Professional Affiliation

Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Researcher, International UNESCO Chair, Social and Human Adaptation of the Arctic Regions to Climate Change and Globalization

Expert Bio

Lena-Ayaana Popova is from the village of Arylakh, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. She is a researcher at the International UNESCO Chair “Social and Human Adaptation of the Arctic Regions to Climate Change and Globalization”, North-Eastern Federal University. She graduated from the University of Paris-Saclay with Master in Arctic Studies and is doing her PhD in Geography at the University of Manitoba. Lena has a wide range of research interests that are intertwined with each other: remote sensing, traditional way of life, indigenous knowledge, climate change, social and economic development of the Arctic and spiritual culture. Lena is an alumnus of III Korea Arctic Academy, had internships at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Korea Polar Research Institute (Arctic Science Fellowship). She loves philosophy, sport and spending time in Nature.