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Azmeary Ferdoush (azmeary.ferdoush@uef.fi)

I am an Academy of Finland (AOF) postdoctoral researcher based at the Karelian Institute. My AOF project explores whether, why, and how the state creates a situation where refugees and asylum seekers are kept indeterminately waiting. It is geographically focused on the Rohingya refugees in the camps of Bangladesh and the asylum seekers residing in different reception centers in Finland.

At the Institute, my works engage with the university strategic program that focuses specifically on the profiling area of  “cultural encounters, mobilities and borders.” Broadly, I am interested in exploring the way man-made ideas of borders and bounded spaces affect human mobility and vice versa. As such, I specialize in the study of state, territory, borders, sovereignty, (non)citizenship, and migration. At the same time, I often remain critical regarding “importing” ready-made ideas from the Global North to the Global South in terms of both theory and methods. My scholarship thus sits at the intersection of political geography, critical geopolitics, decolonial praxis, and qualitative research methods.

You can find more about my research here.

Elias Vänskä (elias.vanska@uef.fi)

Developing computational methods for monitoring and quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

I work in ” Tomography in the field” project that focuses on developing improved methods for assessing GHG balances in agriculture. Acquiring accurate information on the GHG balances in agriculture is essential in determining suitable land use and farming choices. Our method utilizes open-path laser dispersion spectroscopy measurement technology and Bayesian state-space framework to reconstruct emission rates as temporally evolving tomography images. With this approach, spatial variations of the land and the uncertainties related to the monitored area are incorporated in the estimation.

Elisa Männistö (elisa.mannisto@uef.fi)

All living things are adapting to the constantly changing world, and I as a biologist am interested in understanding how. Currently, I am intrigued by ecology of peatland ecosystems that are tightly linked to the ongoing climate change. In my PhD project, I study the spatial and temporal variation of methane and biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) emissions in boreal peatland ecosystems. These gases have an important role in climate regulation, as methane is a potent climate warming greenhouse gas and BVOCs can have both climate warming and cooling effects. The objects of my research are

  • to uncover the links between both methane and BVOC emissions and peatland vegetation (variation in space).
  • to study the variation in methane and BVOC fluxes over growing season and between different years (variation in time).
  • to quantify how decreasing water level changes the BVOC emissions from the Sphagnum mosses, in a greenhouse experiment.

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).

Tel. +345 50 345 1900

Jenni Merovuo (jenni.merovuo@uef.fi)

In my doctoral dissertation, I study the institutionalisation of the Russo-Swedish border(land) in the 18th century. The interests of the physical, institutional and mental border formation reflected in the local community.

In the project Grand Duchy of Finland as Political Space, I study the meanings of ‘grand duchy’ in the 18th century.

I am a member of a research network Pax Nordica: Experiences and lessons of the Nordic Peace, ca 1721–1830.

Teaching

Paleography (3 cp), Intermediate studies in history

Jeremy Smith (jeremy.smith@uef.fi)

I carry out research on the recent and contemporary history on the countries of the Former Soviet Union. At present, there is an especial emphasis on the five countries of Central Asia. My research interests range from very specific, localized events and their impacts, to broad understandings of the interactions of time and space and the legacies of empires and long-distance trade routes on peripheral landscapes. My current projects involve work on post-Soviet borders, the role concern for ethnic Russians in neighbouring countries plays in Russian policy making, and constitutional arrangements and understandings of national minority rights in new post-Imperial countries.