Markku Kulmala,
Markku Kulmala, Member of Academia Europaea, Academician of the Academy of Finland, Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Science, and Director of Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Finland. He leads the Centre of Excellence in Atmospheric Science – From Molecular and Biological processes to the Global Climate. He is active in international initiatives to improve comprehensive continuous measurement networks all around the world, and to solve air quality – climate change interactions. Mr. Kulmala’s research consists of Stations for Measuring the Earth surface – Atmosphere Relationships (SMEAR) field stations. SMEAR investigate aerosol and trace gas concentrations, fluxes, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, aerosol formation and growth, dynamics of atmospheric clusters and ions, and the biogenic background for processes leading to aerosol formation. There are SMEAR-type stations in China, Sweden, Cyprus and Estonia. The newest initiative is to establish a GlobalSMEAR network. Mr. Kulmala has published over 1260 original research papers, 18 of which in Nature, 17 in Science and 7 in Physical Review Letters. According to the ISI Web of Knowledge, Mr. Kulmala is 1st in the Citation Rankings in Geosciences (since May 1st, 2011). The total number of citations is over 71000. H-factor is 130.
Tuula Honkonen,
Tuula Honkonen is a Senior Lecturer of International Law at the University of Eastern Finland Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL). She is specialized in international environmental law, and her research focuses largely on climate change law and policy at different levels of governance: from global and transnational to the national level. The title of her presentation is: “Cities’ climate resilience and transnational law.”
Pauli Paasonen,
Pauli Paasonen works as an Assistant professor on air quality – weather – climate interactions at INAR. His main research interests are the production mechanisms of particles large enough to act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), focusing on ultrafine particles originating from anthropogenic emissions and new particle formation, and their growth to CCN-sizes in the atmosphere. His goal is to understand the processes shaping the observed particle number size distributions in urban areas and their influence on climate and weather. The title of his presentation is: “Do we understand our observations of urban particle number size distributions, and can we model their climate impacts?”
Rosa Rantanen,
Rosa Rantanen, D.Soc.Sc., works as a Research Coordinator at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki. She has a PhD in ethics, work experience from several civil society organizations and a passion for creative solutions and social justice. She is leading the new Initiative for a Safer Climate network as part of ACCC’s outreach & impact work. The aim of the Safer Climate network is to bring together academia, civil society and arts. The mini plenary will showcase some of the network’s activities and the motivation behind them and provide researchers with ideas how to utilize data and research in promoting social change. The title of her presentation is: “From data to action: towards a safer climate”
Liisa Kulmala,
Senior researcher Liisa Kulmala acts as the Head of the Carbon Cycle Group at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and as the vice-chair of Finnish Nature Panel. She has studied various biotic processes in the carbon cycle in forests, agricultural fields, and urban green spaces. She is inspired to find science-based, multi-beneficial management practices for the land use sector. The title of her presentation is: “Towards quantifying the potential of land-based climate change mitigation”