Kerstin Liden is a Professor in Archaeological Science with a special interest in Environmental Humanities. She has been part in initiating a special call for a post doc researchers in "Environmental Research in the Human Sciences Area" at Stockholm University, an interdisciplinary call directed to all areas in Human Sciences. Kerstin has also initiated a new field of research in Sweden, Glacial Archaeology, where she and her research group perform regular inventories at melting glaciers and snow patches.
Presently she is also leading a research project on "How to deal with environmental change - the impact of three major environmental events on prehistoric coastal societies and their main prey species" focusing on human environmental relations in times of major climatic shifts, natural or human induced.