Guro Lovise Hole Fisktjønmo is research fellow as NIKU. She holds a master’s degree in biology from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and have worked interdisciplinary with both research and management.

The PhD project is a part of the ERC founded project “From small-scale cooperative herding groups to nomadic empires – a cross-cultural approach (Complexity)”. In the project she will study nomadic pastoralists in Mongolia whit a focus on how evolutionary mechanisms influence cooperation. By comparing different pastoral societies across different parts of the world, the project will have a cross-cultural aspect.

In her master thesis, Guro how resource allocation between generations can be manipulated. She has previously worked as both a field assistant and an adviser at NIKU where she focused on interdisciplinary research located in the intersection between social sciences and ecology. She has worked traditional knowledge among salmon fishers along The Tana River (Tana River) and with cooperation among Saami reindeer herders (Hierarchies).

Guro has previously worked as an adviser at County Governor of Troms and Finnmark with management of the Saami reindeer husbandry and what consequences they are facing as a result of the climate changes.

Key qualifications: cooperation, evolution, behavioural ecology, human ecology, pastoralism, Saami reindeer husbandry, social structure, qualitative and qualitative methods, climate change, management