Dr. Panu Pihkala is the leading Finnish expert on eco-anxiety and ecological emotions. With a background as a theologian, he is especially interested about the existential dimensions of environmental education. Pihkala is an adjunct professor (Title of Docent) of environmental theology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki and a postdoctoral researcher in the HELSUS Sustainability Science Institute. Pihkala has been an active public intellectual in Finland and he is often consulted by media. Pihkala was awarded the National Prize for Adult Education in 2018 by The Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation for his work related to eco-anxiety. Pihkala has published two monographs in Finnish about eco-anxiety and ecological emotions (2017, 2019) and written a national report about climate anxiety, which is available also in English (Sitra, 2019). Pihkala's interdisciplinary research draws heavily from psychosocial research and existential psychology & philosophy, but he utilizes also empirical studies from a wide variety of disciplines. His articles about eco-anxiety and climate emotions are widely referenced by scholars from various disciplines. In 2021, he was the third author in the large international study about children and youth climate anxiety (Hickman, Marks et al., Lancet Planetary Health). Together with Dr. Thomas Doherty, Pihkala hosts a podcast on climate emotions, "Climate Change and Happiness".