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Management and coordination

Decarbon-Home

Anne Toppinen

Anne Toppinen

Professor, University of Helsinki

Professor Anne Toppinen leads DECARBON-HOME consortium. Her expertise deals with low carbon construction business, especially in case of wooden multistorey construction.

  • anne.toppinen(@)helsinki.fi
  • +358 50 4150219
Katja Lähtinen

Katja Lähtinen

Research professor, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Consortium vice-leader focusing on management in actor networks to enhance socially and economically sustainable climate-wise housing.

  • katja.lahtinen(@)luke.fi
  • +358 29 532 2191
Vesa Kanninen

Vesa Kanninen

Research Coordinator, University of Helsinki

As consortium coordinator, I am responsible especially for project management and reporting to SRC.

  • vesa.kanninen(@)helsinki.fi
  • +358 50 337 1928
Hanna-Liisa Kangas

Hanna-Liisa Kangas

Senior researcher, Finnish Environment Institute

I’m the Lead of Interaction in the project, and I study the impacts of energy policy on emissions and citizens.

  • hanna-liisa.kangas(@)syke.fi
  • +358 29 525 1810
Kaarina Kaminen

Kaarina Kaminen

Coordinator, Finnish Environment Institute

Communication and interaction, cooperation with partner cities.

  • kaarina.kaminen(@)syke.fi
  • +358 295 251 698
Iina Turunen

Iina Turunen

Researcher, Finnish Environment Institute

I’m coordinating interaction in the project.

  • iina.turunen(@)syke.fi
  • +358 29 525 2129
Pia Bäcklund

Pia Bäcklund

Associate professor, University of Helsinki

I coordinate the work of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).

  • pia.backlund(@)helsinki.fi
  • + 368 50 3633 518

University of Helsinki

Helsingin yliopisto

Venla Bernelius

Venla Bernelius

Assistant professor

I head Work Package 2 together with Santtu Karhinen. We concentrate on socio-spatial inequalities and housing markets, and the question on what kind of constraints and opportunities they pose for climate-wise solutions in housing.

  • venla.bernelius(@) helsinki.fi
  • +358 50 415 4865
Teemu Kemppainen

Teemu Kemppainen

University Lecturer

Introduction coming soon.

  • teemu.t.kemppainen(@) helsinki.fi
  • +358 29 412 397
Kaisa Korhonen

Kaisa Korhonen

Adjunct professor, research coordinator, sustainability scientist

I am a co-leader of WP4. I will work with development and implementation of transition arenas as well as policy analysis.

  • kaisa.korhonen(@) helsinki.fi
  • +358 2941 57905
Eliisa Kylkilahti

Eliisa Kylkilahti

Postdoctoral researcher

I study resident perspectives in work packages 1 and 3 where we support citizen agency in sustainable living.

  • eliisa.kylkilahti(@)helsinki.fi
  • +358 29 4158051
Joonas Luukkonen

Joonas Luukkonen

PhD researcher

I contribute to study the ways in which socio-spatial segregation is connected to climate attitudes and the economic constraints affecting climate wise renovations.

  • joonas.luukkonen(@) helsinki.fi
Isabel Ramos Lobato

Isabel Ramos Lobato

Postdoctoral researcher

As an urban geographer, Isabel focuses on themes of school and urban segregation as well as immigration and housing. In DECARBON-HOME, she is part of the team responsible for WP2.

  • isabel.ramoslobato(@) helsinki.fi
  • +358 50 433 5395
Joonas Salmijärvi

Joonas Salmijärvi

Project coordinator

My responsibility is the coordination and communications of WP2, but I’m also involved in the research and publication work.

  • joonas.salmijarvi(@) helsinki.fi
  • +358 29 415 0772

Finnish Environment Institute

Suomen ympäristökeskus (SYKE)

Santtu Karhinen

Santtu Karhinen

Researcher

Karhinen is a WP2 co-lead. He examines housing values and choices with registry data.

  • santtu.karhinen(@)syke.fi
  • +358 295 251 889
David Lazarevic

David Lazarevic

Senior Research Scientist

SYKE project lead; WP4 lead; research on low carbon experimentation and transition arenas.

  • david.lazarevic(@)syke.fi
  • +358 295 251 881
Enni Ruokamo

Enni Ruokamo

Researcher

Dr. Ruokamo is a WP1 co-lead. She studies citizen preferences for low-carbon housing solutions.

  • enni.ruokamo(@)syke.fi
  • +358 29 525 2092
Paula Sankelo

Paula Sankelo

Researcher

I investigate building energy renovations and their subsidies.

  • paula.sankelo(@)syke.fi
  • +358 29 525 2029
Anna Strandell

Anna Strandell

Senior Researcher

I study the demographic, socio-economic and housing stock factors influencing the transition to climate-wise housing.

  • anna.strandell(@)syke.fi
  • +358 29 525 1657
Sampo Vesanen

Sampo Vesanen

Researcher

In this project I am focusing in geoprocessing models, cartographic visualisation, and quantitative analysis.

  • sampo.vesanen(@)syke.fi
  • +358 295 251 940

Natural Resources Institute Finland

Luonnonvarakeskus (LUKE)

Liina Häyrinen

Liina Häyrinen

Researcher

I explore the roles of stakeholder networks in enhancing co-creation and uptake of climate-wise housing.

  • liina.hayrinen(@)luke.fi
  • +358 50 593 4240
Mikko Kurttila

Mikko Kurttila

Principal researcher, Program director

I lead WP 3 and participate to the research carried out in it.

  • mikko.kurttila(@)luke.fi
  • +358 29 532 3262
Johanna Kohl

Johanna Kohl

Programme director, Development Manager

Introduction coming soon.

  • johanna.kohl(@)luke.fi

University of Vaasa

Vaasan yliopisto

Charlotta Harju

Charlotta Harju

Doctoral student

I’m working in work package 1 that investigates citizens’ preferences and practices for climate wise housing.

  • charlotta.harju(@) univaasa.fi
Merja Koskela

Merja Koskela

Professor

Leader of WP1 Task 1 where we study citizen knowledge formation by analyzing the ideal representations of climate-wise housing that mainstream media advocates as well as citizen views on online-forums.

  • merja.koskela(@)uwasa.fi
  • +358 29 449 8353
Liisa Kääntä

Liisa Kääntä

Researcher

I study mainstream and social media discourses of climate-wise living/housing. I’m working at #WP1 and #CommunicationWP.

  • liisa.kaanta(@)univaasa.fi
  • +358 29 449 8375
Eveliina Salmela

Eveliina Salmela

Project researcher

Coming soon.

  • eveliina.salmela(@) univaasa.fi
  • +358 29 449 8530
Henna Syrjälä

Henna Syrjälä

Docent

I lead work package 1 and the sub-project of University of Vaasa, in which the focus is on citizen agency.

  • henna.syrjala(@)univaasa.fi
  • +358 29 449 8483
Ari Haapanen

Ari Haapanen

Project manager

Esittely tulossa.

  • ari.haapanen(@)uwasa.fi

TALTECH

Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

Jarek Kurnitski

Jarek Kurnitski

Professor

Technical solutions and renovation grants for deep renovation of residential buildings in Finland and Estonia.

  • jarek.kurnitski(@)taltech.ee
  • +372 5866 4370
Tulossa

Tulossa

Coming soon.