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HiLIFE Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology

Office: 5715 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: marjo.saastamoinen@helsinki.fi
Phone: + 358 50 448 4471

• life history ecology & evolution
• dispersal
• genotype-phenotype association
• phenotypic plasticity
• ecological immunology

Post-doctoral researcher

Office: 5205 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: aapo.kahilainen@helsinki.fi

Post-doctoral project "Variation in overwintering behavior and interspecific interactions in changing climate" funded by Kone Foundation (to AK).

• population and landscape genetics
• evolution
• adaptation to environmental stress
• conservation

Postdoctoral researcher

Office 5411 (Biocenter 3)

E-mail: abhilash.nair@helsinki.fi

Post-doctoral studies on understanding the factors that generate and maintain genetic diversity in natural populations and how organisms adapt to varying environments.

• Evolutionary genomics
• Population genomics
• Adaptation and Plasticity
• Conservation genetics

Post-doctoral researcher

Office: 5413 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: anniina.mattila@helsinki.fi

Post-doctoral project "Ecology and genomics of toxicity and related life-history traits in mimetic Heliconius butterflies" funded by Academy of Finland (to AM).

• dispersal
• evolutionary genomics of wild populations
• life-history evolution
• thermal adaptation

Post-doctoral researcher

Office: 5607 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: erik.vanbergen@helsinki.fi

• eco-evo-devo 
• plant–insect interactions
• phenotypic plasticity
• adaptation to heterogeneous environments

Post-doctoral researcher

Office: 5204 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: maria.hallfors@helsinki.fi

Post-doc at the Research Centre for Ecological Change where we use existing long-term data sets to study the effects of environmental change on species and their communities. 

• phenology
• conservation
• dispersal and plasticity under climate change
• species distribution models

Post-doctoral researcher

Office: 5413 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: michelle.dileo@gmail.com

Post-doctoral project "Evaluating adaptive potential and local climate adaptation across biogeographic and landscape scales" funded by Academy of Finland (to MDL).

• population and landscape genetics
• evolutionary ecology
• evolutionary genetics
• conservation

PhD student

Office: 5607 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: Nadja.verspagen@helsinki.fi

PhD project “Insect stress tolerance across a latitudinal gradient”. Funded by the LUOVA doctoral programme (to NV, started in February 2020). Supervised by Marjo Saastamoinen and Michelle DiLeo.

• adaptive potential
• phenotypic plasticity
• latitudinal clines
• environmental stress

PhD student

Office: 5205 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: susu.rytteri@helsinki.fi

"Butterflies in the changing climate" Funded by Academy of Finland (started in February 2016). Co-supervised by Mikko Kuussaari (SYKE).

• life history ecology
• environmental stress
• dispersal
• climate change
• conservation

PhD student

Office: 5607 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: torsti.schulz@helsinki.fi

"Variability, spatial synchrony and scaling of population dynamics in northern butterflies". Funded by the LUOVA doctoral programme (to TS, started in January 2017). Co-supervised by Jarno Vanhatalo.

• dispersal
• extinction thresholds
• spatial synchrony
• landscape ecology

Coordinator

Lammi Biological Station
E-mail: suvi.ikonen@helsinki.fi

Daniel Blande (Post-doctoral researcher 2018-2020)

Ana Salgado (Phd student 2015-2019)

Elena Rosa (Phd student 2014 - 2018, post-doctoral researcher 2019)

Vicencio Oostra (Post-doctoral researcher 2018-2019)

Dimitri Stucki (Post-doctoral researcher 2018-2019)

Anne Duplouy (Post-doctoral researcher 2017 - 2018)

Virpi Ahola (Post-doctoral researcher 2016 - 2018)

Lu­isa Woest­mann (Phd student 2014 - 2017)

Guillaume Minard (Post-doctoral researcher 2015 - 2017)