In RESDOC, your research is connected to one of the four overarching themes addressing global challenges. At the same time, you will pursue your doctoral degree within one of the University of Helsinki’s
Supervision is organised through the doctoral programmes, ensuring high-quality academic guidance within the chosen discipline while also supporting interdisciplinary collaboration across the RESDOC themes. This structure combines thematic collaboration within RESDOC with a high-quality supervisory environment grounded in the University’s doctoral programmes. You can read more about doctoral studies from the
RESDOC is anchored in the University of Helsinki’s largest research profiling area to date,
RESDOC is designed to train a new generation of researchers capable of addressing complex sustainability and health challenges. The project combines high-quality academic research with structured training and international collaboration. Doctoral researchers work in interdisciplinary environments and benefit from close supervision, dedicated training modules, and career development support throughout their studies.
A key feature of RESDOC is its strong
Infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are globally increasing health threats that need urgent solutions. Despite advances in drugs and vaccines, epidemics are becoming more frequent and impactful, mainly due to new interactions between naïve hosts, the environment, and microbes with zoonotic or epizootic potential. Environmental changes, climate conditions, and land use for urbanization and agriculture increase the risk of outbreaks.
The COVID-19 pandemic and recent bird flu cases spreading in mammals underscore the need to address the drivers of zoonotic spill-over events at the human-animal interface. AMR threatens human health not only in the form of non-treatable infections, but also by complicating modern medicine and food production, and human activity profoundly impacts both the evolution and spread of AMR. To address these increasing global health challenges, RESDOC aims to train experts who understand the evolution, transmission, and distribution of infectious diseases and AMR in a multidisciplinary setting
The escalating global environmental crisis, marked by unprecedented biodiversity loss and the increasing impacts of climate change, necessitates a drastic expansion of expertise on biodiversity and nature’s resilience. These two interconnected fields are fundamental to the health of our planet underpinning essential ecosystem services, human wellbeing, and global sustainability efforts.
University of Helsinki's exceptional research strengths in ecology (12th in the Shanghai Ranking), plant science and other biological disciplines provide RESDOC doctoral candidates with unique opportunities to study molecular and evolutionary genetics, the adaptation of organisms to climate change, their resilience to environmental stressors, and the functioning of ecosystems, which are central for understanding biological resilience in order to provide policy-relevant science to inform evidence-based socially impactful decisions.
Climate change, biodiversity loss and antimicrobial resistance all strongly affect food security and safety. On the other hand, food production has a significant impact on these current global problems. Thus, there is a great need for a transformation of the food system to become more sustainable and resilient.
The food system is closely linked to the water system as quality of water is crucial in food production, while aquatic environments receive waste from food production. Water safety is also affected by municipal waste and pharmaceutical residues. Gradual changes in our environment and abrupt hazards from geopolitical, economic, or social turbulences create risks for the stable and secure supply of raw materials, as well as good quality food and water for consumers.
RESDOC provides enhanced understanding of the multiple interconnections and feedback of water-food nexus. It offers research opportunities that allow doctoral candidates to train as experts with new perspectives and solutions for sustainable and responsible food production, consumption, and waste management.
The deepening climate crisis, coupled with the biodiversity loss and its impacts on health and welfare, the uneven distribution and use of resources such as food and water, and the threats to democracy posed by polarization, disinformation and marginalization, are major challenges in this era of polycrisis. These complex and intertwined issues affect both human and non-human species, leading to deep and long-lasting inequalities.
Addressing emerging global socio-ecological crises requires novel transdisciplinary research paradigms that bridge social, natural and life sciences, and embracing knowledge co-production, and thus expands opportunities for people and stakeholders outside academia to contribute to novel research-based solutions.
New generation of research in RESDOC offers doctoral projects that draw on and further develop theories such as epistemic justice (justice related to knowledge) and multispecies justice (challenging anthropocentric justice) in the context of current global socio-ecological challenges.
Each doctoral researcher in RESDOC will conduct the doctoral research in close collaboration with a supervisor at the University of Helsinki. Each RESDOC doctoral researcher will have a primary supervisor with the qualification of a principal investigator (PI) at the University of Helsinki. In addition, a co-supervisor is also appointed to the doctoral researcher at the start of the studies. Co-supervisor can represent one of the RESDOC Associated Partner organizations.
All doctoral candidates will have a
In the application phase, applicants suggest 2–3 potential primary supervisors from the RESDOC supervisor pool whose expertise matches their research proposal. The list of supervisors is indicative, and the final supervisor assignment and research plan will be confirmed during the selection process.
