Aki Pulkkinen (aki.pulkkinen@uef.fi)
Aki Pulkkinen’s research fields include ultrasound therapy, photo/optoacoustic and acousto-optic imaging and tomography, mathematical modelling, and inverse problems.
B-Air. Art Infinity Radio. Creating Sound Art for Babies, Toddlers and Vulnerable Groups
BioMedical Ultrasound Group
Eero Koponen (eero.koponen@uef.fi)
My PhD study focuses on developing methods for characterizing ultrasound fields using an acousto-optic based optical tomography. In general, my research areas include schlieren imaging, tomography, and ultrasound related physics.
Elina Hytönen-Ng (elina.hytonen-ng@uef.fi)
Hytönen-Ng is an ethnomusicologist and a cultural researcher, who specializes in the ethnographic study of people’s musical experiences. Her research topic include popular music research (especially jazz), peak experiences related to music, work environment of musicians, musicians’ mobility, sonic environment of reception center, soundscape studies, schools soundscape, the role of sound in shamanic rituals and the meaning of sound in the creation of relationship with the environment.
In her latest research she studies the lamenting tradition and how it lives in the contemporary world, as well as what kind of meanings are give to it and how it is experiences in the body.
The funding for the research comes from KKES, foundation for the promoting Karelian culture, and Kone Foundation.
Heikki Salonen (heikki.salonen@uef.fi)
Heikki Salonen’s doctoral thesis consider soundscape regulation in Finnish environmental legislation. Salonen works in the UEF Law School with courses like Natural Resources and Nature Conservation Law, Environmental Protection Law and Introduction to Environmental Law.
Heikki Uimonen (heikki.uimonen@uef.fi)
Heikki Uimonen (PhD) held a post of professor at the University of Eastern Finland. He is an ethnomusicologist and a docent on acoustic communication and soundscape studies at the Universities of Tampere and Eastern Finland and part-time musician. Uimonen has published over ninety articles, a monograph and edited anthologies on music consumption, radio music, compact cassettes and changing sonic environments. His research interests include sonic construction of place, mediated music, social use of music, transforming soundscapes and how all these intertwine.
Uimonen is directing Academy-of-Finland-financed project ACMESOCS. Auditory Cultures, Mediated Sounds and Constructed Spaces (2019–2022) and UEF research team on multinational B-Air Art Infinity Radio Creating Sound Art for Babies, Toddlers and Vulnerable Groups project (2020–2023). He has examined how contemporary audio technology can be used in soundscape participatory research and led projects Transforming Finnish Soundscapes and sub-project on Health Supporting Multisensory Food Environment. Uimonen was a member of COST project standardizing soundscape concept in Europe. He has worked as a member of the research groups investigating six European villages and European acoustic heritage defining, describing and preserving sound cultures of Europe and recently in project studying sensory environments of cities of Turku, Brighton and Ljubljana (see CV and publications below).
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Research Group on Forest Ecology and Biodiversity
Our research focuses on the patterns of biodiversity and the dynamics of the boreal forest ecosystems. The studies aim at understanding how biodiversity is linked with the ecosystem dynamics and how natural disturbances and forest management affect biodiversity.
In particular, we explore how landscape properties and forest succession differ between managed and natural boreal forests, and how these differences are reflected upon ecosystem characteristics and their species assemblages. The studies aim at facilitating ecologically sound forestry and conservation practises. Both ecological and economical aspects are covered in the studies.
The work is done in close collaboration with students, associates and colleagues from several Finnish and international universities and research institutes.