Petra Kuivala, Doctor of Theology, works as an Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at the School of Theology, University of Eastern Finland. Her research intersects with the fields of theology and religious studies, history, Latin American studies, and Cuban studies. The primary area of Kuivala’s research is global Catholicism on the latter half of the 20th century. Previously, Kuivala has worked as a postdoctoral researcher of Area and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Art and as a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki (2014-2023). In 2020-2023, she held an appointment as a Visiting Scholar and an Associate at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Harvard University. In 2016-2017, Kuivala held an appointment as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Cuban Research Institute, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, at Florida International University. She has received fellowships and research grants from the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, the Lutheran World Federation, The Osk. Huttunen Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Aune Vappula Fund, and The Research Center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. Dr. Kuivala’s research and teaching intersect with the study of religion, history, Cuban studies, and Latin American studies, addressing Christianity in the Americas, with a particular focus on religion in Cuba, the Cuban Revolution, and socialist society. Kuivala’s dissertation (2019), Never a Church of Silence: The Catholic Church in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1986, focused on Catholicism in socialist Cuba, drawing on archival and oral sources as well as ethnographic work conducted in Cuba. During the fieldwork for her dissertation, Dr. Kuivala became the first scholar to access previously unstudied archives of the Catholic Church in Cuba, working on classified sources dating to the revolutionary period. In total, she perused more than 40,000 pages of previously unexplored documents in nine Cuban archives. Most recently, Kuivala has written about religious material culture and lived religion in Cuba, and religious moral authority confronting totalitarian state power in Latin America. Her articles have been published in, among others, Cuban Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and the International Journal of Cuban Studies. Kuivala is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Yearbook of the Finnish Society of Church History. Dr. Kuivala’s most recent research project, The Revolution, Religion, and Social Experience in Cuba, 1961–1991, funded by the Academy of Finland, analyzed the intersections of vernacular religion and lived experience in the social histories of the Cuban Revolution.
Petro Julkunen ([email protected])
I am a professor with special interest to medical diagnostic and treatment technology as well as safety and education. I am also working as a chief physicist at the Diagnostic Imaging Center, Kuopio University Hospital. I have a strong background in musculoskeletal and neurophysiological research as well as training of medical physicists.
Our research laboratories are located at the Kuopio University Hospital (building 1A, 2nd floor). Our neuromodulation research group focuses on developing neurophysiological diagnostics and treatment techniques, as well as novel methodologies for assessment of brain and nerve function, and the connection between muscles and nerves by means of neuromodulation.
Pharmaceutical Policy Research Group
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Group
Philip Chambers ([email protected])
Philip is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland’s School of Forest Sciences and a member of the Gamification Group at Tampere University.
His research focuses on understanding how gamification can be used in decision-making in forestry planning and policy contexts. He is interested in exploring whether games and playful and immersive technologies, such as games, drones and VR, can be utilised to better engage stakeholders in participatory processes and support multi-criteria decision-making.
Philipp Steinhilber ([email protected])
As a doctoral researcher in the Spacefen project, I’m combining field measurements with mulit-source and -scale remote sensing data, like drone, aerial and satellite imagery, to characterize spatiotemporal dynamics of palsa mires in the fennoscandian tundra. Palsas are peat mounds containing a permafrost core and are likely to vanish within this century under current climate scenarios. My research aims to better understand palsa life cycles, degradation processes and climate feedbacks.
Phillip Sams ([email protected])
Phillip Sams is currently researching the concepts pertaining to a perceived crisis of masculinity in late 19th-century American Naturalism. His supervisors are Dr. Jopi Nyman and Dr. Pekka Kilpeläinen. In addition to this, Phillip teaches the American Studies lectures.
Physics, Mathematics and Technology Education Research
Pia Heilmann ([email protected])
I am a researcher and a teacher in the area of management and leadership. My interests relate to management, leadership, expert organizations, change management, resilience, organization behavior, strategic human resource management, competence management and careers.
My research relate to management in working life and I cooperate with different organizations.
I am an Adjunct Professor at LUT-University and University of Jyväskylä.
Pierre Moreau ([email protected])
My research is focused on atherosclerosis and the response of the different cells types to the stimuli. I am studying the gene regulatory processes under pro-atherogenic stimuli and the contribution of the ncRNAs in the different cell types.