Professor of Economic Geography with special interest in employment, structural change and regional development. Associate head of department (Geography) and co-director at Cerum.
Presentation
I obtained my PhD (economic geography) in 2010 on the thesis "Labour mobility and plant performance: The influence of proximity, relatedness and agglomeration". In 2012 I became senior lecturer in Human geography and associate professor in 2014. In 2016 I became full professor of economic geography. I am currently Associate head of department (Geography) and also serves as research co-ordinator at Cerum (Center for regional science).
Research
My research interests include evolutionary notions of regional economic transformation, regional development, agglomeration economies and the evolving geography of work and employment. I have written theoretically informed empirical articles on the role of labour mobility between jobs and regions, regional resilience and the geography of entreprenurship. I have also contributed with critical appraisals of recent amenity driven approaches to regional and urban development and its relevance in various spatial contexts.
Currently, my research focus is mainly on the social and economic effects of the giga-investments around green technologies in northern Sweden ("A promised land?"), but I also research how individuals, firms and regions adapt to chocks (for example, major plant closures and structural change). For a more detailed description of ongoing research projects, see "Research projects".
I am editor for Geografiska Annaler B and serves as member in the editorial board of Geography Compass (Economic geography section)
I am a frequent reviewer for journals like Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Progress in Human Geography, European Urban and Regional Studies, European Planning Studies.
Scientific awards and honours
Most of my teaching concerns courses in economic geography at both undergraduate and master level as well as quantitative methods at advanced level. I am also involved in supervising both PhD-candidates as well as master and bachelor theses.