Since 2018, he has been the joint director at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam.
As founder and former director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, he led the team that published the seminal “Planetary Boundaries” framework (“A Safe Operating Space for Humanity,” Nature 461, 2009, 472-475).

Rockström is the author of >100 research articles,

• Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries (Report to The Club of Rome, 2012), co-authored with Anders Wijkman
• Big World Small Planet: Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries (2015), co-authored with Mattias Klum

He has developed two TED talks and a free MOOC course on planetary boundaries for the UN’s Sustainable Development Academy.  And he has received several awards, such as Sweden’s Most Influential Person on the Environment (2012, 2013), and Knight of the Legion of Honour in France (2016).