Lahsen is currently associate professor at Linköping University in Sweden and Senior Full (“Titular”) Researcher in the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil, and serves as adviser, executive editor, and editor with Nature Climate Change, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, and Environmental Research Letters. She studies knowledge politics and other socio-cultural dynamics bearing on global environmental change and sustainability transformations in the United States, Brazil, and at the international level.