Job description

In my research I aim at disentangling how modern industrial disturbances to, for example, climate and land-use, are affecting the composition, diversity, and distribution of plants and animals in natural ecosystems. As in computers, where change in some components will affect their functionality, so will the ongoing changes in species affect the way nature works, including its multiple characteristics that we heavily depend on. I also analyse how species characteristics (their functional traits) and changes to biodiversity can affect ecosystems, in terms of functionality and direct provision to humans.

I focus mostly on the connections across ecosystems, as between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, where I run field and lab-based experiments, or analyse time series data to find long-term changes in nature.

I also pay attention to approaches, strategies, language, and collaborations that support a strong decolonization of science, ensuring a safe and supportive working structure that welcomes all backgrounds, and being conscious about the multitude of ways by which science has been used as a tool for colonialism, instead of for true human enlightment and progress of all societies.