Anne Väisänen (anne.vaisanen@uef.fi)
In my doctoral research, I explore the prosodic features of deceptive speech, beliefs about cues to deception, and lie detection. The primary research material consists of emergency call recordings, with a specific focus on the acoustic-prosodic features of hoax emergency calls. My research interests extend broadly to speech prosody and the impressions it creates, but I am also interested in vocal health, voice training methods, and research on these topics. I did my Master’s degree in the University of Tampere, majoring in speech technique and vocology.
My teaching experience includes instructing a wide range of speech research methods in general linguistics at the University of Eastern Finland, particularly focusing on the Praat software and evaluating voice by utilizing acoustic measurements.
Anthi-Styliani Makiou (anthi-styliani.makiou@uef.fi)
I am a Biochemist/Biotechnologist with a master’s degree in Toxicology. My past research involves in vitro, in silico and in vivo work. Besides, I have devoted several years to delivering educational assistance and instruction to various levels of learners. My last position was in the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) as a scientific/regulatory support in Biocides (the BPR). Currently, I am conducting my PhD regarding retinal degenerative diseases in School of Pharmacy (LRL lab).
Applied statistics and statistical machine learning
In applied statistics, our focus is in forest biometrics and in analysis of grouped, spatially and temporally dependent data. In forest biometrics, we work on applications of spatial point process theory and stochastic geometry in forest inventories. In analysis of dependent data, one major application is the modeling of greenhouse gas fluxes on peatlands based on chamber measurements. In machine learning, our focus is in statistical modeling from massive datasets, where typical data set size is 0.5TB. General goal is to estimate a generalizable model with which recognition can be performed on the previously unseen dataset. Previously, the group focused on recognition tasks from the speech signal, such as automatic speaker and language recognition. Recently, we have used image, video, text and molecule biological datasets, in addition to speech data.
ARGEO Project
The project will implement data gathered in a study concerning argumentation skills of students in general upper secondary education regarding social environmental issues and an assessment tool for argumentation skills developed in the study. This project promotes the development of cross-disciplinary outlook, critical thinking and argumentation skills regarding general education and university education. In addition, this project contributes to the realization of the core curriculum in everyday teaching.
Ari Pappinen (ari.pappinen@uef.fi)
The fields of teaching and research are forest health as well as industrial forest biotechnology and biorefining. In terms of forest health, key issues include the epigenetic adaptation of forest trees to environmental disturbances and climate change and the use and management of forest biodiversity. A special research topic is the potential of forest biodiversity sites and short rotation coppice plantations to enter the carbon compensation markets. Research on the production of carbon-neutral bio-based products and materials and the calculation of the carbon footprint (Scope1, 2 and 3, and LCA) are at the heart of the research in industrial forest biotechnology and biorefining topic.
Assessment of undergraduate students’ generic skills in Finland (KAPPAS2)
Carlos Palacin Lizarbe (carlos.palacin@uef.fi)
The research work of Carlos Palacin-Lizarbe is focusing on nitrogen (N) cycle of lake sediments. His recent work has been focusing on mountain lakes receiving high N deposition, specifically measuring denitrification rates and the genetic potential of N-transforming guilds. Currently at UEF his work is focusing on nitrate reduction processes on boreal lakes on changing winter conditions.
Carsten Carlberg (carsten.carlberg@uef.fi)
The research of Carsten Carlberg is directed to gene regulation and epigenetics by vitamin D.
Over 245 of his publications are listed in the Science Citation Index. These have been cited more than 11,000 times leading to h-index of 58 (Web of Science/Publons). So far he finished the supervision of 13 post-doctoral fellows, 19 doctoral students (18 PhD, 1 MD) and 32 MSc students.
Carsten Carlberg published textbooks on “Mechanisms of Gene Regulation”, “Nutrigenomics”, “Human Epigenomics” and “Cancer Biology”.
César Soares de Oliveira (cesar.soares.de.oliveira@uef.fi)
César Soares de Oliveira is a legal scholar who specializes in applying theoretical debates within public international law to specific areas in international environmental law. In particular, his research interests lie in the Law of the Sea, the Law of Treaties, Polar Law, and the study of coherence and consistency within international environmental regimes. He also has a general interest in comparative legal history and in Ecological Law.
Soares de Oliveira has a background in international relations and also holds a master’s degree in International and Comparative Law (MICL) from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at UEF in association with the Law in Water and Environmental Governance Research Group at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy, and Environmental Law (CCEEL).