In line with MSCA rules, supervisors are not involved in the recruitment process. They do not evaluate applications, participate in interviews, or influence selection decisions. All applications are assessed independently by external evaluators, based solely on the published criteria. You can read more about the criteria from the
Contacting potential supervisors is recommended but optional to better understand potential research topics provided by supervisor pool. You may choose to get in touch to discuss your research ideas or learn more about the research environment, but this is not required and will not influence the evaluation of your application.
If you contact a supervisor, it is very important to follow these instructions set by the MSCA funder. This ensures that the RESDOC recruitment process is open, transparent, merit-based, impartial and free from any form of preselection.
The discussion with potential supervisor should remain general and informal. For example, you may:
There are also important rules you must follow. You are expected to:
Any form of prior approval from a supervisor is not allowed, as it would constitute pre-selection.
In this RESDOC call for doctoral researchers, some specific rules apply what comes to preparing applicant’s research proposal. Applicants must prepare their research proposal fully independently, without any input, review, or support from potential supervisors or any other senior researchers. Only research proposals submitted using the provided template will be accepted, which is available on
The list of supervisors is indicative, from which applicants should propose 2 to 3 potential primary supervisors that match their research field and research plan. Applicants may also suggest other supervisors outside the supervisor pool, provided that it is aligned with the RESDOC themes and available supervision. In this case, the applicant must ensure that the supervisor has a PI status at the University of Helsinki. Selected applicants’ supervisor arrangements and research plans may be further developed after selection to ensure they are feasible and well supported.
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| My works aims to molecular understanding of the antibiotic resistance in complex microbial communities with one health approach including the contribution of human activities to the resistance. Read more about my |
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| Our research focuses on pathogen evolution, host–pathogen interactions, and zoonotic spillover events, combining cutting-edge sequencing with the development of novel bioinformatics tools for metagenomic data analysis and pathogen detection. Learn more about my |
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| Emerging vector-borne diseases using a One Health approach across vectors, animals, and humans. We recently discovered novel mosquito- and tick-borne viruses in Finland and study their disease associations, while also working on international collaborations. Read more about my |
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| We investigate the molecular mechanisms of viruses, with a focus on uncovering previously unrecognized functions essential for viral replication. By building a deep, mechanistic understanding of these processes, we aim to enable the rational development of next-generation antiviral therapies. Our research on viral replication systems has already driven innovations that advance RNA-based antiviral strategies, strengthening global preparedness for emerging viral diseases and future pandemics. | |
| Mathematical, statistical and informatics tools to tackle biomedical questions that may potentially lead to breakthroughs in drug discovery and precision medicine.Read more about my |
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| We map protein interaction networks using AP-MS, proximity labeling, and cross-linking MS. Our current work applies these approaches to immune signaling networks and host-pathogen interfaces at proteome scale. Learn more about my |
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| We study atmospheric dispersion of particularly viruses but also other microbes with a special focus on the preservation of infectivity in the environment.Read more about my |
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| We leverage ecological and evolutionary theory, computational methods, and AI to combat antimicrobial resistance. Link to my |
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| We study how cells internalize membrane components, nutrients and pathogens. We have developed AI-based tools to monitor internalization of any cargo with superior precision.Read more about my |
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| We study how nanocarriers deliver biotherapeutics into cells via advanced imaging and bioorthogonal chemistry assays developed in my lab. Our recent work focuses on how lipid nanoparticles used in COVID-19 vaccines transport and release mRNA inside cells. Link to my |
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| We study controlled drug release systems using nanomaterials such as hydrogels, liposomes, and other nanocarriers. Read more about my |
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| We focus on enhancing antimicrobial drug discovery against AMR pathogens – covering aspects from early target validation, development of new in vitro and in vivo models, to detailed characterisation studies of novel antimicrobial substances. Learn more about my |
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| We study the replication of the mosquito-borne alphaviruses, using proteomics to identify host factors required for virus infection, and then repurposing those factors as broad-spectrum antiviral targets in order to block virus transmission. | |
| We study AMR in One Health context focusing especially on the host range and mobility potential of known and novel AMR genes using molecular and computational methods. Read more about |
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| We determine the biological and clinical significance and epidemiology of emerging human parvoviruses. We develop novel diagnostic methods and identify virus-cell interactions and tropisms as well as mechanisms and impact of their persistence in our body. Link to my |
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| We study how cells create and control membrane and mitochondrial proteins, combining chemical biology, cryo EM, tomography, and parasitology to uncover fundamental mechanisms that shape cellular energy and protein balance. Read more about my |
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| We study animal reproduction, with a focus on equine endometritis and bacteriology, mare reproductive cycles, endocrinology and cyclicity, and stallion seminal plasma. | |
| We study the drivers of infectious disease emergence from wildlife, crossing species barriers to humans. We use multidisciplinary tools to study factors related to the viruses, their host species (e.g. bats and rodents) and the environment. Link to my |
