Researcher interested in educational technologies and AI Economist interested in sustainable development in the Global South

I am a PhD researcher in Energy Literature with a doctorate project in Petrofiction and the impact of oil extraction on both people and the environment, especially the ethnic minorities and indigenous people in the Global North and Global South.

Geologist with 8 year background on mining and exploration in Finland.

Projects

Mainstreaming populism - a country case study of Venezuela

Research focus on renewable energy production through the use of waste materials such as forest and agricultural biomass, MSW, pulp and paper mill sidestreams and the application of waste to energy production. Publication: Lake bottom biomass as a potential source for the biorefining industry (Bioresource Technology Reports, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2019.100282). Acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation from different pulp and paper manufacturing process side-streams (BioResources, 2020, DOI: 10.15376/biores.15.4.9265-9290).

Siiri Sandberg is a Ph.D. student in the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences (SOC) at the University of Helsinki. Siiri holds master’s degrees in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Urban Studies and Planning. The Ph.D. research draws on political ecology to study youth participation in forest conservation in Taita Hills, Kenya. 

Projects

Socio-ecological factors influencing illegal use of poison by farmers in Namibia - Implications for reconciling human activities and vulture conservation

Quantifying and characterising poison use in the communal farmlands of Namibia

Researcher

Databases, data quality improvement, geological data, international projects (Central-Asia), ArcGIS, FME.

Projects

Asserting Independence in the Post-Colonial Sea: Non-Alignment, Russia and the West in the Mediterranean (RUSMED)