People

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Photo: Ville Kankare

Current members of the research group

Petteri Alho Professorpetteri.alho@utu.fi

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

Elina Kasvi Associate Professor, Academy Research Fellowemkasv@utu.fi

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

Ville Kankare Associate Professorviveka@utu.fi

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

Harri Tolvanen Associate Professor (docent), University Lecturer
harri.tolvanen@utu.fi

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

Tua Nylén Associate Professor (docent), Postdoctoral Researchertua.nylen@utu.fi

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

Carlos Gonzales-Inca Senior Research Fellow
cagoin@utu.fi

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

Elham Kakaei Lafdani Postdoctoral Researcherelham.kakaeilafdani@utu.fi

Linnea Blåfield Postdoctoral Researcherlmebla@utu.fi

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

Karoliina Lintunen PhD Researcheremklin@utu.fi

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

Aino Saarinen PhD Researcheralsaar@utu.fi

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

Amin Sadeqi PhD Researcheramsade@utu.fi

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

Asfand Tehseen PhD Researcherasfand.tehseen@utu.fi

Iiro Seppä PhD Researcheriielse@utu.fi

Areas of expertise:

Geoinformatics;

Deep learning;

Graph neural networks;

Convolutional neural networks;

Hydrological modelling;

Underwater acoustic modelling;

Adnan Asif Rifat PhD Researcheraasrif@utu.fi

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 Researcherteakin@utu.fi

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

Emmy Kärkkäinen PhD Researcheremmy.karkkainen@utu.fi

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

Beata Plutova PhD Researcherbeplut@utu.fi

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

Mariah Josten PhD Researchermariah.josten@utu.fi

Areas of expertise:
Coastal oceanography;
Sediment dynamics

Waqar Khalid PhD Researcherwaqar.khalid@utu.fi

Areas of expertise:
Fluvial Geomorphology

Sadegh Kaboli PhD Researchersadegh.kaboli@utu.fi

Areas of expertise:
Spatiotemporal Analysis;
Statistics;
Climate Change Impacts;
Hydraulic Modelling;
Hydrological Modelling;
Hydro-climatology;

Tanya Santalahti PhD Researchertanya.santalahti@utu.fi

Areas of expertise:
Water protection and management;
Nature-based solutions;
Participatory approach;
Climate change risk;
Sustainable agriculture and forestry