Team

​Carita Lindstedt is a team-leader of the project and currently a senior researcher at the University of Jyväskylä.  She aims to understand the role of natural selection in shaping the adaptive genetic and phenotypic variation in antipredator strategies. She studies the life-history costs of cooperative antipredator defences 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(at)jyu.fi ​
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​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.margus@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. ​

e.r.burdfieldsteel@uva.nl

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​Michaela Casková  is artist, illustrator, graphic designer and art educator focused on processes of connecting, sharing, doing, being and learning together. In 2012 she received Master in Fine arts and two years later Masters in Art Education. As an active member of Mustarinda association she works 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.”
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www.naposedu.cz 

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Tiina Arjukka Hirvonen is an art educator dealing mainly with environmental topics and questions considering non-human. In her work, she is interested to explore the sensory environment and the diversity of the ways of being on this planet. She likes to mix both visual and embodied, dance-based practices as her methods. Participatory and feminist pedagogy form a foundation for her way of working as an educator. She has worked with various education an public programmes in art museums, organisations and schools.
Tiina has graduated as a Bachelor of Fine Art from UCA Canterbury in 2012, since studied dance and somatic practices, and is currently working on her Art Education MA thesis in Aalto University. She is an active member of Mustarinda association, working with projects intertwining art, science and ecological and cultural diversity.  
 
tiina.a.hirvonen@jyu.fi