Lan Wang-Erlandsson is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre where she is part of the Planetary Boundaries group and co-leads the theme on Anthropocene Dynamics. Her research focuses on the large-scale interactions between land, water, and climate, and their implications for social-ecological and Earth system resilience.

Research questions that she explores include: What is the role of land-use for sustaining rainfall? What is the role of root adaptation for rainforest resilience under climate change? What is the role of freshwater for the resilience of climate change mitigation measures?

She earned her MSc degree in civil engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2009) and her PhD degree in global hydrology from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (2017). She has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan.