1961) is a Finnish plant ecologist who works as a professor of forest-atmosphere interactions at the University of Helsinki.
[1] She continued to study for a doctor of philosophy from the University of Oulu in 1994 in the field of plant ecology.
Bäck's 1994 English dissertation looked at the effect of acid precipitation on the needles of pine and spruce and on the cold resistance of trees.
The dissertation was titled Effects of acidic Precipitation on Scots pine and Norway spruce needles and their low temperature Tolerance.
[1] In 2017, Bäck received the Pro Scientia award[2] when it was given by the Finnish Academy of Sciences for the first time.