BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Daria Gritsenko is an Assistant professor at the Aleksanteri Institute and Helsinki Center for Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki (Finland). She holds a PhD in Political Science (2014) and a title of Docent in Environmental Policy (2018), both from the University of Helsinki. She specializes in policy studies with a focus on environment, energy, and sustainability. Her work falls under three large categories: shipping and global environmental challenges, Arctic sustainability, and digital transformation. She is an expert in mixed methods research, in particular combining computational social science and qualitative approaches. Her worked appeared in Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, Energy Research and Social Science, Transport Policy, Geoforum, Policy Studies Journal, and Regulation Governance. Her most recent research has targeted the digital transformation of the state and society in the light of the broader sustainability concerns. Gritsenko’s research has been funded among others by the Finnish Academy, NOS-HS, and the Fulbright Foundation. In 2017, Daria co-founded Digital Russia Studies (DRS), a scholarly network aimed at developing new ideas for combining data science and social sciences. In 2018-19, she was a Fellow of the prestigious Fulbright Arctic Initiative and a Visiting Scholar at the IERES (GWU), investigating pathways of renewable energy development in the Russian Arctic. In 2021, Daria Gritsenko was awarded Nils Klim Prize “for her outstanding research contributions in the intersection between political science, environmental studies and digital humanities”.
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor in Russian Big Data Methodology
EDUCATION
PhD in Political science, University of Helsinki, 2014
RESEARCH SPECIALITIES
ACADEMIC DEGREES
2018 Title of Docent in Environmental Policy
University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research
2014 Doctor of Social Science (eximia cum laude approbatur)
University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research
2009 Master of European Studies (with honors)
University of Hamburg, Europa-Kolleg-Hamburg
2008 Bachelor of Political Science (with honors)
St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philosophy
LINGUISTIC SKILLS
Mother tongue Russian
Other languages English, German, Finnish, Swedish
WORK EXPERIENCE
04/2015 – 12/2017 Postdoctoral fellow
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
01/2011 – 12/2017 Lecturer
Baltic Sea Region Studies program
University of Turku
04/2014 – 03/2015 Project researcher
Brahea Center, Center for Maritime Studies
University of Turku
01/2012 – 03/2014 Doctoral student
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
01/2010 – 12/2011 Doctoral student
Faculty of Social Science, University of Turku
02/2009 – 03/2009 Trainee
Hanse-Office Brussels
08/2007 – 09/2007 Trainee
Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs, Kiel
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
01/2019 – 03/2019 Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, USA
02/2017 Center for European Governance, University of Exeter, UK
06/2016 – 07/2016 Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
01/2016 – 02/2016 Center for Arctic Petroleum Exploration, University of Tromso, Norway
02/2015 Marine Studies Frontier Education Center, School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, Japan
04/2014 – 05/2014 Applied Economics Department, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
OTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2015 – 2017 Pedagogical training in teaching and learning in higher education acquired at the University of Helsinki
2010 – 2015 Advanced research methods, including quantitative methods, qualitative methods, and computation methods (diverse University courses and summer schools)
01/2008 – 09/2008 Project management, fund raising, marketing and communication for non-profit organizations at Robert-Bosch-Foundation Educational Program Freiwilligen Kolleg – Education for Civil Engagement (Berlin, Germany)
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Media appearance
Sharing Icebreakers between Industry and Research – o6 Sept 2017 – High North News, http://www.highnorthnews.com/sharing-icebreakers-between-industry-and-research/.
Warming Arctic spurs battles for riches, shipping routes – 23 Aug 2017 – Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/23/warming-arctic-spurs-battles-for-riches-shipping-routes.html.
For scientific publications, please check my Google Scholar profile.