SUCCeSS community members

Our members

Aji Mathew, Professor of Materials Chemistry

SUCCeSS Director

Biopolymer based functional materials, biomass valorization, nanocellulose, water treatment, textile recycling/ upcycling, data-driven materials design.

aji.mathew@su.se
+46 (0)8-16 12 56

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and sustainable processing, data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, circular and safe food and water systems, biomass

Andreas Duit, Professor of Political Science

SUCCeSS Board member 2021-2023

Comparative environmental politics and policy to address environmental problems.

andreas.duit@statsvet.su.se
+4608-16 28 69

Research areas: Environmental sciences, circular economy

Anna Sobek, Professor of Environmental Chemistry

SUCCeSS Deputy Director (2021-2023)

Environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry.

anna.sobek@aces.su.se
+46 (0)8-674 72 30

Research areas: Environmental sciences, toxicology

Anneli Kruve, Professor of Analytical chemistry

SUCCeSS PI
Computational mass spectrometry for discovery of hazardous chemicals in the environment.

anneli.kruve@su.se
+46-(0) 8-674 7333

Research areas: Data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, environmental sciences

Anuja Nawadkar, PhD Student

SUCCeSS Travel grantee

Biomass-derived biochar and zero-valent iron composites for water remediation, pollutant dechlorination, and controlled nutrient release.

anuja.nawadkar@su.se

Research areas: Materials chemistry, biomass, circular and safe food and water systems, environmental sciences

Audrey Moores, Professor of Chemistry, McGill University, Canada

SUCCeSS international network

Green and sustainable chemistry focused on biomass valorization, circular materials, mechanochemistry, biopolymers, nanomaterials, and environmentally responsible chemical manufacturing.

audrey.moores@mcgill.ca

Research areas: Circular and sustainable processing, Biomass, Circular economy, Environmental sciences, Materials chemistry, Organic chemistry, Toxicology

BELÈN MARTíN-Matute, Professor in Catalysis

Organic chemist, with a focus on new catalytic methods for sustainable organic synthesis. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 conversion.

Belen.martin.matute@su.se

+46(0) 8-162438

Research areas: Circular and sustainable processing, data driven and sustainable chemistry, organic chemistry

Benoit Dessirier, Researcher, Baltic Sea Centre

SUCCeSS PI

Magnitude and dynamics of nutrient legacies in agricultural landscapes in the Baltic region, numerical modelling, modeling groundwater flow and transport processes.

benoit.dessirier@su.se
+46(0)8-553 785 81

Research areas: Circular and safe food and water systems, environmental sciences

Berit Olofsson, Professor of Organic Chemistry

Deputy Director of SUCCeSS, Previous SUCCeSS Chair (2021-2023)

Metal-free organic synthesis, hypervalent iodine chemistry, mechanochemistry.

berit.olofsson@su.se
+46-(0)8-674 7264

Research area: Organic chemistry, Circular and sustainable processing

Edouard Pesquet, Professor of Biology

SUCCeSS Board member

Cell differentiation and coordination in tissues, advanced methods for imaging biomolecules.

edouard.pesquet@su.se

Research areas: Biomass, environmental sciences

Elin bergman, COO CRADLENET

SUCCeSS senior advisor

Elin Bergman is known for being the Circular Economy Queen of Sweden. She the COO and spokesperson of the Swedish circular economy network Cradlenet, and is also one of the co-founders of the Nordic Circular Hotspot a collaboration platform for accelerating circular economy in the region.

ELSJE ALESSANDRA QUADRELLI , RESEARCH DIRECTOR IN CHEMISTRY AT IRCELYON AT CNRS AND UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON 1

SUCCeSS International network

Alessandra develops advanced materials and catalysts for CO2 conversion while pioneering the "Situated Green Chemistries" framework to diversify chemical research within planetary boundaries through feminist epistemologies.

Erica Zeglio, AssISTANT Professor of Materials Chemistry

SUCCeSS Board member, Member of the SUCCeSS Core group 2025

Sustainable Organic electonics, organic electronic materials, organic bioelectronics, and materials chemistry.

erica.zeglio@su.se
+46 (0) 8-16 12 61

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and sustainable processing

Erik Zhivkoplias, Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) PhD STUDENT

SUCCeSS Travel grantee

The role of data-driven interdisciplinary research in ocean biodiversity governance.

erik.zhivkoplias@su.se
+46 (0) 720141310

Research areas: Data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, environmental science

Francisco Nascimento, Associate Professor of Marine Ecotoxicology

SUCCeSS PI

Ecosystems response to anthropogenic and environmental disturbances, biodiversity in the Baltic sea, toxicity of mixtures of contaminants on ecosystem function.

