Research interests: Encounter of Islam and Christianity (600-800), Syriac mystical theology, Early Byzantine ascetic literature, Byzantine & Syriac liturgical commentaries, Mariology, Aesthetics & Angelology in early Byzantium, Non-dogmatic patristic topics from second to fourth century, idea of Jerusalem, Jewish angelology, Post-holocaust Jewish theology, Cultural heritage of the Armenian genocide, Rabbi Kook
Latest research:
- Visualizing Memory and Loss: French-Armenian Documentary Responses to the Genocide (International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 2026).
- The Fifth Gospel?: The Christological Use of Isaiah in Ephrem the Syrian (MohrSiebeck, 2026)
- Religion and Spirituality in the Memoirs of Child Survivors of the Armenian Genocide (International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 2025)
- Animals as αλόγα: A Critical Appraisal of a Murky Concept (Ortodoksia, 2025)
- Two brides in dispute: the Synagogue and the Church in Syriac Dialogue Poems (Brill 2025)
- Parables in Ephrem the Syrian’s Commentary on Diatessaron (MohrSiebeck 2025).
Research Interests:
Composition and physical and chemical properties of organic aerosol
Atmospheric oxidation processes, in particular for volatile organic compounds
Sources and sinks of organic compounds in the atmosphere
Vertical variations of aerosol-related mechanisms in the troposphere
First steps of atmospheric new-particle formation and growth
Nucleation and phase transitions
Siiri Utriainen works as a coordinator in the FAME – Flagship of Advanced Mathematics for Sensing, Imaging and Modelling. Her duties include, among other things, administrative, communication, reporting, and stakeholder tasks for the flagship. In addition, she is partially responsible for the coordination tasks of the DREAM Doctoral Education Pilot for Mathematics of Sensing, Imaging and Modelling.
Siiri is also a doctoral student in health sciences and her thesis investigates the media use of preschool children and parental guidance in Finnish child health clinics. She has a background in research topics related to the well-being of children, young people, and families, in addition to nursing science, also from the field of child protection.
Research at the intersection of social work and mental health, focusing on human connection, social exclusion, loneliness, and care.
Simcha Jong is a part-time Professor at UEF Business School and a member of UEF’s Neuro Science Research Community. Jong’s primary appointment is at Leiden University where he is the Director and Professor of Science Based Business at the Faculty of Science. Simcha has held previous faculty appointments at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the UCL School of Management, and École Polytechnique. He has a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, an MPhil in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in Social Science from Utrecht University’s University College. In addition, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley.
Simcha currently leads an ERC Consolidator project on the organisation of international R&D consortia, and he has been the recipient of funding from major UK funding bodies such as Innovate UK, ESRC, NESTA, NIHR, Wellcome Trust, and BIS, as well as various industry partners for projects in the field of healthcare innovation.
Simcha’s research has been published in leading international scientific and management journals, including Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, Technovation, and Industrial and Corporate Change.
I am specialist in 20th Century Eastern European, particularly Soviet cultural history, cultural diplomacy of the Cold War era, and memory studies. I have published extensively on cultural, international and transnational East-West connections, particularly from the Soviet perspective, including edited volumes Beyond the Curtain: Entangled Histories of the Cold War-Era Europe (Berghahn 2015), Music, Art, and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War (Routledge 2016), as well as Entangled East and West. Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction during the Cold War (Degruyter 2019). I have also authored a multi-author monograph Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai (Hawaii UP 2019). My current research involves cultural resistance against the Soviet central authorities especially in the Baltic republics during the late Soviet period.
More information and e.g. full publication list can be found from: Simo Mikkonen
Simona is a doctoral researcher interested in brain connectivity and its alterations in psychiatric conditions.
With a biomedical engineering background (BS from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and MS from EPFL, Switzerland), she focuses on brain imaging techniques to optimize TMS treatments.
Sina Bahrpeyma graduated from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (Pharm.D., 2013), and is completing his Doctoral Program in Drug Research (University of Eastern Finland, from January 2018) as well as being a visiting researcher at University of Helsinki. Currently, his research focuses on melanin and melanosome binding for ocular drug delivery with the aim of identifying a new therapy for untreated eye diseases such as Age-related Macular Degeneration (Dry-AMD).
