I am an environmental social scientist studying how Northern communities live with and after resource infrastructures — from mines and hydropower to wind energy and cloud technologies.

I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Biodiverse Anthropocenes program, University of Oulu (Finland). I am also a researcher in the project REBOUND: Reconceptualizing Boundaries Together Towards Resilient and Just Arctic Future(s) (2023-2029). Before that, I completed a postdoctoral project on Indigenous Sustainabilities at the University of Helsinki.

My PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy is from Central European University (2019), after which I spent a year as a fixed-term Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the School of Advanced Studies in Siberia.

Passionate about all things Arctic, I serve as Secretary of the Social and Human Working Group at the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC).

Informally, I also go by Ania (or in Veps, An’a). I grew up in Karelia, surrounded by Finno-Ugrian culture, with Veps as my heritage language. Looking back, I believe my passion for ethnographic research and for the North originates in these early experiences.