Caroline is a researcher at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where she is part of the Behaviour, Economics and Nature research programme. She is interested in the complexities of human behaviour in relation to sustainability issues.

One of her core interests is to gain empirically-grounded understanding of human behaviour and collective action in the face of global environmental change, inherent uncertainties and tipping points, and social inequalities more recently. Her interdisciplinary work is aimed at developing more realistic assumptions of human behaviour, grounded in complexity and systems thinking, and building on methods and insights from sustainability science, behavioural economics, and psychology.

She is co-lead of the theme ‘Interacting Complexities’ at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, where she earned her PhD in Sustainability Science in 2017. She is also one of two mentors for the Empirics of Hope topic at the Anthropocene Laboratory.