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Tomi Kinnunen ([email protected])

Tomi H. Kinnunen is a Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Joensuu in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was an associate scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore. Since 2007, he has been with UEF. In 2010-2012, he was funded by a post-doctoral grant from Academy of Finland focusing on speaker recognition. He has been a PI or co-PI in three other large Academy of Finland funded projects on speaker recognition and voice anti-spoofing, and a partner in H2020-funded OCTAVE project focusing on voice biometrics for physical and logical access control. He chaired Odyssey 2014 workshop and served as an associate editor in Digital Signal Processing. From 2015 to 2018, he served as an associate editor in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and from 2016 to 2018 as a Subject Editor in Speech Communication. Between 2015 and 2016 he visited 6 months at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, under a mobility grant from Academy of Finland, with focus on voice conversion and spoofing. Since 2017, he has been Associate Professor at UEF, where he leads Computational Speech Group (https://www.uef.fi/web/speech). He is known as one of the co-founders of ASVspoof challenge (www.asvspoof.org), a non-profit initiate that seeks to evaluate and improve security of voice biometric solutions under spoofing attacks.

Research interests:
– Speaker and language recognition (in wide sense; includes automatic and perceptual methods)
– Spoofing and countermeasures for speaker recognition
– Voice transformation
– Application of my research to other bioacoustic signals

Tomi Mäki-Opas ([email protected])

I work as a professor of social policy and I have a title of docent in health policy. I am particularly interested in the effectiveness of social policy, social and health services and the promotion of wellbeing, especially from the perspective wellbeing and societal equity.

I lead the “Effectiveness in social and health services” research community and the operation and development of the “House of Effectiveness” network. In addition, I work in close cooperation with the Northern Savo welfare region, where the special theme of the cooperation is wellbeing services research and effectiveness.

I teach at all levels of the subjects related to the mentioned themes, effectiveness research methods, designs, and supervise dissertations related to the topics.

Tomi Nissinen ([email protected])

I am researching machine learning based image analysis. My PhD project is about using deep learning methods to analyze dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images. I seek to discover how these methods could exploit all the information in DXA images to improve osteoporotic fracture risk prediction.

Tomi Rosti ([email protected])

coordination of research support services in library, operational management of open science services, teaching of postgraduate courses, information specialist in mathematics

Tomi Suovuo ([email protected])

I am a Ph.D. from the University of Turku on the field of Computer Sciences, specializing in Interaction Design. During my studies I have completed minor subjects of especially Psychology and Philosophy. I teach basic courses at the School of Computing and do research.

My academic interests are:

  • Game Research
  • Interaction Design (also HCI)
  • eXtended Reality
  • Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Tomi Tuovinen ([email protected])

I work in Business Center North Savo -activities as a representative of UEF dealing with various services related to entrepreneurship and commercialization of innovation.

In a nutshell, I help students and researchers in commercialization of their business ideas. I also aim to develop the local startup culture.

Activities include e.g., running idea accelerator programme called “Havuja Bootcamp”, promoting our commercialization services among students of the University, and miscellaneous cooperation with companies and other stakeholders.

In addition, I am involved in YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) -activities in workpackages related to entrepreneurship.

Tommi Laukkanen ([email protected])

Adjunct Professor of digital consumer behavior and quantitative market research, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki

Associate Editor, International Marketing Review

Professor Laukkanen’s research contributes to marketing analytics, innovation adoption and resistance, consumer behavior, sensory research, and international marketing. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed international scientific articles and is globally among the leading scholars in electronic banking. His works have appeared in journals such as Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, International Marketing Review, Tourism Management, Journal of Small Business Management, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Bank Marketing, and others. He serves in editorial boards of International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Bank Marketing, and International Journal of Electronic Finance. He is an active member of the scientific community and has presented his research results globally in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.

Touko Vaahtera ([email protected])

From 1.9.2023 to 31.8.2027, I work as an Academy Research Fellow on my project Cripping Digital Capacity (funded by The Research Council of Finland).

The project explores the recent history of the idea of digital capacity. In this way, it provides new perspectives for understanding the current powerful idea, in which citizens are assumed to develop digital skills. From the perspectives of critical disability studies and crip theory, the project both interrogates the centrality of capacity around digitalization and explores how disability has played a part in the history of digital capacity.

Previously, I have interrogated the centrality of capacity and capability in the cultural meanings of bodies in my book “Biopolitics of Swimming and the Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness: Bodies of Latent Potential” (2022, Palgrave Macmillan).

