Anders Högberg is a Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University, Sweden and associate research fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interest is broad and ranges from research on human cognitive evolution, to heritage futures studies on memory practices at nuclear waste disposal sites. In 2017–2022, he worked in an advisory group for the Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI) at the Swedish Research Council. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Swedish National Historical Museums, and is currently member of the Research Advisory Group for the Swedish National Heritage Board.
Jessica Parland-von Essen is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Helsinki and Development Manager at the Finnish IT Center for Science, CSC. She has worked for many years with research data management and digital transformation in research, including in the EOSC projects FAIRsFAIR and FAIR-IMPACT.
Sara Cousins is a Professor of Physical Geography and an Associate Professor (Docent) in Plant Ecology at Stockholm University. Her research combines plant community ecology and landscape history to explore the effects of fragmentation and land-use change on plant dispersal, community composition, and biodiversity. She is particularly interested in how people, livestock, and physical constraints have shaped plant communities over time. Her current research challenges include investigating how climate change and extreme weather events will affect biodiversity in fragmented habitats.
Mattias Jakobsson is a professor of Genetics and the head of the Human Evolution research program at Uppsala University. Jakobsson’s research spans from population genetics, human evolution, and human history. His lab uses computational approaches for deciphering complex patterns of large-scale human genomic variation from both modern-day and ancient humans in order to understand human evolutionary history. The lab focuses on interrogating long-standing questions in human evolution, including the colonization and migration in Eurasia, Africa and southeast Asia, including pioneering studies that resolved the enigma of the Neolithic expansion in Europe (Science 2012) and doubled the age of modern humans (Science 2017).
Peter Jordan is a professor of Archaeology at Lund University. His research interests focus primarily on understanding prehistoric transformations and Neolithization processes across Northern Eurasia, including Fennoscandia, Siberia, the Russian Far East and Japan. From 2021 he also holds a Professorship at Hokkaido University (Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity at GI-CoRE). Prior to coming to Lund University, he was Director of the interdisciplinary Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen (2013-21).
Nina Karlsson is Head of Section for Environment at the Swedish Transport Administration. Nina is engaged in planning and building transport infrastructure with special focus om cultural heritage and other environmental issues. She has a PhD in archaeology with focus on environmental archaeology and a long experience of contract archaeology and other cultural heritage issues from the County Administrative Board.
Roger Edenmo is County Antiquarian and Head of Unit at the County Administrative Board of Uppsala. He holds a PhD in archaeology with a focus on the Late Neolithic Battle Axe Culture. With extensive experience as a cultural heritage advisor, field archaeologist, and researcher, Edenmo combines academic insight with hands-on expertise in heritage management.