francisco.nascimento@su.se

Research area: Environmental sciences

Fredrik Norden, Professor in Business Administration 

SUCCeSS Board member

Marketing in innovative and high-tech firms, business relationships/networks, digitalization, emerging technologies, servitization, solutions offerings, purchasing/outsourcing, innovation, and managerial decision-making in marketing.

fredrik.nordin@sbs.su.se
+46 08-16 33 09

Research area: Circular economy

Hanna boström, Assistant Professor

Crystal engineering and structure-property relationships in inorganic materials.

hanna.bostrom@su.se

Research area: Materials chemistry

Henrik Hupatz, CIRCULAB

SUCCeSS Postdoc

Analytical and organic chemistry combined with machine learning for the sustainable design of new reagents.

henrik.hupatz@su.se
+46 (0)79 350 1431

Research areas: Data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, environmental science, toxicology

Honghong Li, Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and JSPS fellow, Researcher

SUCCeSS Travel grantee

Data-driven and AI-assisted interdisciplinary research on biodiversity and human health across scales.

honghong.li@su.se
+46 (0) 765890615

Research areas: Environmental Health, One Health, Planetary Health, Evidence Synthesis and Sustainability Science

Hongrun Chen, PhD student

SUCCeSS Travel grantee

Materials chemistry, extraction of cellulose fibers from different sources and develop sustainable biocomposites.

hongrun.chen@su.se
+46 (0)760 465176

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and sustainable processing, biomass

Ioannis Mylonas Margaritis, WISE Postdoctoral Researcher

SUCCeSS Travel grantee

Developing coordination compounds such as metal-complexes, polymers and metal-organic frameworks and investigating their catalytic applications. 

ioannis.mylonasmargaritis@su.se
+46 (0) 729 686 619

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and sustainable processing

JAVIER GARCIA-MARTINEZ, PROFESSOR OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AT UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE, SPAIN

SUCCeSS International network

Advancing Sustainable Chemistry through Next-Generation Nanostructured Catalysts.

j.garcia@ua.es

Research areas: Circular and sustainable processing, Biomass, Materials chemistry

Jiayin Yuan, Professor of Materials Chemistry

Development and application of polymeric and carbonaceous materials in a chemical approach to address sustainability challenges in the energy and environmental areas, in particular in carbon capture and utilization, and clean water management.

jiayin.yuan@su.se
Phone:+ 46 (0) 816 23 91

Research areas: Materials chemistry

Joeselle Serrana, Postdoc

SUCCeSS Postdoc

Molecular ecology, biodiversity and microbiome research to promote the sustainability of aquatic systems.

joeselle.serrana@aces.su.se
+46 (0) 70 867 7563

Research areas: Circular and safe food and water systems, environmental sciences

John warner, CTO and CEO, Technology Greenhouse, USA

SUCCeSS Senior Advisor

Distinguished Professor of Green Chemistry, Monash University, Australia.

John@TheTGH.com

Research areas: Circular and sustainable processing, Data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, Circular and safe food and water systems, Biomass, Circular economy, Materials chemistry, Organic chemistry

JonATHAN Martin, Professor of Environmental Analytical Chemistry

SUCCeSS  Board member 2020-2023

Nontarget mass spectrometry for studies of the exposome, informatics to understand the complex mixture of contaminants in our bodies or in the environment.

jonathan.martin@aces.su.se
+46 08-16 20 29

Research areas: Data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, environmental sciences

Joseph Samec, Professor of Organic Chemistry 

SUCCeSS Board member

Sustainable chemistry, upcycling of biobased residues to resource, LCA (life cycle assessment), textiles, conversions of biobased molecules.

joseph.samec@su.se
+468163114

Research areas: Circular and sustainable processing, organic chemistry, circular economy

Lennart Bergström, Professor of Materials Chemistry

SUCCeSS Board member (2020-2024)

Materials science for sustainability, thermally insulating foams based on waste and biobased components, upcycling of textile fibres, x-ray and neutron scattering.

lennart.bergstrom@su.se
+46 (0) 8162368

Research areas: Materials chemistry,circular and sustainable processing, biomass

Line Gordon, Professor of Sustainability Science

SUCCeSS Vice Chair

Director Stockholm Resilience Centre and SUCCeSS Co-Chair
Sustainable, healthy and just food systems, biosphere resilience, scenario planning, gastronomic landscapes, moisture recycling, local to global interactions.

line.gordon@su.se

Research areas: Circular and safe food and water systems, Circular economy

Linnea Cederholm, RESEARCHER

SUCCeSS Postdoc

Materials chemistry, chemical and environmental regulation and sustainability science, sustainable circular economy of forest materials in Sweden.

linnea.cederholm@su.se

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and sustainable processing, circular and safe food and water systems, biomass, circular economy

Magnus Breitholtz, Professor of Environmental Science 

SUCCeSS Chair and Advisor to the University President on environment and sustainability

Environmental risk assessment, image-based toxicity screening, water pollution.

magnus.breitholtz@su.se

Research areas: Environmental sciences, toxicology

MAlte Posset, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry 

SUCCeSS PI

Environmental analytical chemistry, microbiology, biogeochemistry, hydrology and scientific modelling.

malte.posselt@aces.su.se
+46(0)8-674 77 19

Research areas: Circular and safe food and water systems, environmental sciences

Margeret Kerr, Director of Education, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University, USA

SUCCeSS International network

Environmental analytical chemistry, microbiology, biogeochemistry, hydrology and scientific modelling.

