ORGANISATION
Luomus has four units: the Biodiversity Informatics Unit, the Zoology Unit, the Botany Unit and the Natural Sciences Unit. The units are responsible of research, teaching and maintaining and developing research infrastructures. Every unit has one director, and all directors are members of the management group, which is chaired by the director of Luomus. The director of Luomus is responsible for steering the work of the public engagement team, which also has its own operations manager. The work of the units is allocated to teams.
The director of Luomus reports to the rector of the University of Helsinki. The rector appoints a board of seven to ten members for a four-year term to support the director and management group in leading the work of Luomus.
In addition, Luomus has three thematic steering groups to assist leadership. In these steering groups, experts from the various teams develop and harmonise operations across unit boundaries. The areas of responsibility for the steering groups are collections, research and education, and societal interaction.
Luomus receives administrative and communications services from the University of Helsinki’s centralised University Services.
