I study the political ecology of forests, with a particular focus on knowledge, and global timber supply chains. As a researcher in forest policy and sustainability science, I am interested in how environmental governance, timber trade, and carbon markets shape both ecosystems and the people who depend on them — from the forests of Finland to the Congo Basin.
My work explores the intersections of epistemological and economic inequalities within the forest sector, especially in Cameroon, Sweden, Finland and the Democratic Republic of Congo. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Forest Sciences (University of Helsinki). I am also a member of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and the Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ). My current project, supported by the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, examines biodiversity literacy in the global timber trade.
Previously, I worked at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), where my research focused on gender and forest policy in Sweden. Across my research, I am driven by questions of justice, silence & visibility, and power: whose knowledge counts in environmental governance, who benefits from global forest economies, and what remains unseen within sustainability narratives.
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