Daniela Tommasini

Daniela Tommasini is originally from Friuli and lives in South Tyrol. She graduated in Political Science from Trieste and earned a PhD in Alpine Geography from Grenoble in 1992. She first set foot in Greenland in 1994 and has been there ever since. She was part of the research group at NORS (North Atlantic Regional Studies at Roskilde University) and, since 2014, of the Arctic Societies, Past, Present and Future research group at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Finland. From 2017 to 2019, she was a visiting scholar at the Arctic Science Center at Liaocheng University, Shandong, China. Her research interests include local development in remote communities, human-environment relationships, society and culture, adaptation to change in isolated communities, planning, and international relations. " In Groenlandia" is her first book.