Visiting Researcher at the Department of Technical Physics investigating applications for magnetic resonance imaging for plant biology and material research.
Teemu-Taneli Sahlström ([email protected])
Research of Teemu Sahlström focuses on medical and biomedical tomographic imaging techniques utilising coupled physics. In his research, he develops numerical methods for modelling and inverse problem of tomographic imaging techniques utilising Bayesian framework for inverse problems, numerical modelling of physics, and deep learning.
Teija Makkonen ([email protected])
I am a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in social pedagogy at the University of Eastern Finland. My PhD (2024) examined the agency and professional practices of artists in elder care communities. My expertise includes sociocultural work, social pedagogical approaches, cultural well-being, social inclusion, and issues of inequality among vulnerable people in sustainability transition.
I work in the Strategic Research Council-funded SISU project, studying agency, future visions, and perceptions of sufficiency among people in vulnerable positions, such as adults with intellectual disabilities and older people in rural areas. I also contribute to the DRIVEX project funded by the Kone Foundation, which explores older men’s experiences of giving up driving and supporting related life changes.
I am active in the academic community as a board member of the Finnish Society of Social Pedagogy and deputy board member of the Association for Research on Growth and Aging. I am part of the Gender Studies Network (SUVEF) at UEF and will serve as Associate Editor of Sosiaalipedagogiikka from 2026.
Teo Kurki ([email protected])
I work as a Professor in cultural studies (specialising in research on cultural change) at the School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland. My recent research has focused on borders and borderlands from the point of view of culture, literature, and material artefacts, and my latest monograph addresses Finnish language literature in Russian Karelia, ”Rajan kirjailijat: Venäjän Karjalan suomenkieliset kirjailijat tilan ja identiteetin kirjoittajina” (Trans. Writers of the Border: Finnish Speaking Writers of Space and Identity in Russian Karelia, SKS, 2018). My recent research projects include “Traumatized Borders: Reviving Subversive Narratives of B/Order, and Other” (Academy of Finland, 2016-20), and “A Lost Mitten and Other Stories: Experiences of Borders, Mobilities, and New Neighbor Relations” (Kone Foundation, 2018-2022). Visit the virtual exhibition of the project “A Lost Mitten and Other Stories” here: https://www.360panorama.fi/360KadonnutKinnas/.
Teppo Hujala ([email protected])
I conduct multidisciplinary research on changes relating to, for example, policy instruments, business models, and services. I teach futures thinking, foresight methods, and qualitative research. I participate international research networks, and I promote open science and knowledge co-construction.
Tero Laakso ([email protected])
LL.M, M Sc. (Forestry) Tero Laakso has participated in numerous study and development projects funded by the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. He has also worked as a researcher in research projects funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland (SOMPA, CORE). He is currently finalizing his dissertation in the field of forest law. He has taught forest law and forest policy both in lecture halls and in the field.
Tero Setälä ([email protected])
Research topics: optical coherence, 3D polarization, nano optics, electromagnetic optics, geometric phase, and plasmonics.
Teaching experience: electromagnetism, Fourier optics, quantum optics, laser physics, nonlinear optics, nano optics, and quantum mechanics.
Tetiana Nahirniak ([email protected])
I am a project researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, and a doctoral candidate in the Past, Space, and Environment in Society Doctoral Programme. I hold a Master’s degree in History from the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”(Kyiv, Ukraine). My research focuses on social cohesion, memory politics, and the democratization of post-Soviet societies. I have contributed to projects on memory politics in Ukraine, prepared research and analytical materials at analytical centres in Kyiv, and conducted research at the University of Warsaw on collective memory, minority integration, and post-Soviet democratization.
Teuvo Laitila ([email protected])
My research interests include antisemistim and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, particularly the Baltic and Ukraine; religion and politics in the Balkans (particularly in Bosnia-Herzegowina); religion, nationalism and politics in Ukraine; and religion and violence in Eastern Europe. I also have studies religious human-other animals relations. On my interest in animal and environmental studies, see also https://blogs.helsinki.fi/religion-ecology-diversity/team/; https://www.ykes.org/tutkijoita
Publications: see UEF Cris and the attached list of publications.