Group manager
Doctor of Science (Technology)
© Luukas Myller
Contact information
Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Tel. +358 295 251 411
Skype: mika.marttunen
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Built environment solutions
Water risks
Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
Present role
I am a group leader of Water Management and Governance group in Freshwater Centre.
Background
From my background education I am a civil engineer. In 2011, I completed my doctoral thesis for Aalto University, Systems Analysis Laboratory. In the thesis, I summarised 20 years experiences of applying Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in participatory water resources management.
I have been a project manager in many nationally important water resources management projects and participated EU working group which developed guidelines to heavily modified waterbodies. I have organised training courses related to the use of MCDA in environmental planning and decision making in Georgia and Laos.
Current research interests
In 2015-2016 I worked as a senior researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Water and Technology (Eawag) in the Decision Analysis cluster. During this period I was able to deepen my understanding about MCDA and particularly how problem structuring phase in MCDA can be improved.
- Improving environmental planning with portfolio decision analysis (2019-2023, Academy of Finland)
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Water security and resilience, Winland-project (2016-2019)
- Cognitive biases and risk attitudes in the operative watercourse regulation and environmental planning
- Problem structuring in messy problems
Publications
I have published more than 20 peer reviewed articles from several topics including problem structuring methods, environmental MCDA applications, environmental impact assessments, participatory planning methods and adaptive management.