risks, creating bankable markets for nature, financing nature recovery, and innovating nature-positive financial instruments. -
Dr. Hassan Aftab Sheikh
Research Fellow Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Dr. Hassan Aftab Sheikh is a Research Fellow in Nature Finance at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Hassan's research focuses on nature finance and investment, focusing on financing nature recovery. His other research interests include climate risk, air pollution and net zero transitions across businesses and governments. -
Christophe Cristiaen
Research Coordinator – Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Christophe is head of impact and innovation at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and its Spatial Finance Initiative. He coordinates the Group’s analytics and nature finance research projects.
Work Package 4
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Prof. Beatrice Crona
Work Package 4 Leader Stockholm Resilience Centre Prof. Crona leads research on sustainable finance at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and is a cofounding member of the Sustainable Finance Lab Sweden. -
Hjalmar Funke
Research Assistant Stockholm Resilience Centre -
Giulia Rubin
Research Assistant Stockholm Resilience Centre -
Giorgio Parlato
PhD candidate Stockholm Resilience Centre Giorgio Parlato explores the financial system's impacts on nature and its potential to drive the sustainability transition. Parlato is part of the Sustainable Finance Lab SWEDEN, a transdisciplinary research centre dedicated to transforming financial markets and advancing sustainable development across society. -
Dr. Shruti Kashyap
Postdoctoral Researcher Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences A multi-disciplinary risk and resilience scholar, Shruti Kashyap is a postdoctoral researcher with GEDB and the Sustainable Finance Lab. -
Dr. Emmy Wassénius
Postdoctoral Researcher Stockholm Resilience Centre Dr. Wassénius researches how risks are created and excacerbated by unsustainable practices and complex social-ecological interactions. -
Dario Marone
Research Assistant Stockholm Resilience Centre
Work Package 5
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Prof. Garry Peterson
Work Package 5 Leader Stockholm Resilience Centre Prof. Peterson's research combines three themes: abrupt systemic change, how ecological changes impacts people, and using futures thinking to improve navigating surprising social-ecological change. -
Dr. Marta Sylla
Postdoctoral Researcher Stockholm Resilience Centre Dr. Sylla’s research focuses on understanding ecosystem contribution to human well-being and communicating nature’s values to support decision making at local to global scale. -
Bianca Voicu
PhD candidate Stockholm Resilience Centre Voicu’s research focuses on developing techniques to design and implement nature-positive investments
Work Package 6
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Prof. Joakim Sandberg
Work Package 6 Leader University of Gothenburg Prof. Sandberg’s research interests lie at the intersection of moral philosophy, political philosophy and economics. He focuses on how financial actors can take responsibility for environmental issues. -
Eliza Nobles
Doctoral Student University of Gothenburg Ms. Nobles is a PhD Candidate in Practical Philosophy at University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on the ethics of biodiversity conservation, the valuation of nature, and environmental justice. -
Dr. Mattias Gunnemyr
Postdoctoral Researcher University of Gothenburg Dr. Gunnemyr focuses on individual responsibilities for harm, e.g. climate change and biodiversity loss. Recent research concerns shareholder complicity, divestments, causation, and the concept of harm.
Work Package 7
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Assoc. Prof. Mark Sanctuary
Work Package 7 Leader KTH Royal Institute of Technology Assoc. Prof. Sanctuary's research focuses on international economics & the environment. His research is mainly empirical, working with data and econometric methods to test competing economic hypothes. -
Prof. Henrik Horn
Senior Researcher Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) Prof. Horn’s research focuses on Law and Economics of international integration, in particular on the interaction between international trade and investment agreements, and national regulatory policy. -
Axel Lavenius
Data Scientist IVL Swedish Environmental Institute Mr. Lavenius focuses on big data, machine learning and modelling - often using Python, R or GIS software. His ambition is enable more efficient large scale analysis relating to environmental sciences.
Work Package 8
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Dr. Megan Meacham
Work Package 8 Leader Stockholm Resilience Centre Dr. Meacham's research focuses on the actors, flows and dynamics of urbanization. She uses ecosystem services to study quantitative and qualitative linkages between cities and their support systems. -
Jeanne Vu
Project Assistant Stockholm Resilience Centre Ms. Vu works closely with companies and investors to implement research-based tools and guidance for scientifically grounded environmental impact assessment and disclosure.