讲座简介

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主讲人简介：

Örjan Gustafsson is Professor at Stockholm University in the Department of Environmental Science and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research. After pursuing a university degree in chemistry, he specialized in chemical oceanography and obtained a PhD from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in 1997. He is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (focusing on sustainability and resilience) and serves as chair of the board of directors of the Future Earth Global Hub (Stockholm). He is the director of the receptor observatory for atmosphere-climate studies of the pollution outflow from South Asia and act as deputy director (to Prof. Abdus Salam) of the Bangladesh Climate Observatory on Bhola Island . His fundamental interest is to understand how human activities are perturbing the climate and the related biogeochemical cycle in the global land-ocean-atmosphere system. He is also engaging in cross-disciplinary initiatives contributing towards a more sustainable and resilient stewardship of our planet. His research focuses on two challenges in climate change research that both may lead to climate overshoot. Thawing permafrost and collapsing methane hydrates in the Arctic and the links between severe air pollution and climate change in South Asia, East Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and the sub-Saharan Africa. IGAC is well positioned on these topics to contribute key scientific underpinning for guiding society towards a sustainable development. He takes a large interest in cross-disciplinary initiatives both in education and in interactions with society and policy makers to contribute towards finding solutions for us to bend the curve of climate change.