My primary responsibilities include the UEF Connect service and customer relationship management development projects.
In UEF Connect, my focus is on the development and maintenance of the service, including interfaces with other services. In customer relationship management, I am responsible for developing the target state and operating model, as well as participating in system development. Additionally, I participate in reporting related to research and external funding, as well as other support functions (such as forms).
Paavo Honkakoski ([email protected])
Paavo Honkakoski has a long experience in regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes, drug transporters and nuclear receptors and their applications to assess drug ADMET properties. He is involved in the UEF research community “DrugTech” and a participant in the H2020 and Horizon Europe consortia EDCMET and NEMESIS. He has accumulated over 3 M€ competitive research funding. He has over 124 peer-reviewed papers garnering >6000 citations. He is active in both graduate and PhD education, having supervised >50 MSc and 11 PhD theses. He is a member of several editorial boards in journals related to drug research. He has served as a director of Graduate Schools/Doctoral Programs in drug research (2008-2017) and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at UEF with responsibilities in research infrastructures and doctoral programs (2012-2017).
Paavo Vartiainen ([email protected])
Paavo has strong experience in conducting measurements and developing data analysis methods for biomechanical motion analysis. Motion capture system, force platforms, instrumented treadmill, wearable IMU sensors and EMG measurement systems are equipment that he is putting into practice.
In addition to the motion laboratory, he is developing software for robot-assisted rehabilitation environment. Also developing laboratory hardware of all four laboratories of the research group with technical experts is his duty.
Paavo is conduction musculoskeletal modelling in OpenSim-platform to analyze knee contact forces and muscle activations. Current research interests include analysis on patient-specific rehabilitation of knee osteoarthritis and analysis of muscle forces at sports movements such as dance and ski-jump takeoff.
His another major research&development area is robotics and VR in neurological rehabilitation.
PALSTA (garden plot) research group
Pasi Fränti ([email protected])
Home page: http://cs.uef.fi/pages/franti/
Pasi Fränti received his MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Turku, 1991 and 1994 in Science. Since 2000, he has been a professor of Computer Science at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). He has published 79 journals and 167 peer review conference papers, including 14 IEEE transaction papers. His main research interests are in machine learning, data mining, and pattern recognition including clustering algorithms and intelligent location-aware systems. Significant contributions have also been made in image compression, image analysis, vector quantization and speech technology.
Pasi Fränti is the head of the Machine Learning group at the school of computing at UEF. He has supervised 25 PhD students on the following topics: Clustering (9), Image and audio compression (5), Speech technology (4), Image processing, de-noising and HDR (3), Location-aware systems (3), and web mining (1). Six of the students originate from Russian including St. Petersburg (3), Uljanovsk (2) and Novosibirsk (1). All graduates work in research, teaching (postdoc, lecturer, associate professor), or in research & development in academia or in IT companies located in Finland, Shanghai, Singapore, Germany, Romania and Iran.
Pasi Hirvonen ([email protected])
I teach and do research in the social psychology team at the Department of Social Sciences. I am also part of the UEF neuroscience research community, Professor Päivi Eriksson’s Neuroimpact and Innovation (NOVA) research group. I have a PhD in Social Sciences (Social Psychology).
My special expertise is in qualitative research methods, in particular discursive, dialogical and narrative methods. My research focuses on organisational and leadership studies, microcultures at work, interaction and team dynamics.
Pasi Schultz ([email protected])
I work as a doctoral researcher in the field of Biblical studies. My research interests include cultural astronomy, text mining, cognitive metaphor theory and argumentation analysis. I am currently studying the ways in which the Biblical authors utilized ancient celestial cartography and star lore in their writings.
Paula Paajanen ([email protected])
I work as a postdoctoral researcher on a research project examining disengagement or disaffiliation from long-term religious communities, close relationships between those who have left and those who remain in the community, and experiences of place. I also teach social psychology part-time.
My previous research has focused on everyday intergroup contact. I have worked on the FriendMUM project, which examines intercultural friendships between mothers with immigrant and Finnish backgrounds in a friendship program. My doctoral research was conducted as part of the Mamanet project and focused on encounters between mothers of young children and everyday segregation in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods. More broadly, I am interested in how everyday interactions in different contexts shape people’s experiences and intergroup relations in increasingly diverse communities. I have also contributed to research projects examining national symbols and local environmental threats. In my research, I use a range of qualitative approaches.
Alongside my research, I have taught social psychology courses on topics including intergroup relations, mental health and wellbeing, and environmental social psychology. I am also interested in teaching practices that support inquiry-based learning and curiosity.
Paula Rautionaho ([email protected])
I study grammatical variation in world Englishes – English is spoken all over the world as a native language, second language or foreign language, but is English the same everywhere? I’m particularly interested in the progressive construction (I‘m reading an interesting book.), but also in modal auxiliaries and forms of the verb BE. I study world Englishes, but also recent change in British English. In my research, I use corpus linguistic tools and advanced statistical methods.
Recently, I’ve grown an interest in the status of English in Finland.
I coordinate the Research infrastructure for datasets and humanities at the Philosophical Faculty.
Pauli Miettinen ([email protected])
My research covers data science from method development to applications. The most important fields I have developed methods for are matrix and tensor decompositions over non-standard algebras, redescription mining, and analysis of social networks. Their applications range from data mining, ecological niche modelling, the analysis of parliamentary candidates’ opinions, and the analysis of voluntary-based network services to health data analysis.
For more information, please see my home page (link at the end of the page).