Margaret.kerr@yale.edu

+1-508-410-9812

Research areas: Green and Sustainable Chemistry Curriculum Development and Online Education Programming

Marlene Ågerstrand, Associate Professor

SUCCeSS PI in FORCES

Risk assessment and regulation of chemicals.

marlene.agerstrand@aces.su.se
+46 (0) 8-16 40 21
 
Research areas: Environmental sciences, toxicology

Matthew Robb, Postdoc

SUCCeSS Travel grantee

Exploration of coordination compounds for solid-state cooling devices.

matthew.robb@su.se

Research areas: Barocaloric materials and spin crossover

Miguel Rivero-Crespo, Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry 

SUCCeSS PI

Heterogeneous catalysis, porous materials, sustainable organic chemistry.

miguel.crespo@su.se 
+46-(0)8-16 24 78

Research area: Organic chemistry

Mika Sipponen, AssocIATE Professor of Materials Chemistry

SUCCeSS PI

Sustainable materials development from industrial side-streams, especially lignin and other organic matter.

mika.sipponen@su.se
+46 (0) 8 16 12 58

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and sustainable processing, biomass, circular economy

Oskar Karlsson, Professor of Toxicology

SUCCeSS Board Member and previous SUCCeSS Deputy Director (2023-2024)

Computational toxicology OMICs, epidemiological, New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for performing chemical risk assessment.

oskar.karlsson@aces.su.se
+46(0) 8-674 72 72

Research areas: Data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, environmental sciences, toxicology

Paul Anastas, Director, Moore Foundation USA

SUCCeSS Senior Advisor

Professor, Yale University, Green Chemistry

Paul.anastas@moore.org

Research areas: Circular and sustainable processing, Data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry, Circular and safe food and water systems, Biomass, Circular economy, Materials chemistry, Organic chemistry

Rana Mostaghel, Associate Professor 

Stockholm Business School

Circular Business Models, Digitalisation, Marketing strategy, sustainable business.

rana.mostaghel@sbs.su.se
+46-(0)8-164235

Research areas: Circular economy, circular business models, digitalisation, marketing strategy, sustainable business

Regina Lindborg, Professor of Geography

SUCCeSS Board member (2020-2023)

Biodiversity conservation, sustainable food production and agriculture, transdisciplinary landscape ecology.

regina.lindborg@natgeo.su.se
+46 08-16 47 68

Research areas: Circular and safe food and water systems, environmental sciences

Roja Rahmani, PhD Student

SUCCeSS Travel grantee

Physical chemistry, computational chemistry, using machine learning to design sustainable solid-binding peptides.

roja.rahmani@su.se

Research areas: Materials chemistry, data-driven circular and sustainable chemistry

Sayad Doobary-Vobora, POSTDOC

SUCCeSS Co-ordinator and SUCCeSS Travel grantee

Organic chemistry, enabling technologies, synthetic chemistry.

sayad.doobary@su.se 
+46 (0)8-162923 

Research area: Organic Chemistry

Siri Talme, SUCCeSS PhD Student

SUCCeSS Board member

Materials chemistry, development of lignin-based carbon materials.

siri.talme@su.se

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and sustainable processing, biomass

Tanja Zimmermann, Director Empa, Switzerland

SUCCeSS International network and member of advisory board

Professor at the Department of Material Sciences ETH Zurich and School of Engineering EPFL Lausanne.

Tanja.zimmermann@empa.ch

Research areas: Biomass, Circular economy, Materials chemistry

Tiina HäyhÄ, Researcher in Planetary Boundaries Research Lab

SUCCeSS PI

Global sustainability, planetary boundaries, sustainable development goals, environmental assessment, energy and environment, ecosystem services, science-policy interface.

tiina.hayha@su.se
+46(0)8 6747400

Research areas: Circular and sustainable processing, circular and safe food and water systems, circular economy

Varvara Apostolopoulou Kalkavoura, CEO, CELLUCIRCLE

SUCCeSS Co-ordinator 2024

Materials chemistry, cellulose based foams, upcycling of textile waste into functional materials.

varvara.apostolopoulou@su.se
+46 (0)76 715 8835

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and Sustainable processing, biomass

Yasmini Portes, PhD Student

SUCCeSS board member

Materials chemistry, sustainable materials development from industrial side-streams, especially agrifood and marine processing by-products.

yasmini.portes@su.se 

Research areas: Materials chemistry, circular and safe food and water systems, biomass

Are you a member of the SUCCeSS community but not on this list? Please email info.success@su.se with your details, including research interests.

