Janne Alahuhta

Received research funding as a PI or Co-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 successful funding 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, Kvantum Institute of University of Oulu, and different national foundations with >2 M€ since 2006.

Evaluator in national academic or EU funding calls:

• Three times for national research councils and once for EU funding agency

Evaluator for Finnish scientific foundations:

• 'Anonymous foundation' (120 applications, 2023)

Pre-examiner of PhD thesis:

• Three times for different Finnish universities

Evaluator of MSc and BSc thesis:

• MSc: 32
• BSc: ~150

Associate Editor in the following academic journals:

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

Administrative duties:

• Line manager, 2023->
• President of the Geographical Society of Northern Finland, 2019-2021
• Custodian in PhD thesis defence
• Chairperson or member in different recruiting committees, University of Oulu
• 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
• Chairman or member in different follow-up groups, University of Oulu, 2016-present