About Me
My background is in plant ecology and ecophysiology. I completed my PhD in 2022 at the University of Tasmania, in Australia, where I explored the effects of nutrient supplementation on physiology, growth and stand dynamics on Eucalyptus nitens plantations through a series of field experiments. I then worked as a postdoc at the University of Michigan in the Institute for Global Change Biology until 2024. My research there looked at the influence of climate warming and community composition change in a montane meadow system in the Rocky Mountains, particularly focusing on carbon fluxes and how they scale from the individual leaf to the ecosystem level. I have also worked in a Free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment, and in a forest evenness-productivity experiment.
My research
At Lund, I am working on the project “Water stress in Swedish forests: identification of risk areas to adapt forestry measures”. Extreme heat and drought are increasingly affecting forests as the climate changes, and this can lead to reduced growth and carbon uptake, and increase susceptibility to damage and fires. In this project we use a modelling approach to simulate forest growth under various climate and management scenarios, with the aim to improve predictions of the effects of drought. We are using empirical data from three Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) stations across Sweden to parameterise and apply a dynamic vegetation model, LPJ-GUESS, to the Swedish production forestry system. The results from this project will help to identify areas of high drought risk, which will be used to help inform decision making in forestry.