As a member of the Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative, Johan aims to improve our understanding of how forests are adapting to shifting wildfire activity in a rapidly changing climate. His current research efforts combine large, geographic field surveys of recent burns with FACE experiments across the western United States to assess forest vulnerability to ecosystem transitions under warming and rising atmospheric CO₂. A key focus of his work is investigating how soil microbial communities influence these post-fire dynamics.
Johan has worked extensively with biogeochemical cycling in higher-latitude systems at both Umeå and Lund University, where he remains an affiliate researcher on several boreal wildfire projects. Earlier in his career, he worked on detector development and robotic automation for major collaborations like CERN and MAX IV, contributing to experiments spanning from protein crystallography to dark matter searches.
Beyond research, Johan has worked as an outdoor guide, currently practices photography, and is always looking for ways to use his technical and creative skills to support learning about our environment. Feel free to reach out to discuss science.
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Kueppers Lab
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