During my academic career, I have been interested in curriculum development of comprehensive schools, pedagogical use of ICT and pedagogical ethics. The most recent 20 years I focused on research on assessment and evaluation with the special interest in developmental evaluation. My research topics were assessment and evaluation of learning. I have worked also as an active in-service educator of my research topic. I have retired 1.1.2024 (Professor, emerita) but work on some academic tasks related to evaluation and assessment based on my own interest (doctoral education excluded).
Päivi Eriksson ([email protected])
I study and teach topics related to organizations and management, innovation and renewal, collaborative research and societal impact of research, academic entrepreneurship, and qualitative methods. I co-lead the Innovation Management research group together with Hanna Lehtimäki. Together with Tero Montonen, I lead the Neuro-innovation and impact research team that works in the multidisciplinary neuroscience research community at UEF (NEURO). I also work as the Coordinator of the MSCA Horizon 2020 Neuro-Innovation PhD programme (2021-2027) and as the Co-coordinator of the MSCA Horizon Europe NOVEL postdoctoral programme (2024-2029).
Päivi Rosenius ([email protected])
I am a University Teacher in Career Guidance and Counselling. My expertise focuses on guidance pedagogy, dialogical and participatory learning, and the design and development of student-centred teaching.
My teaching emphasises students’ active agency, collaborative learning, interaction, and shared expertise. I create learning environments where students can participate, ask questions, engage in discussion, experiment, and build understanding together. I also see the teacher as a learner: in dialogical pedagogy, knowledge and expertise are constructed collaboratively.
I develop teaching based on research and student feedback. I am particularly interested in how different pedagogical approaches, digital learning environments, and the opportunities offered by technology can support learning, participation, meaningful encounters, and flexible ways of learning. A supportive, dialogical, and inquiry-based approach is at the heart of my teaching and pedagogical development work.
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Rafael Lopes Almeida ([email protected])
I studied Electrical Engineering as an undergraduate and got drawn into machine learning along the way. After graduating, I spent a few years in industry, working as a Computer Vision Engineer, Data Scientist, and AI Engineer. I worked on license plate recognition, fraud detection, NLP systems, and predictive toxicology.
For my Master’s degree I built machine learning models for QSAR (Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship) applications in pharmaceutical research. That work pulled me into cheminformatics and, more broadly, into thinking about how AI methods can be useful in drug discovery. I have also been involved as a P&D Researcher in industry and as a Research Collaborator at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LITC), where the focus has been on developing machine learning approaches with practical applications in cheminformatics.
At UEF, my research sits at the intersection of AI and drug discovery. I work with graph-based molecular representations and graph neural networks (GNNs), and I’m particularly interested in model explainability, that is, understanding why a model makes a given prediction, not just whether it gets the right answer. I also develop machine learning and deep learning methods aimed at improving predictive models for pharmaceutical research, with a focus on data-intensive problems in drug discovery pipelines.
Rahma Hersi ([email protected])
Rahma Hersi is a doctoral researcher working at the intersections of education and labour rights for minorities, with a particular focus on how alternative knowledge traditions—including Islamic law, ethics, and theology—shape the lived realities of the communities under study. Her doctoral research topic is titled; Becoming a Lääkäri in Finland: A Look at a Select Group of Finnish Somali Women’s pathway towards higher education and career as medical doctors. A Narrative Inquiry Approach
During her doctoral studies, Rahma was employed as project researcher under the Suojatie Research Project that focused on cross-border protection for children with transnational backgrounds.
Rahma was a visiting researcher at Leiden University’s Faculty of Area Studies under the supervision of Maurits Berger, where they also taught courses on Islamic law and Islamic jurisprudence. The research period was between February- March 2023 and September/October 2023. Rahma has presented her research at academic forums in the UK, Denmark, and Helsinki.
Prior to embarking on their doctoral studies, Rahma completed an Masters in International Comparative Law at the Robert McKinney School of Law in the United States and a Double Bachelor of Laws in Islamic Law and Common Law and Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies at the International Islamic University of Pakistan, building a foundation that combines cross-regional perspectives with a deep engagement in minority rights and Islamic intellectual traditions.
Rahma is multilingual speaking ; English, Arabic, Somali and Swahili
Raihanatul Jannat ([email protected])
Raihanatul Jannat is a doctoral candidate at the UEF Law School, supervised by Dr. Yulia Yamineva and Dr. Seita Vesa. Her PhD research explores the role law can play in building climate resilient development (CRD) for women in Bangladesh. Raihanatul is also the academic coordinator of the UEF Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Policy and Law, and is a member of the Climate Change and International Environmental Law research group from CCEEL. Raihanatul’s other research interests include climate justice, environmental justice and minority and human rights.
Raine Kortet ([email protected])
Areas of specialization
Aquatic ecology, evolutionary ecology, behavioral ecology, aquatic ecotoxicology, ecological parasitology, ecological physiology and ecological immunology: empirical and experimental research using mainly fishes, crayfishes, insects, mussels and arachnids.
Publications and citation metrics:
http://scholar.google.fi/citations
Rami Korhonen ([email protected])
2000: MSc in medical physics, University of Kuopio, Finland
2004: PhD in physics, University of Kuopio, Finland
2005-2007: Post doc, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2008-2013: Academy Research Fellow, University of Eastern Finland
2013-2016. Associate Professor of biomechanics, University of Eastern Finland
2016-current: Professor of biomechanics
Dr. Korhonen has vast experience in musculoskeletal biomechanics, imaging and modelling at cellular, molecular, tissue and joint levels. Currently his research aims primarily at 1) revealing new biomechanically and biochemically driven mechanisms leading to osteoarthritis and 2) developing novel imaging and in silico modelling methods for osteoarthritis prognosis and treatment planning. Dr. Korhonen has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and supervised 28 PhD theses, and his research has been funded by EU (e.g. ERC), Academy of Finland, Business Finland, and other national and international foundations and organizations.
Links to the BBC research group and MSKD research community:
https://sites.uef.fi/biophysics/
https://www.uef.fi/en/research-community/musculoskeletal-diseases-msd
Ramya Ambikapathi ([email protected])
I am a YUFE4 postdoctoral researcher working on nature-based sustainable solutions for mitigating drought stress in urban greenery. My research involves experimental studies on urban trees in Kuopio, Finland, with a focus on above- and belowground changes, including biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions and soil microbial communities. The goal is to enhance the resilience of urban ecosystems under changing climate conditions through biochar-based interventions.
I actively collaborate with stakeholders such as Arbclimb Oy, a professional tree care company, Finland and the Climate Emergency Officer from the Colchester City Council, UK. Additionally, I work with the School of Life Sciences at the University of Essex, where I explore high-throughput phenotyping technologies to assess drought responses in urban tree saplings.