My teaching

This is a collection of courses in which I have participated in different forms.

Interdisciplinary Summer School

Role: Teacher coordinator
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, and material creation [1 week, July 2023]
Teaching institution: COST Action. European Union
More information: In this web
Teaching materials: Available in github

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Role: Teacher coordinator
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, material creation, and grading
Teaching institution: ETH Zurich [Spring semester course: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024]

BSc-Seminar “Wald und Landschaft”

Role: Teacher coach
Responsibilities: teacher coach
Teaching institution: ETH Zurich [Autumn semester course: 2020, 2021, 2022]

Quantitative Vegetation Dynamics

Role: Lab assistant
Responsibilities: Lab assistant
Teaching institution: ETH Zurich [Autumn semester course: 2020]

ACADEMIC SKILLS IN FOREST SCIENCES

Role: Teacher coordinator
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, material creation and grading
Teaching institution: School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland

Course description

Do you want to be confident in academic presentations? Do you want to write a clear master thesis? Do you want to learn about science communication? This course is for you!Upon successful completion of this course the students will be able to effectively communicate scientific knowledge when interacting with different audiences and using a variety of communication tools including traditional and ICT-based tools (e.g. blogs) and have solid grounding for thesis and academic paper writing, as well as for presenting scientific findings orally. The mode of study is based on lectures and interactive sessions on communication and presentation techniques (20 h); practicals – individual oral presentation, and group work on other communication methods (wiki, blog, or others).

Resources:
– Course page 3513061
– Course wiki

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Role: Teacher assistant
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, material creation.
Teaching institution: School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland

Course description

Upon a successful completion of this course, the students are expected to be able to understand the principles of research methodology in forestry, taking into account the research issue and objective formulation as well as choosing an appropriate research approach, experimental set-up, and sampling technique. The students will be able to understand basic biometric and ecosystem modeling concepts, and to apply basic commands of R statistics to model and analyse the collected data. In addition, the students will be able to critically evaluate accuracy, error types, and reproducibility of research results. Finally, they will understand the basic concepts in Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing techniques, and use the basic GIS software to solve spatial problems, and perceive the potential for forestry-related research.

Resources:
– Course page 3513061

Class Notes:
– Other response variables notes

SUPPLY AND ENERGY USE OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS UPCOMING DATES: COMING SOON.

Role: Teacher assistant
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, material creation.
Teaching institution: School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland

Course description

How we produce energy from biomass? This course show you how!

Upon a successful completion of this course, the students will have obtained knowledge and skills to understand the basis of biomass supply, energy production, engineering processes and technologies involved. The students will be familiar with the production aspects of various forms of biomass, including forest and agricultural residues, biomass plantations and peat. Supply, production, current use and utilization limitations, as well as the technologies related to energy production and conversion on a sustainable basis. The students will be able to handle basic research tools concerning biomass supply and use, as well as the use of the different technologies associated with the management, harvesting, transport, conversion and energy production.

Resources:
– Course page 3513129

BIOENERGY MARKETS AND POLICIES

Role: Teacher assistant
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, material creation.
Teaching institution: School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland

Course description

If you want to understand the forces and barriers for bioenergy markets development. This course is for you!

Upon a successful completion of this course, the students have obtained knowledge and skills for analyzing the development of the driving forces and barriers of the expanding bioenergy markets at local, national and international level as well as for understanding the bioenergy-related policies and governance processes. The student must be able to handle basic tools of market analysis and trade, and have an understanding of the limitations and effects of the policy frameworks on the introduction and development of bioenergy. The student must understand the demands and needs of the consumers and the role of the European Union and the member states in the decision making and in the promotion of bioenergy.

Resources:
– Course page 3513019

DATA SCIENCE SEMINARS

This is a collection of notes that I started developing for the data science seminar that I organised in the spring of 2018, it is a work in progress so you might find several errors (sorry about that) I will keep working on improving them:

Class Notes:
– Notes (a work in progress)
– Introduction to advance plotting and maps with R
– Merge, intro to optimization with R and variable transformation

INTEGRATING RISK INTO FOREST MANAGEMENT

Role: Guest teacher (Erasmus+ teacher exchange)
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, material creation.
Teaching institution: School of Forest Sciences, Vigo University (Pontevedra, Spain)

SCIENTIFIC WRITING AND PRESENTATIONS. VIGO UNIVERSITY, PONTEVEDRA, SPAIN. DECEMBER 2017

RISK MANAGEMENT IN FORESTRY: NATURAL DISTURBANCES. UEF. 2015

Role: Guest teacher
Responsibilities: Planning, teaching, material creation.
Teaching institution: School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland