CV

Lucinda Kraufvelin

Education

Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo, Finland
Ph.D. Researcher, Environmental and Marine Biology, 2021–2026 (expected)
M.S., Environmental and Marine Biology, 2021
B.S., Environmental and Marine Biology, 2019

Language Skills

  • First language: Swedish
  • Fluent: English
  • Good: Finnish

Employment

Åbo Akademi University, Finland

  • PhD Researcher, Environmental and Marine Biology, 2021–2026
  • Project Assistant, May–September 2021
  • Intern, May–June 2019

Solbergstrand Research Station, Norway

  • Field Assistant, August & October 2019
  • Field Assistant, August 2018

Hangö Gymnasium, Finland

  • Substitute Teacher (Biology & Geography), August 2017
  • Substitute Teacher (Biology & Geography), November 2016

Conference Talks and Posters

OSM, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland

23–27 February 2026
Poster presentation: Marine heatwaves in the Archipelago Sea: Coping mechanisms

OSM, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland

23–27 February 2026
Poster presentation: Long-term ocean warming restructures coastal food webs: Using experimental mesocosms as tools for predicting future ecosystem changes

ISS, International Seaweed Symposium, Victoria, Canada

4–9 May 2025
Oral presentation: Future ocean warming negatively impacts coastal facilitation: The decline of a key foundation species

EMBS, European Marine Biology Symposium, Napoli, Italy

16–20 September 2024
Oral presentation: Warming simplifies marine ecological networks through losses in trophic and non‑trophic interactions

ASLO, Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

4–9 June 2023
Poster presentation: Mesocosm experiments reveal heatwave‑driven food web simplification

AURA Symposium, Aboa Universities Research Advances Symposium, Åbo, Finland

30-31 March 2023
Oral presentation: Mesocosm experiments reveal heatwave‑driven food web simplification

AURA Symposium, Aboa Universities Research Advances Symposium, Online

8-9 April 2021
Oral presentation: Identification of marine heatwaves in the Archipelago Sea and experimental testing of their impacts on the non-indigenous Harris mudcrab

International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE), Online

21–24 September 2021
Oral presentation: Identification of marine heatwaves in the Archipelago Sea and experimental testing of their impacts on the non-indigenous Harris mudcrab

Research Funding and Grants

  • SÅA, Adolf Fr. Nordmans stipendiefond — 1279 €, 2024
  • Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica — 2000 €, 2024
  • AQUACOSM+ HeatWebs 2 (PI), travel grant, 2023
  • AQUACOSM+ HeatWebs (PI), travel grant, 2022
  • Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, MSc grant — 1250 €, 2020
  • Svenska kulturfonden: Svenska Studiefonden — 600 €, 2020
  • Victoriastiftelsen, MSc grant — 750 €, 2020

Teaching Experience

Field and lab assistant

  • Ecological Analysis II (5 ECTS), ÅAU — Spring 2022
  • Practical Introduction to Ecology (5 ECTS), ÅAU

Presentation

  • Ecological Analysis II (5 ECTS), ÅAU

Supervision and Leadership

  • Co-supervisor of MSc thesis — ÅAU
  • Co-supervisor of BSc thesis — ÅAU (multiple)
  • Internship supervision — ÅAU / GEOMAR
  • Internship mentoring — ÅAU
  • Oversight of BSc and MSc student sampling campaigns, ÅAU

Years: 2021–2024 (detailed timeline available on request)