CMES Board

Agnes Andersson is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor in Human Geography. She is the PI of a comparative project on inclusive urbanisation in small towns in Uganda and Tanzania. Previous to this project, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt was the PI of five different research projects that togehter constituted the Afrint group, an interdisciplinary group of researchers engaging researchers from nine research institutions in Africa and the Departments of Human Geography, Statistics, Sociology and Economic History at Lund University. Agnes’ research interests focuses on social and economic transformation within and outside agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa involving changing rural and translocal livelihoods, gender based access to productive resources within and outside agriculture, consumption and intra-household division of labor and income.

Behshid is a PhD student affiliated with both Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and Water Resources Engineering division at Department of Building and Environmental Technology, Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University. She has received her BSc and MSc degrees in Geomatics and Remote Sensing engineering from Isfahan University and Tehran University. Her research interests include spatial data analysis for environmental applications, Interferometric SAR (InSAR) analysis and its applications in monitoring of earth surface and management of water resources, as well as the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms along with remote sensing data for environmental monitoring purposes.

Alexander Maurits is Deputy Dean of the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology and Associate Professor in Church History at Lund University. Alexander Maurits received his doctorate degree in 2011 and specializes in the European church history of the 19th and 20th Centuries. His PhD-thesis, Den vackra och erkända patriarchalismen (in English Splendid Establishment Patriarchalism. Lund High Church Ideals of Clerical Manliness) dissects the connection between secularization, defense of the established normative social and religious culture and Christian gender ideals during the second half of the 19th Century. Currently Maurits is working on a project on religion and sport, a theme that has been given more attention among Swedish historians and theologians.

Stacey is Director of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies and Professor of Synchrotron Radiation Research. She is a member of LU Profile Area Light and Materials and LTH Profile Area Photon Science and Technology.