Mats Björkman

Mats Björkman, researcher at Gothenburg University in Ecosystem Science, has a focus in understanding current and future environmental changes in cold regions. Mats Björkmans’ research spans a broad range of topics—from shifts in vegetation and soil microbial communities to transformations in carbon and nutrient cycling. In addition, he investigates the chemical, physical, and biological processes that govern seasonal snow. Together, these areas of expertise provide crucial insights into how rapidly changing cold‑region ecosystems respond to a warming climate.

Mats Björkman is also involved in the establishment of the international cross-disciplinary Svalbard Snow Network, with the aim to facilitate and strengthen snow related research in the Svalbard archipelago.

Åsa Larsson Blind

Åsa Larsson Blind is a board member of the Sámi Parliament in Sweden. She also works as a project manager for the project “ReCap ASáp – Regaining Capacity in a Changing Sápmi”, led by the Saami Council and Suoma Sámiid Guovddašsearvi. She was a member of the Saami Council between 2008-2025 where she served as President in the period 2017-2019. She was the first woman to be elected chair of the National Sámi Association in Sweden 2019-2021. Larsson Blind was 2011-2015 the Saami Council board member of IPS, Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, and served also in that period as the HoD for Saami Council at Arctic Council SAO meetings.”

Maria Jernnäs

In her research, Maria Jernnäs, Assistant Professor at Linköping University, engages with ideas on how climate change governance is conducted under the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. She is particularly interested in how different portrayals of climate change as a political problem enable and constrain solutions, and the effects this has for how we define politically legitimate climate actors and actions.

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Maria Wolrath Söderberg

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Maria Wolrath is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on how people reason about societal transformation, and she is deeply committed to critical cultural self-reflection—that is, helping us become aware of our collective ways of thinking, especially those that are harmful, so that we can relate to them in more discerning and responsible ways.

Maria also has extensive experience participating as a researcher in the public sphere and has experimented with various formats for doing so. In addition, she leads the work of the research network Researchers Desk, which supports scholars in advancing the role of research in public debate while maintaining a strong commitment to scientific integrity.