University of Helsinki (UH) - Finland
Juha Helenius, professor emeritus, served as the chair of agroecology in University of Helsinki 1996-2024. He works as research director and PI for sustainable food systems in Ruralia Institute of the university, and as program director for the Strategic Research program Towards a Sustainable, Healthy and Climate-Neutral Food System (FOOD, 2019-2025). He affiliates as PI to HELSUS Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. Recently with his research group, he has studied circularity in food systems, distributed food production and processing systems called Agroecological Symbioses (AES), and food systems based on networks of AES. His group, now led by Dr Kari Koppelmäki, works in close collaboration with Farming Systems Ecology (WUR, NL).