Professor Jaana Bäck graduated in tree ecophysiology, and currently she works at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry as professor in Forest-atmosphere interactions and leads the Ecosystem processes research group. She is coordinating the Integrated European long-term ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecology research infrastructure (eLTER RI) projects in the Environmental RI domain of European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures and participating in the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure initiative GERI. She has published 162 peer review articles and her H index is 43 (Scopus).