Henrik Österblom is professor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and director of the Anthropocene Laboratory. He has a master’s degree in behavioral ecology from Uppsala University (1998), and a PhD in marine ecology from Stockholm University (2006).

He has worked at the University of Tasmania (2009), the University of British Columbia (2009 and 2010) and the University of Tokyo (2017 and 2021). He is member of the scientific advisory council to the RIKEN Institute (Japan), chair of the Natural Capital Partnership Committee (Stanford University), chair of the SeaBOS fundraising foundation and board member of Race for the Baltic fundraising foundation.

Henrik has served as Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, scientific advisor to the SARAS Institute (Uruguay) and as policy advisor to the Swedish government. He enjoys working across scientific disciplines, with artists, corporations, and policy makers. He was promoted to professor of environmental science at Stockholm University in 2018.