Peter
Søgaard Jørgensen
Associate professor, PhD
Research theme leader
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- Anthropocene
- Evolution
- Polycrisis
- Transitions
- Antibiotic resistance
- Biodiveristy and health
- Emerging infectous diseases
Peter Søgaard Jørgensen combines evolutionary and sustainability science to understand crisis and transformations in the Anthropocene and their implications for human health and wellbeing.
Søgaard Jørgensen studies the evolution and sustainability of of the Anthropocene. His questions include, how we got here, the dynamics characterizing the present polycrisis, and the ongoing mobilizations and future pathways toward a more sustainable future.
Søgaard Jørgensen led a team identifying a set of 14 crisis generating dynamics that should be navigated to manage the polycrisis (Anthropocene traps). He is part of a team documenting and quantifying the global mobilization of action towards a new more sustainable relationship with the living planet (Empirics of Hope). He is currently writing a book on the topic of evolution and sustainability in the Anthropocene.
A major focus of his work is the intersection between global health and the living environment, specifically in the context of antibiotic resistance, emerging infectious diseases, and agricultural pests and pathogens. He leads the ERC project, INFLUX focusing on the cascading impacts of new diseases and agricultural problem species on society and the environment. He is a contributing author to the second EAT-Lancet commission.
Søgaard Jørgensen is an ecologist and evolutionary scientist turned sustainability scientist. He came to sustainability science to study the integrated dynamics of how humans interact and coevolve with their living environment. He has a PhD from 2014 in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Copenhagen. During this time he also spent two years at University of California, Davis and University of California, Berkeley.
Søgaard Jørgensen is deputy director of the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere programme at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, leading the work on global health and biosphere stewardship. He is a mentor at the Anthropocene laboratory, also at at the academy.
Søgaard Jørgensen works with a variety of actors at the science-policy interface. These include the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator, the Action for antibiotic resistance (ReAct), the World Bank Group, and the Swedish Ambassador for Antibiotic Resistance.
Søgaard Jørgensen is an elected member of the Swedish Young Academy (2024-2029) where he engages in questions relating to the role of science in a world of increasing turbulence, including outreach, research politics, internationalization and interdisciplinarity.
He is a member of the board of the Wübben Stiftung which funds tenure track positions in the German university system and has chaired research evaluation committees for tenure track positions in Austria via the Vienna Science and Technology Fund.
Søgaard Jørgensen has been involved in international organisations and learned societies, especially working to get the voice of early career scientists represented. These include the International Association for Ecology, the Early Career Network of Networks, and Future Earth.
Awards and achievements
- Member of the Swedish Young Academy
- ERC starting grant 2021
- JPIAMR consortium grant PI
- SESYNC pursuit PI
- Lead-author publications in Nature and Science magazines
- EAT-Lancet 2nd comission – contributing author
- Research board Wübben Stiftung
Supervision
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Luong Nguyen Thanh | PhD | Main supervisor |
Ariadna Sala Roca | MSc | Main supervisor |
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