Maiju Mähönen is a PhD researcher in law. Her research focuses on access to justice and climate litigation, EU climate governance and Finland’s climate law.
Manna Satama ([email protected])
Teaching and supporting in research data management, UEF Data Support services coordinated by the library.
Mari Kattilakoski ([email protected])
My field of research is social scientific rural research, within the discipline of social and public policy. I have a PhD focusing on changes in civic participation in rural welfare services, and the relationship between civil society and the welfare state. My current research themes are rural service networks, social economy, village security, digital exclusion, and multi-local living and care.
I work as a special advisor in the Rural Policy Council’s (MANE) network for “Rural habitability, housing, and integration in rural areas” (MaalleKo), and I am also a member of the Rural Policy Council’s secretariat. I participate in networks and working groups composed of representatives from science, politics, and civil society.
Other scientific and societal activities:
- Member of the board of The Finnish Society for Rural Research and Development 2015-, Chair of the Board 2023–2025
- Member of the editorial board of the Finnish Journal of Rural Studies 2024-
- Assosiation for Rural Culture and Education, Chair of the Board 2026-
- Safety and security in sparsely populated areas (Harvaturva) -network, expertise member, Ministry of the Interior in Finland
- The community-led local development (YPK) working group, expertise member, the National Rural Policy Council
- Member of the Support Association of the Finnish Cultural Foundation
Mari Ponkilainen ([email protected])
- University teacher (Home economics teacher education)
- Grant-funded researcher (doctoral dissertation researcher, EdD, home economics)
- My doctoral research is action research aimed at supporting home economics student teachers’ cultural competences. The aim is to create a teaching practice environment in multistakeholder collaboration that enables student teachers to plan and implement teaching for culturally diverse adult learners in a non-formal context.
- I am coordinating the project Real Life Math – Improving student teachers’ mathematical literacy in real life contexts
Maria Lankinen ([email protected])
I am an authorized clinical nutritionist, and docent in nutrition, with specialization in lipid metabolism working at the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition. I work as a university lecturer. I am responsible for sports nutrition studies and teach both sports nutrition and clinical nutrition studies. I have an over 15 years’ experience of randomized controlled clinical trials studying health effects of diet. Last years I have focused on gene-diet interactions related to fatty acid metabolism and prevention of type 2 diabetes and metabolic fatty liver disease. I also have an active role in the Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium, which goal is to understand the relationships between fatty acids from our diet and metabolic processes on chronic disease outcomes.
Projects: T2D-GENE, FADSDIET1&2, LIDIGE, DIFTOB
Maria Pikkarainen ([email protected])
I provide support for researchers in the Faculty of Health Sciences in research funding proposal development, especially with Horizon Europe proposals. My tasks are for example:
– Finding suitable research funding opportunities
– Clarifying the terms and requirements of funders
– Assisting with and commenting on the preparation of research funding applications (Horizon Europe and Research Council of Finland)
– Communicating and providing training related to research funding
Maria Rikala ([email protected])
Duties include:
- Training on how to apply for funding
- Interpret funders’ guidelines and key requirements
- Guide how to identify potential funding sources
- Instructions to support proposal preparation
- Feedback on research proposals (Horizon Europe and Research Council of Finland)
- U.S. Federal funding: Administrative support
Maria Rissanen ([email protected])
In my current research, I combine biomechanics, computational modeling and contrast-enhanced computed tomography of articular cartilage to understand the development and degeneration of cartilage more deeply.
Maria Sarasti ([email protected])
I am a specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine and a clinical lecturer, teaching medical students. In my dissertation research I study how physicians identify their competence at the early stages of specialization and the factors influencing building up competence. Additionally, I examine how competence-based education is reflected in these plans. My data is individual learning plans.
Maria Skalska-Tuomi ([email protected])
I am a community ecologist researching species interactions, species-environment relationships and their impacts on ecosystem functioning in the rapidly changing Arctic tundra. I study primarily mammalian herbivore-plant-soil and plant-plant interactions, with a specific focus on ecological dynamics linked to the black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum spp.).
My core study area encompasses counties of Troms and Finnmark in Northern Norway.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7154-5177