CV Marjo Saastamoinen

Education and degrees

12/2013

Adjunct professor (ecology & evolutionary biology), University of Helsinki, Department of Biosciences

10/2007

PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

09/2002

MSc, University of Helsinki, Finland, Department of Ecology and Systematics

06/2000

BSc, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Research career

1.9.2013 -31.8.2018

Academy Research Fellow, PI, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland (personal grant: Academy Research Fellow; Academy of Finland)

1.4.2013 -31.8.2013

Researcher, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland (personal grant: Kone Foundation)

1.1.2013-31.3.2013

Visiting Academic Researcher, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (host: Prof. Hanna Kokko)

1.1.2010-31.12.2012

Post-doctoral Researcher, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland (personal grant: Academy of Finland)

1.1.2008-31.12.2009

Post-doctoral researcher, Section of Evolutionary Biology, IBL, University of Leiden, the Netherlands (personal grant: Academy of Finland, host: Prof. Paul Brakefield)

1.10-31.12.2007

Post doctoral researcher, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland

1.2.2004-30.10.2007

PhD-student, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland

Major scientific funding

2015-2020

European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant; META-STRESS

2014-2017

Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Grant for the Äland Meadow Network Survey ( Working group grant to A. -L. Laine, A. Duplouy, I. Hanski, M. Saastamoinen & S. Van Nouhuys)

2015-2017

Academy of Finland, Centre of Excellence (one of the eight PIs)

2013-2018

Academy of Finland, Academy Research Fellow

2013-2016

Kone Foundation, Project grant

2010-2012

Academy of Finland, Postdoctoral Researcher's project grant

2011

European Science Foundation, Thermal Adaptation – grant to organize a scientific meeting

2008-2009

Academy of Finland, Researcher Training and Research Abroad-grant

2008

Research grant (Emil Aaltonen foundation)

Teaching

2015

Lecturer: The Glanville fritillary as a model system in ecology and evolution – PBFL course series

2014

Lecturer: Local adaptation – PBFL course series

2012

Coordinator: A post graduate course "Journal club: Current topics in evolutionary ecology", University of Helsinki
Lecturer: The Glanville fritillary metapopulation – model system in ecology, Course series for students participating butterfly survey, University of Helsinki

Panel member in an undergraduate course on 'Career planning for biologists'

2011

Lecturer: Evolution & Adaptation – CBFL course series

2010

Coordinator: MSc level course "Conservation Biology in Fragmented Landscapes (CBFL)", University of Helsinki (semester)
Lecturer: Evolution & Adaptation – CBFL course series, University of Helsinki

Lecturer: Dispersal, reproduction and stress tolerance, Course series for students participating butterfly survey, University of Helsinki

2009

Lecturer: Life history evolution- Evolutionary Applications course series, Leiden University

2008

Lecturer: Life history evolution- Evolutionary Applications course series, Leiden University

Invited presentations

2016

Per Brinck Symposium (Nordic Oikos Meeting), Turku, Finland

2015

Uppsala University, Sweden

2015

University of Greiswald, Germany
2014

University of Liége, Belgium

2014

Bristol University, UK

2013

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

2012

Dispersal workshop (6th meeting), Moulis, France

Cambridge University, UK

2011

The European Ecological Federation (EEF) - meeting, Avila, Spain

2010

University or Turku, Finland

The 6th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies at Edmonton, Canada

2009

Dispersal workshop, Ghent, Belgium

University of Liége, Belgium

2008

Spotlight seminar series of the Institute of Biology, Leiden University

Finnish Entomological Society meeting, Helsinki

2006

University of Leiden, the Netherlands

University of Stockholm, Sweden

Rocky Mountain Biological Research Station, Colorado, USA

University of Uppsala, Sweden

Academic evaluation

2015

Pre-examiner of a PhD-thesis (Kati Saarinen, University of Jyvärkylä)

2014

External evaluator and committee member of PhD- thesis (Joost van den Heuvel, Leiden University)

2013

External evaluator of MSc-thesis (Tähti Pohjanmies, University of Helsinki)

2010

External evaluator and committee member of PhD- thesis (Maaike de Jong, Leiden University)