Core Team

Robert is a limnologist who develops and applies models to study lake ecosystems. His research includes deploying instrumented monitoring buoys to investigate lake physics, running numerical models to understand lake metabolism, as well as building hybrid models that integrate deep learning with process-based modeling.

Ana is a limnologist and researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on process-based modelling of physical and biogeochemical processes in lakes, with a particular emphasis on the impacts of climate change on inland waters. She is especially interested in the coupling between catchments and lake systems and how these inter-actions shape ecosystem services, water quality and the management of freshwater resources.

Jorrit studies environmental changes in lakes using coupled physical and biogeochemical models at Uppsala University in Sweden. His research covers amongst others effects of extreme weather, integrating watershed management and lakes, spring phenology, and global-scale climatological trends.

Kukka-Maaria is an atmospheric physicist working with measurements of greenhouse gas exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere. Her work includes applications for different ecosystems spanning from lakes and rivers to forests and agriculture, as well as different greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

Joachim is an aquatic scientist with a background in biogeochemistry and hydrodynamics. His work combines analysis of large datasets with statistical and process-based modelling to identify and understand long-term changes in freshwater ecosystems.

Juan Pablo works in freshwater ecology, studying how global change stressors affect phytoplankton and periphyton in lakes and rivers, and how these changes scale from organisms to ecosystem functions, with implications for water quality and ecosystem resilience.

Jana is a limnologist and evolutionary ecologist studying how freshwater organisms and food webs respond and adapt to anthropogenic environmental change. Her research integrates ecological stoichiometry, evolutionary theory, and experimental approaches across laboratory, mesocosm, and field systems to understand the nutritional and physiological mechanisms shaping ecological and evolutionary dynamics in lake ecosystems.

Yeliz is a hydroclimatologist whose research focuses on land-atmosphere interactions, the terrestrial water cycle, and the integration of Earth observations with climate models. By combining process-based and data-driven models with satellite remote sensing, she investigates how changes in snow cover, glaciers, vegetation, and human land use impact terrestrial water and energy cycles. Her work aims to advance our understanding of climate extremes and how they evolve under a changing climate.

Tuba is a limnologist who integrates ecological theory with statistical and modeling approaches. She specializes in lake and catchment ecosystem modeling, spatial data analysis, and greenhouse gas dynamics in aquatic systems.

Isolde is a biogeochemist investigating ecosystem functioning across scales, from omics-based approaches to food web and trophic interaction studies, with a particular focus on phytoplankton. Her research integrates biogeochemical processes across the land–freshwater–coastal continuum, spanning terrestrial inputs, rivers and lakes, and coastal systems.

Georgina is a molecular ecologist who studies biodiversity and microbial evolution across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Her research examines how environmental stressors such as climate warming shape ecological and evolutionary change, including experimental work with lake microorganisms and molecular approaches to understand how water shapes insect biodiversity.ms.

Andrea is a hydrologist who combines environ-mental tracers, field observations, and modeling to investigate water flow paths and biogeochemical cycling across diverse landscapes. Her research spans from deploying isotope and dissolved-gas tracers in groundwater and stream systems to developing tracer-aided hydrological models that constrain water source dynamics in high-latitude catchments.

Tássia is an Environmental Engineer with progressive experience in hydrological modeling, water-budget analysis, and water-resources management. She applies advanced tools such as the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT and SWAT+) models, climate models, and GIS to assess conservation practices, land-use change, climate variability, and their effects on water quantity, water quality, crop yields, and their connections to aquatic ecosystems.

Tom is a freshwater ecologist and palaeoecologist interested in how lake ecosystems respond to human pressure across a range of timescales. In recent years, he has collaborated with engineers to both apply and develop sensor systems for measuring ecosystem processes, including greenhouse gas dynamics. His work spans multiple scales, from high‑frequency measurements in lakes and mesocosm systems to decadal long‑term monitoring data and centennial‑scale palaeolimnological records, used to improve understanding of lake responses to eutrophication.

Overall, Tom’s work is driven by an exploratory approach that integrates innovative methods to better understand lake ecosystem dynamics.

Dolly is a biogeochemist who studies the cycling of organic matter in lakes and soils. She is the station manager of the Swedish field station, Erken Laboratories, named after the lake Erken.

Don’s research is on the effects of climate change on lakes and water supplies, including the connections between lakes and their watersheds.  He has for many years been responsible for the automated monitoring program at Lake Erken.  He also ran the reservoir modelling program for the New York City water supply.