Reviews:

“This wonderfully written book subjects swimming to a much-needed queer and disability analysis. Vaahtera asks us to reconsider the innocence of the question— can you swim?—and to explore together wider societal assumptions that we hold over ourselves and others associated with capacity, capability, and ability.” (Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, University of Sheffield)

“Tackling urgent questions regarding the biopolitics of transnational and local bodily ‘capabilities,’ Touko Vaahtera challenges us to examine how we oriented towards able-bodiedness. Focusing on a wide range of cultural texts, and challenging what we might understand as both culture and text, this book offers a queercrip methodology for analysing the intersectional politics of embodied, collective living. It opens up how we read, understand and experience collective bodily norms and their contexts, whilst offering specifically queercrip ways of imagining alternative modes of being.” (Donna McCormack, Author of Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing; School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde)

My latest article (in Finnish):

Touko Vaahtera & Hanna Varjakoski (2025) Nuoret ja vanhat televiestinnän murroksessa: Kulttuuriset oletukset iästä suomalaisten matkapuhelinoperaattorien televisiomainoksissa matkapuhelimien yleistymisen aikakaudella, Lähikuva, https://journal.fi/lahikuva/article/view/178134

My latest article (in English):

Touko Vaahtera, Aarno Kauppila, Anna-Maija Niemi & Reetta Mietola (2025) Ableist realism and inclusive education: theorising the cultural and atmospheric dimension. International Journal of Inclusive education: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2596974

Selected publications

On disability studies and ableism:

Vaahtera, T. 2022. Biopolitics of Swimming and the Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness: Bodies of Latent Potential. Palgrave Macmillan.

Honkasilta, J. & Vaahtera, T. 2022. Vammaistutkimuksen teemanumero. Oppimisen ja oppimisvaikeuksien erityislehti NMI-Bulletin E/2022. https://bulletin.nmi.fi/2022/02/03/vammaistutkimuksen-teemanumero-2022

Vaahtera, T. & Savallampi, M. 2020. Kulttuuriset valtasuhteet ja antihierarkkiset mahdollisuudet koronaepidemian aikana / Cultural power relations and anti-hierarchical possibilities in the epidemic era. In Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2. Berlin: Archive Books, 127–139.

Vaahtera, T. & Lappalainen, S. 2018. Bodies of latent potential: abled imaginary and national belonging in Finnish cultural texts about swimming. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 26:4, 593–607.

Vaahtera, T. 2016. ‘We swam before we breathed or walked’: able-bodied belonging in popular stories of evolutionary biology. Disability & Society 30:5, 591–603.

Vaahtera, T. [E.] 2016. Biopolitics and the repressive hypothesis of the body. The case of swimming training in Finland. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 18:2, 142–153.

Vaahtera, T. [E.] 2012. Compulsory able-bodiedness and the stigmatised forms of nondisability. Lambda Nordica 17:1–2, 77–101.

On digitalization:

Vaahtera, T. & Lappalainen, S. 2023. Vammaistutkimus koulutuspoliittisia ja antikapitalistisia kyvykkyysoletuksia haastamassa – Digitalisaation ajan ihmisteollisuus, Kulttuurintutkimus, 40:2, 27-40.

Vaahtera, T. & Lappalainen, S. 2022. Able-mindedness and citizenship in education policy discourses on digital skills, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2022.2156583

On education:

Mononen-Batista Costa, S. (Eds. A. Paakkari, H. Guttorm, E. Ikävalko, T. Kurki, M. Pyykkönen & T. Vaahtera). 2022. Yrittäjyys tyhjänä merkitsijänä – Tiedon ja subjektiuden tuotanto yrittäjyyskasvatuksessa. Helda Open Books.

Juva, I. & Vaahtera, T. 2017. Getting along – social skills required to be normal in the Finnish school. In T. Vaahtera, A-M Niemi, S. Lappalainen, and D. Beach (eds.) Troubling Educational Cultures in the Nordic Countries. London: The Tufnell Press, 52–67.

Vaahtera, T.; Niemi, A-M; Lappalainen, S. & Beach, D. 2017. Troubling Educational Cultures in the Nordic Countries.The Tufnell Press.

Guttorm, H.; Arvola-Olander, A.; Niemi, A-M; Vaahtera, T. [E.], et. al. 2014. Akateeminen kapitalismi ja kollektiivisuuksien paradoksaalisuudet tohtorikoulutuksessa. Aikuiskasvatus 34:2, 121–128.

On affect studies:

Vaahtera, T. 2024. Strong and Weak Theories of Capacity: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Disability, and Contemporary Capacity Theorizing, Open Cultural Studies, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2024-0003/html

Vaahtera, T. 2020. Empatian kulttuurinen politiikka. Aikuiskasvatus 40:3, 187–190.