Veera graduated as a PhD at SLU in March of 2017, with Hanna as second advisor, on a project concerning the ecology and evolution of the lichens of the genus Letharia. In her PhD, Veera investigated the genomes of Letharia species using NGS data. After a postdoc with Toby Spribille at the University of Alberta, Veera is back in Uppsala and work in the group of Anna Rosling.