People

Biodiversity Change research group has currently four members who are 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

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.

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