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Ambre Ayats ([email protected])

I am H Ambre Ayats (she/her or they/them). I am a French postdoctoral researcher, working at University of Eastern Finland, as part of the Algorithmic Data Analysis group in Kuopio, Finland.

My postdoctoral project, titled DaTHum: From Data-centered To Human-centered AI, is financed by the YUFE4Postdoc initiative and is supervised by Prof. Pauli Miettinen (School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio (Finland)) and Prof. Dagmar Borchers (Department 9 – Cultural Studies, Universität Bremen, Bremen (Germany)). This project, interleaving computer science and philosophy, aims to study the data-centered paradigma in artificial intelligence, from its emergence to its contemporary consequences, and to sketch the possibility a human-centered – or user-centered – paradigma.

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Eveliina Laine ([email protected])

Eveliina Laine is a doctoral researcher at University of Eastern Finland’s Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL). Her research focuses on legal norms on international climate adaptation finance and their implementation in practice.

Heikki Uimonen ([email protected])

PhD Heikki Uimonen is holding a post of research director at the University of Eastern Finland. He has worked as professor at the University of the Arts (2012–2017) and at the University of Eastern Finland (2020–2021, 2022–2023).

Uimonen is an ethnomusicologist and a docent on acoustic communication and soundscape studies at the University of Eastern Finland and University of Tampere and recording and performing musician. He has published and co-published extensively articles, monographs and edited anthologies on music consumption, radio music, compact cassettes, background music and transforming sensory environments. His research interests include sonic construction of place, mediated music, social use of music, transforming sensory environments and how all these intertwine. He is a board member of Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Uimonen is currently directing Academy of Finland and Niilo Helander foundation financed project SOMECO – Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening (2024–2027) investigating soundscapes of six European villages and a research project on social use of jukeboxes in Finland. He is a member of COST project Architecture and Urban Ambiance of European Cities CitySenZ (2024–2028).

He has directed project ACMESOCS. Auditory Cultures, Mediated Sounds and Constructed Spaces (2019–2022) and European Commission financed Finnish team on multinational B-Air Art Infinity Radio Creating Sound Art for Babies, Toddlers and Vulnerable Groups project (2020–2024). He has examined how contemporary audio technology can be used in soundscape participatory research and led projects Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat (Transforming Finnish Soundscapes, 2014–2015) and sub-project on Health Supporting Multisensory Food Environment (2015–2017).

Uimonen was a member of management committee of COST project Soundscapes of European Cities and Landscapes (2009–2013); member of project group European Acoustic Heritage (2011–2013) defining, describing and analysing sound cultures of Europe; and in Sensotra team (2018–2019) studying sensory environments of cities of Turku, Brighton and Ljubljana.

Scientific and societal impact of research:  Total number of publications: 148 consisting of 55 peer-reviewed articles on books and journals; 45 editor-refereed publications; 17 monographs, edited anthologies and proceedings; 2 publications intended for professional communities; 27 articles and publications popularising research; 2 theses (see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7318-1776 and attachments below).

Tel. +345 50 345 1900

Kang Li ([email protected])

Research emphasis on Accounting and Finance in SMEs. Current research interests and topics include application of artificial intelligence (e.g. neural network) in the area of accounting & finance, circular economy, the role of ethics to firm performance etc.

Kati Kulovesi ([email protected])

I hold LL.M degrees from the University of Helsinki and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). My PhD is also from the LSE, focusing on the challenges of the environment and legitimacy at the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System.

I am also affiliated with the 3E Center at the Brussels School of Governance, the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, with the Erik Castren Institute for International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, as well as with the Earth Negotiations Bulletin / International Institute for Sustainable Development.

My main research interests are international, EU, national and comparative climate change law, as well as international economic law and international legal theory. I also very much enjoy multidisciplinary climate change research both with other social scientists and natural scientists. I work closely with the UEF Research Group on Atmospheric Physics and with other climate scientists within the Atmospheric and Climate Competence Center Flagship.

Beyond academia, I have worked as legal adviser and consultant, inter alia, for the Finnish Government, the World Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, European Commission, Nordic Council of Ministers, IUCN, International Institute for Sustainable Development, International Trade Center, World Resources Institute and Nordic Environment Finance Corporation.

 

Lotta Aarikka ([email protected])

The subject of my dissertation (June 2023, University of Turku) “Dialect and its study: Perspectives on the history and language ideologies of Finnish dialectological research 1871–2017” is dialect and how dialect has been studied in the field of the Finnish language. In my dissertation I examined how scientific information about dialects, i.e. language, is created and has been created in the process of research from an individual’s speech. In addition to the research-historical description, in my work I dealt with language ideologies related to dialect research. My dissertation is graded “with commendation”, which requires that the research represents the top ten percent of its field.

At the University of Eastern Finland, I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the research project “Linguistic variation, social class and experiences on inequality in Eastern Finland” (KIVELI). In the project, we produce scientific information about the relationship between language and social class in Finland, especially in Eastern Finland. Our project combines the approaches of sociology and language research (sociolinguistics). The project is financed by the Finnish Cultural Foundation’s North Karelia and North Savo funds.

Matti Muukkonen ([email protected])

Matti Muukkonen (Dr. Adm. Sc., LL.D., M.Soc.Sc., Title of Docent in Public Law, Title of Docent in Administrative Law) is an university lecturer. His specialities are self-governing communities, especially municipalities and associations. As part of the study of municipal law, Muukkonen’s research topics concern municipalities as institutions, as local government organizes its administration and finances, and the activities of municipalities. The approach also highlights links to norms on municipal service production, the most recent causes of the crisis in elderly care.

Muukkonen returned to the university after a 10-year break. Previously, he worked as a researcher and senior assistant in administrative and European law. Outside the university, he has worked as an executive director of a non-governmental organization, a digital business development manager, a startup entrepreneur, a research director, a chief municipal officer of three municipalities, and other municipal administration tasks such as part-time Social Director, Director of Education, Head of the Kindergarten and School Assistant.

Mervi Niskanen ([email protected])

Research emphasis on corporate finance and auditing in SMEs. Recent topics include perpectives related to ownership structures, family ownership, board structure, gender, taxation etc.