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Moritz Albrecht ([email protected])

I am a human-geographer specialized on relational aspect of environmental and sustainability governance. My core expertise is to study socio-spatial processes of bio-based resource policy, management and local materialization to evaluate development frameworks, barriers and alternatives. I am experienced in research on policy mobility and translations in an EU context, case studies on regional and local development and policy materialization as well as sustainability perspectives in economic contexts.

My current research is focused on the socio-spatial processes and materialization of regenerative bioeconomy development with key attention to water based sectors, particularly seaweed farming but also recirculating aquaculture systems. Additionally, a side branch of my research interest deals with development in shrinking and peripheral localities in the North.

I am currently also acting as board member of the Finnisch Geographical Association (Suomen Maantieteen Seura) and the SOBIO network at UEF on social scientific biosociety focused research. I am further the coordinator of the Nord+ geographers Network GEONORDBALT on shrinking and peripheral locality development in the Baltics and Northern Europe.

Past projects:

– “Sustainability governance of BioAssemblages: A trifold perspective on bioeconomy clusters in the making” (2017-2019)
– Karelia CBC; WasteLess Karelias (Project coordinator) (2018-2022)

Previous research:
-EU bioenergy policy design and transformation between Brussels and local implementation
-Perspectives on sustainable forest certification in European supply chains
-Cross-border management of natural resources.

Moritz Petersmann ([email protected])

Moritz Petersmann is a doctoral researcher at the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law. His research investigates interactions between science, policy, and law through a comparative study of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). A central objective of this work is to draw lessons for the newly established Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP). Moritz’ research is funded by the Kone Foundation.

At the UEF Law School, Moritz teaches postgraduate courses on International Environmental Law and Global Environmental Politics.

Moritz is an independent affiliate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, where he reports from international environmental negotiations on climate change, biodiversity, and chemical pollution as Writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

He holds a BSc. in Environmental Sciences and a MSc. in Sustainability Sciences from Leuphana University, Germany.

Moustafa Hamada ([email protected])

My current research focuses on understanding the mechanobiological processes underlying articular cartilage degeneration following joint injury. To achieve this, I combine experimental characterization of changes in cartilage composition with computational finite element modelling to investigate the biological mechanisms driving cartilage degeneration.

Muhammad Mohsin ([email protected])

I hold a bachelor’s degree in agriculture and forestry from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan; a master’s degree in wood materials science from the University of Eastern Finland; and a Doctor of Science (DSc) in Agriculture and Forestry. My research involves the remediation of potentially toxic elements and rare earth elements from wastewater using perennial plants. As part of my postdoctoral research project, I am investigating the role of woody biochar in the restoration of boreal acidic peatlands.

Muqiu Du ([email protected])

Muqiu Du is a PhD researcher specialising in Work Exchange Sharing Accommodation (WESA), where travellers exchange labour for lodging with local hosts. Her research systematically explores this niche travel form, focusing on reciprocal host-guest relationships, traveller motivations, and user behaviours. Her work mainly utilises big data analysis, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Myele Rouxel ([email protected])

Myele Rouxel is a Doctoral Researcher in the field of EU environmental law. Her doctoral research focuses on EU law and sufficiency. She uses mixed research methods to identify legal constraints and opportunities for transformational change towards sufficiency in the EU legal system. She investigates these questions at EU constitutional level and in the food and energy contexts. Her doctoral research is conducted as part of the Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot and the RELIEF project on the resilience of complex legal systems in sustainability transformation. Beyond her current PhD research, she previously published on international climate change law and animal welfare and practised environmental law in law firms and EU institutions.

Nader Abazari ([email protected])

I hold a PhD in Clinical Psychology and currently work as a postdoctoral researcher, exploring ways to enhance existential well-being through interdisciplinary approaches. I am particularly interested in how cultural contexts shape the fundamental human quest for meaning in life.

Nanxiang Jin ([email protected])

I am a neuroscientist and Docent of Neurophysiology with extensive experience in electrophysiology, neural signal analysis, and computational neuroscience. My research spans multiple biological systems, including Caenorhabditis elegans, honeybees, mice, and humans, with the common goal of understanding how information is encoded, transmitted, and processed in living systems.

Throughout my career, I have applied electrophysiological approaches ranging from single-neuron recordings to human EEG studies to investigate the neural basis of learning, memory, cognition, and behavior. A major focus of my work has been Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders, where I have contributed to research on EEG biomarkers, neural dysfunction, and pharmacological interventions in both patients and healthy controls.

My expertise combines electrophysiology, neural signal processing, behavioral video analysis, feature engineering, and scientific software development. Recently, I have expanded my research into artificial intelligence and deep learning, with a particular focus on developing accurate and efficient AI methods for automated detection and analysis of sleep-related EEG events.

I am also involved in interdisciplinary research on social communication in honeybees. By applying concepts and analytical approaches originally developed for neural electrophysiology, I investigate how information may be encoded and exchanged through bioelectrical signals within insect societies, contributing to our understanding of collective intelligence and distributed information processing.

My long-term research goal is to bridge neurophysiology, biological communication, and artificial intelligence to uncover general principles of information processing across levels of biological organization, from neural networks in the brain to communication networks in social insect colonies.

Nelli Heiskanen ([email protected])

PhD research topic: From a Passion to a Profession. Case Ski Instructors. Ski instructors are skilled seasonal workers, whose profession is seasonal and mobile by nature. The aim is to study, what makes someone choose such a profession and what makes retain in the career or in a certain ski school, or quit or leave.