Stefan Daume

Stefan Daume is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, at Stockholm University. His research explores connections between digital technologies and sustainability, with particular focus on the promises and risks of social media for public engagement with environmental challenges.

At the Beijer Institute he is contributing to the programme Governance, Technology and Complexity where his focus is on the role of AI, intelligent autonomous systems and social media in the complex interactions between social systems and the biosphere.

Daume holds a degree in Forest Sciences (University of Goettingen) and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (The University of Edinburgh). After a decade as a software developer, entrepreneur and open source contributor in several IT start-ups he returned to academia and completed a PhD focusing on the potential of social online media as a crowdsourcing tool for environmental monitoring.

Prior experiences also include work for the Swedish node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the bioinformatics group at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, where he helped to develop tools and strategies for the digitisation of natural history collections.