Lan Wang Erlandsson Forskare

Supervision of postdoctoral researchers

Aug 2026 – July 2028 Main advisor of Hao Li, funded by the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘SAFER-Drivers – Simultaneous Agricultural Failure Events and their atmospheric and climatic Drivers’, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.

Oct 2024 -present Main advisor of Lucie Bakels on the research topic of ‘Understanding the resilience of forest-based climate change mitigation’ (co-advisor: Ingo Fetzer), ReForMit , Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sept2024 -present Main advisor of Bo Su on the research topic of ‘Cryosphere resilience’ (co-advisors: Deliang Chen and Ricarda Winkelmann), Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sept 2024 -present Advisor of Nitin Chaudhary on the research topic of ‘Earth System Impact’ score (supervision shared with Ingo Fetzer), Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sept 2023 -Aug 2025 Mentor (together with Juan Rocha) of Chealsea Kaandorp on the research topic of ‘Intertwined Biosphere’, Anthropocene Laboratory , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

Supervision of PhD candidates

Aug 2026 -present Main advisor of PhD candidate Haipeng Feng (co-advisor: Bo Su), Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Part of the project “A Safe Operating Space for the Cryosphere”.

Dec 2024 -present Co-advisor of PhD candidate Sara Anamaghi (main advisor: Zahra Kalantari), Environmental Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Part of the project “ReForMit”.

Oct 2024 -present Main advisor of PhD candidate Diana Luna-Gonzalez (Co-advisors: Magnus Nyström, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen), Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sept 2024 -present Co-advisor of PhD candidate Ronit Bohra (main advisor: Miina Porkka), University of Eastern Finland.

April 2024 -present Co-advisor of PhD candidate Simon Fahrländer (Main advisor: Prof. Johan Rockström), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.

Jan 2024 -present Main advisor of PhD candidate Vajira Lasantha (co-advisor: Juan Rocha ), Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Part of the project “SAFER: Water resilience in the Anthropocene”.

Sept 2023 -present Co-advisor of PhD candidate Romi Lotcheris (main advisor: Juan Rocha ), Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Part of the project “SAFER: Water resilience in the Anthropocene”.

2020-6 March 2026 Main advisor (with Ryan Teuling and Ingo Fetzer) of PhD candidate Agnes Pranindita, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Formas project: “Governing atmospheric water flows: integrative forest-agriculture solutions for securing rainfall for crop production in Africa”.

2018-27 Jan 2023 Co-advisor (with Ruud van der Ent and Ingo Fetzer) of PhD candidate Chandrakant Singh (Rooting for forest resilience: Implications of climate and land-use change on the tropical rainforests), Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. ERC project: “Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene”.

Supervision of visiting PhD students

Feb 2026 – Feb 2027 Host advisor to visiting PhD candidate Bomei Zhang, from Hongkai Gao’s team at East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China. On the topic of “Moisture recycling in High Mountain regions”. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sept 2023 – Dec 2023 Host advisor to visiting PhD candidate Elena Di Petrillo, from Marta Tuninetti’s team at Politecnico di Torino in Italy. On the topic of “Blue and green water teleconnections in the global food supplies”. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

2022 – 2023 Host advisor (with Ingo Fetzer) to visiting PhD candidate Mingzhu Cao from Weiguang Wang’s team at Hohai University in China. On the topic of “Revegetation impacts on moisture recycling over Loess Plateau in China”. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Selection of papers:

Bakels, L.*, Wang-Erlandsson, L.*, van der Ent, R., Staal, A., Keys, P. W., Zemp, D. C., Fetzer, I., Taniguchi, M., Gordon, L.J (2026). Enhanced dry season moisture recycling in the Congo and Amazon rainforests. Water Resources Research, 62, e2025WR043039. *Equal contribution

Pranindita, A., Teuling, A.J., Fetzer, I., Wang-Erlandsson, L. (2025). Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport Nature Water

Singh, C., van der Ent, R., Fetzer, I., and Wang-Erlandsson, L. (2024). Multi-fold increase in rainforests tipping risk beyond 1.5-2⁰C warming. Earth System Dynamics, 15, 1543–1565.

Rockström, J., Donges, J.F., Fetzer, I., Martin, M, Wang-Erlandsson, L. & Katherine Richardson (2024) Planetary Boundaries guide humanity’s future on Earth. Nat Rev Earth Environ, 5, 773–788. Link to free online access of article.

Wang-Erlandsson, L., Tobian, A., van der Ent, R.J., Fetzer, I., te Wierik, S., Porkka, M., Staal, A., Jaramillo, F., Dahlmann, H., Singh, C., Greve, P., Gerten, D., Keys, P.W., Gleeson, T., Cornell, S.E., Steffen, W., Bai, X., & Rockström, J. (2022) A planetary boundary for green water. Nat Rev Earth Environ 3, 380–392.

Gleeson, T., Wang-Erlandsson, L., et al., (2020): Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth System resilience in the Anthropocene Water Resources Research, e24390