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| We study the underlying ecological and environmental mechanisms of zoonotic disease outbreaks using field and experimental approaches. Our most recent finding is that environmental contaminants increase infection susceptibility in rodents. Read more about |
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| The Past Present Sustainability Reseach Unit (PAES) focuses on understanding the ecological and climate related interlinkages with human activities in the present day and in the long-term historic past. All PAES researchers aim for transdisciplinary research. Link to my |
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| My research belongs to the field of medicine and centres on antimicrobial resistance (AMR): colonization and persistence by resistent intestinal bacteria; travel-related AMR spread; AMR in low- and middle-income countries; vaccines against AMR. Learn more about my |
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| Preventing zoonotic diseases and AMR in socio-ecological systems, improving food safety, and developing integrated, genomic One Health surveillance in human-animal-food-water-environment-interfaces by using inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. Learn more about my |
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| We developed ESCAPE, an experimental cloud chamber with precise control over temperature, light, pressure, and air composition. We study the viability and atmospheric interactions of airborne viruses, bacteria, and archaea—even simulating exotic planetary environments—using state-of-the-art instrumentation. Learn more about our |
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| We design, synthesize, and characterize novel small molecules for e.g. their antimicrobial potential, and use synthetic medicinal chemistry approaches to target central enzymes and/or molecular mechanisms of malaria parasites and tuberculosis bacteria. Read more about my |
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| The Centre for the Social Study of Microbes comprising of social scientist and artists develops theory and methods to understand the complex relations between humans, microbes, and their environments. Learn more about my |
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| We study bacterial respiratory complexes and ATP synthase responsible for a wide variety of infections using computational biophysics approaches and high-performance computing, and in coupling to structural biology, chemical biology and clinical experiments. Learn more about my research group Learn more about my |
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| We develop experimental and computational methods and design and synthetize molecules for drug discovery. Link to my |
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| My research focuses on two key areas: pig perinatal physiology & neonatal survival and pig gut microbiota & antimicrobial control under the One Health framework. Research group link>> |
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| Mechanisms of virus neuroinvasion, consequences and countermeasures. Learn more about my |
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| We study treatment strategies for bacterial infections and neglected tropical diseases, focusing on medicinal plants and plant-derived metabolites to reveal pathogen-host interactions and contextually relevant antimicrobials for low-resource settings. Read more about my |
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| We study reservoirs and transmission dynamics of Campylobacter e.g. using register-based studies, surveys and WGS, and our most recent finding was horizontal, rather than vertical, transmission explains the spread of AMR C. jejuni clones in Finnish broilers. | |
| We study how membrane proteins and host–pathogen interactions enable fungal pathogen survival during infection using structural biology, including cryo-EM, and biochemical approaches. Read more about my |
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| The Deska Lab explores protein catalysts as sustainable tools in synthetic chemistry, materials science & biomedicine, and we have most recently succeeded with the development of therapeutic proteins (targeting tuberculosis) by AI-guided protein engineering.Read more about my |
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| Our research group focuses on developing and applying a systems pharmacology approach for rational combinatorial therapy in complex diseases.Learn more about my |
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| Our research aims at understanding the structure and function of biological macromolecules and their complexes, such as those involved in cellular cargo transport, protein folding, cell-cell contacts and viral infection. Read more about my |
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| We study inflammatory and host-pathogen responses using neurovascular 3D models, and structural biology (co-supervisor Tommi Kajander). Our latest study reveals mechanism of Borrelia immune escape spanning the entire invasion pathway from BBB into the brain.Learn more about my |
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| We design and engineer responsive nanomaterials such as stimuli-responsive liposomes, ligand gated liposomes, hydrogel, and polymeric scaffolds. Our current research aims to combat antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, with a primary focus on resistant multi-species biofilms. We also investigate other strategy against biofilm such as combination and photo-dynamic therapy. check out our |
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| The Battersby lab investigates mitochondrial biology, understanding how gene expression within the organelle integrates with biological circuits required for regulating cellular homeostasis.Learn more about my |
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| We study the structure, assembly and function of biological macromolecular complexes primarily using cryogenic electron microscopy, specialising in emergent disease such as West Nile virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus and evolution of translation. Read more about my |
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| We study Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan hydrolases, for which production and purification methods in Pichia have been developed using denaturing conditions, as the proteins are easily renatured and are toxic and digested in the Escherichia coli host. | |
| We study phosphate metabolism in protozoan parasites using structural biology, biochemistry, and cell biology, and our recent work has identified new VTC complex-associated proteins linked to acidocalcisome function and adaptation. | |
| I am a sociologist with an interest in multi-disciplinary projects where social sciences engage with knowledge production in other sciences; especially health, science-society interface, gender and global development- Read more about my |
