Meritförteckning

Corinna Casi 

is a PostDoctoral researcher.

She obtained her Doctoral Degree in Environmental Ethics in May 2024 at the Discipline of Practical Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, (Finland). She is a member of HELSUS (Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science). She is a PostDoctoral researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Law at University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi (Finland) in ValueBioMat, a project funded by the STN, Research Council of Finland, (2019-2025).

Since 2022 she a Board member of YHYS (The Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science).

Since 2020 she is a reviewer for Food Ethics journal, and since 2022 she is also a reviewr for the Icelandic Journal Nordicum Mediterraneum (NoMe).

In September 2019 she riceived the Vonne Lund Prize as young resercher, awarded by EurSafe, the European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics.

She collaborated with The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Center, University of Lapland, in two projects and relative publications: one related to Human Security in the Barents Region (2017-2018) and the other to Food Security in the Arctic (2018-2020).

Teaching in Environmental Ethics:

• at the Helsinki Summer School 2016-2019, University of Helsinki;
• at Tampere University (Finland) 2011-2019,
• and abroad at Nordhausen Hochschule (Germany) 2014-2021 and
• at IPAG Business School in Paris (France) in 2014.

She was visiting scholar at:

• the University of Palermo (Italy) in 2018 and 2017;
• the University of Latvia, in Riga (Latvia) in 2014;
• the University of Iceland in Reykjavik (Iceland) in 2013.

She was a Board member at Nordic Summer University (NSU) network (2015-2016) and NSU vice-Chair in 2016.

She worked at the Italian Cultural Institute, part of the Italian Embassy in Helsinki (2007-2009).

She received a Master in Moral Philosophy with the highest grade at the University of Bologna, in Italy.

She studied during the Autumn Term at Brown University, RI, (USA) in 2004 to research documents her Master thesis and one year as exchange student at the Université de Dijon (France) in 2002-2003. 

Topics of interest: Environmental Ethics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sustainability, Ethical aspects of plastic and bio-based plastics, Indigenous Traditional Ecological knowledge, Sami traditional knowledge.