My research focuses on commercial law, with particular emphasis on company law, capital markets law, and financial reporting law, especially as they relate to the regulatory framework governing publicly traded companies. I also focus on EU State Aid issues.
Jessica Kaipainen ([email protected])
I’m currently working as a Project Researcher in Ikäpolut Project at Department of Health and Social Management in the study group of Health Economics. I’ll soon be graduating with a Master’s degree in Health Economics. I’m also an Occupational Health Nurse.
Jing Zhou ([email protected])
My research examines how youth well-being is shaped across different social contexts and conditions of vulnerability. I focus in particular on adolescent and young people’s mental health, social inclusion, and everyday life experiences in contemporary welfare societies, with attention to how individual resources interact with family environments, educational settings, and broader institutional and policy frameworks.
A central feature of my work is the use of diverse empirical contexts to address a shared set of theoretical questions. I have conducted and am currently conducting research on urban youth populations in Shanghai, exploring youth development, social participation, and mental well-being in rapidly changing metropolitan environments. In parallel, I am engaged in research on family resilience among families of children and adolescents with special needs, with a focus on caregiving practices, family resources, and the role of institutional support. Building on these research lines, I am currently developing work on immigrant adolescents, examining social inclusion, psychosocial adjustment, and inequalities in well-being.
Methodologically, my research is grounded in quantitative and mixed-methods approaches. I work extensively with large-scale survey data and apply advanced statistical techniques, including structural equation modeling, latent profile analysis, and multi-group and alignment-based measurement invariance testing. Across my work, I place strong emphasis on rigorous measurement, cross-context comparability, and the translation of empirical findings into insights relevant for both academic research and policy development.
I am currently involved in several nationally and internationally funded research projects. Among these, I serve as principal investigator of a project supported by the Juho Vainio Foundation, which focuses on promoting healthy lifestyles and mental well-being among school-aged populations, with particular attention to digital well-being, physical activity, and sleep. My research is embedded in international research networks and aims to contribute to high-quality scientific publications as well as evidence-informed youth, family, and health policies.
Jingoo Kang ([email protected])
Dr. Kang’s research focuses on understanding how students’ competence, motivation, and social experiences are translated into confidence, participation, and future educational trajectories. Situated at the intersection of learning sciences, educational psychology, and STEM education, his work examines how classroom learning environments and social interactions shape these developmental processes. A particular focus is on equity in STEM learning, including gender differences in the development of confidence and participation in collaborative learning. He also investigates how educational experiences influence students’ environmental attitudes and climate action. Methodologically, his research combines large-scale educational data with emerging computational approaches, including voice-based classroom interaction analysis, social network analysis, automatic speech recognition, and machine learning. Through this work, he aims to develop a deeper understanding of how cognitive, motivational, and social processes interact in authentic learning environments and how these insights can support more effective and equitable education.
Jiri Jäntti ([email protected])
In my current research, I utilize nanoparticles as contrast media for computed tomography imaging of cartilage. Unique diffusion characteristics of nanoparticles offer a novel approach for cartilage injury diagnostics.
Johanna Heinonen-Kemppi ([email protected])
My duties include teaching in the Tourism Marketing and Management (TMM) Master’s programme (e.g., Destination Management, Digital Business Strategy) as well as supervising Master’s theses. I also develop both new and existing online courses. My research and development activities include participation in projects such as Innokaupunki 3, where the university, companies, and cities collaborate to create innovative solutions for the future of tourism and business.
Besides teaching, my research interests include online communication and marketing, destination management and leadership, services marketing and experience design. My PhD research focused on customer value co-creation of caring in a chat-based moment of truth. Due to my versatile background, I combine elements from linguistics, marketing, pedagogy, ICT, and management in my research.
Johanna Järventaus ([email protected])
Johanna Järventaus works as a Project Coordinator at the UEF Brain Research Unit. Her responsibilities include monitoring project schedules and practical arrangements, as well as contributing to the implementation of internal and external communications. Johanna supports the unit’s research activities by managing meeting arrangements, documentation, and ensuring smooth information flow between researchers, administration, and collaboration partners.
Johanna Korkeamäki ([email protected])
Johanna Korkeamäki (PhD) is a sociologist, and she works as a researcher in the project Disability and Dignity. Her research interests include health, disability and rehabilitation studies, equity in education and sociological research on agency and the capability approach.
Johanna Krohns ([email protected])
Johanna is currently pursuing a PhD on the topics of emotions, multimodal learning analytics, education, and escape rooms at the University of Eastern Finland. Her work focuses on determining if emotions can be used to affect the learning outcomes of escape rooms. She has built her career so far as a project specialist and project manager for a series of innovation and research projects outside of the university. Johanna also has experience in planning and developing digital games, and she has worked on planning and creating pedagogical escape rooms.
Johanna Laakkonen ([email protected])
I’m an Academy Research Fellow, and PI of a junior research group focusing on Vascular Biology. The goal of our team is to improve therapeutics and diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases by understanding the biology behind the diseases. The main focus is in studying vascular anomalies and aortic aneurysms. Particularly genetics, cell-cell interaction and angioparacrine mediators are studied.