Organisation
The structure of the Bolin Centre is optimised to create and communicate climate science. Its governance is designed to fulfill its mission while maintaining the Bolin Centre as Sweden’s strongest centre for inter- and multidisciplinary climate research.
The Bolin Centre Board makes decisions related to the governance of the Centre as well as on issues/recommendations of the Directorate, the Science Advisory Group and others.
For details see Bolin Centre strategic plan 2023–2027
Bolin Centre Board
The Bolin Centre Board is composed of the Heads of the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Department of Environmental Science, Department of Geological Sciences, Department of Meteorology, Department of Physical Geography, and the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University together with a representative from FLOW at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the Rossby Centre at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and a student representative.
Directorate
The Bolin Centre Directorate makes operative decisions and promotes research of the Centre while reporting to the Board and taking into account advice from an External Science Advisory Group of experts and an internal Science Advisory Group. The Directorate is also responsible for the Climate Research School (CRS).
Directorate members
The Directorate is comprised of the Director, the Research Director, Science Coordinator responsible for administrative support for organizing meetings, reports, communication and dissemination, education, outreach and the upcoming evaluation and a part time Webmaster.
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Ilona Riipinen
Director at the Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Professor of atmospheric sciences at the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University
ilona.Riipinen@aces.su.se
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Gustaf Hugelius
Co-director at the Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Professor in geographic information systems (GIS) and geomatics with applications within Physical Geography at the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University
gustaf.hugelius@natgeo.su.se
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Maria Basova
Coordinator at the Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Department of Environmental Science
maria.basova@aces.su.se
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Laila Islamovic
Research Communicator at the Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Department of Environmental Science
laila.islamovic@aces.su.se
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Sara Gershagen
Research administrator
Office for Research, Engagement and Innovation Services
sara.gershagen@su.se
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External Science Advisory Group
The Bolin Centre has appointed an external scientific advisory group comprised of leading national and international scientists within climate research. The group’s main tasks are to inform the Bolin Centre of its strengths, weaknesses and possibilities for development as well as increase the Bolin Centre’s contacts to international networks and research groups within the climate research area.
Current members
Dr. Victor Brovkin
Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Department of Climate Dynamics
Email: victor.brovkin@mpimet.mpg.de
Dr. Brovkin’s research interests include: High latitude ecosystems and their feedbacks to climate; permafrost carbon as a tipping element in the Earth System; Vegetation dynamics and multiple states of vegetation cover, and; Glacial-interglacial carbon cycle dynamics. Some of Dr.Brovkin’s current project involvements include the EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects Nunataryuk and ESM 2025 (Earth System Models for the future), as well as the ERC-funded project Q-ARCTIC
Professor Peter Cox, CBE
Professor of Climate System Dynamics and Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, UK
Email: p.m.cox@exeter.ac.uk
Professor Peter Cox is internationally recognised for his research on land–climate interactions and led the development of the first climate model including an interactive carbon cycle and dynamic vegetation, highlighting risks such as Amazon forest dieback. He has been a Lead Author on multiple IPCC reports and has been named a Highly Cited Researcher since 2014. In 2025, he was awarded a CBE for services to climate modelling.
Professor Jay Famiglietti
Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
Email: jay.famiglietti@asu.edu
Professor Famiglietti is a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, at Arizona State University. He is also Professor Emeritus from University of Saskatchewan, where he was the Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security. Before this, he served as the Senior Water Scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Prof. Famiglietti’s research focuses on using satellites to track changing water availability around the world. His research interests include global groundwater sustainability; the food-water nexus; corporate water sustainability and stewardship; innovations in financial tools and data-driven reporting platforms; international water.
Dr. Karen E. Kohfeld (she/her)
Director and Professor, School of Environmental Science Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 CANADA.
Email: kohfeld@sfu.ca
Dr. Kohfeld's research focuses on understanding past climates and the global carbon cycle, specifically using of regional-global datasets to understand changes in ocean circulation, marine productivity, and the global carbon cycle over glacial-interglacial timescales. Through collaborations with provincial and federal agencies in Canada, she also conducts regional research focused on carbon storage dynamics in coastal wetlands, coastal ocean acidification, and past climate and fire behavior in western Canada.
Professor Camille Parmesan
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NMA Chair in Public Understanding of Marine Science & Human Health
School of Biological & Marine Sciences, Plymouth University, UK.
Email: camille.parmesan@plymouth.ac.uk
My research focuses on the biological impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wild species and the implications for conserving biodiversity under future, rapid global warming. I work on impacts at the population level (on butterfly-host plant interactions), and at a global-scale analysing biological responses to climate change across all taxonomic groups. I am an advisor for several conservation NGOs and am a Coordinating Lead Author for the upcoming 6th IPCC Assessment.
Professor Trude Storelvmo
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University of Oslo, Dept. of Geosciences, Section for Meteorology and Oceanography
Email: trude.storelvmo@geo.uio.no
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Professor Trude Storelvmo is an atmospheric scientist with a primary focus on the role of aerosol particles and clouds in Earth’s climate. Her research centers on understanding how aerosol particles affect climate by acting as cloud condensation nuclei and ice nuclei. Beyond this, she delves into various sides of climate science, including exploring cloud-climate feedback mechanisms, investigating climate sensitivity, assessing the economic implications of climate change, and studying climate engineering strategies involving aerosols and clouds. Trude's work is especially vital because aerosol and cloud effects remain some of the most uncertain and challenging factors within the climate system, demanding continued dedication from the scientific community in the years ahead.
Science Advisory Group
The Bolin Centre has a Scientific Advisory Group which is chaired by the Director and Director of Research. The role of the Scientific Advisory group is to steer and implement research in the Bolin Centre. The group is comprised of the Research Themes leaders, the chair of the Climate Research School advisory group, the Director of Studies for the Climate Research School, the Database Coordinator, the Climate Modelling Coordinator, the Bolin Centre Coordinator and Communicator, and the Centre’s Economy Administrator.
Last updated: 2026-01-18
Source: Bolin Centre for Climate Research