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Auni holds an interdisciplinary master’s degree in climate change at the University of Copenhagen. Her ongoing doctoral research focuses on the roles of Arctic cities in the makings of global extractivism. Auni’s research combines feminist and urban studies with political ecology.

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Assi Harkoma is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Lapland with a background in Political Science. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on structural inequality affecting Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic area. The research is influenced by her interest in human rights. Project: Gender-based structural inequality in Sami reindeer herding communities.

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Nadezhda defended PhD in Historical Sciences at St.Petersburg University. Scientific interests are among others finding the foundations for rational choice of northerners, normative approaches of water management in the northern rivers of the Arctic, and world politics theories.

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Heidi’s two Master of Arts degrees are from the fields of design and sustainability. Her transdisciplinary research interests include the plurality of sustainabilities in the Arctic, which she approaches with a decolonial lens. Heidi has completed the first year of her doctoral research on the Arctic seal hunt, crafts and trade in the University of Helsinki’s Indigenous Studies research group, which has a strong influence on her work.

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Tom is pursuing his PhD in Space Law at the University of Lapland, examining space sustainability and commercial spaceports in the European North (Norway, Sweden, and Scotland). Tom holds degrees in Political and Social Sciences, Space Law, and Digital and IP Law.

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Özlem’s background is in International Relations. Her research agenda focuses on the EU’s external relations and EU policies in the Arctic, with a focus on the European Green Deal and its implications for the region. She is the coordinator of the EU-funded Jean Monnet Module REPAIR that aims at ‘Refocusing the European Green Deal on the protection of the environment, security and Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the Arctic’.

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Joonas is a doctor of social sciences and a scholar of political science. His work concentrates on a deconstructive reading of the Arctic, politics of aesthetics and post-human relations.

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