Dr. Susanne Kortsch

University researcher & Academy fellow

susanne.kortsch@helsinki.fi

University of Helsinki
Finland

Employment

University researcher
2023-                                                       University of Helsinki, Finland

University project researcher
2023-2023                                                  Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Postdoctoral fellow
2020-2022                                                 University of Helsinki, Finland

Postdoctoral fellow
2017-2020                                                 Åbo Akademi University, Finland

University project researcher
2016-2017                                                 UiT the Arctic University of Norway

Education

PhD in marine ecology                                UiT Arctic University of Norway
2012-2016                                         Supervisors: Raul Primicerio and Michaela Aschan
PhD Thesis: Marine food-web structure and community patterns in high-latitude marine ecosystems

Teaching

2021                                                            Ecology Field Course (Digital), 15 ECTS

2019                                                            Functional Ecology, 10 ECTS

Other research outputs

Development and contributions to software, teaching material, tutorials and R packages can be found on my github account, click here


Supervision of PhD students

Buse Hacer Uysaler
2024-                                              PhD thesis, University of Helsinki, Finland

Lucinda Kraufvelin
2022-                                              PhD thesis, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Patrick Staahl
2020-                                             MSc & PhD thesis, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Mentoring of PhD students

Andreas Novotny
2018-2021                                         PhD thesis, Stockholm University, Sweden

Pierre Olivier
2017-2021                                         PhD thesis, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Supervision of Msc students

Riitta-Liisa H. Ilvonen
2024-                                             MSc thesis, University of Helsinki, Finland

Tatiana Klein
2024-                                             MSc thesis, University of Helsinki, Finland

Maria Agullo Samper
2024-                                             MSc thesis, University of Helsinki, Finland

Miri Dahlbacka
2024-                                             MSc thesis, University of Helsinki, Finland

Patrick Staahl
2020-2022                                             MSc thesis, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Amalia Keck
2017-2019                                         MSc, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

Kim Scherrer
2014-2016                                         MSc, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

Funding grants apart from PhD and Postdocs

2020               Heat-selected benthic food webs - collapse or potential
                       project funded by AQUACOSM-plus in collaboration GEOMAR Kiel

2019               Climate-driven regime shifts in arctic rocky-bottom communities: Causation and implications for ecosystem functioning
                       project funded by the FRAM centre in Tromsoe, Norway

2017               6-month full-time working stipend
                       funded by the Fjord and Coast Flagship of the Fram Centre, Tromsø

2016               5-month transition grant after complection of the PhD
                       funded by the UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

References

Marie Nordström
              University researcher, Åbo Akademi University
              Marie.Nordstrom@abo.fi

Raul Primicerio
              Professor, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
              raul.primicerio@uit.no

Tomas Roslin
              Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
              Senior Lecturer, University of Helsinki
              tomas.roslin@helsinki.fi