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Jaana Kaarina Bäck (b. 1961) is a Finnish plant ecologist who works as a professor of forest-atmosphere interactions at the University of Helsinki. She has been a member of the Finnish nature panel (2020–2023).


Life and work

Bäck graduated from the
University of Kuopio The University of Eastern Finland () is a university in Finland, which was founded in 2010 and has campuses in Joensuu and Kuopio. History The Finnish Parliament passed the Universities Act on June 16, 2009, which, among other things, extended ...
with a M.Sc. in Environmental Science in 1985. She continued to study for a doctor of philosophy from the
University of Oulu The University of Oulu () is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 14,200 students and 3,800 staff. 21 International Master's Programmes are offer ...
in 1994 in the field of plant ecology. Bäck's 1994 English dissertation looked at the effect of acid precipitation on the needles of pine and spruce and on the cold resistance of trees. The dissertation was titled ''Effects of acidic Precipitation on Scots pine and Norway spruce needles and their low temperature Tolerance''. Bäck has been a docent of plant ecophysiology at the University of Oulu since 1998 and a docent of forest-atmosphere interaction at the
University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...
since 2010. Bäck worked as a researcher at the University of Oulu and the Academy of Finland (1985–1996). After completing her thesis, she was an assistant in plant ecology at the University of Oulu (1995–1998). She was a postdoc researcher at the
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(1998–2004). She spent 15 months as a postdoctoral researcher in the United States at
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in California and
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's Boyce Thompson Institute for Research in New York. She was a researcher at the Department of Forestry at the University of Helsinki (2004–2006) and a research coordinator at the Department of Physics (2007–2012). She has served as a professor of forest-atmosphere interaction since August 2013. In 2017, Bäck received the Pro Scientia award when it was given by the
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for the first time. The Prize is awarded for work that "significantly promoted the status of science in society." It is given out every other year and is valued at 10,000 euros. In 2021 she was named a Knight, First Class, of the
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