Isak Stoddard is a PhD candidate in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. His research is currently focused on the strategies and imaginaries informing the politics of climate mitigation and energy transitions, within Sweden and on a global level.
Over the past decade he has worked in various capacities at the student-initiated Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) at the University of Uppsala and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. At CEMUS, his work mainly focused on developing transdisciplinary approaches to higher education on a myriad of interrelated environmental and societal issues. Isak was also involved in the creation of a 10-year research-initiative on climate change leadership, centred around a series of visiting professorships at Uppsala University.
He has an educational background in engineering physics and energy systems. A dual citizen of Sweden and the United States, he is now based in Uppsala, but enjoys frequent adventures to the Scandinavian mountains for skiing, wandering and writing.
