The Executive Secretary of APECS Sweden for 2014 will be Eric Paglia, PhD. candidate in Environmental History at KTH in Stockholm. Eric’s research on the nexus of science and geopolitics in the Arctic is being conducted within the Mistra project ‘Assessing Arctic Futures: Voices, Resources and Governance’. Eric has made several research trips to Svalbard, including to the international scientific community of Ny-Ålesund where he spent a week visiting various science stations this past summer. The Steering Committee especially liked Eric’s stated interested in attracting more humanist and social science scholars to our organization. Eric also has an interest in science outreach, being the host and producer of ThinkGloballyRadio.org.
With Eric as the new ES we also welcome a new sponsor for our secretariat – the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. The Steering Committee of APECS Sweden look forward to working together with Eric in 2014 and to see into which new adventures he will lead our organization!