Peter Søgaard Jørgensen

Søgaard Jørgensen studies the evolution and sustainability of of the Anthropocene. His questions include, how we got here, the dynamics characterizing the present polycrisis, and the ongoing mobilizations and future pathways toward a more sustainable future.

Søgaard Jørgensen led a team identifying a set of 14 crisis generating dynamics that should be navigated to manage the polycrisis (Anthropocene traps). He is part of a team documenting and quantifying the global mobilization of action towards a new more sustainable relationship with the living planet (Empirics of Hope). He is currently writing a book on the topic of evolution and sustainability in the Anthropocene.

A major focus of his work is the intersection between global health and the living environment, specifically in the context of antibiotic resistance, emerging infectious diseases, and agricultural pests and pathogens. He leads the ERC project, INFLUX focusing on the cascading impacts of new diseases and agricultural problem species on society and the environment. He is a contributing author to the second EAT-Lancet commission.

Søgaard Jørgensen is an ecologist and evolutionary scientist turned sustainability scientist. He came to sustainability science to study the integrated dynamics of how humans interact and coevolve with their living environment. He has a PhD from 2014 in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Copenhagen. During this time he also spent two years at University of California, Davis and University of California, Berkeley.