Janne Alahuhta

Received research funding as a PI or Co-PI:

• Netplants: Development of a website and database on inland water aquatic plants and water quality worldwide, 2026-2036, funded by the North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund (PI)
• Unraveling the effects of contemporary and historical changes in climate and land use on freshwater biodiversity in high-latitude regions of Europe and North America, 2025-2028, funded by the Kvantum Institute, University of Oulu (PI)
• Longitudinal associations between objectively measured and perceived Residential Environmental features, individual Physical Activity behavior patterns and health – population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohort studies 1966 and 1986 (REPACT), 2023-2027, funding for sport science research projects from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture via the Academy of Finland (Co-PI)
• Exploring geographical mismatch between supply and demand of ecosystem services using big and open source data across high latitudes (AccESS), 2021-2024, funded by the Kvantum Institute, University of Oulu (PI)
• Improved geodiversity information in assessing and conserving biodiversity (iGEOBIO), 2019-2023, funded by the Academy of Finland (PI)
• Temporal changes in aquatic vegetation and the underlying ecological variables during the past century, 2016, funded by the Wihuri Foundation (PI)
• Biogeographical processes, characteristics of aquatic ecosystems and niche conservatism at broad scales, 2012, funded by the Kone Foundation (PI)

Participation in successfully funded research applications for a research group and by collaborators (excluding research funding as a PI or Co-PI)

• Several projects related to different research topics, such as nature positive business models, geodiversity-biodiversity relationships in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, and taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity patterns of lake plants and stream macroinvertebrates, funded by the Research Council of Finland, European Regional Development Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, the BBVA Foundation, Kvantum Institute of University of Oulu, and different national foundations with >4 M€ since 2006.

Evaluator of research proposals in national academic or EU funding calls:

• Four times for national research councils (Estonia, Netherlands, Poland and Czechia) and once for EU funding agency (1 proposal/call)
• 'Anonymous Finnish science foundation' (120 applications, 2023)

Opponent/pre-examiner of PhD thesis:

• Opponent: once for a Finnish university (2026)
• Pre-examiner: three times for different Finnish universities (in 2016, 2020, 2023)

Associate Editor in the following academic journals (only current):

• Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
• Journal of Ecology

Administrative duties:

• Line manager, 2023-
• Representative of the Faculty of Science in the preparation group of the Research Assessment Exercise of University of Oulu, 2025-2027
• Deputy member of Doctoral Programme Committee for Technology and Natural Sciences in UniOGS graduate school, 2024-
• Member of Geography Research Unit’s steering group, University of Oulu, 2022-
• Deputy member of Faculty Board, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu, 2018-2021
• President of the Geographical Society of Northern Finland, 2019-2021
• Chairman or member in different follow-up groups, University of Oulu, 2016-