Riitta Koivikko

Senior Research Scientist, PhD

PhD (Chemistry), University of Turku

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Laboratory Centre
Reference laboratory (VLAB)

Postal address: Mustialankatu 3, 00790 Helsinki
Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Phone: +358 296 251 750

LinkedIn

Current tasks

I am working with the quality of the environmental laboratories. Under the name Proftest SYKE we provide proficiency tests and other interlaboratory comparison (nationally and internationally) for (environmental) laboratories and for those I work as a coordinator. Furthermore, I work as a laboratory expert for international development and cooperation projects.

Background

I have been working in Finnish Environment Institute since 2013. Before coming to SYKE, I worked some years as a postdoc researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy. There I was part of the reference laboratory for food contact materials (EURL-FCM). My thesis dealt with the chemical analysis of brown algal secondary metabolites. I have worked as a visiting researcher at the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany where I studied the chemistry of the arctic brown algae.

Participation in international projects

• Strengthening water quality monitoring and assessment in Colombia, COFI water (ICI)
• Design of the Technological Institution and Environmental Reference Center for Chile (2017)
• Formation of Decision-Making System Aimed at Ecological and Economic Development of Issyk-Kul Lake's Territory Based on Results of Environment Monitoring (KGZ-Water / Issyk-Kul) (2014-2017)
• Environmental Management Support Programme (EMSP) in Lao PDR (2010-2014)
• Water Quality Monitoring in the Kyrgyz Republic (2011-2014)
• Strengthening of Environmental Administration and Management at the Local Level III (SEAM-Nepal) Completion phase (2012-2014)

Publications

Riitta Koivikko on Google Scholar