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| We utilize biochemistry and structural biology to study energy-converting protein complexes at the molecular level. Recently, we reported the cryo-EM structure of the respiratory supercomplex from Toxoplasma gondii inhibited with novel antimalarials. Link to my |
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| The Jackson Lab studies how cells sense and adapt to mitochondrial dysfunction. We use genome-wide genetic screens, functional genomics and disease models to identify pathways that control organelle stress, mitochondrial quality control and antibiotic resistance. Our work links human genetics to mitochondrial dysfunction and explores how mitochondria’s bacterial ancestry makes the mitoribosome vulnerable to specific antibiotics. Link to my |
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| My research investigates how genetic, molecular and environmental factors shape animal health and brain resilience in changing environments, including how domestication and human-shaped environments have altered neural resilience in dogs and wolves.ature Resistance.Read more about my |
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| We study aquatic community ecology, biogeography and macroecology with a special interest in the large-scale biodiversity patterns and drivers of aquatic organisms. We also test general ecological theories related to causes and consequences of biodiversity change. Learn more about my |
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| Our aim is to develop novel main-group element based, environmentally friendly and abundant catalysts for societally important, sustainable chemical transformations. We do this by utilizing state-of-the-art experimental and computational chemistry techniques. Read more about my |
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| We study treatment strategies for bacterial infections and neglected tropical diseases, focusing on medicinal plants and plant-derived metabolites to reveal pathogen-host interactions and contextually relevant antimicrobials for low-resource settings. Read more about my |
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| My research emphasizes the importance of microbes in the speciation, adaptation, and mal-adaptation of animals to novel environmental conditions. We work mostly with insects, and aim at developing more sustainable agricultural practices.Read more about my |
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| My research investigates how dopaminergic neurons and microglia respond to environmental and cellular stressors, uncovering mechanisms of resilience and vulnerability in Parkinson’s disease to enable target identification and drug development.Learn more about my |
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| Dr. Lappi applies economic theory and mathematical modelling to study the economics of biodiversity conservation, non-renewable resources, lobbying and environmental policy. He is eager to supervise a motivated student interested in the theoretical aspects of conservation policy design grounded in real-world conservation problems. | |
| We study the impacts of climate change and land use change on biodiversity, with a emphasis on plants of the northern ecosystems.Read more about my |
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| My research investigates how developmental processes generate vertebrate morphological diversity, with a focus on reptile craniofacial evolution, using comparative, imaging, and molecular approaches to understand the origins and evolution of biodiversity.Read more about my |
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| We study changes in marine ecosystem structure and function using network ecology and trait-based approaches to understand climate-change and other human-related shifts in biodiversity and their consequences for ecosystem resilience.Read more about my |
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| We investigate how wildlife, individuals, populations and communities respond to environmental change- contributing to evidence-based conservation across Finnish landscapes. Read more about my |
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| We study the biodiversity and evolution of terrestrial and freshwater gastropods, combining phylogenetics, ecology, and biogeography. Join us to explore species’ responses to Anthropocene pressures, from climate change to biological invasions, and contribute to research with real-world conservation impact. |
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| We study the role of epigenetic change in shaping adaptation in wildlife. My core research topic is the way environment, climate and food availability shape ageing trajectories and demography in wild species, with penguins as an "umbrella model". | |
| Impacts of land use/cover changes in sub Saharan Africa for climate and ecosystem services (water, biodiversity) as a result of clearing woody vegetation for agricultural land needed for fast growing population. Mitigation of climate change via agroforestry.Read more about my |
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| We study how protein folding and assembly states regulate the phenotypic plasticity and adaptation of cells and organisms. Learn more about my |
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| We study climate-resilient, disease-resistant forest trees by integrating AI, genomics, metagenomics, and microbiome data to advance biosurveillance of invasive species, biodiversity loss, and climate adaptation, shown by 150-year shifts in fungal endophytes. Link to my |
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| We study adaptive plasticity, the interaction of genes and environments, using guppy color vision as a model. The questions we work on: How & why does plasticity evolve? What is the genetic basis of plasticity? Read more about my |
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| Behaviour, life-history, ecology (e.g. community ecology) and agri-food applications (e.g. biological pest control), mostly of insects. My work falls equally into two RESDOC categories ‘Biodiversity and Nature’s Resilience’ and ‘Secure and Sustainable Food and Water Systems’. Read more about my |
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| Behaviour is the first response for animals to a changing world; to explain how, when and why behaviour shapes biological resilience, we combine field experiments with multidisciplinary datasets and test predictions from eco-evolutionary theory.Read more about my |
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| We study global patterns of soil biodiversity (earthworms - important ecosystem engineers and providers of many ecosystem functions) in order to understand how global changes, such as land use change and climate change, might impact them.L ink to my |
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| We study molecular mechanisms underlying plant resilience to understand how plants adapt and diversify using methods across field, most recently we have investigated genetic basis of flower size plasticity to temperature change and its fitness effects. | |
