Mineral processing doctor and engineer more than twelve years of experience in the mining industry and ten in the academy. A proven track record on providing technical advice and support, solution and recommendation to beneficiation plant operational procedures.

Projects

Biodiversity of cyanobacteria and their bioactive compounds from under-explored Brazilian habitats

Projects

EU-Central Asia Monitoring (EUCAM)- Promoting Security and Development in Central Asia

Research work centers around water diplomacy and transboundary water governance, with a particular focus on understanding and strengthening technical-political tracks from a conflict sensitive and positive peace point of view. This includes looking at risk, decision-making and implementation, trust and trustbuilding and institutional resilience as well as multistakeholder and multitrack engagement.

Currently, I am a fourth year PhD student at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences. I am working on plant ecology and climate change. The main objective of my research is to examine the responses of Populus tremula to elevated temperature, CO2 concentration, and UV radiation in terms of growth and secondary chemistry.

EduCase is a global pilot funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education EDUCase, and coordinated by Aalto University. EduCase aims at developing an innovative and educational case based institutional collaboration between Finnish Higher Institutions and Institutions/HEIs in potential partner countries in Africa. The major objectives of the EDUCase project include assisting in the provision of education relevant with sustainable development challenges, strengthening networks between partner countries’ HEIs and local innovation ecosystems, enhancing practical collaboration and deepening research networks and global competence of Finnish HEIs, advancing furthers innovations and the reaching of education development targets of HEIs in partner countries, advancing common innovation ecosystem between Finland and partner countries. Hanken/CCR's part of the project aims to device innovative educational collaborations with HEIs as well as with governmental and nongovernmental institutions that work on innovation in potential partner countries in Africa.

The following are my research interests: Energy storage; Waste to energy; Mathematical modelling; and Project management

Doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, specialising in humanitarian photography, colonial legacies in visual communication, and ethics of representation in digital media. My research explores how aesthetics, power, and human rights are intertwined, with a particular focus on the role of the viewer in processes of meaning-making and complicity.

Prof, Ph.D., Laura Stark’s research focuses on gender, sexuality, mobile telephony, urban poverty and early marriage in Tanzania. She is co-editor of the journal Ethnologia Europaea. She has edited the Bloomsbury volume Power and Informality in Urban Africa with Annika Björnsdotter Teppo (2022); and the Routledge volume Gendered Power and Mobile Technology: Intersections in the Global South (2019) with Caroline Wamala Larsson. She has led four major funded research projects, including Mobile Technology, Gender and Development in Africa and India (2010–2013); and Urban Renewal and Income-Generating Spaces for Youth and Women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2013–2017). Email: laura.stark@jyu.fi; Home pages: www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/hela/en/hela-staff/stark-laura www.laurastark.fi

Projects

Urban Poverty, Urban Renewal and Income-Generating Spaces in Ethiopia and Tanzania

My PhD research intertwines Feminist Peace Research, Sociological neoinstitutionalism and sociology of measurement. I study the measurement practices embedded in National Action Plans (NAPs) for the UN Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security (WPS), and particularly, the construction and use of indicators. Indicators have become an increasingly important mechanism of governance, as well as knowledge production, and in my study are understood as social practices allowing me to focus not only on what is being measured but also on its effects on the policy field. The project compiled a global dataset of 7500 indicators harvested from all the NAPs adopted between 2005 and 2020, enabling both spatial and linear windows of inquiry. In addition, an ethnography of WPS indicators in Nigeria (conducted during 2020) provides new knowledge about the role of local actors in translating indicators into practice.