Maria Ojala is Professor in socio-ecological resilience at University of Oulu, Finland, in the Frontiers of Arctic and Global Resilience (FRONT) programme. She is also Associate professor in psychology at Örebro University, Sweden. Her main research interest concerns how young people relate to global sustainability problems, foremost climate change. She investigates resilience factors at different levels (personal, social psychological, environmental, cultural and structural) that can help young people to turn difficult emotions concerning the global future (like anxiety) into an active citizenship and transformative learning without compromising mental wellbeing. Factor in focus are, for example, meaning-focused coping, hope, social trust, and critical emotional awareness.