Matti Muukkonen (Dr. Adm. Sc., LL.D., M.Soc.Sc., Title of Docent in Public Law, Title of Docent in Administrative Law) is an university lecturer. His specialities are self-governing communities, especially municipalities and associations. As part of the study of municipal law, Muukkonen’s research topics concern municipalities as institutions, as local government organizes its administration and finances, and the activities of municipalities. The approach also highlights links to norms on municipal service production, the most recent causes of the crisis in elderly care.
Muukkonen returned to the university after a 10-year break. Previously, he worked as a researcher and senior assistant in administrative and European law. Outside the university, he has worked as an executive director of a non-governmental organization, a digital business development manager, a startup entrepreneur, a research director, a chief municipal officer of three municipalities, and other municipal administration tasks such as part-time Social Director, Director of Education, Head of the Kindergarten and School Assistant.
I work as a property law professor at the Law School of the University of Eastern Finland. My teaching contains courses and seminars in the area of property law. I act as a docent at the law faculties of the universities of Helsinki and Lapland where I give lectures. In addition, I act as a docent of jurisprudence at the law faculty of the University of Turku, and I give lectures at the School of Business and Management of the LUT university (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology). My research activities are directed to both property law and jurisprudence. In property law, my publications are located in the areas of real property law, security law and contract law. In jurisprudence, my publications are located both in the areas of legal philosophy and legal theory. In addition to my homeland, I am orientated towards international research. I act in the working groups of the Common Core of European Private Law Research Project. Books and articles are published in the frames of the project. They are located in the areas of comparative property and contract law. I participate in domestic and international conferences and I make research visits to European universities.
I work as a doctoral researcher in the Deparment of Geographical and Historical Studies of the University of Eastern Finland. My doctoral research “The spectrum of transitioning bodies: experiences of menopause and (un)belonging” is part of the project Menopausing: exploring awareness, diversity and activism, funded by the Research Council of Finland (2024-2028).
In my research I will be examining menopause-related experiences among queer, lgbtiqa+, neurodivergent, chronically ill and disabled communities in Finland and Estonia.
The research employs intersectional feminism, feminist geography, critical phenomenology as well as critical disability studies, and queer and crip theories. Together, these frameworks offer radical approaches to the concept of normalcy, revealing how the boundaries between sick and healthy, abnormal and normal, accepted and rejected are fluid and constantly shifting.
You can read more about me and my research from our project’s website: Meeri Ott.
I work as a Project Coordinator for the UniPID network. The Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID) is a network of ten Finnish universities that has the mission to strengthen the capacity of member universities to enhance global responsibility and Global South perspectives in their education, research, and societal engagement. UniPID promotes equitable and inclusive global partnerships that advance sustainable development.
I am a PhD student in Innovation Management (UEF Business School) and Doctoral Researcher in Neuro-Innovation Ph.D. Programme (MSCA Cofund). My PhD project is a qualitative study focuses on remote monitoring of patients from organizational, management, and innovation perspectives in the context of specific neurodegenerative disease areas, such as idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) which is among the brain health research areas in the MSCA Neuro-Innovation Doctoral Programme.
My main duty is to teach and coordinate the teaching of transferable skills for researchers.
My other duties include, e.g.
- career support of doctoral researchers
- implementation of a survey for doctoral researchers every two years and analysis of the results
- development tasks related to the doctoral training of the YUFE Alliance
- general development activities related to doctoral education
- tasks of a UEF Research Integrity Adviser
My research focuses on developing sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies for biobased chemical production through the valorisation of biomass and waste streams. I integrate environmental biotechnology, microbiology, and engineering to design and operate bioreactors, as well as to investigate microbial processes within engineered systems.
I earned my PhD in Chemical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, where I focused on enhancing volatile fatty acid production from dairy wastewater using bioaugmentation strategies. Following my PhD, I held postdoctoral and technical manager positions at Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands), working on the UNLOCK project—an open research center dedicated to the exploration and engineering of microbial communities.
At the University of Eastern Finland, my research group focuses on developing a novel bioprocess to recover carbon and nitrogen from waste streams in the form of primary amines. This work aims to support the transition toward carbon- and energy-positive wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) by enhancing resource circularity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and transforming WWTPs into sustainable hubs for chemical production within a circular economy framework.
I work as a senior researcher in social psychology, with a particular interest in health and well-being issues. I have explored young people’s distress in relation to cultural conceptions of depression, and the experiences, life situations and rights of people with mild cognitive impairment or early onset dementia in working age. I am currently involved in research projects on the well-being and rights of older people, people living with dementia and people living with epilepsy. In the project Access to justice for marginalized groups of older people in aging society (AMIS; 2023–2027), funded by the Research Council of Finland, I lead a work package focusing on the mental health challenges of older people.
