Stockholm University (SU)

The Department of Physical Geography at Stockholm University (SU) is world leading in driving and promoting increased understanding, high quality learning and education, and sustainable solutions regarding natural phenomena and their interactions with each other and societal development. The department is large and dynamic with employees from almost all continents, conducting research on climate change and landscape development, land and water resources, geomorphology and landscape analysis, remote sensing, and polar environments. The research addresses diverse physical and biological features of earth sciences, their characteristics, processes, patterns and interactions with human societies, targeting environmental and societal sustainability and resilience under global changes. The department is a rewarding, exciting and fun meeting place for innovative and creative education and research, contributing to solutions to major societal challenges. The department also operates field stations in northern Sweden and Messinia, Greece, the Tarfala Research Station and Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO), respectively. We offer advanced education in Earth Sciences, Biology-Earth Sciences, Geography, and Environmental Management. SU is coordinating and managing the GeoVT project, leading and contributing to various project activities and outputs.

Persons involved

Prof. Arjen P. Stroeven (Project coordinator and PI)
Former Head of the Department of Physical Geography and Professor in Physical Geography at Stockholm University.

https://www.su.se/english/profiles/stroe.

Dr. Carmen Prieto Hierro
PhD in Water Resources Engineering. She is a research scientist at the Department of Physical Geography with extensive teaching experience. She has co-authored and provided research to a wide number of different projects related to water resources. She has a strong expertise in groundwater modelling and especially freshwater-seawater interactions in coastal aquifers.

Ylva Palmgren
Master of Science student at Stockholm University. She will defend her Thesis in Physical Geography during the fall of 2023.

Giorgos Maneas
PhD student at the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, focusing his research on co-adaptive management of Ecosystem Services in wetlands and surrounding catchments. Station Manager of the Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO). Teaching experience in environmental management with emphasis on biodiversity conservation, agricultural and water resources management.

Starting team (before 2023):

Prof. Georgia Destouni
Former Head of the Department of Physical Geography, and Professor of Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Water Resources at SU, Member of the Board of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, and the Steering Committee of NEO. She is currently Vice President of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, and member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.

Dr. Zahra Kalantari
Associate Professor in Environmental and Engineering Geosciences, the director of the Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO), a pioneering international partnership between the academic and the private communities in the Mediterranean region. She is also Digital Futures faculty member and Research Area co-Leader of the interdisciplinary Bolin Centre for Climate Research in Sweden, committee member of the Soil System Sciences division at the European Geosciences Union.

Dr. Carla Ferreira
Postdoctoral researcher of the Department of Physical Geography, Research Area Leader of the Environment and Society Group from the Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society (CERNAS), Committee member of the Soil System Sciences sub-division “Soil Erosion and Conservation” of the European Geosciences Union, and coordinator of the LAND4FLOOD Early Career Investigators. She has expertise in land degradation processes, surface hydrology, and nature-based solutions.

Dr. Guillaume Vigouroux

Researcher at the department of Physical Geography with teaching experience in hydrology and land-water risk management, and research expertise on managing coastal eutrophication in relation to hydroclimatic, hydrological and hydrodynamic processes.

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