Expert List for Media

LUCSUS’ expert list for media includes contact details for researchers with expertise in various areas of sustainability.

The researchers can conduct interviews in both Swedish and English.

Emily Boyd, Professor and Director of LUCSUS
Expert in: climate change and resilience, adaptation, politics of loss and damage, extreme weather events, climate change impacts on vulnerable groups.

Emily Boyd was lead author for IPCC AR6 (Working group II, chapter 8 Poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development)

+46 46-222 03 69, emily [dot] boyd [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se

Kimberly Nicholas, Associate professor
Expert in: High-impact climate actions, from personal to policy levels. Sustainable wine, agriculture, and ecosystems.

+45 31 58 51 41, kimberly [dot] nicholas [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se

Lennart Olsson, Professor
Expert in: food and land use change, perennial agriculture, land degradation and desertification, the effects of climate change in Africa.

Lennart Olsson was coordinating lead author for the chapter on land degradation in the special IPCC report on Climate Change and Land.

+46 46 222 05 11, lennart [dot] olsson [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se

Torsten Krause, Senior Lecturer
Expert in: Biodiversity Conservation & Ecology; Environmental Policy; Ecological and Environmental Economics; Forestry and forest management (with strong focus on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest).

+46734239415, torsten [dot] krause [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se

Mine Islar, Senior Lecturer
Expert in: renewable energy; biodiversity; social environmental justice; collective action and communities. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) expert.

+46 222 41 31, mine [dot] islar [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se

Christine Wamsler, Professor
Expert in: sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

+46 46 222 80 80, christine [dot] wamsler [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (only in English)

Wim Carton, Senior Lecturer
Political economy of climate change mitigation; climate change mitigation; negative emissions/carbon removal; climate justice.

+46462220394, lwim [dot] carton [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se