Associate Professor, Co-Innovating for Circular Solutions

mikko.jalas[at]aalto.fi

Mikko Jalas is an Associate professor of Co-Innovating for Circular Solutions. His research interests include sustainable consumption, time use and societal rhythms, as well as climate change mitigation and design for sustainability transformations.

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Senior Lecturer

tatu.marttila[at]aalto.fi

I'm a design teacher and researcher interested in how design activities can become an effectual part in facilitating sustainability transitions. With a background in industrial and strategic design and in new media, I'm currently working as a senior lecturer on Design for Sustainability at Department of Design in Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

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Postdoctoral researcher

gloria.lauterbach[at]aalto.fi

Gloria Lauterbach is an artistic researcher with a PhD in Arts from Aalto University. Gloria specializes on urban habitation strategies in times of polycrisis in general and the question on how to reconceptualize anthropogenic infrastructures (such as lighting infrastructures) in particular.

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Postdoctoral researcher

sara.lindeman[at]aalto.fi

Sara Lindeman conducts action research on ecological communication and decision-making. Her work explores how living systems principles can inform the emergence of societal infrastructures rooted in distributed, mutual learning. Through Leapfrog Projects, a think-and-do tank she co-initiated, she engages with both cultural transformation and technological experimentation. Her inquiry bridges systems innovation, collective intelligence, and the conditions for life-alignment in complex social systems. She is particularly interested in how multi-intelligence processes—including human and machine collaboration—can support regenerative forms of coordination, sense-making, and decision-making.

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Postdoctoral researcher

sini.numminen[at]aalto.fi

Sini is an Academy Research Fellow, working at NODUS with energy justice, energy markets and and energy transition issues. Sini holds a D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in Engineering Physics.

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Postdoctoral researcher

janne.olin[at]aalto.fi

Janne J. Olin is a postdoctoral researcher at the NODUS research group. His interdisciplinary work interweaves insights from fields such as futures, governance, cultural, organizational and science and technology studies to explore the politics of urban transformations.

Postdoctoral researcher

jenni.e.viitala[at]aalto.fi

Jenni Viitala is a postdoctoral researcher working on questions related to energy justice and energy vulnerability. A social and environmental anthropologist by training, Jenni’s research utilises qualitative methods such as ethnographic fieldwork. In addition to issues related to energy, Jenni’s work explores mineral extraction with a focus on how places and people are connected and disconnected through planetary supply chains.

Doctoral researcher

talvikki.kollmann[at]aalto.fi

Talvikki’s doctoral research explores how knowledge work is organized in post pandemic Finland. By exploring the hybrid work practices and experiences of Finnish knowledge workers, she uncovers what work designs emerge and will be needed long-term.

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Doctoral researcher

tomi.rantanen[at]aalto.fi

Tomi Rantanen’s research is focused on provoking gender equality transitions in music. He aims to discover how systemic design and transition arenas can facilitate change towards feminist futures.

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Doctoral researcher

delphine.rumo[at]aalto.fi

Delphine Rumo's doctoral research focuses on sustainable construction. In her research, she investigates communities of practice that restructure conventional economic spaces towards post-development economies.

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Doctoral researcher

saga.santala[at]aalto.fi

Saga-Sofia Santala's interdisciplinary doctoral research explores the potential of engaging close social communities in creating transitions towards more sustainable mobility practices. Through constructive design research in citizens' everyday lives, it demonstrates ways in which social communities shape (un)sustainable mobility practices and draws implications for socially informed mobility intervention design.

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Doctoral researcher
ida.urmas[at]aalto.fi

Ida Urmas‘s doctoral research focuses on the intersection of design, social justice and the bioeconomy. She examines how the dominant circular design and design-for-circularity frameworks either facilitate or hinder questions of social justice, particularly within the context of developing wood-based biofibres for use in the fashion industry.

Doctoral researcher

tommi.vasko[at]aalto.fi

Tommi Vasko is a researcher, designer, and organizer whose doctoral research examines live action role-playing in the context of the politics of sustainability transitions.

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