People

Current members of the research group

Petteri Alho Professor

    

Areas of expertise:
Hydrogeography;
Fluvial geomorphology;
Flood risks;
River dynamics;
Close-range remote sensing;
Laser scanning;
Hydraulic modelling;
Glacial outburst flood

 

Harri Tolvanen Associate Professor (docent), University Lecturer

    

Areas of expertise:
Coastal geography;
Maritime spatial planning;
Applied geoinformatics

Elina Kasvi Associate Professor (docent), Academy Research Fellow

Areas of expertise:
Fluvial geomorphology;
Water protection and management;
Nature based solutions;
Digital modelling tools;
Remote sensing;
Climate and human forcing

Tua Nylén Associate Professor (docent), Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Coastal geomorphology;
Coastal and river ecology;
River-sea interaction;
Geoinformatics;
Remote sensing;
Geostatistical modelling and programming;

Ville Kankare Associate Professor (docent), University Research Fellow

    

Areas of expertise:
Remote Sensing;
Geospatial technologies;
Laser scanning;
Point cloud processing;
Forest mensuration

Carlos Gonzales-Inca Senior Research Fellow

    

Areas of expertise:
Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) and Earth Observation;
GeoAI-based environmental and hydrological modeling;
Urban hazards, climate change and environmental health risk assessment

Linnea Blåfield PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Morphodynamic modelling;
Sediment connectivity;
Fluvial geomorphology;
Remote sensing;
Structure-from-Motion

Karoliina Lintunen PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Hydraulic modelling;
Laser scanning;
River ice processes;
Fluvial geomorphology;
Time-series analysis;
Statistics

Aino Saarinen PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Nature-based solutions;
Watershed modelling;
Hydraulic modelling;
Remote sensing;
GIS analysis;
Participatory approach;

Amin Sadeqi PhD Researcher

    

Areas of expertise:
Statistics;
Hydroclimatology;
Spatiotemporal Analysis;
Downscaling;
Emission Scenarios;
Hydraulic Modeling

Asfand Tehseen PhD Researcher

 

Iiro Seppä PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Geoinformatics;
Deep learning;
Graph neural networks;
Convolutional neural networks;
Hydrological modelling;
Underwater acoustic modelling;
Adnan Asif Rifat PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Nature Based Solutions (NBSs);
Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS);
Blue_Green_Gray solutions (BGG);
Climate change risk;
Hydrological Modelling;
Hydraulic Modelling;
GIS, ArcGIS and QGIS;
Remote Sensing Data Analysis
Temitope Akinyemi PhD Researcher

Area of expertise:
Remote sensing;
Geo-mapping;
GIS analysis;
Environmental sustainability

Emmy Kärkkäinen PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise: 
Hydrology;
Hydromorphology;
Environmental impact assessment (EIA procedure);
Hydrological modelling;
River habitat classification;
Remote sensing;
Laser scanning

Beata Plutova PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Water quality modelling;
Hydrological modelling;
GIS analysis;
Water protection and management

Mariah Josten PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Coastal oceanography;
Sediment dynamics

Waqar Khalid PhD Researcher

Areas of expertise:
Fluvial Geomorphology

Contact information of Fluvial and Coastal Research Group:

E-mail addresses: firstname.lastname@utu.fi

Postal address:
Department of Geography and Geology
20014 TURUN YLIOPISTO

Visiting address:
Vesilinnantie 5
Natura, 4th floor