  • Alessandra Quadrelli, University of Lyon, France
  • Antony Williams, EPA, USA
  • Athina Anastasaki, ETH, Switzerland
  • Audrey Moores, McGill University, Canada
  • Beate Escher, UFZ, Germany
  • Ben Feringa, Groningen University, the Netherlands
  • Buxing Han, Chinese Academy of Science, China
  • Chao-Jun Li, McGill University, Canada
  • Charlotte Vogt, Technion, Israel
  • Desiree Plata, MIT, USA
  • Ganapati D Yadav, Institute of Chemical Technology, India
  • Helen Sneddon, University of York, UK
  • Javier Garcia Martinez, Alicante University, Spain
  • Javier García-Martínez
  • John Warner, The Technology Greenhouse, USA
  • Julie Zimmerman, Yale University, USA
  • Kathrin Fenner, Zurich University, Switzerland
  • Kei Seito, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Kyoko Nozak, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Ludmilla Steier, Oxford University, UK
  • Magdelena Titirici, Imperial College London, UK
  • Margaret Kerr, Yale University
  • Maya John Jacob, CSIR, South Africa
  • Orlando Rojas, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Paul Anastas, Yale University, USA
  • Peter Licence, University of Nottingham, UK
  • Philip Jessop, Queens University, Canada
  • Reshma Roa, Imperial College London, UK
  • Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Thomas Hartung, John Hopkins, USA
  • Tomislav Fričić, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Walter Leitner, Germany, Max Planck, Germany

Aji Mathew
Audrey Moores
Berit Olofsson
Erica Zeglio
Hongrun Chen
Ioannis Mylonas Margaritis
Javier Garzia-Martinez
John Warner
Joseph Samec
Lennart Bergström
Linnea Cederholm
Miguel Rivero-Crespo
Mika Sipponen
Paul Anastas
Roja Rahmani
Sayad Doobary-Vobora
Siri Talme
Tiina Häyhä
Varvara Apostolopoulou Kalkavoura
Yasmini Portes
Belén Martín-Matute

Aji Mathew
Anneli Kruve
Erik Zhivkoplias
Henrik Hupatz
John Warner
Jonathan Martin
Paul Anastas
Roja Rahmani
Belén Martín-Matute

Aji Mathew
Anuja Nawadkar
Benoit Dessirier
Joeselle Serrana
John Warner
Line Gordon
Linnea Cederholm
Malte Posset
Paul Anastas
Regina Lindborg
Tiina Häyhä
Yasmini Portes

Aji Mathew
Anuja Nawadkar
Audrey Moores
Edouard Pesquet
Hongrun Chen
Javier Garzia-Martinez
John Warner
Joseph Samec
Lennart Bergström
Linnea Cederholm
Magnus Boman
Mika Sipponen
Paul Anastas
Siri Talme
Tanja Zimmermann
Varvara Apostolopoulou Kalkavoura
Yasmini Portes

Andreas Duit
Audrey Moores
Fredrik Nordin
John Warner
Joseph Samec
Line Gordon
Linnea Cederholm
Mika Sipponen
Paul Anastas
Rana Mostaghel
Tanja Zimmermann
Tiina Häyhä

Andreas Duit
Anna Sobek
Anneli Kruve
Anuja Nawadkar
Audrey Moores
Benoit Dessirier
Edouard Pesquet
Erik Zhivkoplias
Francisco Nascimento
Henrik Hupatz
Joeselle Serrana
Jonathan Martin
Magnus Breitholtz
Marlene Ågerstrand
Malte Posset
Oskar Karlsson
Regina Lindborg

Aji Mathew
Anuja Nawadkar
Audrey Moores
Erica Zeglio
Hanna Boström
Hongrun Chen
Ioannis Mylonas Margaritis
Javier Garzia-Martinez
Jiayin Yuan
John Warner
Lennart Bergström
Linnea Cederholm
Mika Sipponen
Paul Anastas
Roja Rahmani
Siri Talme
Tanja Zimmermann
Varvara Apostolopoulou Kalkavoura
Yasmini Portes

Audrey Moores
Belén Martín-Matute
Berit Olofsson
John Warner
Joseph Samec
Miguel Rivero-Crespo
Paul Anastas
Sayad Doobary-Vobora

Anna Sobek
Anneli Kruve
Audrey Moores
Henrik Hupatz
Jonathan Martin
Magnus Breitholtz
Marlene Ågerstrand
Oskar Karlsson

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Source: SUCCeSS