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At the top of a tower in SMEARII field station, in Hyytiälä (Finland), around 1999.
Shortly about me
I have a background in biology and terrestrial ecology, with a degree from University of Barcelona and a Doctorate from the University of Helsinki. My field of expertise falls in the biogeosciences, particularly in the study of the atmosphere-biosphere exchange mechanisms. I have conducted research mainly in two fields: mechanistic understanding of ozone fluxes in boreal forests (Finland) and carbon cycle in mountain pastures (Pyrennes). I have a long working history related to flux-based ecological and physiological measurements, to which I added tools from functional ecology.
I decided to leave academic research definitively in 2015, because "if you leave and nobody stops you: keep walking". There is a book waiting to be written about this. I turned into what should have been my profession since my Biology degree: scientific illustration.
I have been employed 2017-2021 at INAR, at the University of Helsinki, as a Research Coordinator that focuses on visual communication, I like to call myself Graphics Officer. I worked 60% so that I have time to learn new skills.
I have currently no affiliation in academia and work as a freelancer. More about this here.
Research Keywords
Research Keywords
atmosphere-biosphere, ozone, carbon, green-house-gases, Scots pine, mountain pastures, enclosure flux measurements, eddy-covariance, field protocols, plant functional ecology.
Personal details
I was born in 1971 in Barcelona. I'm married and mother of two (2006, 2009). Currenty living in Turku, Finland.
Contact
nuria.altimir@gmail.com, for general matters.
contact@nuriaaltimir.com, for collaboration as a scientific illustrator.
Please note that nuria.altimir@helsinki.fi and nuria.altimir@ctfc.cat are not active.
In this website
This page lists my academic and professional activities as a scientific researcher: since I started University studies in Barcelona, including the period as a PhD student in Finland, and ending with things done during the PostDoc period. My scientific career finished de facto (no financing) in mid-2013, and I consciously stopped pursuing that career path since 2015. Nonetheless, I continued producing scientific output -for various reasons- still many years after and these are also included here.
This website gives you the facts about my life during the time I was student and researcher in the academy. For indexes, stats, scores and other formats go to googlescholar or researchgate. Find me also at LinkedIn.
First time publised: 2013. Last update: 26.5.2021.
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