CURRICULUM VITAE
Full names
- Vainio, Outi Elina
Date and place of birth
- 24th May 1964
- Laukaa, Finland
Current position
- Curator of Botany (phanerogams and bryophytes)
Kuopio Natural History Museum, since November 1997
Education and training
- Degree of Master of Science (M.Sc.), 1997
Department of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki
(including degrees in Systematical and Ecological Botany, Morfological and Ecological Zoology, Environmental Science, Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä)
- Matriculation Examination 1983
- Karstulan lukio (Higher Secondary School of Karstula)
Complementary training
- Course of Neotropical Flora, March-May 1997
- Course of Tropical Ecology/Development Co-operation, May–July 1997
- Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Previous major professional appointments
- Biologist
- National Forest Inventory (NFI) team, May–Oct 1995
- Research Assistant (Forest manigement and biodiversity)
- Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, July–Sep 1996
- Research Assistant (Effects of forest fragmentation on vegetation in the urban setting)
- Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, July–Sep 1997
- Research Assistant
- Botanical Garden, University of Helsinki, Aug–Dec 1995
- Research Assistant (Biodiversity and bryophyte flora of SE Asia)
- Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki, Jan–June 1996 and Dec 1996–Feb 1997
Major scientific expeditions
- 1995 British Columbia, Canada (Botanical Garden, University of Helsinki & Devonian Botanic Garden, University of Alberta, Edmonton)
- 1996 Tanzania, East Africa (Dept. of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki & University of Dar es Salaam)
- 1999–2000 Republic of Guinea, West Africa (ethnobotanical research of Wild Edible Plants in Guinea, West Africa)
- 2001 Eastern Karelia (Karelia onegensis), Russia
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