CV Kirsti Jylhä
Fields of expertise
Climate variability and change
Scenarios and impacts of climate change
Extreme weather events
Climate change communication
Projects
FINSCAPES (funded by Academy of Finland), "Finnish Scenarios for Climate Change Research Addressing Policies, Regions and Integrated Systems", consortium partner leader, 2021–2024
HEATCLIM (funded by Academy of Finland), "HEAT and health in the changing CLIMate", consortium partner leader, 2020–2023
PREDICT (funded by VYR), "Predicting extreme weather and sea level for nuclear power plant safety", project leader, 2019-2022
University and other degrees
2016: Docent (meteorology), University of Helsinki
2001: PhD (meteorology), University of Helsinki
Previous professional appointments
2014–2017: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Service Centre: senior research scientist
2000–2013: Finnish Meteorological Institute: senior research scientist in climate change; head of Climate Research group in 2004-2007; head of Climate Research and Applications group in 2010
1998–2000: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research: senior research scientist
1984–1998: Dep. of Meteorology, University of Helsinki: laboratory director (acting), teaching lecturer, researcher, radar meteorologist, research assistant
1981–1985: Finnish Meteorological Institute: weather service assistant, weather technician, meteorologist, scientist (18 months)