Gabriele Messori, Professor of Meteorology at the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University and CNDS Fellow, has recently been awarded a grant of a total of SEK 33 million for a "center of excellence for the effects of extreme climate events".

CNDS Fellow, Elena Raffetti and her team, composed of, inter alia, Giuliano Di Baldassarre and Gabriele Messori, has been granted a financial support of around 12 mil. SEK for the project "Adapting to temperature extremes in a changing climate: Past trends and future scenarios (ADATES)" by Formas.

Our CNDS Fellow, Ashok Swain, is, according to the 2022 TwiLi Index for Sweden, the top scientist on social media in Sweden.

Congratulations, Ashok!

During the spring, the Minister of Education, Anna Ekström will lead a series of research seminars focusing on the government's three priority areas: segregation and crime, climate change and welfare. This Wednesday, the first seminar was organised, in collaboration with Formas. The topic was "A new game plan for the climate" and the speakers were the Minister for Climate and Environment, Annika Strandhäll and Mikael Granberg, professor of political science at Karlstad University and researcher at CNDS, together with five other researchers.

SAGE Publishing and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to understanding environment, climate, security, conflict, and peace linkages. The founding Editor-in-Chief will be our Fellow, Dr. Ashok Swain, professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. 

The paper "A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies" by CNDS Fellows, Sara Lindersson, Johanna Mård and Giuliano Di Baldassarre (UU), together with Luigia Brandimarte has been granted the title of top cited paper in Wires Water. 

A team of CNDS fellows, led by Daniel Nohrstedt (Uppsala university) has recently published a paper called "Disaster risk reduction and the limits of truisms: Improving the knowledge and practice interface" which is considered to be CNDS manifest, explaining how we can go beyond DRR truisms and better translate knowledge into DRR practice.

CNDS Fellow, Mickael Granberg (Karlstad University) has co-authored an article describing how Swedish multi-level governance and planning have been affected by and reacted upon three simultaneous, ongoing challenges - climate change, migration and the pandemic.

In this paper, CNDS Fellows, Emma Rhodes, Steffi Burchardt, Abigail Barker and Taylor Witcher (Uppsala University), together with co-authors, use field mapping, geochemistry, 3D pluton reconstruction and a thermal model to investigate the assembly and eruptive history of the shallow Reyðarártindur Pluton, southeast Iceland.

CNDS fellow Gabriele Messori will receive a starting grant of 1.5 M euro for his project "Compound Climate Extremes in North America and Europe: from dynamics to predictability".  

This ERC-granted project aims at unravelling the mutual shaping of society and hydrological extremes by explaining the causal mechanisms underlying this interplay, and uncovering the conditions in which the dynamics described above tend to emerge.

CNDS fellow Steffi Burchardt was awarded a research grant by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for her discovery of a paradoxical property in magma: it can fracture even though it flows. Her aim is to understand how fracture formation in magma influences everything from the prediction of volcanic eruptions to deposits of noble metals and the formation of oil reservoirs.