FinBio is hosted by Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, and brings together experts from different academic fields as well as strategic impact partners that can help us to translate our research outputs into real-world financial impact.
Our team includes a uniquely 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.
“For a nature-positive financial system”
Several of our lead researchers have a track record of working closely with financial institutions and practitioners to develop useful decision tools and data sources. The team includes researchers from the natural and social sciences and the humanities, as well as researchers skilled in bridging diverse knowledge systems. The programme is organized around 8 research work packages.
We believe this diversity will enable us to produce high quality transdisciplinary science with the overarching aim is to facilitate real change in the financial system that benefits biodiversity.
Our research team
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Assoc. Prof. Mark Sanctuary
Work Package 7 Leader
IVL Swedish Environmental Institute
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.
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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.
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Dr Julia Bingler
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Bingler focuses on financial risk data analytics. She did her PhD at ETH Zurich on climate transition risk metrics and applied Natural Language Processing to assess corporate climate disclosures.
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Dr Fausto Corvino
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Gothenburg
Dr Corvino focuses in part on ethical issues arising from climate change and energy transition and economic ethics. He currently works on the ethics of market-based approaches to climate policy.
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Dr Mattias Gunnemyr
Postdoctoral Researcher
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
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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.
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Henrik Johansson
Researcher
IVL Swedish Environmental Institute
Mr Johansson works with sustainability management at IVL and is a PhD student at Chalmers. He focuses on how biodiversity information and methods can be used by companies to improve decision-making.
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Dr Steven Lade
Senior Researcher
Stockholm Resilience Centre and Australian National University
Dr Lade is a complex systems scientist working on understanding the resilience of systems of humans and nature. Key recent work includes assessing interactions between the planetary boundaries.
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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.
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.
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Dr Tomas Rydberg
Senior Researcher
IVL Swedish Environmental Institute
Dr Rydberg works in Sustainable production and Life Cycle Management. In recent years emerging technology paths within bio-economy has been a core component in his research.
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Dr Mats Töpel
Senior Researcher
IVL Swedish Environmental Institute
Dr Mats Töpel is a senior researcher in bioinformatics and DNA-sequence analysis specialising in biodiversity monitoring using environmental-DNA (eDNA) techniques.
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