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 two decades she has focussed her research on permafrost in a changing climate. Her main interest is the impacts of climate change in the Arctic.
She is currently the Coordinator of INTERACT, networking more than 75 terrestrial research stations in the Arctic and adjacent high-alpine and boreal 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.
