Ekaterina (Kath) Landgren

I’m Ekaterina (Kath), and I am a Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. I am working with Sara Constantino and Madalina Vlasceanu. I was previously at Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science at University of Colorado Boulder, where I worked with Matt Burgess. Prior to joining CIRES, I received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. I’ve used dynamical systems models to study a wide range of phenomena – from voter turnout to planets beyond our solar system. Currently I am bringing these interests together by investigating social aspects of climate change. This work combines two fundamental questions in my research: How do we move society toward large-scale solutions to the climate crisis? How does one’s position within a system influence their view of it? I am passionate about complex systems, open science, and interdisciplinary research.

For more about me, see my CV, or list of publications.

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Research Interests

  • Complex social systems
    • opinion dynamics
    • socio-environmental systems
    • polarization
  • Mathematics of climate
    • conceptual climate models
    • exoplanetary atmosphere dynamics
  • Open science and open software

Upcoming

I will be attending CNWW 2025 in Quebec City in December 2025.

Recent News

  • October 2025 I attended the Fall meeting of the SIAM Committee on Science Policy and visited YY Ahn’s lab at the University of Virginia.

  • September 2025 I moved to the Bay Area and started a postoctoral appointment at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability!

  • June 2025 I attended the Collective Social Phenomena: Dynamics and Data workshop at The Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO).

  • May 2025 I presented my work at the SIAM Dynamical Systems Conference in Denver.

  • April 2025 I attended the Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences workshop at the Oden Institute in UT Austin.

  • January 2025 I presented a poster at Dynamics Days 2025 in Denver.

  • November 2024 I visited Dick McGehee’s group at the University of Minnesota and presented my work on misperception of public support for climate policy, as well as my work on models of exoplanetary atmospheres.

  • July 2024 At IC2S2 in Philadelphia I presented my work on modeling misperception of public support for climate policy.

  • June 2024 I presented my work on misperception of public support of climate policy at NetSci in Quebec City. I was awarded Honorable Mention for Best Oral Presentation by an Early-Career Researcher. I presented my work at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth MPE24 in Portland.

  • May 2024 I spent a week at Collaborate @ ICERM working on a project titled Modeling and Analysis of Candidate Momentum in U.S. Primary Elections Using Campaign Contributions with Izabel Aguiar, Samantha Linn, Alexandria Volkening, and Sam Zhang.

  • March 2024 I was awarded the SIAM Science Policy Fellowship

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