Dr Teija Tiilikainen (Coordinator) is the Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. In the PROBALT project, her team is responsible for carrying out WP1 and WP3 when it comes to the involvement of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden, and the regional level, in the Baltic Sea protection.

Email. teija.tiilikainen@fiia.fi

Elena Belokurova (Principle Scientist) is senior professor of European politics and regional development of the Russian North-West at the European University of St Petersburg. Her research interests include cooperation between the European Union and Russia in different fields, with a special emphasis on the regional and local dimensions. In PROBALT, she is responsible for the coordination of the project at the European University at St. Petersburg. Her team is responsible for carrying out WP1 and WP3 when it comes to the involvement of Russia, Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions in particular, in the Baltic Sea protection.

Belokur@eu.spb.ru

Christian Wellmann (Principle Scientist) is temporarily Acting Head of Division after having been Deputy Director and Research Co-ordinator of SHIP, a State financed facility for practically oriented research and dissemination at present in the process of being transformed from an institute affiliated to Kiel University into a Division of the University's Institute of Social Sciences. Guided by the perspective of conflict prevention his research interests cover conflict and co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region and EU-Russia relations in general with a special emphasis on region-building, transnational civil society co-operation and developments concerning Russia's Baltic Kaliningrad exclave. In the PROBALT project his team is responsible for WP1 and WP3 when it comes to the involvement of Germany and the European Union.

                                 

    E-mail: Wellmann@frieden.uni-kiel.de

Markku Ollikainen (Principle Scientist), is a Professor of environmental and resource economics, Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki. Markku Ollikainen leads WP 2 and, in addition to water quality trading, works on a wide array of environmental topics related to the Protection of the Baltic Sea. They include international agreements, water quality trading at the sea and in catchment areas, other incentive mechanisms to reduce nutrient such as competitive bidding and the issues of non-point source pollution.

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Sami Hautakangas, Doctoral Student, Master of Social Sciences (Economics), Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki. Sami Hautakangas works as a researcher in WP2. He examines the possibilities of applying water quality trading as a means of reducing nutrients (phosphorus and nitrogen) in the Baltic Sea.

  Contact info:

  Email: Sami.Hautakangas@helsinki.fi

Maria Jokela is a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and a doctoral student at the University of Tampere . She graduated in International Relations from the University of Lapland in 2008. Her research interests include Baltic Sea regional development issues, environmental politics, energy security and in Russian-EU energy relations. Previously she has also experience in Barents regional cooperation issues. In the PROBALT she will contribute to WP1 and WP3.

Dmitry Nechiporuk is a researcher at the Center for European studies, EUSP. He graduated from the Pskov State Teachers' Training Institute in 2001, department of history. He studied as post-graduate student at the Russian State Pedagogical University, Department of Social and Economics Sciences, and in European University at St. Petersburg. He is expected to defend his PhD thesis in September 2009. In the PROBALT, he will be responsible for the empirical part of the work and the whole analytical work on the regional dimensions (including Kaliningrad).

 Contact info:

Email: Dnechiporuk@eu.spb.ru

Maria Nozhenko is a political scientist and a research fellow at the Center for European studies, EUSP. In the PROBALT project, she will be responsible for the Russian federal policy discourse analysis.

  Contact info:

  Email: Nozhenko@eu.spb.ru

Mia Pihlajamäki is a researcher and a PhD candidate at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She graduated from the University of Southampton with a BSc in marine sciences in 2003 and from the University of Tampere with an MSc in environmental policy in 2008. Her research interests cover the linkage between science and policy. In the PROBALT project, she will contribute to WP1 and WP3.

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Tom Schumacher graduated in 1994 at the University of Frankfurt/Main and received a Ph.D. in Political Sciences at Humboldt-University in Berlin in 1998. In 2000 he became founding chairman of the Berlin based Research Group for Northern European Politics. His research interests cover European Integration, German foreign policy and regional cooperation within Northern and Northeastern Europe. In the PROBALT project he is conducting the case studies, which examine Germany's and the EU's marine environment protection policies for the Baltic Sea.

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Paula Schönach is a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She graduated in 2003 from the University of Helsinki (Environmental Protection Science) and received a Ph. D. in Environmental Policy in 2008 from the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include environmental policy and environmental history. In the PROBALT project, she conducts the case study concerning Sweden’s Baltic Sea protection policie

Contact info:

Dr. Paula Schönach (on parental leave)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Kruunuvuorenkatu 4

00161 Helsinki, Finland

Tel: +358 9 432 7762

Fax: +358 9 4327 799

E-mail: Paula.Schonach@fiia.fi

 

 

Nina Tynkkynen is a post doctoral researcher in environmental policy at the University of Tampere, and has also been working at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She received a Ph.D in administrative sciences at the University of Tampere in 2008. Her research interests cover international environmental politics and regional environmental cooperation. In the PROBALT project she is contributing to the WP1 in particular.

 

Contact info:

Dr. Nina Tynkkynen

Department of Regional Studies
FI-33014 University of Tampere
FINLAND

 

Tel.  +358400562 522

Fax. +358 3 3551 7311

Email: Nina.Tynkkynen@uta.fi