I was born at Loch Ness, Scotland in 1968. I am Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology at Stockholm University. I have published over seventy academic papers on geology, earthquakes, tsunamis and climate change. I was Director of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research for 9 years. I am a passionate educator and public speaker. I co-founded Researcher’s Desk, a non-profit organisation that bridges between academia and civil society and pursues knowledge-based solutions to the climate crisis. As a climate activist, I have supported the youth who created the climate movement that must change the world. In my lifetime, I have witnessed climate change that would have taken four million years to occur naturally.
I am author of Our Time – a true story about the climate crisis.
Our Time is about a four-billion-year journey to a single moment in time, when one species gets to decide to protect all that it cherishes, or to stand by and watch as the climate crisis engulfs it all. The storyteller is a professor of geology, who did not understand what it all meant, until it was explained to him by the children of the world.
I teach courses in English and Swedish, on campus and online, at most academic levels, on climate, geology, philosophy and history of science. Here are a few of my courses.
As a member of Researchers’ Desk and a researcher working on climate, and a father, I am committed to speaking clearly for members of the public about the climate crisis. Here are a few of my speeches.
