Christofer Edling received his PhD in Sociology from Stockholm University where he is currently Associate Professor, affiliated to Stockholm University Linneaus Center for Integration Studies.Between 2002 and 2005 he was the Torgny Segerstedt Pro-Futura Fellow at the Swedish Centre for Advanced Studies. He was on the board of RTM/CTM in 2007-2008 and is currently a member of the board of Stockholm Resilience Center.
His research interests are mainly focused on social network analysis and he is the principal investigator of several large network studies, one of which is focusing on the policy networks of climate change.