Duties
Development of research activities of the Unit. Project leader: Ecosystem impacts of climate change and air pollution, modelling and assessment of ecosystem processes and services. International expert tasks (AMAP, Air Convention/CLRTAP).
Subject area
Education and academic titles
PhD, University of Helsinki
Expertise and responsibilities
- Leading and developing ecosystem process research at Syke
- Leading research projects
- Syke’s PI in national and international research infrastructure projects INAR RI (helsinki.fi) and eLTER RI (elter-ri.eu)
- Expert tasks related to international air protection work UNECE CLRTAP (ivl.se)
- Expert tasks of AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (amap.no)
Research interests
- Biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes
- Processes and mass balances of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur
- Impacts of climate change and air pollutants
- Sustainability science
- Monitoring, mapping, indicators
- Research infrastructures of ecosystem science
Recent projects
- Water4All/FESTiVAL (Final Ecosystem Services in Transition: a View from the Aquatic Landscape; Funding: EU, Research Council of Finland, Ministry of the Environment, 2025–2027)
- eLTER PLUS, European long-term ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological systems research infrastructure PLUS; EU/H2020, 2020–2026 (elter-ri.eu)
- C-NEUT (Evaluating integrated spatially explicit carbon-neutrality for boreal landscapes and regions; Research Council of Finland, 2022-2024)
- IBC-Carbon (Integrated Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Sequestration
- in the Changing Environment; Strategic Research Council, 2018-2023)
- Finnish Ecosystem Observatory - FEO (Ministry of the Environment & SYKE, 2020-2024)
- FRESHABIT LIFE IP, EU/LIFE+, 2016-2022 (metsa.fi)
- INAR RI Ecosystems, Research Council of Finland, 2017-2021 (helsinki.fi)
- BIOWATER, Nordic Centre of Excellence project ‘An integrating nexus of land and water management for a sustainable Nordic bioeconomy’, NordForsk 2017-2022 (biowater.info)
Co-operation
- UNECE Working Group on Effects (unece.org)
- eLTER (elter-ri.eu)
- AMAP (amap.no)
- University of Helsinki, Board of the Biological stations (helsinki.fi)