Paula Kivimaa is Research Professor of Climate and Society in the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Associate at Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, and a member of the Finnish Climate Panel. Her research focuses on sustainability transitions to zero-carbon energy systems in particular from the perspective of how public policy (climate, energy, transport, innovation) contributes to such transitions. She has examined how new energy innovations emerge, and how the energy transition affects public institutions. She currently conducts an Academy of Finland Fellowship project on Interplay between National Defence, Security and Low-Carbon Energy Policies: a Sustainability Transitions Perspective. She has published circa 60 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to reports, policy briefs and responses addressed to EU, Finnish and UK policymakers, including a report “Sustainability transitions: policy and practice” feeding into the State of the European Environment Report, published by the EEA. She has been invited to contribute to scientific expert groups supporting initiatives at the OECD, European Commission and the Finnish government. She holds an MSc in Environmental Technology (Imperial College, 2002) and a PhD in Organisations and Management (Helsinki School of Economics, 2008).
