Anna (Ania) Varfolomeeva

I am an environmental social scientist specializing in human–resource relations in the Arctic and Siberia. My current postdoctoral research explores the impacts of wind energy and hydropower development on more-than-human landscapes in northern Finland. In 2024, this project received an expenditure grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Before joining the University of Oulu in 2023, I held positions as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Indigenous Sustainabilities at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tyumen in Siberia. I received my PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University (Budapest and Vienna).

I currently serve as Secretary of the Social and Human Working Group at the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), and as a Steering Committee member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility.