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Dr. Hanna Helander

Dr. Hanna Helander

Lecturer and Course Coordinator Environmental and Sustainability Sciences

Acting during parental leave

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Dr. Hanna Helander is Lecturer and Course Coordinator for Environmental and Sustainability Sciences (acting during parental leave). She has an interdisciplinary background in human-environment interactions from a systems perspective. She is currently also working on bioeconomy monitoring and environmental footprint accounting as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kassel, Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Freiburg where she worked in an interdisciplinary research group on the societal transition to a circular economy. Her MSc is from Uppsala University in Sweden, where she studied civil engineering in socio-technical systems.

  • 2022–2025 Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel.
  • 2017–2022 Researcher at the Chair for Social Transition and Circular Economy, University of Freiburg.
  • 2016 Master of Science in Civil Engineering in Sociotechnical Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden.
  • 2016 Bachelor of Science in Sociotechnical Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden.