Susanna Sironen

Senior research scientist 

D.Sc. (for.)

Contact information

Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Tel.  +358 40 182 0847, +358 295 251 648
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Climate solutions
Sustainability
Metla-building
Yliopistokatu 6 B
FIN-80100 Joensuu
Finland

Susanna Sironen @ResearchGate

Background

I am a D.Sc. (for.) in Forest Planning and Economics. I have been working at Syke since 2010. Before that I have been working in various positions at University of Eastern Finland (University of Joensuu) including Planning officer of Erasmus Mundus M.Sc. European Forestry studies, researcher and assistant of forest mensuration science.  My research background is especially in forest mensuration science.

Present role and current research interests

I am a senior research scientist in the Climate solutions unit. My main field of expertise include:

• Forestry, forest mensuration science  and forest resources
• Multi-criteria decision analysis
• Statistical methods and modelling
• Material flows and Input-output analyses
• Circular economy
• Geoinformatics

Research activities

Various projects in which I work or have worked during the past years at Syke:

• Towards carbon neutral construction materials: prerequisites and impacts of increasing use of wood-based materials and their circulation in the building sector (AULIUSYKE 2022-2024)
• Modelling biodiversity and biomass-based carbon for life cycle assessment – towards common understanding and applicability (MOBICA 2022-2023)
• Finnish material flow analysis and scenario work on the use of natural resources in support of circular economy agreement (2022-2023)
• Sustainable textile systems: Co-creating resource-wise business for Finland in global textile networks (FINIX) (2019-2025)
• Transition Towards Circular Economy (TRANSCIRC)
• Assessing the impacts of circular economy on GHG emissions reduction and biodiversity in Finland (KIVÄBO)
• Post-Covid-19: Climate actions and green stimulus
• FORBIO project - Sustainable, climate-neutral and resource-efficient forest-based bioeconomy
• Framework for developing companies’ environmental life-cycle impacts (MALLI-Y)
• Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and the Finnish Economy (SURE)
• Operationalisation of Natural capital and Ecosystem Services: From concepts to real-world applications (OpenNESS)
• Material flows and resource efficiency of the North Karelia Region (PKTEHO)
• Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision (POLICYMIX)
• Directions of future developments in waste recycling 2012
• Interactions in the sustainable society index (YHKE)
• Multi-dimensional sustainability framework to evaluate forest and wood energy production (BioSus)

Publications

My publications at Google Scholar