Dr Daniel Jonsson

Dr Daniel Jonsson is the Programme Manager of the government funded Civil Defence Research Programme, established in 2024 at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). The programme includes research themes such as economic defence and supply preparedness, civil protection, psychological defence, societal resilience, and civil-military coordination. 

Daniel has wide experience of applied interdisciplinary research and future-oriented studies with socio-technical approaches and a systems perspective, including the development of research methodologies. Previous research themes include grey zone warfare, will-to-defend studies, infrastructural processes of change, energy security, transport system analysis, scenario methods, and defence planning methodologies. 

From 2007 to 2015, Daniel was a member of the Contingency Planning Council for Electricity of the Swedish National Grid, assigned by the Ministry of the Environment and Energy. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency. 

He holds a PhD in Infrastructure and Planning, and is an associate lecturer at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.