Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

The University of Helsinki lead of the consortium is Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Professor of Indigenous Studies and Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies. She has extensive experience in Indigenous relational onto‑epistemologies and temporalities, Indigenous research methodologies and ethics, biocultural heritage and landscapes, Indigenous sustainabilities and Indigenous politics. She has held numerous positions of responsibility and has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Davis, Université Paris Nanterre, the University of São Paulo, and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia: Changing Lived Worlds (Palgrave, 2012), and co-editor of Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia (Colorado Univ. Press, 2017) and Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts (Brill Sense, 2021). She has led various research projects and has over 20 years of community‑based research experience in Amazonia.