I am a doctoral researcher in Innovation Management and a recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. My Ph.D. is part of the Neuro-Innovation Ph.D. program focusing on advancements in innovation and organizational dynamics. I also hold an MA in Business Administration.
My research centers on network identity, exploring its evolution, formation, and dynamics within networks and organizations, particularly in health-related contexts. I am interested in scientific inquiry and qualitative research methodologies.
My research interests include:
- Innovation Management
- Network Identity
- Strategic Management
- Change Management
My work has been related to emissions of methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide and to processes regulating emissions. Method development related to gas measurement and stable isotope methods (C & N) is also related to my work.
I started in the biogeochemistry research group (now BGC) in 1990. I have studied the greenhouse gas emissions of Finnish naturaql and drained peatlands. I have participated in greenhouse gas balance studies in reservoirs and in projects related to the use of peat and peatlands. I participated in an joint EU project to study greenhouse gas balances in the northern peatlands at Kevo. In 2003, I eventually finalized my PhD thesis about the change in greenhouse balances of natural and drained peatlands. I continued my greenhouse gas balance research on the production of reed canary grass. I have worked as a laboratory manager at the National Institute for Public Health in Kuopio related to the purification of drinking water. I participated in an environmental risk assessment project related to the sudden acidification of a lake with a mining influence. I have been a researcher and teacher at Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Kuopio. In the spring of 2008, I moved to University of Jyväskylä to study lake food webs and biogeochemistry using stable carbon isotopes and carbon dioxide and methane emission measurements. As an academy researcher (2010-2015), I studied the carbon storage in the in oxic and anoxic interfaces. As a spin of from this – application made during unemployment period – I got personal funding to study fish feed production based on methanotrophs and algae. I worked as university researcher stydying sediment gas production and also was a short period resposible of the IRMS system in BGC-group. I started as coordinator in research community UEF Water in autumn 2021.
The economy and the environment are fundamental elements of sustainable Finnish, European and indeed global futures. The EU continues to strive towards a more competitive economy, while it at the same time faces enormous environmental challenges in many areas from resource use to biodiversity and climate change. Moreover, these environmental and economic challenges are tightly intertwined. The search for increasing global welfare needs to take place within the limited boundaries of the natural resources available today and for the generations to come. This challenge promises on the other hand also opportunities for those that are the most advanced in “greening their economies”.
These societal challenges and opportunities are at the core my professorship on the “circular economy” and the EU and international economic law. The societal objectives and the support for achieving them takes to a notable extent place in the laws and policies that govern the fast evolving environmental and economic sectors, and their interactions in Finland, the EU and beyond. The objective of my professorship is to deliver theoretically advanced, interdisciplinary and policy relevant research and education on this environment-economy nexus, focusing on the circular economy, sustainable trade agreements and green public procurement.
While pursuing this vision, I have engaged in the development of legal theories on e.g. the role of law in sustainability transitions, the notion of extended producer responsibility, ‘flexilateralism’ in EU trade policy, ‘market access’ in EU internal market law, as well as the interstate law heuristics of the EU and the USA. My methodological contributions include ‘comparative judicial discourse analysis’ as well as approaches to legal ‘coherence’ and the ‘softness’ of governance instruments. Empirically, my research has investigated e.g. the mechanisms of mediating environmental and economic considerations in law, the coherence between EU trade policy and the European Green Deal, the interactions between of data law and competition law, and of competition law with trade law. I frame my work through significant societal questions, such as waste electronics, electric vehicles, pirated content online and the sustainability of aviation fuels, usually in the context research projects funded by e.g. Academy of Finland, Strategic Research Council (STN), HorizonEurope, LIFE and ERASMUS+. My PhD in 2004 (‘e-Cycling’) was amongst the first broad legal analyses of what has become known as ‘the circular economy’.
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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.
Hasnain Ali Shah is a doctoral candidate at the School of Computing at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) in Joensuu. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2019. After completing his undergraduate degree, he pursued a Master’s program in Artificial Intelligence at Kyungpook National University in South Korea. His Master’s research focused on computer vision applications in medical imaging. Currently, at UEF, his research is centered on using eye tracking technology for the diagnosis and early detection of mild cognitive impairments. This research is part of the MSCA Doctoral Network project Eyes4ICU.
I work as a professor of university pedagogy. My areas of expertise include teaching and learning in higher education and higher education transitions, with emphasis on generic skills (such as critical thinking and argumentation) and performance-based assessment. My expertise also extends to self-regulation in learning and academic writing. I lead and co-lead several research projects in higher education while actively mentoring the next generation of scholars through doctoral supervision. My main projects are KAPPAS2 (Assessment of Undergraduate Students’ Generic Skills in Finland) project and READY (Ready for working life) project.
