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Leif Schulman

Director general

Education and academic titles

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biodiversity Science, University of Turku

Research and expertise

Strategic and operational management of expert organizations, change management of research organizations, popularization of science, organizational communication, research infrastructures, biodiversity, natural science collections.

Memberships and networks

The University Board of the University of Turku, Member

Finnish National IPBES working group, Chair

Y-konserni (Finland's environmental administration), Member of the management team

WWF Finland Board of Directors, Member

Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee (Research Council of Finland), Member

University of Helsinki Research Found­a­tion, Member of Advisory Board

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Member of Council of THL

Selected articles

Hällfors, M.H., Vaara, E.M., Ahteensuu, M.T., Kokko, K.T., Oksanen, M, Schulman L.E. 2024: Assisted Migration as a Conservation Approach Under Climate Change. in Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier. (ScienceDirect.com)

Ylä-Mononen, L. & Schulman, L. 2024: Vihreää siirtymää ei saa unohtaa. [The green transition must not be forgotten; in Finnish] (Suomen kuvalehti, 6.6.2024, Puheenvuoro-palsta).

Johnson, K.R., Owens I.F.P. and 154 other authors incl. Schulman, L. 2023: A global approach for natural history collections. Science 379(6638): 1192–1194 (ScienceDirect.com)

Tervahauta, M. & Schulman, L. 2023: Ihmisen ja luonnon terveyttä pitää tukea kokonaisuutena [The health of people and nature must be supported as one whole; in Finnish]. (Helsingin Sanomat, 27.5.2023, Vieraskynä-palsta)

Smith, V., French, L., Vincent, S., Woodburn, M., Addink, W., Arvanitidis, C, Bánki, O., Casino, A., Dusoulier, F., Glöckler, F., Hobern, D., Kalfatovic, M.R., Koureas, D., Mergen, P., Miller, J., Schulman, L. & Juslén, A. 2022: Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives. (Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e82953). 

Schulman L.E., Lahti K., Piirainen E., Heikkinen M., Raitio O. & Juslén A. 2021: The Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility as a best-practice model for biodiversity data infrastructures. Scientific Data 8, 137. (nature.com)

Fukushima, C., West, R., Pape, T., Penev, L., Schulman, L. & Cardoso, P. 2020: Wildlife collection for scientific purposes. Conservation Biology. (conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Hällfors, M.H, Aikio, S. & Schulman, L.E. 2017: Quantifying the need and potential of assisted migration. Biological Conservation 205:34–41. (ScienceDirect.com)