| My research investigates how forest structure and land-use change influence microclimate, ecosystem processes, and climate adaptation, combining field measurements, remote sensing, and modelling across boreal, tropical, and urban ecosystems. Read more about my |
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| Using Atlantic salmon as a model I how the interplay between genetics and ecology shapes salmon demography (eg, maturation timing) and fitness. I am also interested in the species interactions between invading Pink salmon and local Atlantic salmon population. | |
| We study climate impacts on forest ecosystems using remote sensing and AI technologies, with a focus on forest health and biodiversity.Read more about my |
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| Our research integrates genetics, behaviour, and ecology to understand how predator–prey interactions shape prey phenotypes and maintain diversity in natural populations.Learn more about my |
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| Our group studies the contribution of evolutionary mechanisms such as pollinator shifts, habitat transitions, and polyploidization driving the origin and maintenance of biodiversity at the species and population levels. We address these topics in legume plant lineages in tropical Africa and in oceanic environments. Our ultimate goal is to generate practical knowledge for the conservation of endangered species on these ecosystems. Link to my |
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| We study the response of wildlife communities to anthropogenic ecological disturbances, mainly urbanization, as well as the ecology of invasive bird species and drivers of bird diversity.Read more about my |
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| We use chemoinformatics (databases, QSAR and machine learning, ligand-based approaches) and molecular modeling (modeling and docking simulations, virtual screens, ligand optimization) to solve specific questions, often in collaboration with experimentalists.Read more about my |
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| With my group, you can conduct field and laboratory studies of the emissions, chemical transformations, and ecological roles of organic molecules in coastal environments using novel mass spectrometric techniques. Understanding biodiversity-ocean-atmosphere interactions lies at the core our work and you would be welcomed as part of the highly interdisciplinary CoastClim Centre.Read more about the |
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| The IEB lab uses colour pattern variation in tropical fish species as a model to investigate the genomic, developmental, and cellular mechanisms underlying their remarkable diversity, as well as the evolutionary forces shaping it.Read more about my |
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| We study the processes underlying trees and forests' response to environmental disturbances with a strong focus on their resilience. | |
| We study how maternal microbiota modulates fetal development, especially of the intestinal immune system. We are especially interested in the roles of microbial metabolites and extracellular vesicles.. Learn more about the |
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| We study climate adaptation of wild strawberries through phenotypic, genomic and molecular characterization of natural variation, and we recently found genes controlling temperature adaptation across climatic gradients in Europe. | |
| We conduct multidisciplinary studies on the diversity, ecology and evolution of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic phototrophs and fungi, with recent emphasis in East Africa. | |
| We aim to understand ecological and environmental processes shaping the world. For this we work in the interface of ecology and statistics. Our research projects span from statistical methods development to ecological research, and environmental management.Learn more about my |
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| We aim to understanding how natural populations and communities respond and cope with human induced environmental change.Read more about my |
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| We study the impact of human activities on the behaviour of animals and how this influences ecological and evolutionary processes.Link to my |
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| We apply cutting-edge genomic approaches to historical DNA (hDNA) from non-model plant species and their associated microbial communities to unravel the evolutionary processes that shape plant biodiversity.Read more about my |
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| We study how the effectiveness of conservation actions can be evaluated and how conservation policy can be designed to result in more sustainable outcomes for both people and nature.Learn more about my |
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| Ecosystem-based regional (sustainable and resilient) develoment and landscape/land-use governance.Read more about my |
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| Our group studies bats, contributing to the understanding of their biology, behaviour, and ecological roles for biodiversity conservation.Link to my |
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| We study nutritional and environmental effects (incl. biodiversity) of dairy cows using in-depth methods for improving sustainability of dairy production. Our recent finding was that using legume-derived feeds milk carbon footprint can be notably reduced.Read more about my |
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| Our research focuses on development of advanced in vitro models (NAMs), incl. microfluidic and automated assay setups, to examine the fate of pharmaceutical residues in the environment and their adverse effects on environmental organisms.Learn more about my |
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| We study the role of evolutionary and ecological processes in the maintenance of biological diversity at the individual (genes & traits), population (variability), and species (community) levels with a mix of experimental and modelling approaches.Read more about my |
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| we conduct multidisciplinary studies on the diversity, ecology and evolution of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic phototrophs and fungi, with recent emphasis in East Africa. | |
| We focus on understanding the ecological and climate related interlinkages with human activities in the present day and in the long-term historic past, concentrating on natural resources and socio-ecological systems. Learn more about my |
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| We study how environmental change, including climate and land use changes, affects biodiversity using large-scale long-term citizen science dataset, especially in birds. We also investigate how to improve the effectiveness of conservation and management actions.Read more about my |
