Curriculum vitae

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki. My research focuses on interplay of nature conservation and ecological restoration projects, and their distinct dynamics in southern rural Madagascar. In other projects in Madagascar, I have studied how diverse religious actors perceive, enact and negotiate current climate crisis (see Climate crisis and religious change -project). Her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki, focused on large scale environmental conservation efforts in rural northeastern Madagascar and engaged with discussions of environmental anthropology and political ecology. I am affiliated with interdisciplinary reserach group in Indian Ocean World Center at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (Indian Ocean World Center) and I belong to an interdisciplinary research group Religion, Ecology and Diversity (Religion, Ecology and Diversity).

Curriculum vitae

• Postdoctoral researcher & PI for WP Madagascar in Trees for Development (PI: Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes) & Restoring Ecosystems in Madagascar and Mozambique: Collaborative Training of Future Experts on Global Climate and Biodiversity Crises (PI Ossi Ollinaho). 13.2.-31.1.2026. Globaali kehitystutkimus. PL 18. 00014 Helsingin yliopisto, Suomi.
• Postdoctoral researcher at Climate Crisis and Religious Change in sub-Saharan Africa. 1.1.2022-31.12.2025. PI:Timo Kallinen. Religious studies. Department of Theology. PL 111. 80101 Joensuu, Finland.

• Post doctoral researcher. ALL-YOUTH Want to Rule Their World. 07/2018- 08/2021. Academy of Finland, Strategic funding (312689). Project leader: Reetta Toivanen and Päivi Honkatukia. HELSUS (Helsinki Sustainability Institute), Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
• Research coordinator. 05/2017-06/2018 Crosslocations (ERC/ 694482) and Transit, Trade and Travel (Academy of Finland). Project leader: Sarah Green. Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.
• PhD research project 02/2011-04/2011, 01/2013-02/2016: Politics of conserved and cultivated natures in Northeast Madagascar funded by Koneen Säätiö and Human ecology, Land transformations and global resource economy (253680), funded by The Academy of Finland. Project leader: Timo Kaartinen. Social and Cultural Anthropology. The University of Helsinki.

Curriculum vitae

ALL-YOUTH researcher 1.7.2018-31.12.2020