Researcher

lotta.numminenupi-fiia.fi
Telephone +358 206 111 736

Current position at the institute

Researcher in the International Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment - research programme

Academic degrees
Ph.D. Candidate (Geography), University of Helsinki, 2003- (2009)
(Visiting Ph.D. student in the University of the Faroe Islands, 2004-2005)
M.Sc. (Geography), University of Helsinki, 2000
(Nordplus exchange student in the University of Greenland, 1996-1997, spring 1998)

Expertise
The Arctic: climate change, environmental issues and the new geopolitical situation of the Arctic Ocean, settlement pattern development in the Arctic

Professional experience
Finnish Institute for International Affairs, February 2008, Ph.D. Candidate, 2003- (Finnish Cultural Foundation)
Research Assistant, M-brain Inc., Finland, 2003-2004
Town planner, The municipality of Nuuk, Greenland, 2000-2003

Project employee in whale survey project, The Greenland Nature Institute, Greenland, 2000
Employee, Finnish graduate board, Finland, 2000
Research assistant, Greenland Home Rule/ Nordic Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research (NAD), Greenland/ Finland, 1999

Memberships in international and national working groups
APECS (The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists), Coordinator in Finland
Arctic Transform (Transatlantic Policy Options for Supporting Adaptation
in the Marine Arctic), Member of the Working Group
NRF (Northern Research Forum), Young Researcher

Languages
Finnish, Danish, English (fluent); Swedish, Norwegian (proficient); Faroese, Greenlandic (reading)