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Access to health information through access enabling technologies

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Assembly of food webs during tropical forest restoration

Developing mass rearing technology for the highly valued edible grasshopper, Ruspolia differens

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Making the International Trade System Work for Climate Change

I am a doctoral candidate in sub-project 3, Migration and the Narratives of Europe as an Area of freedom, security, and justice”, as part of the EuroStorie project. My doctoral research seeks to locate the EU’s external migration policies in both place and time, with a particular focus on the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF for Africa).

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Multilayered and multifunctional structures by bio-based films and membranes

I have both work and research experience in cross-cultural and indigenous communities work in the Latin American region. I have also worked at the Finnish Embassy in Peru and gotten to know the types of projects our ministry funds as cooperation for development and I have also worked in a collaborative project in Nicaragua with local communities and environmental education. Experience in funding applications and reporting.

My research focuses on market-based conservation instruments, mainly biodiversity offsetting and their role in sustainability transformations. I study the diverse socio-ecological contexts in which these instruments are implemented and how the contexts influence their acceptance and uptake, both in the Global North and South. Currently my interest in is biodiversity offsetting in Colombia and Finland, which are the cases of my PhD research. I have also studied the science-policy-society interfaces related to European biodiversity policy and innovations related to forest ecosystem services.

Researcher of world politics with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. In my PhD project, I examined the post-war realities of former girl and women soldiers in Liberia and gained my doctorate in 2017. My recent publications include a book 'Liberia's Women Veterans: War, Roles and Reintegration' (Zed Books 2018) and several peer-reviewed articles on gender, post-war reconstruction, child soldiers, inequality, and visual research methods. I have lived, studied and/or worked in Liberia, Senegal as well as Zambia and am eager to develop innovative ways to study and understand different phenomena around the world.

Analytical chemistry with spectroscopic methods, especially NMR techniques. Synthetic chemistry of bisphosphonates, polyamines and 2H/13C labelled compounds. Recently, issues related recycling (e.g. plastics) and water purification based on natural polymers. The goal is zero-waste solutions.

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Participatory Pathways to Sustainable Intensification (PASUSI)