Tapio Alakörkkö
Tapio Alakörkkö is former head of the Umeå Institute of Design, former head of Sliperiet at Umeå University, former faculty director for the Faculty of Forest Science at SLU, and currently works as a regional strategist at SLU.
Arcum offers researchers outside Umeå University the possibility of becoming a part of Arcum's network, as externally affiliated researchers. Several of these have previously been employed by Umeå University but has now gone on to work in other organisations, but are still connected to Arcum through their interest in Arctic research.
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Tapio Alakörkkö is former head of the Umeå Institute of Design, former head of Sliperiet at Umeå University, former faculty director for the Faculty of Forest Science at SLU, and currently works as a regional strategist at SLU.
I am a soil ecologist interested in understanding how environmental changes affect soil organism communities and soil processes in cold ecosystems. I study to what extent these changes affect interactions between soil fauna, microbes and plants, and if changed interactions between these organisms affect carbon and nitrogen cycling. My current projects are situated in Arctic and boreal ecosystems.
Postdoctoral researcher at SLU. I’m a behavioural ecologist and ecotoxicologist interested in understanding the causes and consequences of anthropogenic stressors for aquatic wildlife. Working both in the lab and field, I strive to understand how stressors, particularly pollutants, affect animals across multiple levels of biological organization.
My research focuses on experimental approaches to investigate mechanisms regulating CO2 release from tundra soils in a warmer world. After my PhD in Abisko with Ellen Dorrepaal on plant-soil-microbe interactions in permafrost systems, my Arctic research now takes place at both SLU Uppsala and Abisko, with the project Living soils in a future Arctic led by Eva Krab, and the Abisko LTER experiment.
Ulrika Roos is a doctoral student at the Department of Forestry Management at SLU. She is part of the unit of landscape studies, which includes descriptions and analysis’ of permits and change processes on a local and landscape level in ecosystems and society about questions of sustainability.
Per Sandström (PhD) is a landscape level, wildlife biologist/ecologist. He works as a senior researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences where he leads and participate in several projects addressing land use impacts and planning, usually in relation to reindeer husbandry. His research covers diverse and often multidisciplinary approaches incorporating both scientific and indigenous and local knowledge systems.
Camilla is senior researcher at SLU. In her research the focus is mainly on land use policy, land use conflicts, especially focusing on common pool resources, governance issues, ecosystem services and forest policy, especially evaluation of forest policy.
Lulea university of technology
In my work, I am continuously involved in urban projects, teaching, and research and I draw together these experiences to develop my approach to contemporary practice and academic development. Most recently, I completed a PhD in Architecture focusing on Urban Design in Cold Climate Settlements.
Senior associate professor in physiotherapy at Luleå Technical University. My educational background includes integrative physiology and a Master’s degree in Medical Science from Karolinska Institute, and a Doctoral degree in Physiotherapy from Lulea University of Technology (LTU). My thesis focused on risk and safety analyses, management and interactions between environmental conditions and human behaviour.
I am an interdisciplinary architect and urbanist working at the intersection of urbanization theory, geospatial analysis, design and ecology. Primarily interested in the spatiality and representation of urbanization processes. Researching on territories of extraction in the European Arctic to critically explore the dialectics between concentrated and extended urbanization under capitalism, understanding the socio-economic and ecological processes that drive geographic uneven development dynamics.
Associate Professor of Architecture at LTU. I work at the intersection of planning, design, and geography in contexts as different as the Arctic (mostly northern Scandinavia), Europe (Sweden, Italy and Malta), and Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Qatar and the UAE).
International reseachers
Thoroddur Bjarnason is an Icelandic sociologist and professor at the University of Akureyri with a specialty in urban/rural Sociology. He has done research on social issues like bullying, alcohol and cannabis use amongst youth, as well as questions of migration and class in relation to rurality and urbanity.
Dagmar Egelkraut is a postdoctoral fellow in Biological Science at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is a vegetation ecologist with a focus on arctic and alpine ecosystems, plant-herbivore interactions, plant-soil feedback mechanisms and vegetation community stability.
Josué is interested on Arctic research since this is one of the hot spots in climate change. He is particularly interested in arctic climate from past, present and future, and with special emphasis in the analysis of arctic data, from simple time series to big data.
Olof Stjernström is a professor in Human Geography at Nord university in Norway. He has a special interest in northern studies related to natural and human resources, planning and migration. His most recent studies focuses multilevel planning and indigenous rights in northern Sweden and studies on mining and multilevel planning. He is also engaged in the issue of social sustainability, climate change and the impact on local communities.
E-mail: olof.a.stjernstrom@nord.no
Stoor is a PhD student at Sámi Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Finnmark county hospital trust, Norway. His research is focused on mental health amongst Sámi.
International associated
Helén Bertilsson is an environment nurse at the Work- and behavioral medicine Centre in Umeå.
Helge Brändström is senior chief physician at the Centre for Emergency care and Crisis medicine at Norrland’s University Hospital, Umeå. The centre does education, research and development as well as registers cases and manages prevention.
Malin took her Ph.D. in May 2017 with the thesis “Forestry and reindeer herding on the same ground – a judicial science study of ownership and reindeer herding rights”. The thesis handles the relation between property ownership and the Sámi right to reindeer herding, which are parallel rights set upon the same ground.
Professor in the Swedish Language at Mittuniversitetet. Seal-hunting has been an important means of livelihood in the coastal areas around the Gulf of Bothnia in both prehistoric and historic times. In my thesis ”The Seal and the Hunter” I studied the Swedish-speaking seal-hunters conceptual system for seal during the 20th century (2000). The analysis also includes the cultural and ecological context of the seal-hunt.
Critical bottleneck sites for Fennoscandian raptors are identified in order to avoid localization conflicts with i.e. windpower industries. By compiling and analyzing very large amounts of bird data, nine sites have been identified for redlisted raptors (some arctic). Remaining raptor species are now analyzed. My hope is that this work contributes to the conservation of species.
Reached through email: per@voxnatura.se
Lovisa Lind is an ecologist and senior lecturer at Kalmar University. She was previously employed at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Umeå University.
Co-Director, Museum Cerny
First experiences with Arctic collections were made as the curator of ethnographic collections at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim (Germany), followed by positions at the Historic and Ethnographic Museum of St.Gallen, Bern Historical Museum in Bern (both Switzerland) and Statens museer för världskultur in Stockholm and Gothenburg with responsibilites for Arctic collections from North America and circumpolar.
The Museum Cerny focuses on contemporary circumpolar art connected to Climate Change and all issues connected to it. For the past year my research focus has been on the Arctic collections and the history of Arctic research in Switzerland and Sweden and the collections from the Vega Expedition in Stockholm, especially the Chukchi collections.
Annika Nordin Johansson is head of the Work and Behavior Medical Centre, Region Västerbotten. The centre is focused on prevention, evaluation, research and taking measures against work-, environment- and lifestyle related illness.
Contributing Author to Research Project funded by Nordic Council of Ministers-"Food (in) Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North".
T. Lovisa Solbär is a landscape geographer (Ph.D. in Human Geography; M.Sc. in Geography). Her research interests include rural land use and resource development in Fennoscandinavia, rural spatial planning, and the land-use implications of environmental policy. From 2018, she has been working as Environmental Secretary at the Sámi Parliament in Finland.
Researcher at KTH. I research histories of polar pasts and polar futures, with a focus on the intersection between the environment, science, cultural heritage and critical geopolitics in the Arctic and Antarctica.