Our Team

Kick-off meeting at Lake Ringsjön in Höör, Sweden, 2019.
Maja Schlüter
Associate Professor, Social-ecological integration

Maja’s research at the Stockholm Resilience Centre focuses on understanding the emergence of social-ecological phenomena such as regime shifts, transformations, traps or (self-)governance from dynamic social-ecological interactions. She combines dynamic modeling, particularly agent-based modeling, with empirical research with the aim to develop theory and approaches to study SES as truly intertwined and complex adaptive systems of humans and nature.

Interests: social-ecological mechanisms; SES theory; human adaptive behavior; natural resource management; complex adaptive systems, social-ecological relations.

Other projects: Ses-link / MuSES, CauSES

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Romina Martin
Researcher, Modelling

Romina is passionate about simulation model development and analysis to better understand complex phenomena. This activity, she feels, becomes most meaningful for the purpose of untangling ecological dynamics which are in various ways intertwined with the human ingenuity to celebrate a more or less sustainable lifestyle. Her applied methods range from agent-based, system dynamics modeling to diverse participatory approaches. She works since 2013 at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Interests: Lake and watershed management, ecosystem service co-production, mixed-coupled models, pastoralism, serious games.

Previous projects: AQUACROSS (2015-2018), LimnoTip (2013-2015)

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Beatrix Beisner
Professor

Dr. Beatrix Beisner is a Full Professor at the University of Québec at Montréal. Since 2015, she is also Director of the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Limnologie/Interuniversity Limnology Research Group (GRIL) a network of 10 Québec universities and 50 researchers in Canada. Dr. Beisner has many years of experience in lake ecology, specializing in plankton community dynamics and diversity, especially with respect to climate change impacts. She is leading the Canadian team within LimnoScenES.

Isabelle Lavoie
Assistant professor

Isabelle is an assistant professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement (INRS-ETE) in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. She is interested in the response of aquatic ecosystems to global change and her main research focus is on the development of bioindicators/biomarkers of change/response.

Rita Adrian
Professor

Our interest in LimnoScenES concerns the resilience of lakes in space and time along environmental gradients. We are foremost interested in the question as to how climate change (warming trends, extreme episodic events) and eutrophication affect the interaction between plankton biodiversity and ecosystem functionality (lake metabolism). Overall we will test whether the frequency of unstable lakes increase with global warming. Our studies are based on empirical long term and remote sensing data.

Lars-Anders Hansson
Professor, Mesocosm experimentation

Lars-Anders is a Professor in Limnology in Lund, Sweden and have worked with many aspects of aquatic ecology , but for LimnoScenES the most useful is his studies on food web dynamics and lake restoration. Lars-Anders' main contribution to the project will be to provide ecological knowledge and experimental and monitoring data input to SES models and discussions.

Laura Mae Herzog
Postdoc

Laura is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück. She is interested in the different uses and the sustainable management of common-pool resources (CPR), specifically the CPR water. Within the LimnoScenES project, she's responsible for the case study of lake Dümmer and the scenario planning and stakeholder workshops therein. She is keen on getting to know the different stakeholders' perspectives regarding the lake's current and future needs.

Karan Kakouei
PostDoc

Karan is a freshwater ecologist at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany. He is interested in global-change effects on freshwater ecosystems, with an emphasis on assessing the current status of freshwater biodiversity, as well as under potential global-change scenarios at different temporal and spatial scales. Within the LimnoScenES project, Karan will use artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to improve existing knowledge on possible effects of multiple stressors on different dimensions of freshwater biodiversity.

Benjamin Kraemer
Postdoc

Ben is a global change aquatic ecologist at the IGB Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany. His research aims to document temperature variability in the world's lakes and better understand the consequences of that variability for lake ecosystems. Together with his collaborators, his research sheds light on how climate change may affect the benefits that people derive from lakes such as food and drinking water.

Simone Frenzel
Datamanager

Simone is datamanager at the IGB. In LimnoScenES she will take care on the data management plan (DMP).

Romana Salis
Postdoc

Romana is a postdoc in Lund, Sweden, with broad interests in anthropogenic impacts on freshwater ecosystems. In particular, her research focuses on using molecular techniques to assess the impacts and interactions of multiple anthropogenic stressors on the structure and functioning of stream communities. Within the LimnoScenES project, Romana will be working with Lars-Anders to provide experimental data on how future climate change scenarios will impact freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services

Louis Tanguay
Postdoc

Louis Tanguay is a postdoctoral researcher in the Canadian team of the LimnoScenes project, and his research interests lie at the boundary between social and natural systems. Using a landscape approach, his graduate research focused on rural livelihoods in South-East Asia and on the socio-ecological dynamics that help sustain their resilience. In the present project, Louis's work will focus on the study and construct of participatory scenarios with stakeholders from the Lake Saint-Charles case, as well as on the integration of these scenarios within the greater socio-ecological framework.

Giancarlo Cesarello
Ph.D student

During his professional and academic experience Giancarlo conducted researches on the assessment of marine degradation (coral reef) and contamination (oil spills) using remote sensing technology. Recently he explored the area of fresh water management (Integrated Water Resource Management - IWRM) continuing to refine his understanding on the relation between biodiversity dynamics. the sustainable use of ecosystem services. and the environmental changing conditions impacted by climate changes.

Emilien Mineaud
PhD
Emilien is PhD student at the University of Québec at Montréal, Canada. He is particularly interested in plankton dynamics and consequences of the environment. In the framework of LimnoScenES project, he is studying variability in phytoplankton biomass and resilience of clear water states across lakes in the landscape. His work will help determine the relationship between biodiversity of lake food webs (phytoplankton, zooplankon and fish) and clear water state resilience, with a focus on North temperate lakes of Québec, Canada

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Tim DuBois
Researcher, modelling

Tim's background is in quantum mechanics & plasma physics, but has recently altered his focus towards global sustainability issues. Since 2018 he's been a member of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, investigating the interplay between the climate & economic systems, along side work attempting to codify the Planetary Boundaries concept. Tim joined the LimnoScenES project in February 2020 to delve deeper into the social-ecological systems space, bringing with him a strong model development capacity.

Interests: Non-linear dynamics, complex adaptive systems, biodiversity (particularly the concept of functional diversity), probabilistic graphical methods.

Previous projects: Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene (2018-2020)

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Laura Fløytrup
Research Assisstant

Laura is a master's student at LUMES (Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science) at Lund University. Her main interest is in human-nature interactions, focusing on how future interactions can be developed in a way that is 'truly' sustainable for both humans and nature. Laura supports the administrative parts of the projects but is also engaged in discussions on WP2 & WP3. She hopes to not only learn from these discussions but also contribute to the work embedded in them.

Interests: SES, natural resource managment, local participation, visioning, sustainable development, geopolitics.

Previous projects: Tourism development and local resilience

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