Nathan Lillie is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and previously worked as an Associate Professor of International Business at University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. He received his PhD in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. Among other projects, he has been the Principle Investigator for Transnational Work and the Evolution of Sovereignty, an European Research Consortium funded project on precarious work, which ran from 2011-2014, investigating the way in which worker posting as a form of labour migration is undermining labour standards regulation on construction sites, and at other workplaces around Europe. He has published numerous books, articles and book chapters on topics ranging from international collective bargaining for seafarers, to transnational cooperation between labour inspection bodies, to the ways in which the erosion of state sovereignty and cosmopolitan citizenship affect industrial relations and labour rights. His work has appeared in such migration studies journals such as the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, in political science journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Common Market Studies, and industrial relations journals such as Work Employment and Society and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. His current research interests are precarious work, labour inspection, social dialogue & bargaining theory, labour market integration of migrants, migrant labour rights, posted work, free movement in the European Union, and trade union strategies. His most recent publication is an editorial article together with Markku Sippola in Transfer on social insurance access for temporary migrant workers in the European Union.
Sarah Tornberg is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy. She has participated in a multidisciplinary research project focusing on techno-scientific promises of SMRs, in the field of environmental Sociology. Her dissertation research is centered around EGRUiEN research topics and she supports the JYU PI in coordinating research collaboration.
Farid Karimi is a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University Jyväskylä. His main research interests are issues related to the energy transition, climate change, energy security, and energy politics.
Farid has several years of international work experience in various interdisciplinary fields, both in and outside academia. He has worked at Novia University of Applied Sciences in Finland, the University of Greifswald in Germany, Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in Finland, and at the European Patent Office in the Netherlands, among others. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki.
Anu Kettunen works as a project manager of the project. She provides administrative support for the PIs and the consortium.
