Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor, Lund University

Expert Bio

Associate Professor Margareta Johansson is based at the Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University in Sweden. 

Margareta has a broad experience in Arctic research, ranging from glaciology/climatology to Arctic ecology and for the last twenty years she has focussed her research on permafrost in a changing climate. Her main interest is the impacts of climate change in the Arctic and on the rest of the globe. She is currently the Coordinator of INTERACT, networking more than 75 terrestrial research stations in the Arctic and adjacent high-alpine areas (eu-interact.org). She has been involved in climate change assessments from the Arctic by contributing to the Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment (2005), being convening lead authors of the AMAP SWIPA assessment (2011) and co-leading the terrestrial ecosystem chapter in the Arctic Freshwater Synthesis (2016).  Margareta has a great interest in outreach.