Rate My Professor Kyle Eyvindson

Kyle Eyvindson serves as Professor in the Department of Forest Sciences at the University of Helsinki, within the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. He also holds the title of Docent in the Department of Forest Sciences. Eyvindson's research specializes in forest planning, multi-objective optimization, decision support systems under uncertainty, and integrating multiple objectives such as timber production, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and climate mitigation in boreal and temperate forests. His work explores spatio-temporal dynamics in habitat connectivity, the impacts of natural disturbances like wind on planning, trade-offs in drained peatlands, and the development of interactive tools for scenario analysis in forest management.

Eyvindson has produced a substantial body of peer-reviewed publications that have shaped forest resource management practices. Prominent examples include "Continuous cover forestry is a cost-efficient tool to increase multifunctionality" (Peura et al., Forests, 2018), "Climate targets in European timber-producing countries conflict with goals on forest ecosystem services" (Blattert et al., Communications Earth & Environment, 2023), "Trade-offs between greenhouse gas mitigation and economic objectives with drained peatlands in Finnish landscapes" (Eyvindson et al., Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2023), "MultiOptForest: An interactive multi-objective optimization tool for forest planning and scenario analysis" (Eyvindson et al., Forest Ecology and Management, 2024), "A journey through space and time: impact of forest planning approaches on spatio-temporal habitat connectivity" (Hunault-Fontbonne et al., Journal of Environmental Management, 2026), and "Management approaches in decision support systems to mitigate the risk of natural disturbances in European temperate and boreal forests" (Mazziotta et al., Ecological Modelling, 2026). His Google Scholar profile records over 2,500 citations, underscoring his influence. Eyvindson teaches courses including Operations Research in Forest Resource Management and methods of multi-objective forest planning, supervises master's and doctoral students, reviews for journals such as Journal of Industrial Ecology and Journal of Cleaner Production, and has delivered lectures like "Boreal Forests – Unique Features, Management, and Future Outlook" in 2025.