Ekaterina (Kath) Landgren

I’m Ekaterina (Kath), and I am a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science at University of Colorado Boulder. I work 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.

I am on the job market in Fall 2024! Please reach out if you’d like to chat!

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 at the SIAM Dynamical Systems Conference in Denver in May 2025, and at the Collective Social Phenomena: Dynamics and Data workshop in The Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO) in June 2025.

Recent News

  • 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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