Joona Lehtomäki
Senior Specialist at Ympäristöministeriö - Miljöministeriet - Ministry of the Environment of Finland
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJoona Lehtomäki is a conservation biologist and Senior Specialist with 14 years of experience applying computational tools to inform conservation policy and planning at national and European scales. Based in Helsinki, he coordinates biodiversity research and the national biodiversity strategy for Finland, bringing deep expertise in conservation planning, GIS, and spatial optimization methods. His academic work—spanning a PhD and postdoctoral research—compares quantitative prioritization approaches and assesses trade-offs between biodiversity and ecosystem services across scales. A strong proponent of open science, he pairs practical policy engagement with hands-on skills in Python, R and Linux to make analyses reproducible and accessible to stakeholders. He has a track record of integrating expert elicitation and decision-analysis into large-scale programs and capacity-building for practitioners. Less obvious: he translates complex spatial models into usable guidance for planners, bridging rigorous research and real-world conservation action.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Conservation Biology, Passed, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Conservation Biology, Passed at University of HelsinkiMSc, Environmental Biology, MSc, Environmental Biology at Helsingin yliopistoSecondary school graduate, Secondary school graduate at Ressun Lukio
eglish, Swedish
Github Skills (86)
r-package10
finnish10
data-api10
cran10
r9
snakemake9
traits9
planning9
api8
noaa8
cdr8
spatial8
meteorology8
proj8
workflow-management8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cbig/zonation-tutorial
Aug 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:56 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
prioritizationspatialconservationconservation-prioritization
rOpenGov/fmi
Oct 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:231 commits, 7 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 11 months
r-packageapidata-apifinnishrstats
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