Pirjo Haikola is a designer, researcher, and scuba diving instructor. Her work investigates how design can contribute to regenerating marine ecosystems and raising awareness of environmental issues. Pirjo is a lecturer and Industry Fellow in Design Innovation and Technology at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She has held positions at Aalto University in Finland, IADE University in Portugal and the Why Factory future cities research group at TU Delft in the Netherlands. Pirjo earned her PhD as a Marie Curie Fellow within a network of European Universities at the University of Aveiro in Portugal and has a master’s degree from Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands.