Caroline Strömberg is a Swedish-American paleontologist and the Estella B. Leopold Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, where she also serves as an adjunct associate professor in Earth and Space Sciences and Curator of Paleobotany at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Her research explores the deep-time evolution and ecology of plants, using the fossil record alongside modern analogues to understand how plant communities responded to climate change and how these shifts influenced the evolution of animals.

Strömberg received the Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize, the Isabel Cookson Award, and the Charles Schuchert Award. She has also held a Fulbright Scholarship and maintains an active, internationally collaborative research program.