Biography

Pilvi works as Impact facilitator within the BAS Innovation team. Their main responsibilities revolve around identifying and developing Innovation and Impact work across BAS through project management and facilitation as well as community creation. Pilvi coordinates the BAS network of  Innovation Champions. This network brings together individuals across all areas of BAS, bringing forth topics and projects from the different priority areas of the BAS Innovation and Impact Strategy and encouraging inter-disciplinary thinking. Pilvi works collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders managing projects that sit on the outskirts of the BAS business-as-usual and has particular strengths in developing and delivering workshops and collaborations that unlock new opportunities and increase the impact of our expertise.

Before stepping into the current role, Pilvi managed the Aurora Innovation Centre & Collaboration Space as Front of House, supporting the core Innovation team as well as being part of the Executive Support team. Pilvi now manages the Innovation Administrator role who is in charge of the activities within the Aurora Innovation Centre. Pilvi’s responsibilities also include the management and strategic development of the space, and exploring opportunities for enabling new collaborations through the Aurora activities.

Particular areas of focus of current Innovation work are on enhancing innovation culture through inclusive culture-change, decarbonisation, horizon scanning for digital transformation (including all the hype words, AI, ML, research software engineering!) and new technologies for Polar Science. Beyond the project management nature of their role, Pilvi is interested in sustainable leadership and development, encouraging active cultural change with regards to equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as inclusive community building within the Polar community. Pilvi themself is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. #PolarPride

Pilvi is a member of the Diversity in UK Polar Research Initiative (DiPSI) steering group.