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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)