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Alessandro Indelicato (alessandro.indelicato@uef.fi)

Alessandro Indelicato received a bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Bologna in 2016. Two years later, he obtained a master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, and Management. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His doctoral thesis focused on immigration and national identity, both analysed with novel mathematical approaches. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and is also on a visiting research stay at the School of Theology at the University of Eastern Finland until June 2025.

Dawid Bunikowski (dawid.bunikowski@uef.fi)

I am a legal philosopher of Polish descent, residing in Eastern Finland (North Karelia, Joensuu). I did my PhD in Poland in 2009 (on law and morality: abortion, euthanasia, human fertilisation, cloning, pornography, prostitution, same-sex couples, etc.). I did different postgraduate studies in: 1) human resources management, 2) economics, 3) MBA-sustainable and inclusive leadership, 4) Jews in Poland. I carried out my postdoctoral research at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF, School of Law), in 2013-2015 (on the recent global financial crisis as an axiological crisis: the crisis of law and the crisis of morality; business ethics/corporate governance). My Docent title was granted by the University of Lapland in 2022 (in the field of philosophy of law in the Arctic).

I have been a Visiting Researcher at the UEF School of Theology since 2020. Additionally, I am a University Professor at the State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek (Department of Administration) in Poland. I am a Lecturer at the University of Guyana (Department of Law) in Guyana. I am a former Visiting Professor at Carleton University (Department of Law and Legal Studies) in Ottawa, Canada.

I am a law and religion scholar. I work on state church relations, religious freedom, Catholicism and Judaism, but also on relations between law, morality and religion. My main research interests concern as well: law and morality, law and politics, law and society, law and anthropology, law and language, etc. Much of my research has covered indigenous cultures in the Arctic like customary laws, recognition of indigenous rights or protection of sacred sites. I am also to ethical foundations of economy.

Moreover, I do “all things Polish”.

While in the School, I teach:

I also taught here (2022/2023):

  • “Jews and Judaism in Poland, Russia, the Baltic countries and East Central Europe”,
  • “Ukrainian-Polish relations: history, politics, culture, law, religion”.

Moreover, while in social sciences (2023/2024), I am the coordinator of the YUFE course “Global Migration and European Identity” and have taught “Populism in East Central Europe”.

Harro van Asselt (harro.vanasselt@uef.fi)

Harro van Asselt, PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, cum laude), is Professor of Climate Law and Policy with the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School, Visiting Research Fellow with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, and Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. He has 20 years of research experience, and is an expert on interactions between international climate change governance and other fields of international governance. Before joining UEF, Harro worked at the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance (Edward Elgar, 2014), co-editor of Governing Climate Change and The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (both Cambridge University Press, 2018), and he has more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and books. He is Editor of the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), and sits on the Editorial Board of Carbon & Climate Law Review, Earth System Governance, Global Environmental Politics, and International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

Hille Janhonen-Abruquah (hille.janhonen-abruquah@uef.fi)

Main interest:

  • Home economics approach to everyday life, Families and global migration, Youth’s comprehensive learning environment.
  • Hands-on and interactive home economics hybrid learning & teaching.
  • Global responsibility in education, Culturally responsive education, Cultural sustainability.

Ismo Linnosmaa (ismo.linnosmaa@uef.fi)

My research focus is on health economics. My current work concentrates on costs, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health and social services provided for old people, economics of ageing, and the markets for health and social care and pharmaceuticals.

Jouni Pykäläinen (jouni.pykalainen@uef.fi)

D.Sc. (For.) Jouni Pykäläinen, professor of forest economics and forest policy, has studied, among others, forest-based services and value networks and forest sector foresight methods and processes. Jouni Pykäläinen has also worked as the head and vise head of the School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, and as the Director of the Forest Foresight Unit in the University of Eastern Finland leading the project “Foresight of new business possibilities in the forest sector”. He has extensive experience in practical forestry, among which includes his work as an entrepreneur.

Kateryna Holzer (kateryna.holzer@uef.fi)

At UEF, Kateryna Holzer leads a project on Regulatory Cooperation on Carbon Standards (RECOSTA), a work package in a project on Voluntary carbon offsetting in (climate) action: Perception coalitions, representations, and regulation (OFFCORR) and a Joint Nordic Master’s Programme (NOMPEL) course on International Economic Law and Green Transitions.

She has been working in climate change and energy research, teaching and consultancy since 2009, with a focus on trade rules and measures stimulating green economy transition and sustainable development. Kateryna is a member of the Climate Change and International Environmental Law research group at the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL), the Platform on International Energy Governance, Climate Strategies and a board member of the Swiss Energy Law Association.

She was formerly a visiting scholar at the WTO Trade and Environment Division and worked as a postdoc at the World Trade Institute in Bern and as an assistant professor at the Academy of Foreign Trade in Kyiv. Kateryna holds a PhD in Law and a Master of International Law and Economics from the University of Bern, as well as a PhD in Economics from Ukraine, a Master of International Management from the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade and a Bachelor of Economics from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.