Md Azmeary Ferdoush is Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher based in the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland. Before taking up his position at the Karelian Institute, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland and explored the way regional changes and transformation processes take place in Arctic Finland and its adjacent regions due to state and supra-state organizations. He was awarded the prestigious East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship.