Susann Baez Ullberg

Susann Baez Ullberg is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University's Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University and is an affiliated researcher at the CNDS Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science. Her work focuses on environmental and disaster anthropology, with a regional emphasis on Latin America, particularly Argentina and Peru. She currently leads the C-URGE project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded initiative training climate anthropologists across Europe.

Her research explores disaster memoryscapes, crisis temporality, and groundwater politics, combining ethnographic fieldwork with interdisciplinary collaborations. Notable projects include studying water infrastructure in Peru's Majes Siguas Project and analyzing recovery processes after wildfires in Sweden. She coordinates Uppsala University's Water Initiative and directs the undergraduate program in Cultural Anthropology.

Awarded for her 2013 thesis on Santa Fe's flood management, she supervises three PhD students and contributes to policy-relevant research on climate resilience. Her publications span environmental governance, megaprojects, and the socio-political dimensions of disasters.