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Laura Hirsto is a professor of educational science, especially research in general education.
Professor Hirsto’s main research topics include the study of learning environments from the perspectives of learning processes and teaching and pedagogy. In recent years, Hirsto has led an extensive project funded by Business Finland related to learning analytics and learning analytics pedagogy, which has studied the learning of basic education students, university students and vocational education students with the help of diverse learning analytics data. The project has built learning environments that support self-regulated learning through a variety of pedagogical approaches (such as phenomenon-based learning and flipped classroom). This study has been built on intensive collaboration with researchers of computer science and educational sciences, and it has utilized institutional-level data and traditional log data in conjunction with extended learning analytics data, as well as observation of teaching and learning contexts and interviews with teachers and pupils/students.
Hirsto worked as a university lecturer at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Education for numerous years. Since 2015, she has worked mainly in the School of Applied Educational Sciences and Teacher Education at the University of Eastern Finland, first on the Savonlinna campus and then on the Joensuu campus. In 2020, he was elected as the Professor of Education at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Eastern Finland. He holds the title of docent in educational psychology at the University of Helsinki.
At the moment, I am working on my research project funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation: Precarious Intimate Networks of Migration and Work – Intimate and Intersectional Infrastructures of Low-Wage Migrants (PRECAINFRA). In the project, I examine migrants’ housing-related experiences
Previously I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in a research project funded by the Kone Foundation on Formations of hybrid manhood in the experience economy (EXMEN 2022-2025) in which I study the “new work” of male influencers and in particular the relationship between dogs and men.
In 2013-2017, I worked at the University of Jyväskylä as a PhD student in the project Industrial Citizenship and Labour Mobility in the EU funded by the Academy of Finland, and then at the University of Eastern Finland as a university teacher in the Department of Social Sciences (2017-2019), and as a junior researcher in the project Lean production model in public services: new formations of work and gender (LEWOGE 2018-2022) funded by the Academy of Finland. In the LEWOGE project, led by Professor Eeva Jokinen, we studied the effects of the Lean management model in public health care organisations.
In my PhD research (2024), I investigated the struggles of migrants working in low-wage sectors as part of the (re)production of the Finnish welfare state https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/95524.
Besides conducting research, I am also responsible for thesis supervision and teaching under my 10% contract with UEF.
I’m working in a group Cellular Neurobiology led by Katja Kanninen, at A.I.Virtanen institute. My research aims to decipher the effects of traffic related ultrafine particles (UFPs) on olfactory mucosa of healthy and Alzheimer’s disease patients.
My background is in biomedicine, which I studied at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where I graduated 2005. At the beginning of 2006, I started as a research assistant at the newly initiated navigated TMS lab at Kuopio University Hospital, and since then I have had the privilege to work in numerous projects with different topics.
Currently, I am working in a project aiming to elucidate the neuroplastic capacity in osteoarthritis and recovery after operation.
My aim is to improve methods and practices in non-invasive brain stimulation.
Laura Tammenlehto (LL.D.) works as commercial law senior lecturer and project researcher at UEF Law School. Tammenlehto’s research focuses on intellectual property rights, criminal law and procedural law, especially copyright and trademark infringements and food fraud.
I manage the SIB Labs services. We offer versatile imaging and characterisation services for both companies and research groups. In addition to service activities, we implement research and development projects in cooperation with educational institutions, research organisations and industry.
I am involved in a number of projects that focus on material technology, material characterization and continuous monitoring, the use of artificial intelligence in the analysis of continuous measurements, biorefining and microplastics. My background is in research on natural materials such wood and natural fibers, like hemp, and composites produced from these. I am involved in the implementation and development of education in materials technology and bioeconomy.
I work as a project researcher in MEDIFF and Sustageable (WP5) projects. In projects I am involved in data wrangling and statistical analysis.
Doctoral researcher Lauri Liikonen studies the use of mobile laser scanning (MLS) for detailed and precise measurement of forest stands.
Lauri Peterson, PhD (Uppsala University) is a Senior Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School. He investigates climate politics on multiple levels of governance using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Before joining UEF, Lauri was a doctoral candidate at the Uppsala University Department of Government studying the multi-level governance of climate change. He has previously worked at the Wuppertal Institute of Climate, Energy and Environment, and the think tank Praxis. Lauri has published peer-reviewed articles in high-ranking journals Global Environmental Politics, World Development, and International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.
I currently work as an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering at the Department of Technical Physics. I am a sports scientist by education with a specialization in biomechanics. My research is related to the structure, function, and adaptation of the human musculoskeletal system. The application areas of my research are in musculoskeletal diseases and human performance throughout the lifespan. I use various experimental techniques, including motion capture, electromyography, medical imaging, and tissue-level mechanical testing, in combination with computational modelling and simulation, to address the research questions. My current research focus areas are knee osteoarthritis, mobility in old age, and tendon disorders.
I am part of the Biophysics research group and actively work with the Biosignal Analysis and Medical Imaging research group, utilizing HUMEA Laboratory in my research. I hold the title of docent from the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, where I actively collaborate with the Sports and Exercise Medicine discipline.
