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Mika Saikkonen ([email protected])

Secretary of UEF human sciences ethics committee. Preparatory funding for international research projects. Guidance: EU structural funds (ESF/ERDF), EU territorial cooperative objective (Northern Periphery and Arctic, Baltic Sea Region, Interreg Europe), CBC-programmes, NordForsk, European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.

Mika Suvanto ([email protected])

PhD 1999, University of Joensuu
Professor in Materials Chemistry 2013, Univerity of Eastern Finland
Head of Chemistry Department (UEF), 2016 –
Research topics: Functional material surfaces and Environmental catalysis

Mika Tarvainen ([email protected])

Mika P. Tarvainen, Ph.D, Docent, received the M.Sc. degree in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the University of Kuopio, Kuopio,Finland. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Department of Applied Physics,University of Eastern Finland and Consultant at the Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital.
His current research interests include medical signal analysis methods and physiological modelling and their applications in assessing human health. Specifically, development of analysis methods for cardiovascular signals, including heart rate variability (HRV), and psychophysiological measurements. The main research applications include objective assessment of occupational stress, complications of diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.
Mika Tarvainen is also the founder of Kubios Oy and Partner at Heart2Save Oy, both companies are based in Finland. Kubios Oy is a start-up company providing HRV and other biomedical signal analysis software tools for researchers and consumers, as well as algorithms and custom-built software for the health and wellbeing industry. Kubios HRV software is the most detailed HRV analysis software in the market and is used at roughly 1200 universities in 128 countries.

Mikko Gynther ([email protected])

My research focuses on the intricate role of drug transporters in pharmacokinetics, drug delivery, and anticancer drug therapy. I aim to explore and overcome transporter-mediated drug resistance and increase drug therapy efficacy and safety through innovative drug delivery strategies.

My core research interests are investigating transporters involved in anticancer drug resistance and developing novel methodologies to address these challenges. I aim to elucidate, through pharmacoproteomics, disease-induced alterations in drug transporter and drug metabolizing enzyme expression, analyzing their implications for pharmacokinetics and drug delivery. I am developing advanced mass spectrometry techniques for quantifying proteins from various biological samples, including cancer cells and tumor biopsies. This information is employed for the development of tumor-targeted drug delivery systems. In addition, I investigate novel strategies for modifying transporter expression in cancer cells to accumulate anticancer drugs in target cells efficiently.

With a strong background in drug transporters and quantitative proteomics, our team employs cutting-edge techniques to study transporter protein expression, cellular localization, and function. Our multidisciplinary approach fosters collaborations with local and international cancer research and nanoparticle development experts, enhancing our findings’ depth and breadth.

Mikko Herrala ([email protected])

I am teaching and supervising  students in our international master’s degree program in toxicology. Also doing toxicological research as much as possible.

I was working 1.9.2022-31.8.2025 in my Research Council of Finland funded postdoctoral project: Genotoxicity Assessment and Comparison of Toxicity Mechanisms of Natural Anthraquinone Dyes. Before that project, I was working in UEF WATER research, studying possible adverse health effects of microplastics. I was also working in the BioColour -project, which aims to develop new methods of biocolourant production, characterization and application, which enable the buildup of novel processes leading to a variety of sustainable items.

During years 2014-2019 I worked at the Department of environmental and biological sciences in the radiation research group. I was studying biological effects of electromagnetic fields, especially genotoxicity and genomic instability.

Mikko Laitinen ([email protected])

I am Professor of English Language at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and an elected member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. My research focuses on the social network theory in language variation and change in English and on the study of world Englishes in Finland and in the Nordic region. I am interested in computational and data intensive digital methods in the humanities. As empirical material, my research uses both traditional text corpora and born-digital societal big data. As for administrative duties, I was elected as the chair of the University Collegiate Body for 2022–2025.

 

I started my university studies in a college in Texas in the 1990s after which I have been a student and post doc researcher at the universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä. In 2012, I was appointed as Professor of English at Linnaeus University in Sweden where I helped establish an interdisciplinary research unit of Center for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA). This interdisciplinary unit brings together computer scientists, visualization experts, social scientists and linguists for data intensive research.

Currently, I am PI of two large externally funded projects. The first one is FIN-CLARIAH (2022–25), which is funded by the Research Council of Finland and its Research Infrastructure program. This national consortium develops tools and datasets for digital humanities research (https://www.kielipankki.fi/organization/fin-clariah/). The work of the UEF group focuses on collecting, preprocessing and analyzing extremely large-scale born-digital social media data and metadata for research. We are particularly interested in human-centered AI and concentrate on using societal big data in ethically sustainable ways (see www.dariah.fi).

The second is a Research Council project funding for 2024–2028. This research project Weak-tie hypothesis in complex digital networks (COMET) tests the validity of the weak-tie hypothesis in sociolinguistics by examining how linguistic innovations spread in extremely large social media networks (https://research.fi/en/results/funding/81344). It brings together leading experts from social network theory, data-intensive sociolinguistics and computer sciences.

In addition, during 2022 and 2023, I run a project funded by the Prime Minister’s Office and its joint analysis, assessment and research funding scheme. This project provided research-based information for decision makers on the role of English in Finland today. It investigated the scope of using English in civil administration, in business life and in higher education in Finland. As empirical material, we used large-scale survey data and data collected from social media. The project report is available (in Finnish) at https://tietokayttoon.fi/-/englanti-suomen-kansalliskielten-rinnalla.

Together with Dr. Martin Schweinberger (University of Queensland), I am the general editor of a new book series (Bloomsbury Academic). This series (Language, Data Science and Digital Humanities) sets out from the assumption that language use is at the heart of the ongoing digital revolution, and that more interdisciplinary collaboration is need to understand both digitalization and language in use in the digital era. The series specifically invites proposals that seek to utilize computational and data intensive methods and explore novel digital solutions to analyze digital data of various sizes and forms.

Mikko Lampinen ([email protected])

I act as a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland’s Business School, and I am a member of the Research Centre for Sustainable Circular Economy (CECE), the Sustainable Innovation Lab (SUNLAB), and the Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot (SUSTRA).

My research examines sustainability transitions and the role of ecosystem governance in advancing the circular economy. Focusing on the transition of critical materials, I investigate how businesses, public organizations, and other stakeholders coordinate resources, build collaborative relationships, and govern industrial ecosystems to enable circular economy transition. My work combines perspectives from management studies, sustainability transitions, and ecosystem research to better understand the governance challenges and opportunities associated with systemic change.