Rebecka Ericsdotter Engström

Rebecka Ericsdotter Engström (nee Segerström) is a full-time researcher at KTH department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED),working closely with the national strategic innovation program Viable Cities (https://viablecities.se/en/) that works together with 48 Swedish cities towards the mission of Climate Neutrality by 2030.

With a passion for urban sustainability transitions and systems analysis ,my ongoing research has two parallel foci:
- In the coming 3-year period, I am with support from a FORMAS Early Career Grant expanding my research on integrated urban systems analysis to explore how climate adaptation, resilience, and risk perspectives can be integrated into climate mitigation efforts in cities from a "systemic risk" perspective, using methods from research on decision making under deep uncertainty (DMDU) (2025-2028).
- Within the Swedish Energy Agency funded MESAM project "Beyond Pilots" I am studying and evolving methods and frameworks for system-level transformation in cities that go beyond, tie together and leverage individual pilot projects for climate neutrality. This is investigated in collaboration with the Swedish cities Malmö (especially looking at sustainable refurbishment) and Lund (especially looking at heat system transformation). Madrid and Amsterdam are also learning partners and study cases in the research project. (2024-2025)

Before joining SEED, I worked as a researcher at the unit of Energy and Environmental systems analysis at RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden. I hold a PhD from KTH and the department och Energy Technology. In my doctoral research I developed approaches for assessing the interactions between Climate change, Land use development, Energy planning and Water resource strategies (CLEWs) in cities. Prior to this, I worked with integrated water-energy modelling at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA, and hold a MSc in Socio-technical Systems Engineering from Uppsala University.

Since December 2024, I am a member of the ASRA network (https://www.asranetwork.org/).