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Katri Salokangas ([email protected])
I am a general practitioner and I have a special qualification as a medical supervisor. I teach undergradutate medical students general practice and the work of a health centre doctor, as well as basic medical skills for encountering, interviewing and researching a patient. In addition, I am involved in the postgraduate medical education in the YEK phase doctors and physicians specializing in general practice.
Katriina Maaranen ([email protected])
I supervise MA theses and teach educational subjects as well as qualitative research methods. I also supervise doctoral students and I am happy to accept new students for doctoral supervision.
My research focuses on teacher education, development as a pre-service teachers, reflection, professional development and a teacher’s professional work.
Kenneth Scheel ([email protected])
Developing computational methods for monitoring and quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture and biogas production.
I work on the ” Tomography in the field – new monitoring method for the effects of farming management on the GHG balance in agriculture” project led by Professor Aku Seppänen. We develop improved methods for assessing GHG balances in agriculture and small-scale biogas production. Acquiring accurate information on the GHG balances in agriculture is essential for determining and verifying the effect of more sustainable farming practices, to aid in the green transition. Our method utilizes multi-beam open-path laser dispersion spectroscopy measurement technology to estimate GHG fluxes, and we use a 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 into the estimation. My focus lies partly on the geometrical modeling of the areas of interest, incorporating structures (barns, buildings, production machinery, etc.) and the varying altitude of ground level, into meshes suitable for FEM approximations of GHG fluxes.
For agricultural applications, we consider estimating fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), while in biogas plants we consider methane and ammonia (NH3). Our research topics will involve optimizing the measurement setup for field applications and the computational modeling involved with estimating GHG emissions with the Bayesian state-space framework.
Kenny Ng ([email protected])
Kenny is a researcher in European Union (EU) energy law, particularly its doctrinal, empirical, and institutional aspects.
He is currently researching the involvement of the Court of Justice of the European Union in developing the general doctrine of EU energy law, in particular the discipline’s core principles. His research is part of the INTEL (funded by the European Research Council, 2024-2029) and FOUNDATIONS (funded by the Research Council of Finland, 2024-2028) projects.
His research interests broadly include energy, environmental and climate law; sustainability law; European Union law; and international law.
He is a qualified legal practitioner with previous practical experience in energy transactions and projects, and holds degrees in both Law and Economics from the University of Sydney.
Kim Fyhr ([email protected])
Dr. Kim Fyhr is project researcher in the INTEL and FOUNDATIONS projects at the UEF Law School.
Kim’s field of specialization is EU energy law, most notably the related legislative process. His research interests include inter alia the evolution of the EU energy law, EURATOM, the regulation of different technologies in sustainable energy transition and the interface between energy policy and fundamental rights. Furthermore, the interaction of different regulatory levels (international, EU and national) in energy policy-making is of special interest to him. This also covers the legal theoretical dimension.
Kim has published in peer reviewed journals in the fields of EU law and nuclear energy law. His legal empirical doctoral dissertation of European constitutional law ‘Making Fundamental Rights a Reality in EU legislative Process’ dealt with how fundamental rights are taken into account in drafting secondary EU legislation. Kim has also contributed to many Finnish professional journals with articles and texts on energy policy and law.
Prior to joining UEF Law School, Kim coordinated the Finnish three-year term in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the Embassy of Finland in Vienna (MFA). For almost a decade, he served at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the EU in Brussels (MFA) first as energy counsellor and later, during the Finnish EU Council Presidency of 2019 as the head of relations with the European Parliament. Kim also has a long professional experience from Fortum Corporation, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy (Energy Department) and the Ministry of the Environment (Department of Environmental Protection) and the Doctoral Programme of Helsinki School of Economics. Over the years, Kim has on several occasions functioned as an expert in the Finnish Parliament – in particular in the Commerce Committee and the Environment Committee – on topics of EU and EURATOM legislation.
A Finnish national, Kim holds Doctor of Laws (University of Helsinki 2017), Licentiate in Laws (University of Turku 2008) and Master of Social Science (University of Helsinki 2001) degrees. In addition, he has completed a Diplôme d’Université de troisième cycle en droit nucléaire international (University of Montpellier 2015).
Kimmo Elo ([email protected])
I am a social scientist interested in the political history of Germany and European integration, intelligence studies, parliamentary studies, and political engagement of the youth. My theoretical interests include theories of European integration and federalism theories, theories of democracy and totalitarianism, network theories, and system structure theories inspired by Johan Galtung. Regarding research methods, my expertise covers data-intensive research, network analysis, text and data mining, conceptual history and information visualisation.
Kiran Pala ([email protected])
I’m a philosopher and cognitive scientist. My current research focuses on systems science. My favorite part is the thrill of exploring the foundational aspects.
I unite infodynamics, control theory, causal analysis, and modeling to understand how the multiscale of complex adaptive (dynamical) systems emerges. Another goal of my research is to understand how structures formed by functional relations in a system, such as geometrically driven interactions that are inspired by neural networks.
The potential outcome of my research is to improve geometric model solutions, supervise scientific experiments, and highlight the importance of model solutions in considering operational propositions at the geoeconomic level of a system.
Additionally, I am interested in how formal methods and measurements based on cognitive dynamics can be used to acquire both the phenomenological level and content of natural language expressions.
Kirsi Autio ([email protected])
I am conducting doctoral research in the field of guidance, focusing on the agency and capabilities in educational and career pathways for educated adults who have migrated to Finland and are enrolled in Finnish-language programs at universities of applied sciences.
In parallel with my doctoral research, I work as a lecturer in social services at a university of applied sciences. Additionally, I work as a professional supervisor, employing a psychodynamic-systemic theoretical framework.
Kirsi Ketola ([email protected])
The Cancer Cell Plasticity research group investigates how prostate cancer cells adopt stem-like, neuroplastic, and neuroendocrine states to drive therapy resistance and disease progression. The group studies how cancer cells transition between cellular states in response to both therapeutic pressure and signals from the tumor microenvironment. These include immune cell–derived factors, neural and neuroendocrine-associated programs, and mechanical cues such as extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness, which actively regulate cancer cell behavior. The research integrates advanced imaging with functional genomics and epigenomics to capture dynamic changes in chromatin state and gene regulation. Genome-wide approaches (RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq) are combined with live-cell high-content imaging, drug screening, and patient-derived models, including organoids and liquid biopsies. Zebrafish metastasis models are further used to study cancer cell dissemination and plasticity in vivo.
Key intrinsic regulators of plasticity have been identified, including transcription factors such as SIX2, which drive stem-like and androgen receptor–independent states through chromatin reprogramming. Key plasticity-associated effectors such as DPYSL5 supports neuroplasticity-associated phenotypes and antiandrogen resistance. In addition, DNA repair pathways, including the Fanconi anemia pathway (FANCI), support therapy resistance. Recent work demonstrates that ECM stiffness directly regulates chromatin accessibility and androgen receptor signaling, with stiff matrices promoting aggressive transcriptional programs associated with poor clinical outcome.
The overall goal is to identify novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers and to develop strategies to prevent or reverse treatment resistance in advanced prostate cancer.
Find Ketola Lab pages: https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/group/cancer-cell-plasticity-ketola-lab/