Currently, she is managing two European projects: “CASPER: Citizen Activation in Shrinking rural areas for Place-based policies to Enhance Resilience” (Interreg Europe, 2023-2027) and “SERIGO: Social Economy for Resilience, Inclusion and Good Life in Rural areas” (Horizon Europe, 2024-2027).
She is involved in the research project “ESSPIN: Economic, Social and SPatial INequalities in Europe in the Era of Global Mega-trends” (Horizon Europe, 2022-2025).
Her doctoral thesis dealt with issues of regional policy, relational-governance and mega-events planning. She has been involved in European research projects (European Science Foundation, FP7) in border studies focusing on cross-border cooperation processes and the social (de)construction of borders. In her post-doctoral research, she studies foreigners’ socio-economic engagement in different Finnish urban environments with the aim of producing knowledge on the local particularities and challenges of integration processes. She was managing the international project “ECoC-SME: Actions for inducing SME growth and innovation via the ECoC event and legacy” (Interreg Europe, 2019-2021).
I work as a Project Researcher in the Economic Violence from a Life Course Perspective (EBUSE) project (2025–2027) and in the specialist social work education programmes (Child, Youth and Family Social Work and Welfare Services).
In my doctoral research, I examine social workers’ professional practices in high-conflict separation cases. My research and development work focuses particularly on financial social work, economic abuse, and issues related to high-conflict separations.
I have experience in social work research and development projects. Previous projects in which I have worked include:
- Child-Centered Assessment and Working in the Cases of High-Conflict Separations (LATVE), University of Eastern Finland (2024–2025)
- Future Health and Social Services Centre for Kainuu (HELLÄ), Wellbeing Services County of Kainuu (2022–2023)
- Building Bridges between Europe and China to Strengthen the Social Work Profession (BUIBRI), University of Eastern Finland (2018–2020)
I have studied Bachelor of Pharmacy at University of Tanta, Egypt and Master degree in Systems Biology at University of Skövde, Sweden (supported by the Swedish Institute Study Scholarship). I have been honoured to be part of the UEF-Neuro-Innovation program (MSCA-COFUND).
We are working on air pollution and its effects on the human peripheral immunity in both healthy individuals and Alzheimer disease (AD) patients. We aim to reveal the mechanistic effects of air pollution on blood cell signatures and profiles and discover novel biomarkers for air pollution prediction. We also aim to find the molecular correlations between AD and air pollution as well as peripheral biomarkers for AD diagnosis. Our work comprises of investigating the transcriptome and epigenome of the immune cells as one population as well as single cell populations, using both; in-vivo and in-vitro models. We use functional assays to confirm the outcoming results.
This study is part of the Alzheimer disease and Air pollution (ADAIR) project which is part of the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) project. We will provide insights on how air pollution affects peripheral immunity, possibly providing mechanistic explanation on the increased risks on human health.
I am social and cultural geographer. I lead the project Menopausing: exploring awareness, diversity and activism, funded by the Research Council of Finland (2024-2028). I am also a team leader in the UEF, INTERREG Baltic Sea Region project Enhancing Capacities in Disaster Risk Reduction by Facilitating Public-Civil cooperation (CREWS) (2025-2028).
I welcome PhD inquiries related to gender and feminist geographies, health, wellbeing, lifecourse, novel and creative approaches to border studies. security and feminist geopolitics.
My research interests include personal relationships, intimacies, kinship, temporality, qualitative methods and sociological theory. I work as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project Networks of reproduction in the complex planetary future: Intimacy, companionship and family building in Finland, Portugal, and Scotland (NETREP) that investigates young adults’ thoughts and plans concerning family and intimate life in the context of social, economic, and environmental crises. The project is funded by Kone Foundation. My background is in Sociology and I am Dr. of Social Sciences (from University of Helsinki).
I am a member of the editorial board in Perheyhteiskunta.fi, a Finnish blog popularising scientific research on families and intimate lives. I am also a board member of Finnish Society for Research on Families and Personal Relationships.
My research and teaching areas in the field of Special Education deal with interprofessional collaboration, intellectual and developmental disabilities, significant support needs in education and inclusive education. University pedagogy and transnational education are also my interests. I work as a Head of School of Educational Sciences and Psychology in 2026-2029.
Researhgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aino-Aeikaes-2
ORCid:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4674-0533
I’m working in the Cellular Neurobiology research group led by Katja Kanninen. My doctoral research is focused on discovering plasma biomarkers for mental health dysfunction in adolescents, and the effects of environmental and lifestyle factors on mental health. The research is a part of and supported by the H2020 project Equal Life.
PostDoctoral Researcher in Sustainable Technologies Group. Main topic: Bio-based wood preservation. Other topics: Valorization of bio-based residues and waste.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland working in the field of neuroscience, with a focus on human brain organoids, neuroimmunology, and Alzheimer’s disease. My research aims to develop advanced human cortical organoid models integrated with iPSC-derived microglia to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
My work combines stem cell biology, nanomedicine, advanced microscopy, proteomics, and 3D image analysis to study neuron–glia interactions, amyloid pathology, synaptic dysfunction, and neuroinflammatory responses. I am also interested in engineering next-generation programmable neuroimmune organoids by integrating synthetic biology and computational approaches to improve disease modeling, drug discovery, and precision medicine.
My broader research interests include brain organoids, microglial biology, neurodegenerative diseases, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, biomaterials, and advanced imaging.
Professor Aku Ursin (né Seppänen) leads a research team, which develops and applies computational and statistical methods for solving inverse problems arising from (physical) science and engineering. The main applications are: 1) environmental monitoring and modeling (especially greenhouse gas emission quantification, modeling of atmospheric aerosols and remote sensing of forests), and 2) tomographic imaging (especially electrical impedance tomography, industrial process tomography, non-destructive material testing and structural health monitoring; special emphasis is on concrete and other cement-based materials and structures).
