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Petri Rintamäki ([email protected])

General Administration and Legal Affairs serves as a general preparatory and executive body for the Rectors and the Director of Administration. General Administration and Legal Affairs is also in charge of matters relating to the UEF Board. The duties of General Administration and Legal Affairs also encompass: Information Management Services, Executive Support Services, Legal and Procurement Services, Internal Auditing and Data Protection.

Philip Chambers ([email protected])

Philip is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland’s School of Forest Sciences and a member of the Gamification Group at Tampere University.

His research focuses on understanding how gamification can be used in decision-making in forestry planning and policy contexts. He is interested in exploring whether games and playful and immersive technologies, such as games, drones and VR, can be utilised to better engage stakeholders in participatory processes and support multi-criteria decision-making.

 

Piritta Parkkari ([email protected])

As an Impact Manager in the Neuro-Innovation PhD Programme, my job is to make sure the programme reaches it impact goals. I support our PhD researchers and act as a connector between the project, PhD researchers, supervisors, partners and other stakeholders.

As an Innovation Specialist in the UEF Brain Research Unit 2.0 project, my task is developing and piloting a new model for patient and public involvement (PPI) for UEF’s Brain Research Unit.

Previous projects:

Researcher, HIWE-project

As a researcher in the High-skilled internationals: bottom-up insights into policy innovation for work and entrepreneurship in Finland (HIWE) research project, I do research on how highly skilled internationals experience working and living in Finland.

My research

I am part of the Innovation Management (INNO) research group and NOVA Neuro-Impact and Innovation research team.

I am currently doing research on public sector co-creation, as well as highly skilled internationals’ wellbeing.

Prasanthi Medarametla ([email protected])

Prasanthi Medarametla is an Academy Research Fellow at the School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Master’s degree in Pharmacoinformatics from NIPER, India. She then worked as a Project Associate and TATA–CSIR–OSDD Fellow at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad.

Prasanthi was a Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Early Stage Researcher in the EU‑MSCA ITN project INTEGRATE (Interdisciplinary Training Network for Validation of Gram‑Negative Antibacterial Targets). She completed her PhD at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, in 2020, where she focused on computational screening of novel antibacterials within the INTEGRATE project.

In 2022, she joined the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Researcher with support from the Postdoc Pooli (Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation), gaining expertise in experimental microbiology and structural biology techniques, including cryo‑EM and X‑ray crystallography. She later returned to UEF and worked as a Senior Researcher in the Biopharmacy Department before receiving an Academy Research Fellow position in 2025.

Currently, she leads the AVID (Anti‑Virulence Drug Discovery) research group at UEF and serves as the leader of the NORDFORSK NORD‑AViD consortium.

 

 

 

If you’re interested in Master’s projects or planning to pursue a PhD related to antibacterial protein targets and the mechanisms underlying bacterial virulence, feel free to reach out—I’d be happy to discuss potential opportunities.

Päivi Rosenius ([email protected])

I am a University Teacher in Career Guidance and Counselling. My expertise focuses on guidance pedagogy, dialogical and participatory learning, and the design and development of student-centred teaching.

My teaching emphasises students’ active agency, collaborative learning, interaction, and shared expertise. I create learning environments where students can participate, ask questions, engage in discussion, experiment, and build understanding together. I also see the teacher as a learner: in dialogical pedagogy, knowledge and expertise are constructed collaboratively.

I develop teaching based on research and student feedback. I am particularly interested in how different pedagogical approaches, digital learning environments, and the opportunities offered by technology can support learning, participation, meaningful encounters, and flexible ways of learning. A supportive, dialogical, and inquiry-based approach is at the heart of my teaching and pedagogical development work.

Reetta Kallanne ([email protected])

I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Tallinn University, supported by a grant from the Saastamoinen Foundation. My postdoctoral research examines Finnish cross-border experiences during the Second World War and their impact on the development of nationalism and Lutheranism.

My research focuses on transnational twentieth-century church history, with particular emphasis on war and nationalism. In my doctoral dissertation, I examined the Klooga concentration camp in Estonia through sources produced by Finnish bystanders. I have also studied the relationship between churches and war, including historical interpretations of wars and the use of history in conflicts. One of my current research interests is the theology of security.

Reetta Riikonen ([email protected])

I am a doctoral researcher in social psychology at the University of Eastern Finland. In my research, I am interested in social identities and intergroup relations, and I have studied these particularly in two contexts: among mothers of young children in residential areas and in the context of national defense and conscription.

My PhD dissertation is part of the MAMANET project, where I study Finnish-background and foreign-background mothers’ intergroup contacts and outgroup attitudes in diversifying neighbourhoods in Helsinki. The project focuses on mothers of small children. My mixed-method dissertation explores how motherhood as a common ingroup identity can support the development of positive intergroup contact and positive outgroup attitudes in neighbourhoods. The results shed light on how to support the development of positive contacts between mothers which may also support mothers’ wellbeing, inclusion and integration in the Finnish society. My dissertation is funded by the Kone Foundation, the Alli Paasikivi Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation’s North Savo Regional Fund.

I work as a researcher in the FriendMUM project. The project focuses on intercultural friendships between mothers with Finnish backgrounds and mothers with foreign backgrounds in the “Friend for an Immigrant Mum” program organized by Mannerheim League for Child Welfare. The FriendMUM project is funded by the Alli Paasikivi Foundation and the Kone Foundation.