Risto Väinölä

  • PL 17 (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13)

    00014

    Finland

  • Viikinkaari 1, Biocentre 3

    00790 Helsinki

    Finland

1986 …2024

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Description of research and teaching

  •  Research:  Diversity and history of boreal aquatic fauna
    • Molecular systematics, phylogeography, hybrid zones
    • Amphi-boreal relationships in northern marine fauna
    • Baltic bivalves and polychaetes
    • Glacial relict crustaceans in northern lakes
    • Lake Baikal endemic diversity
    • Cottid fishes, herrings, freshwater seals, wild reindeer...
  •  Curation of scientific collections (Finnish Museum of Natural History): 
    • Mammals
    • Fishes
    • Aquatic invertebrates

 

Fields of Science

  • 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology
  • phylogeography
  • zoogeography
  • molecular systematics
  • population genetics
  • aquatic fauna
  • 118 Biological sciences