Anna Niia Varfolomeeva

I am an environmental anthropologist specializing in human–resource relations and post-industrial transformations in the Arctic. My current project explores the impacts of energy transition on human-landscape relations in northern Finland. In 2024, this project received an expenditure grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. I am now extending my research into the field of digital infrastructures.

Before joining the University of Oulu in 2023, I held positions as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Indigenous Sustainabilities at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and as a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Tyumen in Siberia. I received my PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University (Budapest and Vienna).

I currently serve as Secretary of the Social and Human Working Group at the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), and as a Steering Committee member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility.