People

Biodiversity Change research group brings together geographers and ecologists investigating different aspects of biodiversity change. If you are enrolled in the master's programme at the University of Helsinki studying either ecology and evolutionary biology or integrative plant sciences, and you are looking for a MSc thesis supervisor for a biodiversity topic in Finnish or English, you can contact group leader Julia Kemppinen.

Julia Kemppinen, Group Leader

Current project

Academy Research Fellow project: Tundra plants in climate change - How microclimates shape species, populations, and communities? 2025-2029, Research Council of Finland.

Past projects

Postdoc project: Investigating the geodiversity-biodiversity relationship under climate change. 2022-2025, Research Council of Finland.

Postdoc project: Arctic physical geography. 2020-2022, University of Oulu.

PhD project: Soil moisture and its importance for tundra plants. 2016-2020, GeoDoc at University of Helsinki.

Adam Mahood, Visiting researcher

Project collaboration: Modelling microrefugia of plants across northern Europe

Aino-Maija Määttänen, Doctoral Researcher

PhD project: Ecological connectivity for promoting biodiversity under climate and land use change

Mikko Saviranta, Doctoral Researcher

PhD project: Impacts of land use change on plant communities and their biodiversity in northern environments

Adam Williamson, Doctoral researcher

PhD project: Tundra plants and the influence of microclimates