2013 – ongoing: Franchised researcher, with habilitation (docent), Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (permanently externally funded position).
2011 – 2013: Contracted researcher, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2-year externally funded position).
2007 – 2011: Assistant researcher, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (4-year faculty-funded position).
2007: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern.
2005 – 2007: Assistant lecturer (hourly duties), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and Université Technologique de Troyes.
2003 – 2005: Assistant lecturer (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche), Université d’Angers.
Master of Arts in International Relations and Contemporary War with distinction (2023), Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
Certificate in Wargaming (2022), Military Operations Research Society, Arlington, VA and Virginia Tech.
Cycle Intelligence Économique et Stratégique (67th session, 2019), Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale, École Militaire, Paris.
Graduate Diploma in Politics with first-class honour (2018), University of London (taught by the London School of Economics).
Habilitation in Ecology (Docent, 2013) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Doctoral degree in Ecology (PhD, 2004) at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Directed by Dr. Jean Clobert (main supervisor, CNRS Paris), Prof. Régis Ferrière and Dr. Stéphane Legendre (assistant supervisors, Université Paris 6).
Master of Science in Ecology (MSc, 2000) at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie and the Institut National d’Agronomie Paris-Grignon.
Diploma of Veterinary Medicine (DVM, 1998) at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort.
I have raised more than 8 million euros through competitive research grants from diverse funders. The most significant grants since 2010 are listed below:
2021 – Biodiversa: EUR 1,304,000 (Translocations of flora and fauna for conservation and restoration: ecological, evolutionary, and socio-economic impacts at multiple scales. co-applicant with Pr. Sarrazin, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle).
2020 – VR Swedish Research Council: EUR 1,650,000 (Research Environment Grant in Humanities and Social Sciences: Can laws save the natural world? project leader).
2019 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 287,000 (A systematic mapping of public interest litigation for species conservation in the European Union, project leader).
2019 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 290,000 (Environmental Rights for Environmental Protection, co-applicant with Dr. Epstein, Uppsala University).
2018 – VR Swedish Research Council: EUR 350,000 (Why does species conservation succeed in some countries but fail in others? Project leader).
2018 – Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: EUR 250,000 (Natural Science in Law: Developing Theory and Methodologies for Interdisciplinary Research in Environmental Law, co-applicant with Dr. Epstein, Uppsala University).
2018 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 200,000 (Nature rights to the rescue of life on land and below water, project leader).
2016 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 476,000 (Nature protection and dispensation: Improving the application of the Environmental Code to achieve environmental quality objectives, co-applicant with Prof. Zetterberg, Uppsala University).
2015 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 284,000 (The scale and consequence of predator control, project leader).
2015 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 30,000 (An updated synthesis on appropriate science-based criteria for “favourable reference population” of the Scandinavian wolf population, co-applicant with Dr. Liberg, SLU).
2015 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 30,000 (Population estimates for the Scandinavian wolf population and sample-based monitoring, co-applicant with Dr. Wikenros, SLU).
2015 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 367,000 (Scandinavian wolf ecology and management from a multispecies perspective, co-applicant with Dr. Sand, SLU).
2015 – Conference of European Directors of Roads: EUR 598,000 (Safe roads for wildlife and people, co-applicant with Dr. Seiler, SLU).
2014 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 509,000 (Claws and laws: A dialogue between law and ecology, project leader).
2013 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 350,000 (The interplay between ticks, tick-borne diseases and wildlife in Sweden – season 2, co-applicant with Prof. Kjellander, SLU).
2013 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 115,000 (Wolf movements around fences, livestock and humans with dogs, co-applicant with Dr. Frank, SLU).
2012 – European Commission: EUR 99,000 (Support the European Commission's policy on large carnivores under the Habitat Directive, co-applicant with Prof. Boitani, University of Roma).
2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 570,000 (Demography, genetics and ecosystem effects of the re-colonizing Scandinavian wolf population, co-applicant with Dr. Sand, SLU).
2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 30,000 (Assessing the wolf population viability in Sweden, project leader).
2012 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 325,000 (Merging demography and genetics to manage a small wolf population, co-applicant with Dr. Åkesson, SLU).
2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 100,000 (The interplay between ticks, tick-borne diseases and wildlife in Sweden, co-applicant with Dr. Kjellander, SLU).
2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 97,000 (Making decisions under uncertainty in management of large carnivores, project leader).
2010 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 52,000 (Planning for sustainable management of large carnivores, project leader).
Expert member at the IUCN Species Survival Commission Cat, Canid Specialist Groups and the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe.
Reviewer for Ambio, Animal Conservation, Biological Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation, Bioscience, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, Diversity & Distribution, Ecography, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Ecology Letters, Ecology & Society, Ecosphere, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Science & Policy, European Journal of Wildlife Research, European Zoological Journal, Frontiers in Zoology, Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Mammalogy, Mastozoologia Neotropical, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Oikos, Oryx, PLoS ONE, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, Science, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, Wildlife Biology. Subject Editor for Rethinking Ecology.
Reviewer for the Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (France), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds (Austria) and European Research Council.
Institutionen för ekologi
Grimsö Forskningsstation
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
SE-730 91 Riddarhyttan
Sverige
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