My background is in analytical chemistry and environmental geochemistry. Today I work mostly on inorganic chemistry in lake sediments and peat, developing proxies for the reconstruction of past climate change on time scales from the last hundred years to 100,000 years. I have several outreach projects working with high school students where they take an active part in data collection with our research group. Some of the projects I am currently involved in include:

• Reconstructing storminess in the eastern North Atlantic during the Holocene
• Temporal scale changes in species distributions in boreal peatlands
• Reconstruction of Holocene atmospheric mineral dust deposition from raised peat bogs in south-central Sweden
• Reconstructing hydroclimatic variations from the Last Glacial to historical times in the eastern Lesotho 
• Developing GPR methods for determining carbon stocks and bottom topography of peatlands

You can follow our group's work on Instragram: @su.bogsquad

I am co-responsible for the S:LAM Lab and the running of an ITRAX XRF core scanner, which makes high-resolution (down to 200 μm), non-destructive XRF analyses of lake and marine sediments. I work to constrain matrix effects, develop novel sample preparation methods and broaden the range of routinely made applications in our lab.

I also have an interest in gender issues and women in science. I have written articles about this which you can read in the online journal Angle (Kylander 2019) and in the Stockhokm University magazine UniversitetsNytt (Kylander 2019).

I am Director of PhD Studies at the Department of Geological Sciences as well as course director for the BSc course Sedimentary Systems (GG4208) and the Masters courses Climate Change Throughout Earth’s History (GG8021) and Paleoclimatology (GG7022). 

You can see what our fieldwork is like in "De första svenskarna" on SVT (around 30 minutes in).

Follow me on Twitter @professorpeat