Dr. Sirkku Juhola

Dr Juhola is an assistant professor in urban environmental policy at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Helsinki (FIN). She is also a visiting scholar at the Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics at Aalto University (FIN) and an adjunct professor of social and public policy at the University of Jyväskylä (FIN). Dr Juhola holds a BA from the University of Sussex (UK) and a MSc and a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK). Since obtaining her PhD, Sirkku has worked at the United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies (JPN), University of Jyväskylä (FIN) and Umeå University (SWE).

Dr Juhola is the Deputy Chief Scientists of the Nordic Centre for Excellence on Nordic Strategic Adaptation (NORD-STAR) and a member of Finland’s Climate Panel that was set up in 2011 to advice the Finnish Government on climate policy. From 2013, she is also management committee member for Finland of two European Science Foundation Cost Actions; TUD Cost Action TU 1204 "People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World" and the Targeted network  "Gender, Science, Technology and Environment- genderSTE".