Assistant Professor Tuomas Yrttimaa’s research focuses on the use of laser scanning techniques and point cloud processing methods for detailed measurement of trees and forest stands.
Tuomo Alhojärvi ([email protected])
I’m a geographer specialised in postcapitalist theory and practice. I work as Senior Researcher in UEF’s Cultural Studies research group. From March 2026, I’ve led the project After Dystopia: Anticipatory Climate Migration, Spatial Imagination and the Possibility of Mapping Otherwise (2026-2030), funded by Kone Foundation. We study the anticipation of climate mobilities in Finland: how prospective climate-induced migration is anticipated in Finland, and what kind of solidarity-driven, justice-oriented anticipatory practices already exist and may be imagined. Between 2022 and 2026, I worked in the Kone Foundation funded project Post-ownership as an interpretation and experience of economic change.
My current work centres on methods for making urban spaces ‘otherwise’. I build especially upon feminist economic geographies, urban political ecology, critical social and spatial theory, and counter-mapping methods. In ongoing work (August 2026), my research focus is on a critical examination of Finnish anticipations of climate migration. I’m also writing on postdigital geomedia and the cartographies of commons.
I work as part of the Community Economies Research Network and as a member of the Community Economies Institute. I’m also member of the editorial committee of Tiede & edistys, a Finnish journal of critical social studies. I’m an eager collaborator in various social and artistic projects, and will warmly welcome new ideas for collaborations.
Tuomo Savolainen ([email protected])
EIT (Electrical Impedance Tomography)
Electronics design and construction
Process tomography laboratory
Measurement techniques -course
Analog Electronics, Sensor Techniques -courses
Kamut -research project
Tuula Honkonen ([email protected])
Dr Tuula Honkonen is an expert in international environmental law. Her broad-based expertise ranges from climate law questions and functioning of multilateral environmental agreements to national implementation of international genetic resources regulation and operation of transboundary water agreements. Dr Honkonen’s current research interests lie in climate law and participation in climate policymaking in particular, the dynamics of multilateral environmental agreements, and water diplomacy. Dr. Honkonen has extensive experience in teaching, journal editing, consultancy and reporting work, research project management and the preparation and facilitation negotiation simulation exercises for international environmental law-making courses. In her research, she seeks to combine the legal perspective to practical policy-making, both at the national and international levels.
Tuuli Lukkala ([email protected])
I study the soundscapes of Orthodox Christian worship in my doctoral research. I am interested in the experiences of the participants of worship and the contexts in which the soundscapes are formed and experienced. During my ethnographic fieldwork, I have formed an extensive collection of audio recordings of Orthodox Christian worship in Finland and research interviews to be archived.
Tuuli Pulkkinen ([email protected])
I work as a project and doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland’s Business School, under the Tourism Business research group. I have work experience both from practical tourism field as well as from research. Two of my most important interests in research and tourism in general are experience design and inclusive tourism. For inclusive tourism, I am especially interested about gender and sexual minority identities in tourism context, which is also the topic of my dissertation research. My love for experience design I get to express through teaching in the Tourism Marketing and Management master’s degree program, as well as in some project works.
Tuuli Suomela ([email protected])
I work as a project researcher in the GuideGap project, where we study the adherence to Finnish Current Care Guidelines and Choosing Wisely recommendations in prescribing decisions together with the associated factors using a multi-method approach. At the same time, I am working on my doctoral dissertation, which focuses on the continuity of care in primary healthcare: its potential causal link to the utilization and costs of specialized healthcare, as well as the mediating factors of this potential relationship. In the GuideGap project, we specifically examine the role of continuity of care as a factor in guideline adherence.
My research primarily involves registry-based studies with large datasets. I hold degrees in social science and health economics from University of Eastern Finland and University of Helsinki. Additionally, I serve as a senior specialist at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare working with the Performance indicators used in the statutory assessment of the Finnish social and health care system.
Please find my publications listed in Orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7201-3106
Tuulikki Halla ([email protected])
I work as a post-doctoral researcher in the Research Council of Finland’s UNITE Flagship. My research focuses on human–forest relationships, including people’s experiences of forests, the meanings they assign to them, and their cultural and institutional dimensions.
In my doctoral dissertation, I examined both conceptually and empirically the human–forest relationships (HFRs) of Finnish forest professionals and how these relationships are formed, how they shape professional identity, and how they manifest in forest-related conflicts and the sustainability transition.
I am also involved in science communication and teaching, including courses on human–forest relationships and conflict management.
I serve as a coordinator of IUFRO’s Research Group 6.05 Forest conflict management. In addition, I am a member of the Finnish Society of Forest Science’s disciplinary subgroup, the Human-Forest Relationship Research Club, and co-host the Coffee Talks on Human–Forest Relationships series in collaboration with international networks.
Tuure Kinnunen ([email protected])
Professor in Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Specialist in Clinical Microbiology.
Research focus: human immunology, especially immune dysfunction in autoimmune diseases.
Bluesky: @tuurekinnunen.bsky.social