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| We study the molecular mechanisms underlying the bidirectional production of wood and phloem by the vascular cambium, by using Arabidopsis thaliana root and hybrid aspen stem as models.Read more about my |
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| We link genotype, phenotype and fitness of life-history traits by combining approaches such as studying cellular-level processes as well estimating reproductive success in natural populations and use this knowledge improving species conservation and resilience.Learn more about my |
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| We use computational tools to solve reaction mechanisms leading to aerosol formation in the atmosphere. Aim is to connect changing emissions of volatile organic compounds due to biodiversity loss to aerosol formation and through that to global climate.Learn more about my |
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| My research focuses on how human behaviour, people's values, and economics affect the global biodiversity crisis at multiple scales.Learn more about my |
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| Indigenous relationships with land, water, and animals, highlighting alternatives to Western nature–culture divisions through traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous governance. We also look at the related tensions in biodiversity conservation.Read more about my |
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| Investigating the formation of early continental crust as the foundation of Earth’s habitable surface, and its role in long-term geochemical cycles, critical mineral resources, and environmental conditions that shape biological processes and resilience.Read more about my |
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| We study the hierarchical structures of biomaterials from the atomistic scale up to cellular scale by using advanced X-ray scattering and imaging techniques at our laboratory at UH and at the international synchrotron and free electron laser facilities.Learn more about my |
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| We study how species interactions shape rapid biodiversity change and how this knowledge can help build more sustainable ecosystems. Specifically, we are interested in: 1) how global change alters the ability of biodiversity to reduce disease risk; 2) how biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships are changing; and 3) how biodiversity can be integrated into agriculture to support more sustainable food production systems. Learn more about my |
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| We study the effect of aerosol particles (Virus, Pollen, bacteria, dust, black carbon, SOA) on cloud formation using a multidisciplinary approach, combining laboratory & field measurements from Antarctica to the Arctic, sea to forest, ground to free-troposphere. Read more about my |
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| Our team studies ecosystem-climate interactions and the methods range from tissue level measurements of water conductance or sugar content to ecosystem scale observations of carbon sink and aerosol formation.Link to my |
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| We study ancient pathogen and host genomes by NGS and utilizing archeological and contemporary cohorts from South America and Finland and out most recent findings include e.g., detection of syphilis in pre-Columbian samples from Peru and ancient HBV in Finland. Learn more about my |
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| In our research group we conduct applied research on Nordic and Baltic sustainable and resilient food systems. We have 2 ongoing projects RegioFoods and Aarre where we collect qualitative and quantitative data on food systems stakeholders and commodites.Read more about my |
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| We study the solutions to international marine resource conflicts, how to reach log-run agreements under the current geopolitical issues. Learn more about my |
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| We study the effectiveness of food control systems focusing on prevention of foodborne illnesses and food fraud from the perspective of food control authorities, food businesses and consumers.Link to my |
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| We study the cost-effective ways to protect and sustainably use our aquatic resources and ecosystems.Read more about my |
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| I analyze socio-psychological processes within sustainability transformations, and develop inclusive research-based solutions to empower citizen-consumers, landowners, policymakers, and communities. | |
| We explore the application of Polymer Chemistry in the field of biomedicine, optoelectronics and functional materials. Link to my |
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| Sustainable pharmacy collaborates across disciplines to create eco-friendly pharmaceutical innovations and practices that address the environmental risks associated with use of pharmaceuticals. Read more about my |
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| Behaviour, life-history, ecology (e.g. community ecology) and agri-food applications (e.g. biological pest control), mostly of insects. My work falls equally into two RESDOC categories ‘Biodiversity and Nature’s Resilience’ and ‘Secure and Sustainable Food and Water Systems’. Read more about my |
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| Developing sustainable catalytic solutions for environmental challenges, including water purification and pollutant removal, using quinone-based photoredox catalysis and carbocatalysis, guided by mechanistic insight and computational approaches. Read more about my |
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| We investigate and develop technological solutions to mitigate human-livestock-wildlife conflicts. Read more about my |
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| Instrumental analytical research is carried out in our group with emphasis on environmental and bioanalytical research using advanced chromatographic and spectrometric methodologies.Read more about my |
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| We study environmental health and environmental microbiology with focus on health-related water microbiology in terms how waterborne pathogens might endanger the health of water users and how these health risks could be mitigated.Read more about my |
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| Dr. Lappi applies economic theory and mathematical modelling to study the economics of biodiversity conservation, non-renewable resources, lobbying and environmental policy. He is eager to supervise a motivated student interested in the theoretical aspects of conservation policy design grounded in real-world conservation problems. | |
