Christian Stranne Associate professor of Marine geophysical mapping and modelling

Christian Stranne earned his PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Gothenburg in November 2012, specializing in large-scale Arctic sea ice dynamics and ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions. He then pursued a two-year postdoctoral position at the Department of Geological Sciences (IGV) at Stockholm University, where he developed numerical models for multiphase flow in methane hydrate-bearing marine sediments.

In 2015, Christian was awarded a Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, spending three years between IGV and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA. His research expanded to include geophysical mapping using acoustic methods, leading to his appointment as an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University in 2018. That same year, he received a four-year grant from the Swedish Research Council to investigate large-scale methane gas release from the seafloor due to climate change. In 2022, he was promoted to Associate Professor and secured another four-year grant for his project, The Fate of Climate Change-Induced Methane Formation in the Sediment-Ocean-Atmosphere System.

Christian has extensive field experience, having participated in six major icebreaker expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean, as well as research cruises in Sweden, Finland, Brazil, and Chile. His expertise includes acoustic mapping, CTD and LADCP operations, and mooring deployments and recoveries.