My Doctoral thesis integrates novel citizen science and geospatial methods for climate adaptation actions. The research is impact-driven and complies with Open Science principles, meaning that all research methods, data, and results are aimed to be useful, useable and used for climate actions in cities. My geographical research profile has strongly been in African countries, most prominently in Tanzania where UTU Department of Geography and Geology have long history of collaboration with universities.

In practice, my Doctoral research developes novel integrated citizen science and geospatial methodology that can be deployed to collect critically missing climate-related data and information on neighborhood-scale, to reveal citizens' climate adaptation needs, and to seek concrete solution pathways. The methodology has been now piloted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. However, validation is needed by scaling the methodology to another urban context, for example in Turku (Finland). Scaling must take into consideration different social and cultural settings, climate stressors that are relevant for the city, as well as needs and characteristics for data, information, and climate actions.