| I am interested in the eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial interactions in plant rhizosphere and human microbiomes, which is important for understanding disease dynamics in agricultural and medical contexts and developing new ways to control infections.Read more about my |
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| I focus on uncovering molecular mechanisms of plant growth and development, and on translating this knowledge for tailoring crop traits to advance sustainable climate-resilient agriculture, particularly controlled-environmental systems such as vertical farming.Read more about my |
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| We study diets and nutrition across population groups and their links to health, equity, and social, economic, and environmental sustainability, including water scarcity and broader resource use. Currently, |
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| Our research has led to innovative methodologies, enabling the development of novel sequence-specific bioprotectants for viral and fungal plant diseases. In parallel, we study interactions between plant pathogenic bacteria and their phages to advance the precise management of bacterial plant infections. Together, these strategies support sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, and resilient food production in a changing climate.Read more about my |
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| We are generating new insights into the various stages of plant viral infection and the role of host factors in these stages, and we are exploring ways to apply our findings to the development of potato resistance to combat serious viral diseases.Read more about my |
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| We work on healthy and adequate diets in Finland and low-income countries. In Finland, we study vegetarian and vegan choices and their nutritional implications, and how policies such as institutional food services in daycare can promote children’s healthy diets, as well as barriers to improving the nutritional quality and sustainability of the food offered, including preferences, attitudes, and taste. These questions also extend to low-income contexts, where I am additionally interested in topics such as infant and young child feeding, caregiving roles, food insecurity and coping mechanisms, and the acceptability of new foods and the policy context of nutrition interventions. Read more about my |
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| My research focuses on the chemistry of food components, the transformations that occur during processing, and the development of sustainable approaches that enhance food safety, quality, and resource efficiency. | |
| Our research group (computational atmospheric chemistry) uses a wide array of computational chemistry tools, supplemented by experiments, to study reaction mechanisms relevant to atmospheric chemistry (in particular the formation of low-volatility vapors contributing to air pollution). We have recently diversified our research focus to encompass also computational modelling of the action mechanisms (especially nutrient retention, as well as N2O emission reductions) of biochar, a novel and promising agricultural soil amendment. | |
| We investigate ways to reduce environmental restrictions on crop growth and crop quality as well as to develop sustainable management practices that will all together guarantee crop productivity in a changing climate.Read more about my |
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| We develop chemical processes and characterization techniques for better implementation of circular economy in fields of biorefining and water systems. Within the water theme, we focus on simple and robust purification technologies for removal of harmful compounds to allow wastewater circulation in industrial operations, or to be applied for securing clean water and pollutant free living in developing regions. | |
| We study sustainable consumer behavior and also how organizations (companies and others) employ different types of technologies and innovations to cope with sustainability transition. Recently, we have published in food waste, organic food and SCM resiliency.Read more about my |
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| My research focuses on distributed AI in smart agriculture (phenotyping, environments, genotyping), leveraging AI (training, inference, Agent), edge computing (distributed systems, coordination), and digital twins (simulation, reinforcement learning).Read more about my |
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| We study responses, mitigation and adaptation of northern agriculture to climate change. We focus on solutions and processes that mitigate nitrogen losses (N2O, NH3, NO, NO3) from soils, and we study nitrogen cycling processes and plant-soil-microbe interactions using lab, greenhouse and field experiments. Learn more about my |
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| We study database system and use AI for food science. We collabrate with Valio company to explore AI on food science and system.Read more about my |
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| In collaboration between environmental geochemistry and materials physics, we investigate how mineral phases control the cycling and mobility of key elements such as carbon, phosphorus, sulfur, redox-active metals, and environmental contaminants in natural and engineered water systems. Using advanced X-ray spectroscopy and scattering techniques, we uncover the atomic-scale processes that govern nutrient availability, water quality, and contaminant transport, with applications in sustainable agriculture, circular nutrient recovery, and resilient food and water systems. Links to our research groups: |
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| We study philosophical and methodological challenges of sustainability and better human-nature relations with innovative inter-and transdisciplinary approaches. | |
| We study just socio-ecological transitions by developing concepts, methods and empirical approach associated with multispecies justice and nature-based solutions.Learn more about my |
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| We are questioning basic assumptions of how ancient economies function and exploring how we can write better histories of the Persian Empire, Ancient Near East, and the development of economies through time. Our research is primarily grounded in Bourdieu and focusing on forced labor and informality. Read more about my |
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| EXILE study investigates the outcomes of different placing options (inclusive or traditional) of students with special educational needs utilizing longitudinal setting in Finland.Learn more about my |
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| My expertise lies in international law, human rights law, and Indigenous peoples’ rights. My research focuses on land and resource governance, with a strong emphasis on social justice, and is informed by critical social theory and interdisciplinary methods .Link to my |
