Gerard Rocher-Ros

Gerard Rocher-Ros is the Principal Investigator of the lab.

Contact: gerard.rocher.ros@umu.se

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Gerard Rocher-Ros

Short CV

EDUCATION

  • Umeå University, Sweden, Ph.D. in Physical geography. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science. 2014 - 2019
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, M.S. Statistical Modelling. Department of Mathematics. Specialty in Statistical Modelling and Complex Systems. 2013 - 2014
  • University of Barcelona, Spain, B.S. Environmental Sciences 2008 - 2013

DOCTORAL DEGREE

  • Umeå University, Sweden, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science., 2019.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant professor in Ecosystem Ecology. Umeå University, Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience - Integrated Science Lab. 2025-.
  • International postdoctoral researcher. Blanes Centre of Advanced Studies (Spanish National Research Council) and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 2022 - 2024
  • Postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University, Sweden. Climate Impacts Research Centre. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science. 2020 - 2022
  • Parental leave (12 months between 2019 and 2023).

FUNDING (as lead PI)

  • Mid-range equipment funding from NTK - Umeå University (2025): 614 000 SEK. Funding for a new Gas Chromatograph for environmental gasses.
  • European Research Council Starting Grant (2024): 1 960 000 EUR (21 000 000 SEK). A mechanistic understanding of Arctic River Methane emissions.
  • Scholarship from the King Carl XVI Gustaf Foundation’s 50-year fund for science, technology and the environment (2024): 100 000 SEK+ handshake of the King.
  • Funding for an art-science exhibition in Umeå Kommun (2023), to display the effects of climate change in the global mountains, with the artist Eva Marklund (300 000 SEK). Summits of Snow
  • International postdoc mobility grant from the Swedish Research council (2021): 3 600 000 SEK. Closing the Carbon Cycle in River Networks across Climate and Terrestrial Productivity Gradients
  • Early career project grant from the Climate Impacts Research Centre in Umeå (2020): 30 000 SEK. Consequences of the altered tundra carbon cycle by reindeers: Accounting for aquatic carbon losses.
  • Pilot research grant from the Climate Impacts Research Centre in Umeå (2018): 40 000 SEK. Shaking radionuclides in agitated waters: using Radon222 to measure CO2 fluxes in Arctic streams.
  • Endowment award from the Society of Freshwater Science (2018): 1 000 USD