Dr. Lina Eklund is associate senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University. Dr. Eklund has a Ph.D. in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis from Lund University. She finished her Ph.D. in 2015 with the dissertation “No Friends but the Mountains: Understanding Population Mobility and Land Dynamics in Iraqi Kurdistan”. Her research interests are placed within the fields of land system science and environmental security. With the use of satellite images and spatial methods, she explores the potential connections between drought, migration, land use, fire, and conflict. Currently, she is leading two research projects: Societal impacts of climate stress: An integrated assessment of drought, vulnerability and conflict in Syria (2020-2023) and Pyrogeography in Conflict Contexts: Satellite Remote Sensing of Vegetation Fires in the Middle East (2022-2027).
Dr. Eklund has over 20 scientific publications, of which many are in high impact journals. She is also contributing author to the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6) second working group’s Water chapter with a section focused on the current state of knowledge on human migration and mobility in relation to climate induced hydrological changes.
Dr. Eklund teaches courses in GIS, remote sensing and sustainable development at Lund University. Since 2011, she has taught over 15 different courses across three different faculties. In addition to regular teaching, she also has experience with graduate student thesis supervision and course development at master and PhD level.