Eric Paglia is a researcher at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defense University, with an affiliation at REXSAC – Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities​. His research interests include environmental crisis and the history of global environmental governance; the relationship of science and geopolitics on Svalbard and the wider Arctic; and the concept of the Anthropocene in relation to environmental history and human-nature interactions. Eric Paglia’s dissertation The Northward Course of the Anthropocene: Transformation, Temporality and Telecoupling in a Time of Environmental Crisis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology 2016), as well as his ongoing postdoctoral research, encompasses these and other related topics.  ​