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| This is a group party directly linked to the doctoral pilot sustainable transformations and partly with new researchers in the humanities looking for funding. Learn more about my |
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| We study spatial and geographical aspects of well-being and education in the society, in cities and suburbans. Well-being can be either environmental, physical, or societal well-being. GIS, applied geoinformatics, and geomedia form the core of our contexts.Learn more about my |
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| We study global extractivisms and alternatives, especially new tree-planting initiatives in the global South, ecological restoration, and forest-related politics, conflicts and political economies. Read more about my |
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| The members of the Helsinki Animal Law Centre study the legal status of animals, with a focus on multispecies justice and how animal use is intertwined with the ongoing polycrisis. Learn more about |
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| The members of the Helsinki Animal Law Centre study the legal status of animals, with a focus on multispecies justice and how animal use is intertwined with the ongoing polycrisis.Read more about my |
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| Our work focuses on analysing sustainable and just accessibility and mobility options for people at multiple scales, using mobile big data and other spatial and statistical data sources. Read more about my |
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| My ethnographic and cultural-historical research focuses on the role of play and imagination in children's agency and in institutional education, and our current work develops transdisciplinary methodology to expand our ways of knowing and doing in academia.Link to my |
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| We study sustainability transitions in cities with interdisciplinary methods, combining both social and natural sciences. Read more about my |
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| We study Urban multispecies liveability & Sustainability transformation of media output, using quantitative ecological and qualitative human data, with modelling and content analysis, revealing multispecies city designs and journalistic solutions.Learn more about my |
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| My research focuses on occupational and academic well-being, motivation, and research methodology, with an emphasis on socio-emotional skills, families’ and school communities’ well-being, fostering resilience, and future preparedness.Read more about my |
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| The Helsinki-GPE integrates economic theory and world politics, focusing on macrodynamics and the future. We study conflict and cooperation using an integrative framework combining causation theory, global political economy, and World System Science.Learn more about my |
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| We study the complex relations between people and forests, and their governing policies, we use critical policy analysis and our most recent finding was on transformative change and future scenarios in the global forest arena. Pead more about my |
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| We study the historical, institutional and socio-cultural drivers of violence in the family, using quantitative and qualitative methods and our most recent finding highlights deep-rooted links between resilience, state violence and family violence. Learn more my |
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| We study diets and nutrition across population groups and their links to health, equity, and social, economic, and environmental sustainability, including water scarcity and broader resource use. Currently, |
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| We study animal welfare from a multidisciplinary perspective, recognizing that the welfare of other animal species is promoted not only by research on the needs of the species but also by human behavior, perceptions of legislation, and its enforcement. Link to my |
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| We study animal welfare using multidisciplinary approaches, including mainly natural, but also social science approaches. Learn more about my |
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| The different research networks and projects, led by me, focus on the investigation and development of collaborative and participatory co-production and co-research methodologies to advance epistemic justice in knowledge production. Read more about my |
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| My research focuses on social sustainability, particularly from the point of view of equality, democracy and epistemic justice. | |
| We research childhood and youth in a multispecies world and in the atmospheres of the environmental crisis, developing post-anthropocentric politics of education and sustainability. Alongside with focusing on topics such as multispecies justice and human relations with animals, plants, microbes and materials, we develop creative representational and methodological practices based on feminist and posthumanist ontologies and theories. Learn more : |
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| I study current initiatives of integrating the health benefits of nature into public health. | |
| My research uses quantitative ecological and social survey data to examine how biodiversity, ecosystem services (including human health), and governance influence resilient and just socio-ecological transitions in forest landscapes. | |
| We study the city environment with mobile multimodal sensor systems, use advanced microclimate, air quality, computer vision, and data-driven monitoring technologies, and our recent work shows how urban decisions shape environmental conditions in cities. | |
| Environmental policy research, energy policy, the use of novel methodologies in social science, including social network analysis, machine learning, statistical modelling of text data. | |
| We focus on understanding the ecological and climate related interlinkages with human activities in the present day and in the long-term historic past, concentrating on natural resources and socio-ecological systems. Learn more about my |
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| Natural resources are the basis for a just, resilient and sustainable future. We research how innovations in circular bioeconomy can contribute to sustainability, including societal justice and well-being. Read more about my |
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| Natural resources are the basis for a just, resilient and sustainable future and this research unveils how innovations in circular bioeconomy can contribute to sustainability, including societal justice and well-being. Learn more about my |