“Traumatized Borders: Reviving Subversive Narratives of B/Order, and Other” (TB) is a multidisciplinary research project which investigates oral and written trauma narratives related to various topographic and symbolic borders in Russian, Finnish, Estonian, Ukrainian, and North-American contexts. In the project, traumas are understood as universal, but yet culturally bound narratives and linguistic constructions. Borders, on the other hand, are understood as political and cultural constructions that create traumas and determines the meaning and significance of border related trauma narratives. Geopolitically, TB focuses on the contemporary EU-Russian border, former Soviet internal borders, and the historical Soviet Union border with the West, whose influence reaches even the North-American context. The study covers time period between the 1920s to the present day including some of the most significant historical events that have defined Russia’s and its neighbors’ topographic and symbolic borders.
In the project, methods provided by cultural studies, folklore research, cultural anthropology, literature research and linguistics are applied.
The project is funded by the Academy of Finland.
Research Interests in AI, Computer Vision, and Medical Image & Video Analysis
My research interests focus on the development of advanced artificial intelligence methods for medical image and video analysis, particularly in the context of complex, long-duration visual data. I am interested in computer vision techniques for object detection, localization, and classification, with an emphasis on transformer-based and hybrid deep learning architectures. A core motivation of my work is improving detection accuracy, robustness, and computational efficiency under real-world constraints.
EU KDT Projects: MATISSE & H2TRAIN
I am currently involved in two EU Key Digital Technologies (KDT) programme projects: MATISSE and H2TRAIN. MATISSE is a large-scale collaborative project with 30 partners and a total budget of €18.1 million, with a €1.5 million contribution from the CI research group at the University of Eastern Finland. H2TRAIN involves 36 partners with a total budget of €24.8 million, of which €1.3 million is contributed by the CI research group at the University of Eastern Finland. Both projects focus on advancing key digital technologies through international collaboration between academia, industry, and research organizations.
I research various topics and phenomena related to working life. In addition, my research has addressed issues such as environmental crises, nonhuman animals, education, gender and embodiment, as well as other socially constructed differences and qualitative research methods.
I am a social geographer and work as a senior researcher in environmental policy. I have a title of docent in University of Lapland (sociology/sustainable natural resources policy). I have been involved in agri-food research in social sciences since 1994 and mining research since 2009, and I am a head of CEMMS (Research center for Mining, Minerals, and Society). My academic interest covers food issues (especially development, meanings and actors of organic production), food policy, food security, rural research and actor networks. In mining research my interests cover societal issues of mining industry, community experiences and impacts of mining, activism, social movements, actor-networks, green transition, CRMs, and environmental justice.
I was a chair of the Finnish Society for Rural Researchers and Developers in 2008-2013, member of Finnish Rural Policy Committee in 2008-2011, member of National Rural Network in 2012-2013, and the member of the board of Finnish Society for Social Scientific Environmental research in 2014-2015.
I have been a member of Scientific Committee of Nordic conferences for Rural research since 2011 and a representative of Northern Europe in International Sociological Association’s RC 40 (Sociology of Food and Agriculture) in 2017-20.
In addition to refereed articles and edited books, I have also written numerous popular texts and given interviews in national media. I am familiar with food, rural and mining research networks globally.
My research interests are
- effectiveness of laboratory tests on patient outcomes and healthcare resources
- patient safety in the laboratory
- thyroid diseases in pregnancy
- green laboratories
Feel free to contact me on thesis topics!
I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in the cultural study of music and religion. In my current research I examine different forms of Christian dance in Finland. Previously in my career, I have done research on Rastafari movement and reggae music and Christian hip hop culture, and developed methods to teach intercultural skills at university level. I have done research in Finland, as well as in Namibia and South Africa.
Postdoctoral researcher with interest to enhance the diagnostics of sleep disorders with advanced biosignal analysis techniques.
The topic of my PhD thesis was ”Nocturnal hypoxic load in the evaluation of the progression of sleep apnea”.
My main research focuses on interventional treatment of coronary artery disease, particularly drug-coated balloon (DCB) technology, stent-free PCI strategies, and the treatment of patients at high bleeding risk. I lead and participate in national and international clinical studies evaluating novel coronary intervention strategies with the aim of improving long-term clinical outcomes and safety. Email: [email protected]. p. +368-50-5998022.
I am responsible for specialist training in cardiology and participate in undergraduate cardiology teaching for third- and sixth-year medical students (LT3 and LT6) at the University of Eastern Finland.
I am an environmental historian specialising in the 20th century environmental change. I have studied especially the marine environmental history, the history of human-animal relation, the history of environmentalism and the history of marine science.
I am currently leading the research project (consortium) “Humans and Ticks in the Anthropocene” (HUTI), funded by the Academy of Finland, in which we are investigating the complex relationship between humans and ticks in the Finnish context. I am also involved in the research projects “Cultures of Unsustainability and “Living with the Sea in a Changing Climate”, both funded by the Academy of Finland.
My current research focuses on targeting chemically understudied, i.e. dark, kinases. I combine multiple computational tools, ranging from molecular docking and different machine learning-based methods to molecular dynamics simulations, in my research to design novel chemical probes against my current target kinases. I have additionally worked with molecular modelling and virtual screening of multiple different targets, such as components of the E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, transcription factors and nuclear receptors. I have obtained my BSc and MSc degrees in Computational Biomedicine from UEF.
