Former Scholars & Visitors

Titta K Kotilainen – Now Senior Scientist with Luke – Finnish Natural Resources Institute
Post Doc Researcher 2015-2018 Researching light conditions in greenhouses and under polytunnels, developing and validating site-specific modelled solar irradiance to work along varying conditions and environments.
Jakub Nezval – Biochemist at the University of Ostrava.
	Visiting Post Doc, 2013, 2014 & 2016. Communication by parent and ramets as evidence for light foraging in strawberries under a patchy UV radiation.
Marieke Trasser – Now PhD Student with the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
Graduate Research Assistant at Lammi Biological Station (March – August 2017) Master’s Exchange Student (University of Montpelier) Photoreceptor mediated responses to UV radiation and blue light in the forest understorey and under controlled conditions.
Santa Neimane – Now University of Riga (University of Helsinki Webpage)
	Graduate Research Assistant (Sept 2016 – Dec 2017) Researching spectral quality effects on the photodegradation of autumn leaves from trees during their senescence.

PhD Exchange; Nov 2014, Feb & Nov 2015 The role of seasonal atmospheric pollution in manipulating spectral composition of sunlight for plants growing in affected areas of Ostrava.
Antti Takolander – Completed PhD in Ecology (Helsinki University Webpage)
	University of Helsinki Research Trainee 2012 Fitness related traits of European beech provenances growing beyond their northern range limit in Helsinki
Alexander Chatelet – Polytechnic Clarmont Ferrand
Master Exchange Student 2011 Effects of water stress and shade/sun environmental treatments on seedlings of two Nothofagus species
Virva Lyytikainen – University of Aberdeen (Research Assistant in Helsinki 2018)	Effects of spacing and variety on leaf optical properties and spectral irradiance penetrating a wheat canopy.
Pasi Pouta – Undergraduate Trainee at the University of Helsinki (Research Assistant in the French Alps, 2015)	Temporal patterns in leaf pigmentation under forest canopies and under high solar irradiance in the sub-alpine zone.
Paulina Mastalerz – University College Cork, (Erasmus Exchange Honours, Summer 2014)	The effects of different light qualities on the growth, development and pigment content of wild strawberries (Fragaria vesca)
Rozenn Pineau – Honours Exchange Student (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)	Research Internship at Lammi Biological Station – Effects of simulated herbivory on leaf pigments and flavonoids in Sorbus aucuparia (rowen/mountain ash) with northerly or southerly exposure.