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Carita Lindstedt is a team-leader of the project and currently an Academy Research Fellow (funded by the Academy of Finland) at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research group aims to understand the role of natural selection in shaping the adaptive genetic and phenotypic variation in cooperative antipredator strategies and how ecological and social conditions shape the evolution of antipredator strategies and animal signalling. She uses a combination of behavioural, physiological, quantitative genetic and functional ecological techniques both in the field and in the laboratory. carita.a.lindstedt@jyu.fi websites ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° |
Aigi Margus is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, in the Invasion Biology Research Group under the supervision of Leena Lindström. Her research goal is to contribute to understanding the invasion success of the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) by studying adaptation to human-induced stressful environments. She will study changes in life-history and physiological traits as well as target site mutations to test if increased tolerance through human-induced stressors can promote invasions. Aigi has been developing the study materials related to competition, and to human impact on evolutionary processes. aigi.margus@jyu.fi ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° |
Anu Käppi joined the Evolution in Action team in spring 2020 and she started to work as a project coordinator. She produces materials for teachers and families together with other members of the team and she works as a workshop instructor. Anu has worked previously at the Natural History Museum of the University of Jyväskylä. She has worked as a museum guide for children, students and adults. Anu is interested in biodiversity, especially vascular plants. anu.m.kappi@jyu.fi ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° |
Michaela Casková is a visual artist, illustrator, art educator, nomadic gardener and friend. Michaela focuses on processes of connecting, sharing, doing, being and learning together. At the moment she works on different collaborative interdisciplinary projects focusing on environmental and diversity issues in times of climate change. In 2012 she received Master in Fine arts and two years later Masters in Art Education. As a board member of Mustarinda association she works since 2013 on projects “focused on sustainable values and lifestyle, ecological and cultural diversity, and different disciplines of art and science. The core activities of the association consist of independent and critical art, research and education.” Michaela joined the Evolution in Action team in 2019, and she has been producing the visual materials, our website and developing art-based exercises. evoluutiopajat@gmail.com www.naposedu.cz ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° |
Tiina Arjukka Hirvonen is an art educator and artist, dealing mainly with environmental topics and questions considering multispecies relations. She likes to mix both visual and embodied, dance-based practices as her methods, engaging with critical and participatory pedagogy.
Tiina has a graduated as Bachelor of Fine Art 2012, since studied dance and somatic practices, and also MA in Art Education in Aalto-University. She is an active member of Mustarinda association, working with projects intertwining art, science and ecological and cultural diversity. Tiina joined the Evolution in Action team in 2019, and her responsibility is introducing and developing art-based methods in the project. tiina.a.hirvonen@jyu.fi ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° |
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Emily Burdfield-Steel is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. Her research investigates how intra- and inter-specific species communication, particularly chemical communication, shapes evolutionary processes. She focuses on insect mating systems, looking both at how the use of multiple sensory modalities can influence the evolution of mating systems and how reproductive interference can occur and shape pheromone communication. Emily is now developing the workshops in the Netherlands. e.r.burdfieldsteel@uva.nl |