Conference Programme 9 Dec 2025

Lars J. Nilsson is a Professor and Head at the Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. His research revolves around decarbonization transitions, including climate and industrial policy. He was coordinating lead author for the Industry Chapter in IPCC AR6 WGIII report (2022) and he is a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.

Lars J. Nilsson | Lund University Research Portal

Elna Heimdal Nilsson is a Professor at Combustion Physics at Lund University and Head of Department at School of Aviation, as well as Assistant Director of CESTAP. Elna is involved in research concerning chemical kinetics in combustion processes. The research is mainly development of chemical kinetics models of a range of fuels, fossil fuels as well as biofuels.

Elna Heimdal Nilsson | Lund University Research Portal

Ewa Marek is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Energy Reactions and Carriers Group. Her research focuses on sustainable and renewable ways to generate heat, power, and chemicals, using her expertise in the power and chemical sectors to forge pathways towards a net-zero future. She also investigates the production, application and processing of new fuels and energy vectors. 

Dr Ewa Marek | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima is an international public lawyer and scholar with over two decades of experience at the intersection of human rights, biodiversity, and climate change law and policy. She serves as Thematic Lead and Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and as Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. She has contributed as an expert to the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the European Parliament. 

Claudia Ituarte Lima | Lund University Research Portal

David Edwards is Professor of Plant Ecology, and Head of the Tropical Ecology and Conservation Group in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the conservation of tropical forests and biodiversity, and he is the founding Director of the Centre for Global Wood Security. His group uses intensive field study, remote sensing, global mapping, land-use modelling, and environmental economics to tackle key questions in forest ecology, management, and conservation, with a focus on issues of global policy significance. 

David Edwards | University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences

Professor Nazia M. Habib is the Founding Director of the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD), a transdisciplinary action-research initiative rooted in the Departments of Land Economy and Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Her research integrates complexity science and political economy to develop co-creation frameworks and participatory action-research methods that strengthen governance, innovation, and sustainable investment in conditions of uncertainty and resource constraint.  Professor Habib received the Claydon Prize for the best PhD thesis in Economics at Cambridge and has authored three books and over seventy publications on resilience, governance, and sustainable systems. Her book Biofuels, Food Security, and Developing Economies (Routledge, 2016) was ranked among the top three most influential books of the year by Food Tank.

Professor Nazia M Habib, FRSA | Department of Land Economy

Åsa Knaggård is an associate professor in political science at Lund University. Her research is about decision making and policy processes, with a particular focus on the relation between science and politics. She works with projects on climate adaptation and how responsibility can be distributed between different societal actors. Focus is on Sweden and the role of public vs. private actors and the national vs. local level, as well as the distribution between sectors.

Åsa Knaggård | Lund University Research Portal

Harro van Asselt is a professor and holds the Hatton Professorship in Climate Law at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge he is also a Law Fellow at Hughes Hall. He is also a Professor of Climate Law and Policy at the University of Eastern Finland Law School, and an Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. Professor van Asselt has published extensively in the field of climate change law and policy, covering developments in international, European, and national climate law and governance. He has contributed to high-level reports informing policymakers, such as the IPCC’s 6^th Assessment Report and UNEP’s Emissions Gap and Production Gap reports.

Harro van Asselt | University of Cambridge Department of Land Economy

David Reiner is a political scientist and Professor of Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, where he is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group. His research focuses on energy and environmental policy, with a particular emphasis on the politics of climate change and the social acceptability of low-carbon or net-negative mitigation options for achieving net zero targets. He is an advisor to government, industry and non-governmental organisations on energy and environmental policy, and is frequently interviewed in national and international media. 

David Reiner | University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Ewa Marek is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Energy Reactions and Carriers Group. Her research focuses on sustainable and renewable ways to generate heat, power, and chemicals, using her expertise in the power and chemical sectors to forge pathways towards a net-zero future. She also investigates the production, application and processing of new fuels and energy vectors. 

Dr Ewa Marek | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

David Edwards is Professor of Plant Ecology, and Head of the Tropical Ecology and Conservation Group in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the conservation of tropical forests and biodiversity, and he is the founding Director of the Centre for Global Wood Security. His group uses intensive field study, remote sensing, global mapping, land-use modelling, and environmental economics to tackle key questions in forest ecology, management, and conservation, with a focus on issues of global policy significance. 

David Edwards | University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences

Fredrik N. G. Andersson is Associate Professor of Economics at Lund University. His research examines climate change, industrial transformation, and the long-term evolution of economic policy. He explores how historical transformations can inform the transition to a low-carbon economy and how learning and institutional change shape pathways of change. Through both research and policy engagement, he contributes to debates on how governments and markets can work together to steer transitions that are economically viable and environmentally sustainable.

Fredrik N. G. Andersson | Lund University Research Portal

Moa Petersén is an Associate Professor in Digital Cultures at Lund University. Her research explores how technology is implemented, imagined, and integrated into everyday life, focusing on the social and ethical challenges that accompany technological change. Petersén examines how new systems—such as cashless payment infrastructures—affect inclusion, accessibility, and individual rights. She is particularly interested in the social consequences of digitalization, asking who is empowered or excluded when new technologies are adopted. 

Moa Petersén | Lund University Research Portal

Rekha Bhangaonkar is an agricultural economist and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. Her research explores the use of natural resources and its implications for resource use sustainability and farm incomes. Her current project, Landscape Regeneration Solutions to the Interlinked Extinction and Climate Crises that Support Sustainable Development, examines the adoption of agri-environmental policies in the Fens, one of England’s most intensively farmed regions. 

Dr Rekha Bhangaonkar | Department of Land Economy

Per Becker is Professor of Risk and Sustainability at Lund University, Professor of Leadership and Command & Control at the Swedish Defence University, and Extraordinary Professor of Environmental Sciences and Management at North-West University. He has combined academia with a professional career in humanitarian assistance and international development cooperation, working for national authorities and international organisations focused on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. His research interests focus on the systemic interactions between the physical environment, social organisation and social behaviour in relation to societal safety, security and sustainability. Especially on issues of governance, collaboration, risk and vulnerability, on what makes society resilient to disturbances, disruptions and disasters, and on capacity development as an intentional process for increasing such resilience.

Per Becker | Lund University Research Portal